Summit Speakers

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John Crowley

  • John F. Crowley is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Amicus Therapeutics, a global biotechnology company focusing on developing treatments for rare genetic diseases. John’s involvement with biotechnology stems from the 1998 diagnosis of two of his children with Pompe disease—a severe and often fatal neuromuscular disorder. In his drive to find a cure for them he co founded Novazyme Pharmaceuticals, a biotech start-up conducting research on a new experimental treatment for Pompe disease (which he credits as ultimately saving his children’s lives). In 2001, Novazyme was acquired by Genzyme Corporation and John continued to play a lead role in the development of a drug for Pompe disease as Senior Vice President, Genzyme Therapeutics.

    John and his family have been profiled numerous times on the front page of The Wall Street Journal and are the subjects of a book by Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Geeta Anand, “The Cure: How a Father Raised $100 Million-And Bucked the Medical Establishment-In a Quest to Save His Children.” The major motion picture, Extraordinary Measures, starring Brendan Fraser and Harrison Ford, is inspired by the Crowley family journey. John is the author of a personal memoir: Chasing Miracles: The Crowley Family Journey of Strength, Hope, and Joy.

    John served as a commissioned intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve from 2005-2016, assigned to the United States Special Operations Command, and is a veteran of the global war on terrorism, with service in Afghanistan. He graduated with a B.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and earned a J.D. from the University of Notre Dame Law School and an M.B.A. from Harvard. He was awarded a Doctor of Laws Degree (Honoris Causa) from the University of Notre Dame, where he delivered the commencement address to the Class of 2020.

    John and his wife Aileen have been married since 1990 and have three children, John, Megan and Patrick, and a grandchild, Stella.

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Dcn. Charlie Echeverry

  • Deacon Charlie is Vice Chairman of Catholic Answers, the world’s most respected English-language apologetics and evangelization apostolate. He is Chairman of the National Communications Committee for the Catholic Association of Latino Leaders (C.A.L.L. – founded by Archbishops Jose Gomez & Charles Chaput). He is Chairman of the Vida Initiative, an apostolate founded by Astrid Bennet Gutierrez (EWTN) dedicated to raising pro-life leaders from the Latino community. He is also President of SOFESA, a non-profit organization founded by his wife in 1999 that assists homeless and low-income families in Southern California.

    Deacon Charlie is the founder of the Black//Brown Collective a Los Angeles-based business accelerator focused at the intersection of emerging platforms & emerging audiences.

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Valerie Pletcher

  • Valerie Mullen Pletcher is a nonprofit innovation specialist with over two decades of professional fundraising and management experience. Her knowledge of systems thinking, ethics and standards of excellence have enabled her to raise over millions of dollars to help organizations thrive. Valerie currently serves as the Senior Director of Philanthropy for the Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS), advancing major financial support in the Mid-Atlantic region and developing an overseas philanthropy program. Valerie holds a B.A. in speech communications from West Chester University, and multiple certificates in grant writing, annual fund development, leadership management, and sponsorships. She is a licensed consultant for the Nonprofit Standards for Excellence Institute™ and a graduate with distinction of the International Advanced Fundraising Diploma (IADF) of the U.K. Institute of Fundraising (IoF) in collaboration with Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP). Her experience and training have made her a frequent guest speaker and educator at fundraising conferences and workshops. Valerie served multiple terms as chair of the AFP Youth in Philanthropy program and was selected to present the youth philanthropy model at the 2017 Japan Association of Fundraising Conference in Tokyo. Valerie is a member of the John Carroll Society and the AFP Washington D.C. chapter. She lives in Northern Virginia with her family where she is a member of Saint Mary of Sorrow’s Parish and teaches 6th grade CCD.

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Dcn. RJ Dourney

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  • A seasoned entrepreneur and restaurant executive, Deacon RJ has successfully developed multiple companies throughout the US, Europe, Central America and Asia. The founder of Fortis Advisors (www.thefortisadvisors.com), Fortis specializes in leadership development, strategy, and growth, assisting both owners and management. The Deacon and the team at Fortis consult to real estate developers, senior living community developers, investment bankers, technology and restaurant companies, moving their businesses to the next level.

Mike Del Ponte

  • Mike Del Ponte has empowered founders to rapidly scale their start-ups to over $3 billion in total valuations. His expertise in fundraising, revenue growth, and building world-class teams has helped his clients thrive while avoiding painful mistakes.

    In addition to being a CEO coach, Mike is a serial entrepreneur and investor. He has raised over $10M from top VCs and sold Soma in 2017. He is a partner at Falkon Ventures and an advisor to Protocol Ventures, a crypto hedge fund. Mike has degrees from Yale and Boston College.

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James Baxter

  • James Baxter is the Founder and CEO of Exodus, the makers of Exodus 90. Exodus is the fastest growing men’s ministry, reaching more than 100,000 men in 70 countries since 2015. He lives in Westfield, Indiana with his wife Colleen. They have been blessed with three children.

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Nathan Bond

  • Nathan Bond is the co-founder of Rifle Paper Co., an international stationery and lifestyle brand based in Winter Park, Florida. Founded in 2009 together with his wife Anna, Rifle Paper Co. has been recognized as one of the fastest growing privately held companies in America, with more than 150 employees and carried in over 6,000 retailers around the world.

    Bond led the company as CEO until 2021 and currently serves on their board. He also serves on the boards of the Acton Institute, the Foundation of Economic Education, Magdalene College, and the Chesterton Academy of Orlando. In 2015, Bond was named to Forbes magazine’s 30 Under 30 list of young game changers, movers, and makers. An Orlando native, he resides in the area with his wife Anna and their three sons.

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David Mann

  • David’s background includes leadership, operations, entrepreneurship, and investment experience. David is a partner at the Firefly group and the chairman of EOS, the world renowned entrepreneurial operating system.

    Prior to co-founding The Firefly Group, David co-founded Spring Mill Venture Partners, a venture capital firm. Previously, he worked with up ServiceMaster Ventures and served as a founding member of the ServiceMaster Home Service Center, a joint venture between Kleiner Perkins and ServiceMaster. David began his career as an officer in the U.S. Navy. He serves on a number of non-profit boards and is an adjunct faculty member at Indiana University, Kelley School of Business (Indianapolis).

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Jessica Echeverry

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  • Jess Echeverry is a women and family advocate and speaker. A survivor of abuse and homlessness and Catholic convert, Jess is an advocate for victims of homlessness and sexual abuse. Jess is the founder and Executive Director of SOFESA, a non-profit ministry that has been serving Southern California homeless and low-income children and their families since 1999.

    Her book “Dazzled” details her life experiences in a way that lifts up and enlightens others who are searching for ways to heal. She has been able to, with the help of God's grace, turn those past experiences, and all the healing that she has received along the way, into real, loving help for others.

    Jess has previously appeared on multiple episodes of EWTN's The Catholic View for Women, and has been featured on the Spirit Radio's Morning Show.

    Her husband is a Permanent Deacon for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Together Deacon Charlie & Jess have five children: two teenage boys still at home, two young adults out in the world, and one lovely soul in Heaven.

Jeremy Aranda

  • Jeremy is the president of Life on Belay, which aims to increase a community’s capacity to love those most vulnerable through community anchoring programs. With more than 20 years of diverse experience serving nonprofits, Jeremy has distinguished himself as a leader in the nonprofit space. From 2013 until 2019, he led and grew his own consulting agency focused on increasing capacity for nonprofits. In 2017, Jeremy focused his consulting efforts on Human Coalition. As the Vice President for Strategic Services at Human Coalition, he focused his effort on accelerating the organization through innovation, data-driven insights, and a rigorous discipline of operational excellence and continual improvement.

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Alicia Simon

  • Alicia Bondanella Simon directs FADICA’s services to its most vital asset – the members. Ms. Simon oversees member development and coordinates research, member-driven collaborative initiatives, and FADICA’s Catholic Schools and Church Vitality affinity groups. She began her tenure at FADICA as director of program and member services, in which she developed and coordinated organizational programming. Ms. Simon led FADICA’s cutting-edge research on Catholic schools governance, Breathing New Life into Catholic Schools: An Exploration of Governance Models. Prior to joining FADICA, she co-founded and served as the first executive director of the Don Bosco Cristo Rey Corporate Work Study Program, where she raised nearly $10 million in job contracts with 80 corporations over six years. She also developed and managed diverse programs, including a national intern leadership program for the USCCB Catholic Campaign for Human Development. Ms. Simon serves on the Board of the National Catholic Community Foundation, and holds degrees from the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business and the University of San Francisco. Her passions include mentoring youth, riding motorcycles, hiking, traveling, and motherhood. Having moved around the country as an army brat, she has now settled into the Washington, DC area with her husband and daughter.

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Jason Shanks

  • Jason Shanks brings a wealth of background and experience to his role as President of OSV Institute, overseeing the annual OSV Innovation Challenge and OSV Innovation Talks, both launched to ignite creativity and entrepreneurship in the Catholic Church.

    His vision for renewal through innovation is unparalleled and stems from his conviction that the Church is evergreen from generation to generation and must be re-presented fresh and anew to today’s modern world. Prior to his role at OSV, Jason served as Chief Executive Officer of Catholic Charities of Southeast Michigan and was recognized by Crain’s Detroit Business with their 40 Under 40 Award in 2014.

    In addition, Jason served as Secretariat Leader of Evangelization and Parish for the Diocese of Toledo and was the founder of Catholic Youth Summer Camp. Prior to this, he spent eight years as the Business and Pastoral Leader for a local parish. Jason holds a BA in education from Miami University of Ohio, and MA in Theology from the Pontifical College Josephinum with an emphasis in the New Evangelization, and an MA in nonprofit administration from Mendoza College of Business of the University of Notre Dame.

    He also holds a certificate in Fund Raising Management from the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. Jason resides in Northern Indiana with his wife, Melissa, and their five children.

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Fr. Pier Giorgio Pacelli, OCD

  • Fr. Pier Giorgio (Pacelli) of Christ the King, OCD, is a Discalced Carmelite Friar and managing editor of the Institute of Carmelite Studies Publications. He grew up in the Adirondack Mountains of Upstate New York and graduated from Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. In college, he was president and rush chair of his fraternity until Jesus dramatically changed his life. He currently studies Language, Literature, and Translation at UW-Milwaukee, and keeps careful track of how many days until FOCUS Summer Projects, where he serves as a chaplain.

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Kailash Duraiswami

  • Kailash Duraiswami, a serious Catholic, is the co-founder in Fidei Technology, LLC, a technology company offering workspace products that compete with Microsoft and Google, only with well-anchored Catholic values. He joined the Catholic Church as an adult and has worked in a variety of software roles as a software engineer. Prior to co-founding Fidei, Kailash founded and sold a technology startup called Pantenix that specialized in the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to automate manual data entry processes for financial services companies. In 2021, Pantenix was acquired by Omaha-based, full service financial software vendor Orion Advisor Solutions. He is on a mission to apply ethical and faith-aligned principles to advanced tech expertise in order to provide faith-driven business leaders, entrepreneurs, companies and nonprofits that put faith and ethics above profits alone.

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Jo Tango

  • Jo Tango helps teach "The Entrepreneurial Manager" (TEM), a required course for all 1,000 first-year students and of which he is co-course head. He also teaches an elective course on Venture Capital and Private Equity to 180 students. He founded early-stage venture capital firm Kepha Partners and has been a VC since 1998.

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Karl Wirth

  • Karl Wirth is a business leader and entrepreneur. He co-founded Evergage in 2010 and, as CEO, led the company from startup to the leading personalization platform on the market and sold the company to a Fortune 500 Software Company in 2020. Prior to Evergage, Karl had a variety of leadership roles in general management, product management, and marketing for Red Hat (now IBM), RSA Security (now EMC), and Sentillion (now Microsoft).

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Andreas Widmer

  • Andreas Widmer is the founder and director of the Art & Carlyse Ciocca Center for Principled Entrepreneurship at The Catholic University of America’s Busch School of Business where he loves to teach and mentor students to find their true calling.

    Previously, Andreas helped lead high-tech companies, bringing more than one hundred leading-edge technology products to market and also led several organizations focused on enterprise solutions to poverty. He is a former member of the Swiss Guard serving under Pope John Paul II and author of the book, "The Pope and the CEO", which describes the ten lessons he learned from the late pope about leadership and the centrality of the human person in work. Andreas’s biggest accomplishment in life is building a great marriage together with his wife, Michelle, and his biggest joy is seeing the character of their teenage son, Eli, develop and grow.

    Andreas has a passion for helping professionals of all ages to find deeper meaning in their work and sustainable success in Principled Entrepreneurship. One way he does this is to discover and share the stories of successful Principled Entrepreneurs like Art Ciocca who overcame great challenges and built wonderful companies by never losing sight of their humanity. If you are interested to learn more about Andreas’s work, or would like to engage him to speak, coach, write, or simply to share your own Principled Entrepreneurship story, he would love to hear from you at Andreas-Widmer.com.

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Fr. Corwin Low

  • Fr. Corwin Low, O.P. was born and raised in the greater Seattle area to a family with strong Christian, but Protestant values. Studying Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Washington he was eager to be in the world of High-Tech, sadly at the expense of any religious practices. His first job was with a start-up software firm headed by Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft with Bill Gates. Intrigued by computer networks, he authored several books about the Internet and network technologies when it was in its infancy. From there he started his own consulting firm, specializing in computer network security, where he garnered several Fortune 100 firms as clients. One of his early projects was designing a secure system to put Microsoft’s corporate campus on the Internet for the very first time.

    Dissatisfied with the allure of materialism, he was attracted by the beauty of the Catholic Church in the areas of sacred music, art, and architecture, and especially liturgical worship. Attributing it to Divine Providence, when in Rome in 1999, he literally stumbled upon the Dominicans, a religious order founded in the 13th century to teach the Truth of the Gospel. Six years later, having successfully sold his company, he joined the Dominicans on the West Coast a year, taking the evangelical counsels (vows) of chastity, poverty, and obedience. He was ordained to the priesthood in 2014.

    After eight years of parochial work, in 2022 Fr. Corwin’s superiors offered him the opportunity to return to business, not as a businessman per se, but to evangelize to the community, particularly in the area Big Tech. This is indeed mission territory, one that is growing ever larger than the population of the Faithful. Within, there is a high concentration of nones (no Faith whatsoever) who lack and desperately need the Truth and Light of Christ. Fr. Corwin has quickly been able to re-establish his contacts from his years in business, as well as forge new relationships with existing executives. He continues this mission in Silicon Valley, the very heart of Big Tech.

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Zak Slayback

  • Zak is a Partner at 1517 Fund, where he focuses on working directly with founders who are taking on established players and institutions, biotech founders, deep tech founders, and those with a deep understanding of customers' needs in SaaS and CPG/D2C. He writes at zakslayback.substack.com and can be found on twitter @zslayback. You can email him at zak@1517fund.com -- if you do so, please mention where you found his email address.

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Michael Ortner

  • Michael Ortner lives in McLean, VA with his wife, Liz, and their six children. Mike is the founder of Capterra, a technology company he sold to Gartner in 2015. He now invests in both for-profit startups such as GoodSeeker, Gather, and the Classic Learning Test, and donates to non-profits through his charitable foundation. He is the Board Chairman for both Cana Academy, which trains high school teachers to lead Great Books seminars, and the Religious Freedom Institute, which promotes religious freedom for everyone, everywhere. His foundation has launched nonprofit projects such as Run With Saints, a community-building website that helps faithful Catholics meet other Catholics who live near them and share their interests. He has a business degree from Georgetown University and a philosophy degree from University of London.

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Caroline Gash

  • Ms. Gash is an innovative visionary and master strategist with proven abilities to quickly identify issues, mobilize teams, and execute effective solutions through integrating excellent analytical and interpersonal skills, which has resulted in raising $330MM over her career for various private equity investments. She led the marketing strategy for an eight-week international roadshow that raised $85MM from Citi Private Bank in the most difficult crude pricing environment in the last decade and is recognized as an expert in her field as she was selected by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to author and present an in-depth analysis of Tight Oil Economics. She was instrumental in developing the strategic plan for the spin-off of oil and gas investments from Caddis Capital LLC to create Coachman Energy LLC, which doubled oil and gas personnel and AUM in under a year. Over the past 5+ years, Ms. Gash has served in all C-Level positions at Coachman Energy, except CEO, building an organization from inception into one with $215MM in capital raised and deployed.

    Caroline Gash has served on or for non-profit boards for 13+ years. Four major community boards have benefitted from her leadership and fundraising skills including the Notre Dame Club of Denver, which during her Presidency raised 5X the amount of capital raised in previous years as well as increased dues-paying membership by 75% and was presented with numerous awards by the Notre Dame Alumni Association. In addition, she is recognized as an expert in board governance and leadership recruitment through her service on various Nominating Committees.

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Dcn. Rich Napoli

  • Deacon Rich Napoli has been in the software business for over 40 years and recently retired as the CEO of Relevantz, Inc, a 1200-person software engineering firm that builds digital products for Fortune 500 firms and software companies. Rich helped the company grow over 1300% in his time there and earned it a spot on Inc. Magazine’s list of the fastest growing companies in America for three consecutive years and one two CEO Of The Year awards along the way.

    Prior to joining Relevantz, Deacon Rich held executive positions for five different software companies, including two that he grew and sold to Oracle and State Street,. He has served on a variety of Boards in the past, including the Philadelphia chapter of Legatus and Holy Spirit Radio, where he hosted a local radio show once a month. He is currently serving on the boards of the Health Standards Organization (HSO) in Canada and the Busch School of Business at The Catholic University of America. He is also serving as an adjunct professor there and teaches courses on Technology Management.

    Deacon Rich has a BS in Computer Science from Stony Brook and an MBA in Finance from NYU. He has been married for 41 years to Janet and they have three grown children and soon-to-be eight grandchildren. He was ordained in 2011 in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia and currently on assignment in his new home in the Diocese of Arlington.

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Fr. Leo Patalinghug

  • Fr. Leo Patalinghug is a priest member of a community of consecrated life, Voluntas Dei (The Will of God). He is the creator and founder of an international food and faith movement called Plating Grace, founder and chair of the nonprofit group The Table Foundation, and creator of the Plating Grace and Grub Food Truck. He is a best-selling author, acclaimed international speaker, host for radio, podcast and a weekly international food and faith show on EWTN, Savoring our Faith. He also holds a degree in Mariology that he obtained in Rome during his time there. His unique background as a chef and his previous experience as a two-time black belt martial arts instructor and former award-winning break dancer and choreographer has earned the attention of major media outlets, including the Food Network where he won "Throwdown with Bobby Flay!" The mission to see food as a gift from God to nourish your family and to strengthen relationships is making this world a better place one meal at a time.

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James Tieng

  • James Tieng is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Lumos Capital Group, a growth equity firm focused on education and human capital development.

    With over 17 years of investing experience, James has led and completed 20+ platform transactions (majority and minority deals), having deployed over $1.7 billion of equity in education, software, business services, and digital media companies. His investments have ranged in enterprise value from less than $10 million to over $1 billion. James has served on the boards of over 15 public and private companies.

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Jeff Schiefelbein

  • "Jeff Schiefelbein is a Catholic entrepreneur, culture expert, and motivational speaker with a passion for human formation and innovation. In his role as a managing partner for Undivided Life, Jeff provides strategy and culture consulting to a wide variety of organizations.

    Prior to Undivided Life, Jeff launched 5, a national energy advisory firm. The culture architecture that Jeff put into action at 5 led to numerous accolades, including five consecutive appearances on the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing companies in America list and dozens of best places to work awards.

    Jeff earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Texas A&M University with a focus on entrepreneurship. During college, Jeff developed and launched the nation’s largest college safe-ride program to reduce drunk driving, CARPOOL. As a result of CARPOOL’s success, Jeff was awarded the National Daily Point of Light Award and the Texas Governor’s Volunteer Service Award.

    Jeff is the President of the Board of Trustees for The Highlands School, the Chairman of the Board for the Catholic Music Initiative, and a trustee for The Catholic Foundation. Jeff also co-hosts a live radio show and a podcast for Christian men called the BeatiDudes.

    Jeff lives in Irving, Texas, with his wife Amanda and their six kids.

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Kara Bach

  • Kara is currently the VP of Strategic Initiatives at Page Vault, but has spent her career navigating the waters of early-stage startups, from founding a digital magazine to helping grow a legal-tech business to exit.

    Prior to joining Page Vault, Kara was the co-founder and CEO of Verily, a women's fashion & lifestyle publication, growing the business from inception to over 1 million unique visitors a month. Before starting Verily, Kara was on the investment team for Credit Suisse’s secondary private equity fund. She was also the co-host of Catching Up with Kara and Monica on SiriusXM.

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Jason Jensen

  • Jason is the Founder and CEO of Glass Canvas, the makers of Tilma and a team that helps the Church and ministries unlock their potential. Jason is passionate about forming resilient followers of Jesus and building infrastructure for Apostolic Mission.

    Jason and his wife Mirjam live in Vancouver, British Columbia and have 5 beautiful children. Outside of work Jason can be found snowboarding on a mountain, fishing at a river, or working on the craft of BBQ.

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Alex Jones

  • Alex is the CEO & Co-Founder of Hallow, a Catholic prayer & meditation app. He was raised a Catholic but fell away from his faith at a young age. He became fascinated with secular meditation but kept feeling like he was being pulled towards something spiritual. He began asking around and discovered the deeply contemplative and meditative tradition within the Catholic faith. It changed his life, brought him back to the faith, & was the inspiration behind Hallow. Hallow is only 2.5 years old, but with the help of a phenomenal team, it is now the #1 Catholic app in the world with 1 million downloads and over 30,000 five-star reviews. Alex grew up in Columbus, Ohio, went to undergrad at the University of Notre Dame, graduate school at Stanford, worked professionally in consulting before Hallow at McKinsey & Co, and now lives in Chicago with his wife and new daughter.

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David DeWolf

  • David DeWolf is the founder and Managing Partner of DeWolf Family Ventures, a Family Office that invests in and provides leadership and strategic consulting services to high growth companies. Previously he was the Founder and CEO of 3Pillar Global, a digital product development organization that he grew to become the preeminent provider within one of the hottest sectors within technology services. Under David’s leadership, 3Pillar grew for 16 consecutive years to more than 2000 employees. 3Pillar operated in 10 countries and was named to the Inc. 5000, a list of the fastest-growing private companies in the US, ten separate times. David is the co-author of The Product Mindset and has been featured in Fortune, Forbes, Fast Company, and Inc. among others. He is a frequent keynote speaker at events. David is passionate about leadership, entrepreneurship, and digital innovation. He serves on the Boards of various for profit and non-profit organizations including Chairman, where he is currently the Lead Investor and Chairman and at the Franciscan University of Steubenville where he served as the Vice Chairman for 8 years. Prior to founding 3Pillar, David held multiple technology leadership positions, was an active member of the Apache Software Foundation.

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Erin Van de Voorde

  • Erin has extensive experience coaching high-achieving women at all levels of their career. Her coaching and consulting are informed by her diverse experience in project management, strategic planning, and human formation in the political, legal, nonprofit, and higher-ed industries. Erin holds coaching certifications from multiple programs including the Life Coach School. She is an expert at diagnosing the root of the problem and offering efficient and practical solutions. You’ll find her traveling on adventures with her husband and 4 boys or at home making cappuccinos.

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Dan Peate

  • Dan Peate is Founder and General Partner of Peate ventures. He is also the Founder of Avinew and was Founder and CEO of Hixme. Dan has previously held senior executive roles at Arthur J. Gallagher and Aon. He sits on the boards of Avinew, CardiacDirect and Boom Studios. Dan and his wife Coco sit on several nonprofit and charitable boards. He and his wife currently reside in Thousand Oaks with their 7 children. Dan is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and was a Reagan intern.

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Kerry Robinson

  • Kerry Alys Robinson is the founding executive director and partner for global and national initiatives at Leadership Roundtable. She is also the executive director of the Opus Prize Foundation, which confers an annual million dollar humanitarian award recognizing people of faith dedicated to the alleviation of human suffering.

    Kerry has been a lifelong member of the Raskob Foundation for Catholic Activities and FADICA (Foundations and Donors Interested in Catholic Activities.) She has been an advisor to and trustee of numerous national and international grantmaking foundations and charitable nonprofits.

    Prior to Leadership Roundtable, Kerry served as the director of development for Saint Thomas More Catholic Chapel and Center at Yale University where she led a successful $75 million capital campaign to expand Catholic life on campus.

    A frequent writer and international speaker, Kerry is the prize-winning author of Imagining Abundance: Fundraising, Philanthropy and a Spiritual Call to Service. She is a graduate of Georgetown and Yale.

    She and her husband, Dr. Michael Cappello, have two children, Christopher and Sophie.