cofounder | Blood:Water and Jars of Clay

Jena believes deeply in building the durability and sustainability of nonprofit organizations and leaders.

At the age of 21, she cofounded Blood:Water alongside the band, Jars of Clay. Under her leadership, the organization raised more than $20M to provide grants to grassroots organizations addressing HIV/AIDS and water in sub-Saharan Africa. Jena recounts her entrepreneurial and spiritual journey in her memoir, One Thousand Wells: How an Audacious Goal Taught me to Love the World Instead of Save It (2015, Simon & Schuster).

Jena serves on the boards of Blood:Water and the Equitas Group and spends her Sunday afternoons in a Santa Clara County Jail teaching writing courses to inmates. Jena graduated from Whitworth University with a degree in political studies. She and her husband, James, have two children and live in the San Francisco Bay Area.

LINKS

• Blood:Water

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best-selling author | Making Your Leadership Come Alive

Jeremie Kubicek specializes in getting leaders to a higher level through his speaking, consulting and books. He takes complex concepts and adapts them into powerful tools that are practical and scalable.  Jeremie speaks worldwide to audiences of all sizes across various industries and sectors.  

In addition,  Jeremie is a best-selling author of the books Making Your Leadership Come Alive; 5 Gears: How to be present and productive when there is never enough time; 5 Voices: How to Communicate with everyone you lead; & The 100X Leader. 

LINKS

• https://www.jeremiekubicek.com

• https://giantworldwide.com/intro-5-voices-leadership/

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Co-founder | Fogel Fogel & Potamianos LLP

Jerome Fogel is a leader, attorney, and author. He is the cofounder of Fogel & Potamianos LLP, a law firm that helps companies lead in today’s market with expertise in corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, and intellectual property.  He represents successful entrepreneurs and helps negotiate sophisticated talent agreements in entertainment. He also serves as the go-to general counsel for a number of organizations.  He has participated in over 50 corporate, non-profit, and entertainment transactions including company formations, buyouts, sales of companies, equity financing, high-profile partnerships, talent agreements, digital music distribution, television distribution, publishing, event licensing, and commercial transactions. 

Jerome was previously in business development, including GE Capital and Pepperdine University’s Graziadio School of Business.  He was also a Summer Associate with Paul Hastings LLP in Los Angeles and in private practice.  

He is a graduate of UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business (B.S. in Business Administration) and New York University School of Law (J.D.). He also is a Certified Behavioral Consultant with the DISC Personality Assessment. 

Recently, Jerome published his first book The Gauntlet: Five Keys for Unlocking Success in Leadership to pass on the lessons of leadership he has learned along his journey.

Jerome lives in Los Angeles and is married to his beautiful bride Sheri. He is currently studying spiritual theology at Talbot School of Theology and is passionate about writing, boxing, fitness, fantasy football, and travel. 

LINKS

• LinkedIn

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Co-Founder | Marsh Collective

John:

John Marsh is the Co-Founder of Marsh Collective and host of the Redemptification Podcast, serial entrepreneur, a consultant helping steward over $1b in redemptive real estate in 9 small towns (with populations of  800-180k) around America, with love for building things that are beautiful and meaningful.  

Over the last 25 years, John and Ashely have guided over 40 startup businesses in various industries, such as the Construction, Real Estate Investing, Advertising, and also multiple Restaurants. John and his wife have renovated 220+ buildings within 10 blocks of downtown Opelika to help save their city. Today, John’s current focus is on helping others make generational differences in their communities and companies by helping patrons bridge the gap between redeeming vision and execution.

Enneagram: 3 / 5 VOICES: Connector Creative

Lover of: Statistics, Measuring all things, Overcomplicated Smoothies

Ashely:

Ashely is the Co-Founder of Marsh Collective and has guided 40 startups with John over the last 25 years. Along with John, and now the team at Marsh Collective, she has pioneered the redeeming of Opelika historic downtown, and placemaking in cities across the country. Ashely runs the real estate development and management, a hospitality design company, The Southerly event venue and community, and works with the team to foster a generational difference in communities and places.

Curator of all things beautiful. People, places and spaces.

Enneagram: 8 / 5 VOICES: Guardian Nurturer

Lover of: Fast cars, & pull up bars  

LINKS

• Marsh Collective

• Redemptification Podcast

• Recent interview

• Article: The Resurrection of Place

leader | Praxis Academy

Jon leads Praxis Academy, Emerging Founders, and College Partnerships as a Partner at Praxis, where they focus on equipping the next generation to pursue redemptive entrepreneurship. Previously, he spent seven years at a Fortune 100 Company, where he helped launch a new venture and revive another as part of a turnaround strategy. Jon was also an Executive Producer of a successful independent film. In addition to his work at Praxis, Jon is a founding board member of 100cameras — a nonprofit that empowers youth to create change in their communities through photography. He serves as an advisor and mentor for the Quarter Zero and Catapult Incubators, and has taught entrepreneurship as an adjunct at The King’s College NYC. He holds a B.A. from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota and recently became an ‘official’ New Yorker, eclipsing his 10th year in the city that he has grown to love. 

LINKS

• LinkedIn

• Praxis Academy

• Praxis Labs

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Portfolio Manager for 500 Startups, Inc.

Jonathan Liao is the Portfolio Manager for 500 Startups, Inc., an accelerator/seed venture capital firm operating in 20 countries across 6 continents. At 500 Startups, Jonathan helps manage the largest early stage investment portfolio in the world and is responsible for investment data analysis across the entire organization. Jonathan holds a BA degree in Music Composition and Economics from UC Davis and a MBA from Santa Clara University.

Jonathan has also been active in the Silicon Valley Christian community over the past fifteen years as a leader in youth and college ministry. He and his wife, Jessica, currently live in Santa Clara.

LINKS

• LinkedIn