Panelists

ADVANCING THE GOSPEL THROUGH NEW VENTURES
Jay Belding, Founder & CEO, APS Packaging
Heidi Metcalf, Vice President, Geneva Global
Boyd Bailey, Founder & CEO, Ministry Ventures


DOING GOOD, WELL
Bill Hwang, Founder & Managing Partner, Tiger Asia Management
David Kidder, Co-Founder & COO, Renaissance Integrated Solutions
Terry Gyger, Founder & Executive Director, Redeemer Church Planting Center

PANELIST BIOS

  Jay Belding

Jay Belding graduated from Trenton State College (now the College of New Jersey) in 1973 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Industrial Arts and Technology and a Masters in Special Education. Following a brief teaching career, Jay embarked on an entrepreneurial path which to date has included business ventures in homebuilding, cookies, candles, bagel chips, oil absorbing products, and contract packaging.

In 1977, he and his wife Barbara established a vocational training facility for the handicapped. Today they train and employ 300 person who are engaged in packaging tasks for companies such as Ricola cough drops, Starbucks, and Crayola.

Jay is currently and elder at the Doylestown Presbyterian Church in Pennsylvania. His son is a medical student at Case Western University and his daughter is a junior in high school. Jay is currently on the Board of Directors of Life Abundant, a prison ministry located in the Bucks County jail. He is also a drummer in “Makefield”, a classic rock band whose motto is appropriately, “If you’re not good…be loud!”


 Heidi Metcalf

Heidi Metcalf currently serves as Vice President of Geneva Global, Inc. Driven by a passion for changing lives, Geneva Global’s mission is to reinvent philanthropy so that more money flows to the most effective life-changing programs in ways that donors have the satisfaction of knowing the difference their money makes. Heidi has recently opened the Washington, D.C. office for Geneva and has responsibility for the Women’s Empowerment Fund, the Anti-Slavery Fund, and the Tsunami Response Fund.

Heidi has over twelve years of experience spanning the private, public and nonprofit sectors. For seven years she served as Executive Director of Partnership for the Future (PFF), a business-education partnership based in Richmond, VA. Prior to joining PFF, Heidi served as Policy Advisor to the Governor of Virginia and was an Account Manager with Procter & Gamble. She received her B.A. from the University of Virginia in English Literature and received her Masters in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

  Boyd Bailey

Boyd uses his entrepreneurial experiences to assist and consult professionals as they seek to pursue their passions. Given his position in Ministry Ventures, likened to a venture capital firm for upstart ministries, Boyd understands both sides of the “passion fence”. One side is for those who enjoy their present professional position yet want to serve ministry and participate in a meaningful way. The other side is for those that have chosen to be in, not around, full time ministry. The unique environment Boyd currently directs at Ministry Ventures evidences how a combination of ministry supporters and entrepreneurs are required to achieve a successful ministry pursuit.

Boyd is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Ministry Ventures, a non-profit incubator for New Ministries. Founded in 2000, Ministry Ventures has helped 11 New Ministries raise over 3 million dollars and impact over 20,000 people. Prior to Ministry Ventures, Bailey was the National Director for Crown Financial Ministries. He was instrumental in the expansion of Crown into 30 major markets across the U.S. He was a key facilitator in the 25 million dollar merger between Christian Financial Concepts and Crown Ministries. Before Crown he and Andy Stanley started First Baptist Atlanta’s north campus; and as an Elder, Boyd assisted Andy in the start of North Point Community Church. In college he bought a service business with five employees. This business endeavor financed his education and the equity from its sale was the economic launching pad for his graduate school experience.

Boyd Bailey was born in Huntsville, Alabama and received his Bachelor of Arts from Jacksonville State University and his Masters of Divinity from Southwestern Seminary in FT. Worth, Texas. He and his wife, Rita, have been married 23 years and have four daughters.

Boyd serves on the boards of Ministry Ventures, Crossroads Career Network, The Infocus Group, and Youth Ministry Resources. He is engaged in a mentor program with six other younger ministry leaders and he and Rita lead a couple’s community group in their home. Bailey has co-authored a small group curriculum, written several articles and is presently working on his first book. His hobbies and interests include history, reading and research, investments, leisure travel, speaking, sports, movies, running, the outdoors and his greatest passion is hanging out with his family!

 Bill Hwang

Bill (Sung-Kook) Hwang is founder of Tiger Asia Management LLC, an investment firm specializing in Asian equities. Previously, Bill was a managing director covering Asia for the New York office of Tiger Management LLC. Bill also worked in institutional equity sales at Hyundai Securities and Peregrine Securities, both in New York City and in Seoul. Bill received a BA in Economics/Business from the University of California at Los Angeles and an MBA from Carnegie-Mellon University. Bill is a member of the Board of Trustees of Fuller Seminary and supports several mission, aid, and cultural programs such as Korean Evangelical Mission for Hispanics, an organization his mother founded; Yanbin Rajin University of Science and Technology in China; the Korean Evangelical Holiness Denomination; Campus Crusade for Christ; and the Tiger Foundation and the Korea Society in New York City. Bill and his wife, Becky, have two daughters and live in New Jersey.

 David Kidder

David is an established entrepreneur with extensive web-based product and technology development, operational and marketing expertise. Most recently, David has served as the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Renaissance Integrated Solutions that developed and patented the Dual Purpose Rehabilitation Solution that deployed last mile fiber-optic networks in the U.S. Prior to Renaissance, David founded several software and marketing services companies including Net-X, Inc. and wireless content delivery ASP SmartRay Network, Inc., acquired in August of 2000. Kidder graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology and is creator and co-author of The Intellectual Devotional book series published by Rodale.


 Terry Gyger

Rev. Gyger founded Redeemer's Church Planting Center in 2000, to accelerate Redeemer's efforts to plant city-center churches with strong gospel foundations and commitment to serving the city. The Church Planting Center has brought structure and process to Redeemer's grass roots church planting efforts, in an effort to improve the self-sufficiency and impact of the churches it plants. In addition, under Terry's leadership, RCPC has expanded its focus to include major cities around the world, and partnerships with other denominations that share a vision for the city. From 1999-2006, Terry has also served as Redeemer's Executive Pastor, responsible for all departments within the growing church. Terry's leadership of Redeemer goes back to its roots in 1987 when, as Director of the Presbyterian Church of Americas' Mission to North America (MNA), he developed a vision for a church plant in the heart of NYC and recruited Tim Keller to be its pastor.

Prior to his full time leadership at Redeemer, Terry planted and was Sr. Pastor of Christ the King Church in Boston from 1994 to 1999. He served as Director of MNA from 1986 to 1994. Before 1986 he planted churches in Miami and Atlanta. He earned his Masters in Divinity from Denver Seminary and has a masters in school administration from the University of Arizona. Early in his career, Terry and a partner founded a commercial real estate development company, with ventures in Denver and Albuquerque, as well as a global consulting and training organization called Ministries in Action.