Steven Diedrich

Executive Director, Baylor Angel Network

Steven Diedrich is the Executive Director for the Baylor Angel Network at Baylor University where he helps engaged students receive a real-life education concerning the inner workings of angel investing.

Prior to working at Baylor, Steven worked for Stanmore Partners as a finance and operations professional leveraging quantitative analysis to deliver superior decision-making and performance. Prior to that he was Consultant with Accenture in Dallas, Texas.

Steven uses all of his career experience to help college students see how they can have a purpose and ministry in business.

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DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS | FAITH DRIVEN MEDIA

Sue Alice Sauthoff serves as Community Manager for Faith Driven Entrepreneur and Faith Driven Investor. She is passionate about connecting people to each other and equipping them for their God-given calling.

Throughout her career, Sue Alice has worked to build and ignite teams in the non-profit, corporate, and education sectors, creating innovative training to catalyze growth. Prior to joining the Faith Driven team, Sue Alice spent 5 years as a strategist and training manager with Samaritan’s Purse, building and equipping volunteer leaders and teams around the globe. As a consultant, Sue Alice has also worked with Mexico’s Instituto Nacional para la Educación de los Adultos, CoreCivic, and McGraw Hill.

After graduating from Baylor University, she enjoyed seven years teaching Spanish and coaching middle school soccer while pursuing graduate studies in education and biblical studies. On the weekends, Sue Alice can be found hiking, paddle boarding, and chasing waterfalls in the mountains of North Carolina with her husband and two daughters while hopelessly searching for real Tex-Mex.

Senior Director Content & Communication | Salesforce, President of Faithforce San Francisco

Sue Warnke has 20 years of experience in the technology industry and is currently the Senior Director of Content & Communications Experience at Salesforce, the world leader in Customer Relationship Management software. Other roles include Director of Innovation and Leadership, where she worked with Microsoft, Uber, Nike, SAP, Intuit, Sony, GAP, and Warner Bros. She has a Masters in English and was profiled in Liz Wiseman’s best-selling leadership book, Rookie Smarts. After a lifetime as an agnostic, Sue became a Christian in 2017 and now leads Christians@Salesforce as well as Faithforce San Francisco, Salesforce’s Interfaith Employee Resource Group that is sparking conversation on Faith Diversity in the Marketplace.

Sue lives in Pacifica, California with her husband, Chris, and three teenagers. She shares best practices for integrating faith and work in her blog, Leanership, which you can subscribe (link is external) to.

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CEO | GOLD YOUTH DEVELOPMENT AGENCY AND GOLD ENTERPRISES

Susannah Farr was born and raised in South Africa. She is a mother of three children and married to Anthony Farr. 

Susannah is a visionary social entrepreneur who holds a Master of Philosophy degree from the University of Stellenbosch. Inspired by a God-given passion to find innovative solutions that address the youth education and unemployment crisis amongst the most vulnerable, she founded gold Youth Development Agency and gold-enterprises of which she is the current CEO. Through the gold hybrid structure, young Africans from disenfranchised communities are being ignited with hope. They are up-skilled and supported to complete their education and go on to reach their social and economic potential. 

Susannah is a Triga Fellow, an Ashoka Fellow and Globalizer, 2016 Social Entrepreneur category winner in the South African Regional Business Women Achiever Awards and part of the 2020 Ashoka ASPIre societal change mission leader cohort. She is committed to changing the system of youth education and upbringing in Sub Saharan Africa- transforming the role of young people from being passive recipients of negative norms to proactive social and economic change agents who assume the role of empowering themselves and their peers to become the ethical leaders of tomorrow.

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Associate Professor | Biola University

Shane Enete has worked as an associate professor of finance at Biola University since 2015. Enete launched the Certified of Financial Planning (CFP) program at the Crowell School of Business where students are trained in the art and science of personal financial planning. Prior to working at Biola, Enete was an investment research professional for 10 years for large institutional asset managers. His duties included valuing public stock securities, modeling asset allocations, and serving as a forensic accountant. Enete currently holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and Certified Financial Planner (CFP) designations and was awarded the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) designation in 2014. Enete holds a B.S. in Finance from the University of Southern California, a M.S. in Mathematical Finance from the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, and a Ph.D. in financial planning from Kansas State University. His research interests include Biblically Responsible Investing (BRI), charitable giving, and behavioral finance. Shane is married to Tammy, and is father to Sage and Silas. He enjoys any activity near the beach, or in the water, including surfing, swimming, beach volleyball, and triathlons.

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• Purposed worKING Blog

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Podcast Host

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Rusty is an active advisor and Board Director for venture-backed start-ups and philanthropic causes. In September 2014, Rusty was appointed by President Obama to The President’s Advisory Committee for the Arts for The Kennedy Center. Rusty is also the former Chairman of The GRAMMY Foundation in Los Angeles.

Politically, he successfully complete a 16 month leadership role as Coordinating National Co-Chair for Technology for Obama (T4O) for the reelection of President Obama.

Corporately, most recently he was the Chief Executive Officer at SNOCAP, Inc. until the acquisition of the company by imeem, Inc. in April 2008. Before joining SNOCAP in 2005, he was Executive Vice President of Human Resources at Electronic Arts (EA) from 1998 until 2005. He was also with the PepsiCo companies for more than ten years, with the Pratt & Whitney division of United Technologies for two years, and in commercial radio as an on-air personality for six years. 

Rusty holds an M.S. in counseling and a B.A. in radio and television from Purdue University. In 2003 he was named a distinguished Purdue alumnus, and he and his wife, Patti, are the named benefactors of Purdue’s Patti and Rusty Rueff School of Visual and Performing Arts.  He is a corporate director of Glassdoor and runcoach . He serves as a Trustee of the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, where he was also Board President.  

He is the co-founder and Executive Committee Member of T4A.org , on the Founding Circle of The Centrist Project and a founding Board Member of The GRAMMY Music Education Coalition. He is also the co-author of the book Talent Force: A New Manifesto for the Human Side of Business.

Life:

Rusty regularly contributes to his blog Purposed worKING. Rusty and his wife, Patti, reside in Burlingame, CA and Charlestown, RI.

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