Innovation Leader | Life.Church

Bobby is the Innovation Leader of Life.Church and is passionate about exploring new ideas and finding practical ways to leverage them for the global Church. He has helped pioneer the missional use of technology that allows Life.Church to reach people in every country on the planet. He oversees the YouVersion, Open Network, Church Online, Weekend Experience, Information Technology, Creative Media, Spaces & Places, and Communications teams.

Bobby and his wife, Melissa, live in Edmond, Oklahoma with their four children.

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• YouVersion

• YouVersion Usage App

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Founder | The Institute for innovation, integration & impact

Brett Johnson is the founder of The Institute for Innovation, Integration & Impact, Inc, headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area. Passionate about the abolition of dichotomy, Brett is particularly interested in removing the barrier between the so-called secular and sacred. A father, writer, social entrepreneur, (and recovered Chartered Accountant) Brett is focused on Repurposing Business—Transforming Society®.

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• Repurposing Business

• LinkedIn Company Page

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President of RightNow Media

Brian Mosley serves as the President of RightNow Media. His passion is to help people live out their faith in their neighborhoods, offices, schools, homes and around the world. The 140 people at RightNow Media serve over 15,000 churches, ministries and Christian business owners with powerful video content that inspires people to action. Brian graduated from Baylor University and then married his high school sweetheart, Julie.

They have four kids, Abby, Grant, Ashley and Tristan. They worship and serve at Allen Bible Church where Brian is also an elder.

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• LikedIn

Director | Micro-lending at Valley Economic Development Center

In 2006, inspired by Muhammad Yunus’ Nobel Peace Prize for his work in microfinance, Brandon started his career to build dignity and create jobs through access to capital for under-served entrepreneurs.  After receiving his MBA from SDSU, Brandon joined the Peace Corps in Guatemala. He assisted the small business development efforts in ecotourism, focusing on providing an alternative income to subsistence farming.  

After returning to the States, Brandon supported entrepreneurs at higher levels. As the Director of Micro-lending at Valley Economic Development Center he grew the portfolio to top 5 in the US and testified to Congress on the State of Micro Lending.  Afterwards, Brandon raised and managed an investment fund for micro-lenders across the US.

At the end of 2016, he responded to a passion to intersect faith and entrepreneurship and relocated to Palo Alto with a vision to re-imagine local churches as faith-based co-working spaces.  

Brandon is passionate about practical theology, humanity, and bike touring.  He enjoys reading non-fiction, epics like Beyond Fear, Papillon, Endurance, etc. Currently, Brandon is gearing up for a multi-week bike tour through Cuba.  

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• LinkedIn

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Founder | Sageworks

Brian founded Sageworks, the country’s first fintech and largest provider of software to U.S. banks. He sold the company to Accel-KKR, a leading Silicon Valley private equity firm, in 2018. He is also the founder of Inmates to Entrepreneurs, a national program that helps ex-offenders start their own small businesses.

Hamilton holds two patents for his work in automating financial analysis. He is a regular guest on CNBC and Fox and is regularly quoted in and writes for all major national media publications. He is also a contributor to Inc. and Entrepreneur magazines.

He holds an undergraduate degree from Sacred Heart University, where he serves on the Board of Trustees, and an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.  

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• LinkedIn 

Founder and Director | Leading the Integration of Faith & Entrepreneurship

Brett R. Smith, Ph.D. is the Cintas Endowed Chair of Entrepreneurship, Founding Director, Center for Social Entrepreneurship, and Founding Research Director, Leading the Integration of Faith & Entrepreneurship (L.I.F.E.) at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. His research interests focus on social and faith-based entrepreneurship. His research has been featured in a number of leading academic journals including Academy of Management Journal, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Business Venturing, Leadership Quarterly, and Long Range Planning.

Smith has won several international awards including the GCEC Award for Best Social Entrepreneurship Program. He has been awarded more than $500,000 in grants from the U.S. Department of State to host seminars on social entrepreneurship for Fulbright students from Afghanistan and North Africa and has been invited to speak around the world at the United Nations, Nelson Mandela Foundation, Tedx Youth, and a number of leading universities including Columbia, Duke, Harvard and Oxford. His work has been highlighted in Time, Business Week, Financial Times, CNN, MSNBC and 100 other media outlets.

Education

• Ph.D. University of Cincinnati, 2007

• M.B.A. Georgia State University, 1999

• B.S. Miami University, Business, 1991

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• Partnered with U2’s Bono to launch social venture Edun Live on Campus

• Climbed Mount Chimborazo with the Last Ice Man

• Graduated from Pretzel University as franchisee of Faith Driven Entrepreneur Auntie Anne’s

• Academic Webpage

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