Luke Dooley

President | Ocean

Luke Dooley is the President at OCEAN Programs, a non-profit that operates at the intersection of faith and entrepreneurship. OCEAN equips entrepreneurs to transform the marketplace, create economic health, and positively impact culture. OCEAN has directly resourced hundreds of entrepreneurs with practical training through their high-tech accelerator and Genesis programs, and thousands more with meaningful content and community. Luke previously served in leadership roles at Leadercast and Q Ideas, and lives in Cincinnati, Ohio with his wife and 3 children.

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When Your Church Invests In Entrepreneurs

When Your Church Invests In Entrepreneurs

How might we leverage the resources we have for the most good for the most people? and How might we catalyze individuals to live in the fullness of their faith and calling?


An Entrepreneur's Take on Creating during Crisis

An Entrepreneur’s Take on Creating during Crisis

This is what we do. We create. We can’t help ourselves. We’re hardwired, hand-built, wonderfully created to create. It’s because we’re fashioned in the image of the Creator. The One who breathes new life into dust, speaks cosmos into existence, and never ceases in making all things new.

He created. He creates. We’re created. We create.

Justin Thomas

founder | Health Coach CEO

Justin is a certified integrative health coach and founder of Health Coach CEO. He coaches business professionals to create new healthy habits, so they can start winning in their health and work. Prior to founding Health Coach CEO, Justin was CEO of CrossComm, an app development studio that was ranked as the #1 Mobile App Developer in the Southeast according to independent review site Clutch.co. Justin also co-founded the non-profit, Playing Grownup which helps equips students for life after college. Justin serves as lead mentor for the non-profit’s 9-month men’s mentoring group called the CL Thomas Fellowship which equips men to be providers for those in their lives.  

Justin also serves his local church, Kings Park International Church in Durham, NC as its Young Professionals Director. He organizes monthly lunch and learn talks and events tailored for equipping members in their career and faith. Justin is a trained facilitator for Generous Giving’s Journey of Generosity retreats to help participants explore Biblical generosity in their lives in fresh ways. He also supports Freedom United as a Freedom Founder to help fight against human trafficking.

Justin lives in Hillsborough, NC with his wife and two daughters. He started the local F3 men’s workout group in Hillsborough so you might see him running or rucking early in the mornings with an American flag as he goes to an early morning workout.

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Become a Unicorn. Create a Health BHAG.


Become a Unicorn. Create a Health BHAG.


As entrepreneurs, we all have a vision for our company. We may even have a fancy 2-page strategic plan with a 10 yr, 3 yr, and 1 yr goal. I did when I was CEO of a small tech company. It inspired the team, gave us purpose and a clear goal. We spent hours formulating the vision and crafting a plan to execute it. Why don’t we do the same in our health?

Most of us are familiar with the concept of big, hairy, audacious goals (BHAG). It’s almost a requirement in any pitch deck and HR material. I would propose that every entrepreneur, especially those of us who are faith driven, need to have a modified and personal Health BHAG, a big HEALTHY audacious goal…


Jake Thomsen

Partner | Sovereign’s Capital

Jake is a Partner with Sovereign’s Capital, a venture capital fund that invests in faith driven entrepreneurs in Southeast Asia and the U.S.  Prior to Sovereign’s, he was in operational and advisory roles spanning start-ups to public companies.

As AVP of Bank of Hawaii, Jake oversaw sales, operations, customer engagement, and marketing for a regional team, with a focus on providing advice and growth capital to local entrepreneurs. He spent four years as an independent consultant, delivering strategy and operations advisory services to start-ups and small companies in the U.S. and Africa. Clients included a distributed solar energy company in Tanzania, a technology commercialization firm in North Carolina, and an innovative credit union with offices across the U.S. As Lead Associate in the Strategic Innovation Group of consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton, Jake launched and managed a SaaS cybersecurity risk product for large IT organizations, and led business development for energy offerings in Jakarta, Indonesia. He also helped to stand up the Internet of Things (IoT) division, which developed and delivered IoT products and services to Fortune 100 clients.

Jake lives with his wife Lauren and his twins (a daughter and son) in Washington, D.C., where he is a board member of Little Lights Urban Ministries and Trinity Fellows Academy.

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Episode 138 - Fundraising 101 with Jake Thomsen

Episode 138 – Fundraising 101 with Jake Thomsen

Jake Thomsen shares the do’s and don’ts of fundraising based on his experience analyzing deals for Sovereign’s Capital.

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This Season with Jake Thomsen

This Season with Jake Thomsen

It’s not really easy to believe that God loves me. Sometimes I have a hard time thinking he likes me, right? But no, he loves us and he likes us. He delights over us. So that’s been meaningful for me.


Opinions, Beliefs, and Conviction

Opinions, Beliefs, and Conviction

One of the challenges we have as a society is that, as individuals, we have difficulty expressing the difference between our Opinions, Beliefs, and Convictions.


Power and Leverage in a Time of Crisis

Power and Leverage in a Time of Crisis

In the midst of uncertain times, Luke Roush and Jake Thomsen of Sovereign’s Capital provides a framework for how Christian business leaders can think about the unusual power and leverage the present circumstances have afforded them…


Commander's Intent

Commander’s Intent

This article was originally presented at the Christian Economic Forum 2019. “Few organizations achieve goals in the face of uncertainty like the US military. There are many reasons for this, but one input often credited with enabling the necessary, singular focus during military operations is the “commander’s intent.””


Reframing for How: Ought-Is-Can-Will

Reframing for How: Ought-Is-Can-Will

Yesterday I shared the motivation that I discovered in the four-part gospel as I wrestled with why my work mattered to God. Today I touch on how that vision applies to the faith-driven entrepreneur, and I try to make it a bit more actionable.

Why does the four-part gospel matter for the faith-driven entrepreneur? Because the framework charges us to reflect the world as it should be, and business has the power to shape the world in meaningful ways.


Starting with Why: The Four-Part Gospel

Starting with Why: The Four-Part Gospel

Faith-and-work content consistently beats the drum of affirming that marketplace vocations are as important to God as professional ministry. That message is crucial, as resources like this one give those of us with non-church giftings the confidence to pursue our callings. But we can’t stop there. Even if all believers in the marketplace one day know that our vocations matter, we still need to understand why. Otherwise we may run successful businesses guilt-free, but miss the motivation and focus that come from knowing our place in God’s story.

James Kelly

Founder and Director | FaithTech

James Kelly, the Founder and Director of FaithTech, is an entrepreneur turned pastor turned story-teller. With a unique background in business (co-founded a faith-based media company at 19 years of age, BComm and 7 years experience in professional recruitment) and church (MDiv and helped plant a church in 2012), he’s positioned to creatively bridge the gap between faith and tech. FaithTech, a growing movement pioneering new ways to advance the gospel in a new era driven by technology, started with an idea in late 2015 and has turned into a global ministry, with operations across North America in Silicon Valley, Chicago, Toronto, Vancouver, and Waterloo.  www.faithtech.com

James is married with two kids. His second, Anna, was born 3 months early weighing 2 pounds. It changed everything. Since, God has had James and his wife Karen on an incredible journey in and out of hospitals watching God’s miraculous hand at work in saving their baby girl. Their eldest is named Judah.

They live in Waterloo, Canada. James likes bacon, playing hockey and saying “eh” 😉 

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Are Tech Wizards Revolutionizing Leadership?

Are Tech Wizards Revolutionizing Leadership?

Tech leaders have virtually unprecedented power to mold the future. The question is: how are they using it — and how will you?

In this post, James Kelly of FaithTech encourages leaders with the reminder of where some of today’s great technology leaders came from. He even reminds us of King David, a man after God’s own heart, who led from a place of faith to influence the world. We are reminded to pray for the influential leaders and realize “technology provides incredible opportunities to change minds, to change hearts, and to change the world — if leaders seize it.”

Jeff Rutt

Owner and CEO | Keystone Custom Homes

Jeff Rutt is Owner and CEO of Keystone Custom Homes, which has built over 6,000 homes in Pennsylvania and Maryland.   Keystone Custom Homes has been awarded Builder Magazine’s and the National Association of Homebuilders “America’s Best Home Builder Award,” and is the first three-time winner of this coveted award.  Keystone also won the ‘Business of the Year’ award given by central Penn Business Journal. Jeff has been recognized for his efforts as an outstanding builder with the Hearthstone Award, a lifetime service achievement award, which included a $200,000 grant to a charity of his choice.  Jeff has served as President of The Building Industry Association and has chaired many local boards and committees.

Jeff is also the Founder and Chairman of the Board of HOPE International, a 501(c)(3) non-profit.  HOPE is a Christ-centered micro-enterprise development organization and works in developing countries to provide small loans and biblically based business training to entrepreneurs, enabling them to start or expand small businesses. Jeff enjoys traveling to the front line with his family to serve and encourage in these areas whenever possible. HOPE’s goal is to provide permanent solutions to poverty while restoring dignity in families. HOPE now works in 15 countries, presently serves almost 1,000,000 clients and since its inception has loaned out over $590 million dollars.  When HOPE’s microfinance institutions reach financial sustainability, a portion of the profits they generate are used to grow local Christ-centered children’s ministries in addition to expanding the work in Christ-centered microfinance. Jeff was recently honored with the National Epoch Lifetime Achievement award for outstanding work in missions for his service to humanity.

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Created to Flourish Forward


Created to Flourish Forward


After the fall of the Soviet Union, Ukraine faced a debilitating economic crisis, leaving many without enough food to eat or clothes to wear. Along with others in my church, I felt compelled to respond. There were people who were hungry, who needed shelter, who didn’t have the hope of Jesus Christ. As we read in Isaiah 58:7, God has a specific idea about how we should translate our faith into action:

Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter— when you see the naked, to clothe them, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood? Isaiah 58:7

We couldn’t turn away.



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Hope International – A US Entrepreneur making a huge Global Impact for the Kingdom


I will never forget the time when I first came to know about Hope International.  God had started to bless Bandwidth with more success, and I knew that I wanted to get more serious about giving.  I became fascinated with the concept of microfinance.  God had placed a passion in me for marketplace transformation and I knew that entrepreneurship could create great opportunity for poverty alleviation in the US, but especially overseas.   Mohammed Yunus’ Book, “Banker to the Poor” had just come out and I couldn’t get enough.  I read everything I could find on MFI and eventually came across a podcast from Kiva that shared the stories of their member partners and what they did with MFI and where they did it. 


John Drexler

healthcare analyst | Sovereign’s Capital

After joining Sovereign’s Capital in 2014 as a healthcare analyst, John has taken on a number of other roles at the fund focused on due diligence, financial modeling, and fund operations.

Before joining Sovereign’s Capital, John studied economics at Covenant College, served as a Management Associate at Siloam Hospitals (IDX:SILO), and as Marketing Manager on Summit Healthcare’s founding team in Jakarta. 

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