Atul is an entrepreneur, humanitarian, author and adviser. His work has impacted industries ranging from consumer banking and e-commerce to humanitarian relief and development. He was named one of the top fundraisers in the United States in 2009 and was a leading voice behind the worldwide ONE campaign. In 2009, Atul joined United Way Worldwide as the Executive Director of the organization’s 41-country International Network and their Executive Vice President of Investor Relations.
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XEALOT Guides
Benny likes to refer to himself as a “creative extremist”; because today’s social ills and injustices require creative means to bring about justice, reconciliation and renewal. The Urban Tox Adventure believes that we begin to discover our high-mobility gene as we place ourselves outside our normal context, to see things through a different lens. This cross-pollenization experience will heighten your senses to yourself and the world you live in a revolutionary manner.
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Brent is the executive chef and the director of culinary training at Create Common Good, a social and entrepreneurial venture providing job-training and employment for refugees and other disadvantaged populations. As a multi-award-winning executive chef, Brent has extensive international experience in restaurants and five star hotels and was named Chef of the Nation for Australia/New Zealand.
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Bill has come a long way. As an 18 year old kid, he could barely speak English; today he runs a multi-billion dollar hedge fund. Bill is a former prodigy of Julian Robertson and the founder of Tiger Asian Management. And he learned a thing or two from his mentor—Mr. Hwang’s fund returned 55% in 2007 and has a seven-year average of 40%.
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Cue currently serves as the discipleship Pastor of Newsong LA Covenant Church. He is also the Founder and President of the SHAW Community Transformation Corporation in the Crenshaw community of Los Angeles. A former Virgin Records artist as part of the rap group College Boyz, Cue heard a call from God in 1994 while watching the movie “Malcolm X.”
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Freddy is the host of the New TV Series called “Hollywood Hunter.” The show share great segments in the field and the responsibility to give back. Being the only son to one of the world’s most experienced hunters, Freddy Harteis was able to learn from the very best. While his father was harvesting North America’s most desired big game trophies, Freddy joined in on many of them, not to mention traveling the world to take some of the “Big 5″ elephant, buffalo and leopard.
Jeannie is an actress, TV personality, makeup artist, and fashion expert best known for her exuberant energy as the host of Style Network’s Emmy- nominated show How Do I Look? Jeannie also appears as a frequent fashion correspondent on the Today show and The Daily 10 on E! News. She has also hosted a wide variety of other specials at Style Network including Dude, Where’s your Style?, Go Fix Yourself, and Lucky Shops in conjunction with Lucky Magazine.
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Jeff is a journalist, writer, and editor who received the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Journalism in 1993 for a series of articles published in the Orlando Sentinel. Jeff also won a Scripps Howard award for environmental journalism in 1991 for a year-long examination of the then-failing efforts to save the endangered manatee in Florida. In 1994 he won the Worth Bingham Prize for a series of stories exposing lapses within the Federal Aviation Administration on safety issues.
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Jim is a leadership development professional who is highly gifted in mentoring younger leaders. He is a Minnesota native who spent 25 years in Europe including nine years in Greece pioneering transformational projects in the Balkan nations. Jim and his wife have led nine leadership development training events in six continents for Youth With A Mission and he has served on the executive leadership team of YWAM’s Kona, Hawaii location for the past 11 years.
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Josh pastors a church community called Vereda in Mexico City. He is passionate about the local church and is excited about what God is doing in the city. Pointing people to Jesus, connecting them in the church so they can belong, and expanding God’s kingdom here on earth is his greatest pleasure! Christ. Community. Compassion. That’s what it’s all about!
Josh is married to Dania, and have 3 beautiful children. They have been living in Mexico City since 2007.
Judy Orred is the founder of SLINGSHOT Leadership Events, an international gathering of young leaders that is held on nearly every continent. The vision of SLINGSHOT is to facilitate a learning environment for young leaders that applies leadership principles that strengthens both individual and organizational foundations. Transformation of peoples and places is her passion.
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For the past 10 years Mike Foster has been creating new ways to experience life transformation. He consults with leaders across the country on personal sustainability and life management and leads “People of the Second Chance,” an initiative to help individuals and teams survive and thrive after personal or organizational failure.
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Patricia is a Canadian who grew up near Toronto, and spent many years in Quebec before coming to Bangkok with her family. They came as missionaries, but even that is radically different since she embraced life as a Local.
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Philip is founder and CEO of Unlimited Innovations, Inc., a software products and services firm with offices in Asia and North America that serves clients in the aerospace, health care and financial services industries. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Calgary in Canada and has completed his executive education at the Harvard Business School.
As Executive Vice President, Strategy and Business Development for MTV Networks, he spearheaded the development and articulation of MTVN’s overarching corporate strategies and coordinated large-scale, global growth opportunities. Before this, Richard served as Senior Vice President, Strategy and Business Development at IAC/InterActiveCorp, founded and served as Managing Director at The Confluence Group, and worked as an investment banker at Wasserstein Perella & Co.
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Ralph is a Hollywood film producer who has produced blockbuster movies such as the X-Men, Fantastic Four and Star Trek series. He is also a partner in ThomasWinterCooke, which produces television commercials and represents a number of commercial directors. Ralph is a member of the Directors Guild of America and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and has helped film schools including the Veracity Project and Biola University.
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Thomas is CEO of Brand Villages, which advises senior leadership and organizational boards on complex strategic issues. He divides his time between the United States, the United Kingdom and Asia, where clients include Oxford Analytica, Saatchi & Saatchi X, J.B. Hunt Transportation, Singapore Stock Exchange (SGX), Terral River Service and Keppel, among others. He holds a Ph.D. from The Pennsylvania State University.
Dave is a proven innovation strategist, author, culture specialist, and creative communicator. He has traveled the world to share dynamic insights on leadership development, regularly speaking in strategic cities throughout North America and Asia, and is the author of The Monkey and the Fish, an award-winning book on culture.
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Over the last 20 years, Sam has led ventures in retail and IT and created best practices for working inter-culturally. He was the Vice President of Information Technology for Fresh and Easy Neighborhood Market in the US, a subsidiary of Tesco and third-largest retailer in the world. While serving on the Operating Board for Tesco Lotus in Thailand, he helped build various retail formats and introduced retail innovations.
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Dave started a promising ministry career at Bayside Covenant Church in Granite Bay, CA. In 2004, he hooked up with XEALOT and suddenly life was turned upside-down. He and his family moved to Thailand in 2005 to help launch Newsong Church in Bangkok, then went on to lead a similar initiative in London. In 2009, he returned to California to launch a production company, bringing his creative spark and 15 years of ministry experience to his role on the XEALOT team.
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Adam is an intercultural specialist and gifted communicator who has led transformational workshops for thousands across five continents. He has over 25 years of experience in public speaking and a unique ability to distill complex concepts into memorable principle and actions. A Qualified Administrator of the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI), Adam draws upon the latest science in the field and twenty years of senior executive experience leading and training diverse teams.
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Daniel is the President and CEO of Wet Ink Printing, a multi-channel marketing and print communications company he founded in 2000. He has over 20 years of experience in the graphic arts, screen printing and apparel industries, as well as extensive sales management and marketing experience within various industries including internet, wireless and creative services. Daniel has lived in North America, Europe and Asia, and has traveled extensively to over 35 countries.
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