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Bio:

Brad Webb serves as Executive Vice President at RREAF Holdings. RREAF is a private real estate investment firm that currently holds over >$1B in assets under management, including 36 multifamily properties, 5 hospitality properties, and several multifamily and hospitality ground up construction projects. Brad has over 10 years’ experience in commercial real estate underwriting & finance. He began his career on church staff where he served as a Youth Pastor and then as the Missions Pastor. During that time Brad also co-founded a tee shirt design & printing company, which he ran for several years before making the transition into Banking.

Brad began his Banking career as a credit analyst and commercial real estate underwriter for Independent Bank. He was quickly promoted to Vice President, where he grew and managed a large commercial real estate loan portfolio. He then served as Senior Vice President at Bank OZK for several years before joining the RREAF team in late 2018. Brad has a BBA in Business from Baylor University.

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Partner | Perpetuate Capital

Brandt Brereton is co-founder and partner of Perpetuate Capital. Perpetuate is a structured equity fund that marries Christian capital providers with Christian business owners seeking liquidity or growth capital and who also want to ensure the independence and ministry legacy of the business remains unchanged during and subsequent to their involvement.  

Prior to his participation in Perpetuate Capital, Brandt served as the President of Brereton, Hanley & Co., Inc. a boutique investment bank in Silicon Valley he founded in 1995 that advises middle market companies on M&A, Private Equity and Employee Stock Ownership (ESOP) / Employee Share Ownership Trust (ESOT) transactions.

God benched Brandt from investment banking two-thirds of the way through his thirty-year business career, and he became a senior executive of City Team Ministries International for two years. He was released back into investment banking after the Lord acutely focused him on His agenda for the world, infusing a renewed passion for educating Christian business owners on the ESOP sale alternative in order to perpetuate ministry supported by those client businesses.

With an equal depth and breadth of experience across the three most common liquidity events and leveraged finance generally, Brandt offers comparative education, advice and execution to owners struggling with the tension that exists between perpetuating the ministry impact of the business and the need for it to receive outside capital for either shareholder liquidity or growth.  

Brandt earned a BA in Finance from San Jose State University and has attended executive education courses at Harvard Business School.

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CEO/Founder | Permanent Equity

Brent leads the firm, and more specifically the acquisition and diligence teams, while supporting portfolio company operators.  

Brent serves on the board of Love Columbia, a mid-Missouri-based non-profit. 

Brent is raising three young daughters with Dr. Erica Beshore, participating in church activities, and occasionally enjoying competitive tennis and bad golf. 

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Managing Partner | Concentric

Bio:

Brent is responsible for fundraising, investor relations, deal sourcing and overall strategy. 

Prior to co-founding Concentric, Brent founded and served as the President of Granville Advisers, a boutique advisory and investment firm. Granville advises insurance companies and banks on their private credit investment strategy, advises early stage funds and companies on capital formation strategies and also invests in early stage companies and funds. Prior to Granville, Brent co-founded Triangle Capital Corporation. From 2002-2016, Brent was engaged in starting, taking public and building this investment company which focused on direct lending to lower-middle market companies. As the Chief Investment Officer and Chairman of the Investment Committee, Brent led $2.3 billion of investments in 165 private companies. Prior to Triangle, Brent worked at Oberlin Capital and Cherokee Investment Partners. 

Since 2011, Mr. Burgess has served as an advisor and investment committee member of Sovereign’s Capital, an early stage venture fund with offices in Palo Alto, CA and Jakarta, Indonesia. Mr. Burgess is also an advisory board member of CoFounders Fund, an early stage venture fund based in Raleigh, NC, FMI Investment Partners, a private equity fund based in Raleigh, NC, and Cypress Hills Partners, a boutique merchant banking firm based in Vancouver, BC. Brent also serves as an advisor or board member of numerous small businesses. In addition to his for-profit ventures, Brent also serves on a number of non-profit boards, including Freedom United, the largest anti-slavery and human trafficking advocacy organization in the world. 

Mr. Burgess earned a B.Ed. in History and Social Studies from the University of Regina, Canada in 1989, where he graduated with Great Distinction. He earned an MCS/MA from Regent College/University of British Columbia in Church History in 1993, where he was awarded the Board of Governor’s Prize and the History Prize. 

Life:

Brent has been married for 25 years and is the proud father of two awesome kids. He likes to read, is an avid cyclist, ever hopeful Carolina Hurricanes fan and will generally do whatever his daughter Anna asks him to do. 

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Founder | The Institute for Innovation, Integration & Impact

Brett is the Founder and President at The Institute for Innovation, Integration & Impact, whose goal is to help companies optimize their impact, not their bottom line. The Institute describes itself as having a hybrid identity: “Head of a Think Tank, Hands of a Business, Heart of Philanthropy”.

Brett has worked with Fortune 500 through startups, but is currently focused on repurposing privately held corporations to discover the real purpose of business, and how this ties to the CEO/owner/leader’s personal passions.

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Cintas Endowed Professor of Entrepreneurship | Miami University

Bio:

Brett R. Smith, Ph.D. is the Cintas Endowed Chair of Entrepreneurship, Founding Director, Center for Social Entrepreneurship, and Founding Research Director, Leading the Integration of Faith & Entrepreneurship (L.I.F.E.) at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. His research interests focus on social and faith-based entrepreneurship. His research has been featured in a number of leading academic journals including Academy of Management Journal, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Business Venturing, Leadership Quarterly, and Long Range Planning.

Smith has won several international awards including the GCEC Award for Best Social Entrepreneurship Program. He has been awarded more than $500,000 in grants from the U.S. Department of State to host seminars on social entrepreneurship for Fulbright students from Afghanistan and North Africa and has been invited to speak around the world at the United Nations, Nelson Mandela Foundation, Tedx Youth, and a number of leading universities including Columbia, Duke, Harvard and Oxford. His work has been highlighted in Time, Business Week, Financial Times, CNN, MSNBC and 100 other media outlets.

Education:

• Ph.D. University of Cincinnati, 2007

• M.B.A. Georgia State University, 1999

• B.S. Miami University, Business, 1991

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