PANELISTS

J. Michael Bontrager
Founder and CEO, Chatham Financial

Michael Bontrager formed Chatham Financial in 1991 and is the managing principal. Chatham provides interest rate and foreign currency hedging, defeasance, accounting, and debt advisory to over 700 client finance teams worldwide. Chatham advises on over 8,000 transactions with a principal amount of over $440 billion annually. Clients include some of the largest real estate private equity firms in the world as well as mid-cap financial institutions in the US. Chatham is based outside of Philadelphia with offices in Denver, London, Singapore, and Poland. Its 220 employees represent over 40 different nationalities.

Chatham considers itself a multiple bottom line company which counts its impact on employees and the broader community as one of its reasons for existence. This has translated into creating several organizations that do not have a profit motive including The Garage, a local community and youth center, Together for Education, an education nonprofit which serves as a catalyst for community involvement in education and Cygma, an organization which seeks to leverage Chatham’s foreign exchange expertise to help solve the global poverty problem by providing currency hedging solutions to the rapidly growing Microfinance industry.

Prior to founding Chatham, Michael was a Vice President in the Derivative Products Group at Chemical Bank (now JP Morgan Chase) and spent nine years in various credit, corporate finance, and derivative roles in New York and Zurich, Switzerland. He holds a BA in Economics from Wheaton College, Illinois and received an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Scott Harrison
Photojournalist and Founder, charity: water

Scott Harrison spent 10 years as a New York City party planner, promoting events for clients that included MTV, VH1, ABC TV, Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Universal Records, Island Records, Bacardi and Anheuser-Busch. In the fall of 2004, he left the business to serve a team of doctors and surgeons as a volunteer photojournalist onboard a hospital ship in Liberia.

Returning home to New York City a year later, he produced a large exhibition in Chelsea of more than 100 of his photographs and videos from Africa. The show gathered considerable media attention and raised more than $95,000 for medical procedures and freshwater well projects in West Africa.

Following another 6-month journey to West Africa, he returned to New York City to found the non-profit initiative charity: water. Turning his full attention to the global water crisis and the one billion in need of clean and safe water, he and a small team created moving exhibitions in galleries and outdoor parks. charity: water has also produced several awareness video pieces, the latest directed by Hotel Rwanda’s Terry George, and starring Oscar-winner Jennifer Connelly.

In the 18 months since charity: water was launched, Scott and his team have raised $2.7M and have funded 481 water projects in 10 developing nations. More at www.charitywater.org

Emmanuel Kampouris
Founder, Kairos Journal
Retired Chairman, CEO and President, American Standard Companies, Inc.

Mr. Kampouris is the retired Chairman, CEO and President of American Standard Companies, Inc., a leading global manufacturer, operating in 34 countries. In 1999, Mr. Kampouris concluded his 35-year career with American Standard by leading the company to record sales of $7.2 billion. In addition to being President and Chief Executive of American Standard since 1989, he was elected Chairman of the Board in 1993. Upon his retirement in 2000, he founded Kairos Journal, an online Magazine which seeks to embolden, educate, equip, and support pastors and church leaders as they strive to transform the moral conscience of their culture and restore the prophetic voice of the Church.

Mr. Kampouris serves on the boards Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, Stanley Works, and Alticor Inc. (Amway Corp.). He is a member of the Board of The National Endowment for Democracy, a Trustee of Hudson Institute (Emeritus), and has served on the boards of Click Commerce, Inc., Smart Disk Corporation, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (1994-2001) and the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships. He is also a member of the Economic Club of New York, the Oxford Law Society and a past member of Oxford University Council for the School of Management Studies

Mr. Kampouris earned an MA in law from Oxford University, Oxford, England and a Diploma in Ceramic Technology from North Staffordshire College of Technology, Stoke-on-Trent, England.


Charles P. Stetson, Jr.
Managing Director and co-founder, PEI Funds

Mr. Stetson is a Managing Director and co-founder of PEI Funds. Previously, he was a Managing Director of Venture Capital Fund of America (“VCFA”), leading the fund’s U.S. investments, and assisting in raising $50 million from U.S. and European investors. Before joining VCFA, Mr. Stetson was an investment banker, as President of Davis Skaggs Capital in San Francisco and previously as Vice President of Bache Halsey Stuart, in New York and in San Francisco. He pioneered private equity secondaries with a purchase of a portfolio of interests in 1978. Mr. Stetson is a graduate of Yale University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Business.
Mr. Stetson co-founded the Bible Literacy Project, a non-partisan, non-profit endeavor, in 2001 to encourage and facilitate the academic study of the Bible in public schools. The Project was founded to increase Biblical knowledge and awareness of the role of religion in culture. In 2006, it released a book The Bible and Its Influence for use in public schools across America. As of Fall 2007, it was being used in 174 schools in 37 states. Most recently, Mr. Stetson was the driving force behind the Wilberforce Project which set out to produce a documentary, The Better Hour, about William Wilberforce, the 19th century British abolitionist and parliament member. This documentary will be shown on PBS stations across America this year.

Bill Hwang
CEO & Managing Partner of Tiger Asia Management L.L.C.

Bill Hwang is the founder, managing partner, and CEO of Tiger Asia Management, L.L.C., a hedge fund that invests in China, Japan, and Korea. Prior to establishing Tiger Asia Management, L.L.C. in 2001, Bill worked as an equity analyst at Tiger Management, L.L.C. from 1996. Before Tiger Management, L.L.C., Bill worked in the institutional equity sales departments for both Peregrine Securities and Hyundai Securities. Bill is married and has two daughters. He also serves as a board member for The Tiger Foundation, The Korea Society, and Fuller Theological Seminary. He also serves as an advisor to Redeemer’s Financial Services Ministry and the Entrepreneurship Initiative.

CENTER FOR FAITH AND WORK STAFF

Katherine Leary
Founder and Executive Director, Redeemer’s Center for Faith and Work

Ms. Leary came to Redeemer in 2002 to build out Redeemer’s vision to impact the culture of NYC through the gospel-centered work lives of its congregation who are engaged in a wide range of professions and industries. In 2003 she established The Center for Faith and Work with a mission to equip, connect, and mobilize Redeemer’s congregation. The “equipping” part of the ministry is primarily through classes, retreats and conferences that provide the theological foundations. Vocation-based groups have been established in a number of professions or industries to “connect” people into gospel-centered communities in order to work through ways a Christian world view can bring reconciliation and hope to their work environments. The “mobilizing” mission of the Center is embodied in the Entrepreneurship Initiative, which is dedicated to helping congregants start new gospel-centered ventures in the arts, non-for-profit, and for-profit sectors.

Prior to this ministry role at Redeemer, Katherine served 20 years in the high tech industry. In California from 1996 to 2002, she served as CEO of Pensare, Inc. – an online management education company that teamed with leading faculty at business schools such as Wharton, Harvard, Duke and Stanford to create interactive courses for online delivery in the corporate market. Prior to that, she was CEO of One Touch Systems, Inc., a $25M hardware/ software products company that provided hardware, software, and services to large companies with nationally distributed offices such as Ford, JCPenney, GE, and the U.S. Government. Before that, in New York City, she was President of Private Satellite Network, a $35M satellite television services company. She also worked in various consulting, sales, and marketing roles, primarily in the technology sector.

Katherine received an MBA from The Darden School, University of Virginia and a BA in Psychology and Education from Wittenberg University. She became a Christian mid-career in NYC through the ministries of Redeemer Presbyterian Church.

Calvin Chin
Director, Redeemer’s Entrepreneurship Initiative

Calvin Chin is the Entrepreneurship Initiative Director at the Center for Faith and Work as of September of 2007. Before joining the Center for Faith and Work, Calvin worked in the finance industry for seventeen years. Most recently, he spent seven years with Burnham Securities, Inc. as a director with its investment banking group where he focused on a range of activities for clients in multiple industries. His experience at the boutique enabled him to work with start ups as well as small cap public entities. Prior to joining Burnham Securities, Inc., he was a Vice President with Bank of America in their Business Credit Group working with middle market clients in the greater NYC area. Calvin also has eight years of investment advisory experience at Chase Manhattan and Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., Inc. where he managed relationships with high net worth individuals. Calvin received a B.A. from the University of Buffalo and an MBA from The NYU Stern School of Business. He also serves on the board of Hope for New York as well on the University of Buffalo’s Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences’ Advisory Council.