Tony Long

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Co-Founder and Managing Director | CLX Ventures

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Tony’s professional experience includes commercial real estate transaction management, asset management, strategic planning, as well as, development, financing and corporate outsourcing.

Prior to co-founding CLX Ventures, Tony was with Trammell Crow and CBRE for a combined 31 plus years in multiple leadership roles.  Most recently, he served as the Global President of Client Care overseeing the firms top 500 +/- Enterprise clients and overall client experience for CBRE.  For the decade before that, Tony served as the Global President of Asset Services. In that role, Tony led the Real Estate Services business lines for the company’s industry leading global Asset Services division which included all services rendered on behalf of the investor clients of CBRE and managed a portfolio of 3 billion square feet.  Prior to becoming Global President of Asset Services for CBRE, Tony was responsible for Trammell Crow Company’s Dallas Office and then the Central Region. The Central Region included all business lines, in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Illinois, Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio and Indiana, including corporate services, tenant representation brokerage, project management, investment properties, outsourcing and asset services.

Tony serves as  Director on the board of Altus Group, the leading global provider of software, data, and technology enabled expert services to the global commercial real estate industry. Tony also serves on the Board of Directors of GigaMonster, a leading provider of internet services to the multi-family and commercial real estate industry in the US.

Tony holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Data Processing and Analysis from the University of Texas at Austin, TX and a Masters of Business Administration from Harvard University.

Trae Stephens

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Partner | Founders Fund

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Trae Stephens is a Partner at Founders Fund, where he focuses on startups operating in the government space.

Previously, Trae was an early employee at Palantir Technologies, where he led teams focused on growth in the intelligence/defense space as well as international expansion, helping large organizations solve their hardest data analysis problems. He was also an integral part of the product team, leading the design and strategy for new product offerings. While at Palantir, Trae also served as an adjunct faculty member at Georgetown University.

Prior to Palantir, Trae worked as a computational linguist building enterprise solutions to Arabic/Persian name matching and data enrichment within the United States Intelligence community. He began his career working in the office of then-Congressman Rob Portman and in the Political Affairs Office at the Embassy of Afghanistan in Washington, D.C. immediately following the installation of Hamid Karzai’s transitional government. Trae graduated from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

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Podcast Episode 3 - Creating Abundance to Decrease Competition with Trae Stephens of Founders Fund

Podcast Episode 3 – Creating Abundance to Decrease Competition with Trae Stephens of Founders Fund

Today’s episode takes us to Silicon Valley connecting with Trae Stephens. You may have seen Trae on CNBC, or you may know him as one of the Partners at Founders Fund. It was an honor to have Trae on to share about his experiences—everything from his time in politics working for Congressmen and in Embassies to now working alongside Peter Thiel.

Tim Sittema

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Managing Partner | Crosland Southeast

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Tim is a Managing Partner of Crosland Southeast and is responsible for strategic growth, management and capital markets. Tim is also very involved operationally in all development and acquisition efforts. Prior to the formation of Crosland Southeast, Mr. Sittema served as President of Crosland Investment Services. From 2005-2009, he served as a Lead Developer for Crosland Retail where he focused on identifying and leading development efforts for new retail and mixed-use opportunities throughout the Carolinas, Tennessee and Kentucky.

Prior to joining Crosland, Sittema served as President for Sittema Properties, Inc., in Colorado. While there he specialized in retail development projects in the Rocky Mountain States including several complex land assemblage projects. Previously he was a Managing Partner for Sittema-Bullock Realty Partners and Marketing Principal for Trammell Crow Company. Mr. Sittema has over 30 years’ experience in the shopping center industry, is married and has 4 children and is very involved in his community and in philanthropic endeavors.

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TJ Abood

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Partner | Access Ventures

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TJ Abood is the Investment Partner at Access Ventures. Prior to joining the firm in 2014, TJ spent eight years with a small-cap private equity fund, operating a consolidation strategy.

In addition to his investment strategy and acquisition experience, TJ has also managed financial operations at scale and held numerous institutional banking positions. TJ has a B.S. in Accounting from Miami University, an Entrepreneurship MBA from the University of Louisville, and has also completed post-graduate work at Harvard Business School.

Life:

TJ is married to Coral Abood and they have two children. Their family can often be found on the soccer field or serving within their community.

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Toby Kilgore

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Chief Operating Officer | Sinapsis

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Toby guides Sinapis’ scaling, investment, and accelerator strategies. He is leveraging his experience as a Principal at Deloitte Consulting and a Partner at A.T. Kearney and building an investor pipeline at Sinapis that both accelerates businesses and matches them with investors.

With over 25 years of international experience with SGBs, he has street smarts to go with the book smarts of his Harvard MBA and Vanderbilt honors. Toby knows SGBs offer some of the best opportunities for growth and job creation, but they need proper advisory and financial capital support to thrive. This is why he’s building the next generation of programs at Sinapis to catalyze businesses to their full potential.

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Toby Kurth

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Lead Pastor | Christ Church San Francisco

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Toby’s family has been in California for four generations and he was raised mostly in San Diego and Monterey.  He and his wife Rebekah were married in San Diego in 1999 and have three active and fun boys aged 15, 10, and 7.  Toby earned his BS from UC Davis and after spending a number of years in the marketplace, he went back to school to pursue a masters at Westminster Seminary in California and a PhD at Stony Brook University in New York. While living in Brooklyn, God redirected Toby and Rebekah towards full-time ministry, and they came home to California in 2009 to plant a church in San Francisco.

As Lead Pastor, his primary responsibilities include preaching, counseling, leadership development, and providing directional leadership for our church.  

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