Rob has been privileged to serve in business development, manufacturing leadership, and international market growth throughout his career, building a reputation for disciplined execution, stewardship, and people-centered leadership. His professional journey has included entrepreneurship, operational leadership, and strategic growth across the industrial manufacturing and adhesives sectors. Earlier in life, he competed as a professional athlete on the Canadian National Track & Field Team from 1992–1997, where he developed a strong foundation in accountability, perseverance, and teamwork. Guided by faith and a desire to bring out the best in others, he approaches leadership as an opportunity to serve with integrity and purpose.

Over the years, he has led and supported the growth of businesses across Western Canada and North America, carrying responsibilities in sales leadership, operations, logistics, technical support, and market development. He has founded and operated businesses, navigated organizations through economic challenges, and contributed to innovation, product development, and sustainable long-term growth. His leadership philosophy centers on influence, trust, humility, and accountability, with a focus on stewarding people, relationships, and opportunities well.

Today, he continues to serve in industrial business development and technical leadership, supporting complex manufacturing environments and global brands across North America. Alongside his professional vocation, he and his wife, Kezia, remain deeply committed to family, charitable stewardship, and community engagement. Together they support nonprofit initiatives locally and internationally, while continuing to invest in faith-based service, mentorship, and leadership development.

Chris Karuhije, born in 1985, is a former refugee from the Rwandan Genocide of 1994.  When he was just nine years of age, his home country of Rwanda was engulfed in a flame of violence of brutality that saw almost one million people die in a matter of 100 days.  Among the dead, were about 80% of his relatives and family, including his father Alphonse, and many others.  All in all, 70% of his people were exterminated in what would become one of the worst tragedies in modern history.

In 1997, Thacienne Karuhije, Chris’ mother, and 4 of his siblings, immigrated to Canada and began a new life.  Determined to follow in his father’s footsteps as a Minister of the Gospel, Chris enrolled in a two-year discipleship program at Springs Church, one of the largest churches in the nation.  He then started working for Crossroads Communication as a Program Director for a local Children’s camp, where he saw over 4000 kids make decisions for Christ, before elevating to a National Program Director for all Crossroads camps across Canada.  His role was developing curriculum and resources for thousands of children across Canada.  

In November of 2011, Chris accepted the role of Children’s Minister at Coastal Church.  He was ordained as a pastor two years later in 2013.  He now oversees the Department of Family Life that includes ministries to Coastal’s families and is privileged to serve on Coastal’s Lead Team.

Chris is also the author of We Were Royal Refugees, a brief memoir of his life in Rwanda and the events of the Rwandan Genocide.  He has been featured on national television and radio.  He lives in Downtown Vancouver, steps away from the church he loves, and is married to Kristy and has three children; London and Kyeligh (twins), and Justice.  He loves reading, writing, and horseback riding.

In 2006, Chris established a private equity firm focused on real estate structured finance. The firm is currently engaged in a luxurious 20-acre, hillside development in the Fraser Valley and continues to seek uniquely positioned development opportunities.

Chris is as active in the community as he is in business, devoting his passion, creativity, and contacts to various causes. He sits on the Board of his local church, and chairs a downtown business ministry connecting local business and political leaders. A Torontonian turned Vancouverite, Chris enjoys food, travel and raising his two daughters with his wife Emily.

Darrell Johnson was born in 1947 in Duluth, Minnesota. He was then raised in Los Alamos, New Mexico (when it was a ‘secret’ city), and in Southern California. After Secondary School, he studied first at the University of Minnesota Institute of Technology, and then the University of California, San Diego, from where he graduated with a B.A. in Physics and Theoretical Mathematics. In the third year of studies in University, he surrendered to the call to the preaching ministry on April 4, 1968, the night Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. In 1969, after completing University, he began studies at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. He graduated with a Master of Divinity in 1972 in Biblical Theology, and was ordained by the Presbyterian Church USA. He has served congregations in California, and in the Philippines, where he served as Senior Pastor of the Union Church of Manila. In 2000 he accepted the call of Regent College in Vancouver to serve as Associated Professor of Pastoral Theology. In 2009 the historic First Baptist Church in the heart of downtown Vancouver persuaded him to serve at Senior Pastor, until for health reasons, he stepped down in 2016. Since then, he has been serving part-time in a various ministries: Teaching Fellow for Regent, Bible Teacher for Alpha Canada, and a support pastor for The Way Church. He speaks for many different conferences, and has written a number of books, including among others, expositions on The Revelation of Jesus Christ, Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians, The Beatitudes, The Lord’s Prayer, and on the Trinity.

In 1971, while serving in Ventura, California, he met and married his wife Sharon Lynette, whose great passion is caring for children, formally retiring in 2023 from serving as Director of the WeeCare day care of Tenth Avenue Church in Vancouver. Together Sharon and Darrell have raised four adopted children from four different countries of the world, and now try to keep up with eleven grandchildren.

Dave is a CPA, CA whose career bridges public practice and capital markets. He started out in public practice advising both private and public companies across industries such as agriculture, real estate, mining, and non-profits.

He went on to work as an analyst with the Telus Pension Fund before joining Cronin Capital, where he now serves as Chief Financial Officer, focusing on the resource and commodity space.

Based in Vancouver, Dave is actively involved in his community through local boards and committees. Outside of work, he attends Centre Church in downtown Vancouver and he’s always in search of a great cup of coffee, enjoys travelling, beach volleyball or tennis.