Keynote Speakers
Murray Bell, Bell Architects Ltd.
Murray is a Chartered Architect, small time developer, business entrepreneur & frustrated inventor, running his own medium sized practice in Ballymoney and working across Scotland, Ireland, England & France. He previously worked for UCCF in Glasgow. On social investment, he is currently assisting the redevelopment works in Bulembu, Swaziland (www.bulembu.org). Murray is a long-standing environmentalist and aims to encourage sustainability with a stewardship agenda, rather than as a contemporary fashionable add-on.
Ralph Catto, TBN Trustee; Scout Solutions Group
Ralph is a TBN Trustee and CEO of Scout Solutions Group, a software and services business focused on the social housing sector. Before this he was a director of a large UK stockbroker.
Ian J MacCorkell MLC
Ian is a Commercial Lawyer who has created his own practice and been involved in strategic Christian projects nationally and internationally. He established the ‘New Creation International Trust’ to use business skill to impact poverty and to display God’s love in Kosova. Ian advises the Kosova Ministry of Trade on legal and business issues and is the UK and Ireland representative of the Kosova Investment Promotion Agency. Ian also assists Christian projects seeking to establish Business in Ukraine, Romania and Moldova.
Jerry Marshall, TBN
Jerry is a Cambridge economist, Chartered Marketer and a serial entrepreneur. He has founded a consultancy, a social enterprise and a high growth technology company. He was been helping develop small and medium business in the West Bank since the mid 1990s and is currently co-founding a Business Process Outsourcing company in Bethlehem to generate robust jobs and service exports. He joined TBN as a member in 2004, joined the TBN staff in 2007 and is General Manager.
David McMillan, FONIC Trust
David is a Baptist minister who has also served as a director of Newry and Mourne Co-operative and ECONI (Evangelical Contribution on Northern Ireland). He is currently a director of FONIC Trust which was established to support development work in Nepal. He recently set up Clanrye Trading Ltd, a company established to distribute the products of Mahema Industries in Europe and redistribute profits to FONIC Trust for further development in Nepal.
Philip McMillan, Mahema Project
Philip has a background in agriculture and spent time in Nepal on an agricultural project, returning to Northern Ireland to become involved in community development schemes. He returned to Nepal as International Donor Co-ordinator for INF and in recent years established the Mahema Project, a commercial business enterprise functioning within a community care and development framework. Mahema Industries purchases, distils, processes, packages and exports essential oils, adhering to fair trading principles, encouraging sustainable agriculture and disbursing profits into the local community.
