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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Chief Investment Officer | HL Investments

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Scott is Chief Investment Officer for HL Investments, the outside investment arm for the Green Family and Hobby Lobby. He previously served as President and Chief Strategy Officer of Sonic Corp, parent company of the nation’s largest chain of drive-in restaurants. Scott is a member of the Board of Directors of Barkley (one the nation’s largest independent advertising agencies) as well as iDonate LLC and Clean Energy Africa LLC.

Scott also serves as a member of the Advisory Board for Baylor University School of Business, as well as BancFirst, Oklahoma City. He also is a member of the boards of The Mentoring Project, SALLT Leadership Training, and the Oklahoma Academy for State Goals. Scott earned a BBA in Accounting and Marketing from Baylor in 1984, and he earned an MBA in Finance from the University of Texas at Austin in 1987.

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CEO | OCEAN Accelerator

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Scott Weiss is Chairman and CEO of OCEAN Accelerator, which operates both a hi-tech startup accelerator (OCEAN) as well as a training program for lifestyle entrepreneurs (Unpolished). Scott serves on four company advisory boards and mentors many of the region’s most seasoned entrepreneurs.

Prior to OCEAN, he served 22 years in C-Suite roles at brands including Evenflo, Clorox and P&G.

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