Bill McKendry
President, BrandHave
Bill McKendry is the founder and chief creative officer at BrandHaven, which he launched after heading Hanon McKendry, being vice chairman and chief creative officer of JDA Worldwide, serving at Tracy-Locke/BBDO, co-founding Compass College of Film + Media, and winning over 1,500 national and international awards in advertising and marketing.
Bill is also founder of the nonprofit advocacy organization Do More Good® and author of a best selling book by the same name. He was inducted into the American Advertising Federation’s (AAF) National Hall of Achievement for his cause work.
His corporate clients experiences have included Target Stores, American Express, Dodge, Taco Bell and Kohler. And he’s led branding efforts for nonprofit clients such as He Gets Us, The Chosen, illumiNations, Young Life and World Vision
Mandi Brower
President, Quality Car Wash
Mandi Brower is the President at Quality Car Wash where she oversees the operations for the organization. Mandi has helped the company grow exponentially from a few car wash locations in West Michigan and has helped lay the foundation for the fastest growing national car wash franchise in Tommy’s Express.
Mandi graduated with a B.A in accounting, but since then has worn many hats. She has done anything from accounting to marketing to human resources, Mandi has done it all. Before coming back home to Quality Car Wash in 2005, Mandi spent over 7 years working as the General Manager for PowerQuest boats. Today, Mandi has used her past experiences to increase sales, volume, and help set an amazing family culture within Quality Car Wash. She is a true leader.
Mandi is the mother to three energetic boys and is always on the go. In the summer months you can usually find them at their cottage on the lake, water skiing, wakeboarding, or maybe even catch her barefoot skiing.
She is known to get more done in a day than most people accomplish in a week.
Keith Cureton
President, Bethany Christian
Keith joined Bethany after working on the leadership team at Kamehameha Schools in Hawaii that provides education to more than 10,000 children every year with little cost to their families.
Before working at the school, Keith was employed by United Parcel Service for more than 35 years where he completed his career as chief compliance & ethics officer. At UPS he oversaw all domestic and international compliance programs for employees, customers, and vendors.
Keith is a frequent speaker on topics of leadership, compliance and ethics, change management, and enterprise risk management. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business and economics from Malone University and a master's in business administration from Franklin University.
Keith and his wife, Dr. Deborah Burdick-Cureton, have four adult children and eight grandchildren. They're motivated by their faith and thrilled to be answering God’s call together to strengthen families by serving the mission of Bethany.
Ren Broekhuizen
Co-Founder, Ridge Point Community Church
Rensselaer (Ren) Broekhuizen grew up in New Jersey, Graduated from Calvin College, served in the U.S. Army and married Janice Woldring. Together they raised five children. He graduated from Westminster Theological Seminary and Calvin Theological Seminary. Janice died in 1997 and in 2000 Ren married Elsa, widow of Ed Prince.
Ren served the Chrisitan Reformed Churches in Florida, Pennsylvania, Holland and with World Missions in Africa.
He was part of the group that settled Ridge Point Community and retired in 2003.
Ren’s life desire is intentionally to bring unsaved people across the line to full like in Jesus Christ.
Mike Sudyk
CEO, EC Group
Mike runs EC Group which is a second-generation family business that operates in India as a "Business as Mission".
The firm was started by his father in 1999 and offers software development services to USA based companies. The company uses its profits and infrastructure to help ministries in India and in the USA.
He is a husband and father (of 6) and those roles are higher priority than his role as CEO of EC Group.
He is a graduate of Bethel College and the University of Notre Dame (Mechanical Engineering).
He is passionate about helping fathers to lead their families well and not sacrifice their families (and their faith) on the altar of worldly success.