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Founder | Sunstone Group

Bio:

Carl is a leading expert in learning and development. He has 30 years experience in consulting, completed 100+ consulting assignments and facilitated 1500+ workshops on strategy, leadership, marketing and sales development. Carl completed his masters at a seminary, but his calling is in the marketplace. As a serial entrepreneur, Carl founded the Sunstone Group, a holding company that owns businesses in technology, consumer products, healthcare, business process outsourcing, mining, financial services, real estate, hospitality, education and management consulting. The group is headquartered in Singapore and has offices in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Beijing, Manila, Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Bangkok, Jakarta, Surabaya, New Delhi, Austin (Texas), and St. Petersburg (Russia).

Carl has an inextinguishable passion to help organizations perform through enhancing the capabilities of their people. He has deep insights into the inner workings of various industries, including financial services, healthcare, life sciences and biotechnology as well as fast moving consumer goods. Carl uses his knowledge and expertise to develop industry competency standards and train industry leaders. 

Carl is often engaged as a strategy consultant by MNCs, NGOs and government organizations to drive innovation and strategic leadership workshops. Clients include UBS, Credit Suisse, Chinatrust, Singapore Tourism Board, Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, Franklin Templeton, Standard Chartered Bank, HSBC, American Airlines, BASF and Leo Pharma. He sits on the board of several NGOs including Church World Service, Family First Global and serves as a Synod member of the Anglican Diocese of Singapore.

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Partner | Vertex Ventures Management Pte Ltd

Bio:

Carmen Yuen has been working with startups since 2000. In the last five years or so, she started contemplating how faith can be lived out in our work, and how everything we have belongs to God—including our business and breath. While she is professionally attached to a secular Venture Capital Fund Management company, her aim is to work with Christian entrepreneurs and equip them with disciple-making skills.

God has been gracious and allowed Carmen to witness His workings in a few companies where fund-raising and business growth are concerned. As an entrepreneur would say, “Prayer Works!” (Amen!). She looks forward to being able to share with entrepreneurs more stories on answered prayers, and to encourage more to pray over their businesses.

 Life:

God has blessed Carmen with a long-suffering husband and four wonderful children. Her hope is they will bring Jesus (in speech and action) with them wherever they go, and they will be conscientious in speaking Jesus to their friends.

 Carmen serves in her church—a 200-strong family church in the Christian Education vertical. This year, their goal is to continue with Inductive Bible Study on Elijah. Two items in her midterm bucket list are picking up barista skills and acrylic painting.

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CEO | Movement Mortgage

A glance at his resume and you may think to Movement’s CEO, Casey Crawford, greatness lies in achievements like NFL Super Bowl champion, founder and CEO of a multibillion dollar mortgage company, and becoming a sought-after media guest whose appearances span CNBC’s Squawk Box, Bloomberg and Fox News with print features in The Wall Street Journal and TIME Magazine.

There’s no doubt the 2015 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year is ambitious. But what truly drives him is not a championship ring or reaching the top of the corporate ladder. It’s meeting others’ needs.

As a child, Casey watched his father and grandfather use entrepreneurship as outreach. Whether the need was material, employment, friendship or a good example, he saw how business could be used to meet it.

Following his football days during a stint in real estate, Casey became alarmed by glaring inadequacies within the lending industry. The greed and corruption among leadership, the lack of value and care toward employees, and the inattentiveness toward community problems seemed like wide open opportunities.

Casey’s response? Movement Mortgage, established in 2008 on the Christian values he shares with co-founder Toby Harris. Movement was developed as a hope-filled paradox to a dismal reality, with a mission to be a Movement of Change in our Industry, Corporate Cultures and Communities.

Today, the company employs more than 4,500 and has over 650 locations in all 50 states. In 2017, Movement ranked among the top 10 purchase lenders by financing 1 in every 60 home purchases in the country, totaling more than $13 billion in originations. As prosperity increases, so does the overflow into people’s lives. The non-profit Movement Foundation has invested more than $25 million toward community improvement and meeting the needs of the underserved around the globe.

Casey continues to spread this vision of greatness from Charlotte, N.C. where he lives with his wife, Michelle, and their two daughters.

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• Light Point Portfolios

• Kingdom(k)

President and Director of Institutional Sales | Beacon Wealth Consultants and LightPoint Portfolios

Cassandra Laymon is the President of Beacon Wealth Consultants and Director of Institutional Sales for LightPoint Portfolios. Cassandra holds a Master’s Degree in Adult Education and an MBA, both from Rutgers University. She is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ and a Certified Kingdom Advisor®. She is a dynamic public speaker and has presented at national conferences for the C12 Group and Kingdom Advisors. For five years she led the Biblically Responsible Investing special interest group for financial professionals who are members of Kingdom Advisors.

Cassandra partners with business owners and churches as a Certified Plan Fiduciary Advisor to better understand their company retirement plans, to make them as efficient and cost effective as possible, and to help financial advisors and business owners to better understand their fiduciary responsibilities for their 401(k) and 403(b) plans.

Cassie is the author of two books, “I Found Jesus in the Stock Market” and “The Retirement Game for Nurses.”

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• ARK Investment Management LLC

Investment Adviser | ARK Investment Management LLC

Cathie registered ARK Investment Management LLC (“ARK”) as an investment adviser with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in January 2014. With over 40 years of experience identifying and investing in innovation, Cathie founded ARK to focus solely on disruptive innovation while adding new dimensions to research. Through an open approach that cuts across sectors, market capitalizations, and geographies, Cathie believes that ARK can identify large-scale investment opportunities in the public markets resulting from technological innovations centered around DNA sequencing, robotics, artificial intelligence, energy storage, and blockchain technology. As Chief Investment Officer (“CIO”) and Portfolio Manager, Cathie led the development of ARK’s philosophy and investment approach and has ultimate responsibility for investment decisions.

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Bio:

Brad Hill is an accomplished, values-driven leader with experience in organizations ranging from startup to mature lifecycle phases. He enjoys building teams, crafting strategies, and leading organizations to execute with excellence and a purpose.

Brad is experienced in bringing SaaS technology to vertical markets (especially member and cause-based), driving strong inbound marketing engines, and disrupting markets. He has a track record of strong P&L results, growing top-line revenues, finding cost efficiencies, and generating positive results for shareholders, employees, and customers.

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