Global U Talks

Seth Barnes and Chris Hite discuss the early years of the entrepreneurial journey. What is it like to strike out on your own at the age of 22? Chris Hite is Principal and Co-Founder of Coreland Companies, as well as Kensington Real Estate Group, a real estate investment company. He has an extensive background in commercial property management, having managed directly or indirectly over 500 million square feet of office, retail, and industrial property across the Western United States. Full Transcript: https://blog.theglobalu.org/chris-hite-principal-co-founder-of-coreland-companies-and-kensington-real-estate-group/

Full Transcript: https://theglobalu.org/talks Lisa Black is a writer, speaker and an advocate for the vulnerable. Lisa, and her husband Gary, spend the majority of their time mentoring and discipling young people through the World Race, an 11-month mission trip to 11 different countries and G42 Leadership Academy, a leadership school in the Spanish village they call home. Together, they have given their lives to building up a generation of leaders committed to relieving oppression and revealing the Kingdom of God.

Full Transcript: https://theglobalu.org/talks Bob Mudd, President at Adventure in Missions Bob has over 20 years of business and ministry management experience and has served in a number of executive roles, ranging from COO, CFO to CEO. His first 15 years were spent in the technology and telecommunications industry where he was President of Correctional Billing Services, Executive Vice President of Operations at Securus Technologies, COO of Evercom Systems and COO of TDM, Inc. He holds five patents in the technology and telecommunications industry and led business units with over $300 million in full P&L responsibility. Most recently, he was the CEO of Bourbon Brothers Holding Company and prior was the COO of international orphan ministry Children’s HopeChest. He has a bachelor’s degree in Education from the University of Louisville. Bob and his wife Julie have six children and have a passion to care for orphans and love to be outdoors with the family.

Founder and Managing Director of Books Unbound Sophie has been working with refugees from Myanmar for the past 6 years around Southeast Asia, which inspired her to start Books Unbound. Books Unbound is a team of crowd-sourced artists and educators who develop contextualized picture-based learning materials. She works closely with local and international NGOs to develop innovative and culturally sensitive education tools. While she runs her projects, she also works as a consultant for various UN agencies to develop materials for the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. She is mostly based in Bangladesh.

Ethan Wendle - Director at G42 Leadership Academy; Executive Chairman of the Board at DiamondBack Truck Covers Bio: Ethan is an entrepreneur, and a passionate ambassador of the Kingdom of God. He has led in a traditional church setting, and in business, and longs to see business and missions combined. In college he founded DiamondBack Truck Covers which today employs over 65 people in Philipsburg, PA. Ethan now lives in Mijas, Spain with his wife and three daughters and serves as the director of the Leadership Academy.

Justin Schneider: The former Adidas and New Balance shoe designer wondered why men's dress shoes couldn't feel like sneakers. Now it's officially 'Wall Street's fastest performance shoe": an athlete set a world record for running the fastest half marathon in dress shoes by running in a pair of Wolf & Shepherd in 2016.

Lisa Black Bio: Lisa Black is a writer, speaker and an advocate for the vulnerable. Lisa, and her husband Gary, spend the majority of their time mentoring and discipling young people through the World Race, an 11-month mission trip to 11 different countries and G42 Leadership Academy, a leadership school in the Spanish village they call home. Together, they have given their lives to building up a generation of leaders committed to relieving oppression and revealing the Kingdom of God.

Elisabeth Chauncey Program Manager of Google Research - Artificial Intelligence Bio: Elisabeth and was born and raised in the Tampa Bay area of Florida. She studied business economics and political science at the University of Florida (Go Gators!) and, after graduation, embarked on The World Race, traveling to Southeast Asia, Southern Africa and South America. After returning, she began working at Google, originally supporting Fortune 500 companies in Media and Technology as they progressed in their Google Cloud journeys. She now works as a Program Manager on the Google AI Research, Coral team, developing on-device artificial intelligence products (coral.ai). She currently resides in Austin, Texas and enjoys reading anything by Tim Keller, drinking copious amounts of coffee and traveling (especially to somewhere with a beach)!

Chris Hite is Principal and Co-Founder of Coreland Companies, as well as Kensington Real Estate Group, a real estate investment company. He has an extensive background in commercial property management, having managed directly or indirectly over 500 million square feet of office, retail, and industrial property across the Western United States. Coreland Companies has been committed to providing the highest quality commercial real estate services to private and institutional clients across Southern California since its inception in 1990. Under his leadership, the Coreland management and brokerage teams actively represent nearly 150 commercial properties totaling more than 10 million square feet. Mr. Hite possesses a degree in Business Entrepreneurship from the University of Southern California, a degree in Art History from Arizona State University and is currently pursing a Master of Liberal Arts degree at Johns Hopkins University. He is married with three children and enjoys travel, photography and serving on a variety of charity boards.

Tim and Cyndi Bird have been married for 28 years and have 5 amazing children, teens thru young twenties. The Bird family lives in Fort Worth, Texas where they spend much of their time homeschooling their kiddos and supporting, loving and building up the local body of Believers. Tim and Cyndi are passionate about missions as a lifestyle, Believers walking in freedom, helping others find their destiny, and seeing the Kingdom of God released and realized throughout the earth. Because of this they count it a high privilege to walk with the next generation of God's people to help discover the treasure God has placed within each of them, and call it out.