Resource Global Board
Tony Chen
Managing Director, Kinyungu Ventures
Tony founded Kinyungu Ventures, which is an investment and advisory firm focused on early-stage and small businesses in East Africa. He is co-founded Govzilla, a SaaS company he led as CEO for 8 years. Tony is also on the Investment Committee for Triphammer Ventures. His first company, Hospital Impact, was acquired by FierceMarkets in 2009. Prior to his start-up days, Tony worked 10 years in various corporate, innovation, and business development roles. Tony earned a BS in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University and an MBA from Northwestern Kellogg School of Management.
May Lum
Senior Counsel at McDonald's Corporation
May is an in-house attorney with an American MNC based in Chicago. Her current practice is focused on global technology transactions. Her current outside work involvement includes serving at her church’s Sunday School and sitting as a member of the advisory council of an international evangelistic and missions oriented organization. May was born in and grew up in Singapore. She came to the Lord just before getting called to the Singapore Bar, and several of her family members have since come to the Lord as well. Praise God!
Wayne Pederson
Former President of Reach Beyond and NRB
Prior to Reach Beyond and his work with NRB, Wayne served as vice president for Radio at Moody in Chicago, with 35 owned and operated stations, reaching 1 Million listeners each week, plus 800 radio outlets nationwide. He’s a writer, speaker and air personality for a number of organizations. Wayne graduated from the University of Minnesota and the Free Lutheran Theological Seminary in Minneapolis. He has two daughters, Christy and Michelle and 9 grandchildren, all in Minnesota.
William Adjei, MCR
Managing Director at CBRE
William is a Managing Director at CBRE with over 17 years of advisory, solutions and operational expertise in commercial and enterprise real estate services. He specializes in solving challenges for corporate real estate clients, leading high performing teams, services transformations, technology strategy, and expanding accounts. He currently lives in the Chicagoland area with his wife Kristy and four lovely children. He also enjoys outdoor activities and sports with his family.
Scott Gifford
Client Executive, Alight Solutions
Responsible for the overall business and relationship management for a portfolio of clients at Alight Solutions, the leading provider of benefits administration and cloud-based HR and financial solutions. He has previously worked as the Head of Human Resources at Wiss, Janey, Elstner & Associates, Inc, was the National Director at Catalyst, Christ Together and worked at the Vardin Group and Hewitt Associates. He volunteers on the Board of Bosko, Barnabas Group of Chicago and is a Foster Family for Safe Families for Children.
Julia Tuthill Mulligan
Marketing, Innovation, & Sustainability Consultant of For the Glory Consulting
Julia has been in senior marketing and sustainability executive with a successful 25-year track record leading brand/category management and sustainability at Fortune 500 consumer products companies including Procter & Gamble, Pizza Hut, Quaker, PepsiCo, Wrigley and Mars. She has been a dear friend to Resource Global over the years. Her husband and five kids live in the Chicagoland area.
Tricia Felice
Partner, RedMark Group
RedMark Group enterprise strategy consulting firm where she is responsible for all marketing, design and creative consulting. She has built and executed projects for startups, small businesses, and Fortune 500 companies, including brands such as PepsiCo, Disney, Twentieth Century Fox and HBO/Time Warner. Tricia specializes in Concept Viability, Creative Marketing, Go-To-Market Guidance, Repositioning and Growth Strategy. She currently resides in Chicago where she spends her free time geeking out about the latest tech trends, Cleveland Sports and testing new recipes in the kitchen.
Elmer Huh
Chief Investment Officer, The M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust
Elmer has more than 20 years in the field of public/private equity and alternative investing and joined the Trust from Ernst & Young Capital Advisors in New York City, where he served as senior vice president of investment banking and alternative asset managers. He serves actively on the boards of international and local non-profit organizations and enjoys coaching sports, teaching and traveling. Elmer, his wife Esther, and two of their three children will move from Scarsdale, New York, to the Vancouver area this summer.
Andrew Kamau
Data Scientist, United Health Group
Andrew was born and raised in Nairobi, Kenya, and immigrated to the USA in 2000 to attend university in Michigan. He currently works for United Health Group as a Data Scientist, where he helps develop machine learning, and natural language processing algorithms in the healthcare space. He also works part-time as an adjunct professor of business statistics, at the College of Business and Management at Northeastern Illinois University. He currently lives in Chicago with his wife and two daughters, and serves as a deacon at his local church.