entrepreneur, investor and startup advisor | M25

Mike Asem is a passionate entrepreneur, investor and startup advisor. Today he spends most of his time investing in startups as a part of M25, a Chicago-based venture capital firm focused on seed stage investments in tech startups headquartered in the Midwest.

Mike also serves as a Board Member with PicDiversity, a non-profit that exists to provide teachers with photos that mirror the diversity of their students.

Outside of his time with M25 and PicDiversity, Mike advises startup company founders, serves at Soul City Church, and mentors college student entrepreneurs at various universities including his alma mater, Purdue. 

Mike resides in the Bucktown neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois with his wife, Erikka. They are active members of Soul City Church in Chicago.

LINKS

• M25 Chicago

• LinkedIn

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strategic partner

Mike Loomis helps people launch their dream projects and books. Since starting and selling two businesses, he’s a strategic partner to entrepreneurs, bestselling authors, non-profits, publishers as well as startups, and aspiring messengers. Mike is the author of Your Brand Is Calling – Build a Personal Brand to Reflect and Connect. He and his wife live in the mountains of Colorado with their pet moose.

I wear many hats. (Not only because I live in the Rocky Mountains)

I’m a strategic partner to businesses, bestselling authors, global nonprofits, & publishers. I also love coaching start-ups and aspiring messengers.

I’m a brand manager and marketing creative.

I’m a book developer, editor, ghostwriter, & literary agent.

I help turn ideas into reality and find a strategy for monetization. 

I’ve started and sold two businesses. But when I started helping others launch their ideas, things really started to click.

I help people who want to help people. We work together to articulate with excellence and reach as many people as possible.

My successes, and failures, help me serve clients who want to see their dream come to life.

My solar-powered wife and I live in Winter Park, Colorado – which is an amazing place to plan your strategy!

LINKS

• Web: www.MikeLoomis.CO  

• Books: http://mikeloomis.co/buy/

Featured articles in Success and Entrepreneur Magazine

• https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/287341 

• https://www.success.com/the-3-sentence-email-guaranteed-to-get-a-response/ 

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CEO | The C12 Group

Mike is the CEO for The C12 Group, a for-profit operator of peer advisory groups serving Christian CEO/Owners and their Key Players. C12 was founded in 1992 by Buck Jacobs and has grown to serve over 2,500+ members across the US with new chapters in Malaysia, China and Brazil.  C12 serves CEOs/Owners of businesses from $1M – $5B in gross revenue through full day peer advisory groups facilitated by full-time C12 Chairmen using proven best practices, performance enhancing tools/systems and MBA-level curriculum geared around helping the serious-minded entrepreneur build a “Great business for a GREATER purpose” with a “business AS ministry” mindset based upon Ephesians 2:10, Galatians 2:20 and 2 Corinthians 5:10.

Mike started his career in a start-up financial services small business in Lake Forest, IL focused on pension plans and wealth management then was part of a start-up subsidiary of the Walgreen Company focused on health plan strategies and pharmacy benefits.  It was while working at Walgreens that Mike first began the odyssey of an integrated missiology, reconciling the artificial but handicapping “sacred versus secular” mindset and pursuing a Great Commission and identity-based vocational mindset instead of a positional or contextual one.

After Walgreens, Mike joined the staff of his local church, Grace Point Church, as the associate pastor for 4 years.  It was in the latter time of pastoring that Mike launched a management consulting business, TQ Strategies, focused on serving the enterprise healthcare arena, served as a fractional strategy leader for Health By Design and first joined a C12 Group as a member in 2010. In 2011 Mike became a C12 Chair in San Antonio, then partnered up to buy a combined Austin & San Antonio region which grew to be the largest market for C12 from 2013-2016.  In 2016 there was a succession event for The C12 Group and Mike was selected to be the third CEO to lead the national organization, with the HQ operations eventually relocated from North Carolina to Texas. The mission of The C12 Group is to equip Christian CEOs & Owners to build great businesses for a greater purpose, towards a vision of changing the world by advancing the Gospel in the marketplace.

Life:

Mike exchanged his life for the life of Jesus in February 1989 at Glacier Valley Baptist Church in Juneau, Alaska, was captivated by the heart of the Father, became obsessed with His Word and has been on an apprenticeship adventure ever since.  Mike has been married to his bijou of a bride and best friend, Jacqui, since 2002. They have 2 daughters and live in San Antonio. They are active in their local church, Grace Point Church.  Mike is on the board for the South Texas Alliance for Orphans, Breakthrough Moments, the San Antonio Marriage Initiative and a missions foundation doing work in primarily Central America.  Mike grew up in Alaska, went to college in Chicago (Trinity, TEDS and Loyola), and has been residing in Texas since 2006.  Mike is also a dues-paying member of a C12 CEO peer advisory group in Austin, Texas because he passionately believes “every leader needs a group!”

LINKS

• C12 Group

• YouTube Channel

• Sermons

• Current ’17 Conference Sessions

• C12 Faith & Business Podcasts (2015-2016)

• Reading List

• Thy Kingdom Come @ Work (The Washington Times)

• Twitter

• LinkedIN

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founder and leader | Nashville Institute for Faith and Work

Missy Wallace founded and leads the Nashville Institute for Faith and Work (NIFW). She became inspired to study faith and work in 2013 after working in Corporate America and then the nonprofit sector for over 10 years each and realizing that work can be a part of God’s unfolding story if we allow him to guide it rather than our false idols. She launched the Institute after some divinity study and an intensive with Katherine Alsdorf, David Kim, and their team at The Center for Faith and Work at New York’s Redeemer Presbyterian Church.

Prior to launching NIFW, Missy worked at Bank of America in Charlotte, NC; The Boston Consulting Group in Chicago, Singapore, Bangkok and New York; Time Warner in New York, and most recently on the team that launched the high school division of Ensworth School where she worked in various roles over a decade in marketing, admissions, and college counseling.

Her combination of corporate experience, advising capability, theological focus, and nonprofit development gives her the unique ability to help those in the trenches bridge the sacred secular divide. Missy holds a BA in economics from Vanderbilt and an MBA from the JL Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern.

When not working, you can usually find Missy on the Red Trail in Percy Warner Park with her husband of 23 years, her dogs, and at least one of her three teenagers.

LINKS 

• LinkedIn

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founding partner | Teamworx 2

Nancy Ortberg served as a teaching pastor for eight years at Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Illinois. During that time she led Network, a ministry that helps people identify their spiritual gifts and find a place of service in the church, and Axis, a weekly gathering for the eighteen- to twenty-something generation.

She is a founding partner of Teamworx 2, a business and leadership consulting firm that provides fast-paced, practical, and compelling sessions to leaders and their teams. Teamworx 2 works with businesses, schools, nonprofits, and churches to address issues of organizational effectiveness and teamwork.

Nancy is a gifted communicator who is passionate about helping people connect what they believe with their everyday lives. She is currently the CEO of Transforming the Bay with Christ, a non-profit organization working to catalyze a holistic gospel movement in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Nancy is the author of Looking for God: An Unexpected Journey through tattoos, tofu, & pronouns and Unleashing the Power of Rubber Bands, lessons in non-linear leadership.

She and her husband, John, live in the Bay Area and have three children.

LINKS 

• Nancy on Unity

• Nancy with Pat Gelsinger on Work is Worship

• LinkedIn

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HOPE international

Prior to joining HOPE, Peter worked internationally as a micro-finance advisor in Cambodia, technical advisor for Self-Help Development Foundation in Zimbabwe, and managing director for Urwego Community Bank in Rwanda. He received a B.S. in international business from Messiah College and an MPP from Harvard’s Kennedy School.

As an advocate for the Church’s role in missions and alleviating extreme poverty, Peter has been a speaker at a number of conferences, and he has been featured by Christianity Today, World, Forbes, CNN, and RELEVANT. He has also written The Spiritual Danger of Doing Good (with Anna Haggard, 2013), Mission Drift (with Chris Horst, 2014; selected as a 2015 Book Award Winner from Christianity Today), Entrepreneurship for Human Flourishing (with Chris Horst, 2014), Stop Helping Us (2014), Watching Seeds Grow (with his son Keith, 2014), The Giver and the Gift (with David Weekley, 2015), 40/40 Vision (with Greg Lafferty, 2015), Created to Flourish (with Phil Smith, 2016), The Board and the CEO (with David Weekley, 2017), and Rooting for Rivals (with Chris Horst, 2018).

Currently, Peter serves as the entrepreneur-in-residence at Messiah College and as a Praxis Venture Partner.

Peter and his wife, Laurel, live in Lancaster, PA, with their three children, Keith, Lilianna, and Myles.

LINKS 

https://www.hopeinternational.org

https://www.peterkgreer.com

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