A note from our Executive Director: Gary Gaddini
As a Bay Area native, I have always been moved by the beauty, innovation, and resilience of this region. After three decades of pastoring here, I have seen the remarkable potential of the Church to bring hope and transformation. My journey with TBC began on its founding board, where I caught a compelling vision for what God can do through a unified Gospel movement in the Bay Area.
Isaiah 61:4 captures this calling: “They will rebuild the ancient ruins and restore the places long devastated; they will renew the ruined cities that have been devastated for generations."
Though often described as one of the most unchurched urban regions in the country, I see the Bay Area as filled with opportunity and with followers of Jesus serving in every sector as spiritual pioneers and innovators. God is already rebuilding lives, families, and communities, and we believe the Church plays a central role in this renewal.
TBC exists to connect, equip, and empower leaders across the 11 counties and 256 cities of the Bay Area to spark Gospel transformation that extends beyond Sunday. Through our three Cs, Connecting, Collaborating, and Catalyzing, we help leaders reimagine what united impact can look like.
We form regional pastoral networks that dream and strategize for their cities. We help faith leaders address major issues such as educational disparity, foster care, food deprivation, and homelessness. We support church planters as they establish new communities of faith. We encourage marketplace leaders to see their workplaces as mission fields and primary spaces for discipleship.
What makes TBC unique is our startup posture. We remain agile, innovative, and deeply relational. Our work is not about building something for ourselves but about joining Jesus in His work through leaders across the Bay who shine as points of light.
Together, the Body of Christ has the privilege of participating in God’s rebuilding and renewing of our cities.
Join us and let us imagine what is possible. Let us rebuild together.
THE GROUND TEAM
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Gary Gaddini - Executive Director
At TBC since 2021 - gary@tbc.city
“So many people relocate from around the world to the Bay area. I can actually join Jesus in fulfilling the Great Commission right here. That excites me more than anything.”
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Amber Eifler - Executive Assistant
At TBC since 2025 - amber@tbc.city
“It’s a joy to support Kingdom work in a way that reflects the gifts God has given me in administration and organization. As 1 Thessalonians 5:11 reminds us, we’re called to encourage one another and build each other up and I am blessed to support TBC in a way that allows ministry to flourish and unity to grow.”
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Nancy Ortberg - Director of Horizons
At TBC since 2015 - nancy@tbc.city
“There are points of light throughout the Bay Area. In every town, people of faith are doing great work – in the marketplace, in churches, in nonprofits. TBC’s role is simply to pull the leaders together to see if we can spark even more.”
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Paul Taylor - Director of Unify
At TBC since 2025 - paul@tbc.city
“I’m excited to continue building our networks deeper: with more connection and collaboration, and wider: with more people and regions involved!”
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Toby Kurth - Director of Multiply
At TBC since 2019 - toby@tbc.city
“My passion is to help create a healthy ecosystem for churches and church planters. I think it’s essential to train people to think deeply about how they integrate their faith in their lives. Ultimately that will help lead to people coming to faith in Christ.” here
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Veronica (V) Haniger - Director of Amplify
At TBC since 2016 - veronica@tbc.city
“There’s so much encouraging work that’s happening here in the Bay Area. I want to make sure we’re celebrating it and supporting the churches in what they’re already doing as we have conversations about the bigger picture of what’s possible to do collectively.” here
CABINET MEMBERS
The Cabinet stewards TBC’s vision, ensures organizational health, and provides spiritual and strategic direction for TBC's mission.
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Pat Gelsinger
Founder & Chairman
Serving with TBC since 2013
“We're thrilled by what's going on with TBC, but we’re just getting started. At 3 to 4%, Christians in the Bay Area are a radical minority. We want to break 10% because that’s when you can have an impact on society. That’s our passionate goal and we’re having fun getting there.”
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Kevin Compton
Cabinet Vice-Chair
Partner/Co-Founder, Radar Partners LLC
Serving with TBC since 2013
“The church’s job is not to be another place for people to strive. Churches need to be places where the congregant can be refueled and refreshed, to be taught, to be grounded. I’m thankful for the pastors here.
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Ken Foreman
Pastor, Cathedral of Faith
Serving with TBC since 2024
“I am deeply humbled and honored to team up with the work of TBC. This is the most faithful and fruitful network I have seen in my 44 years of pastoring in the Bay Area. “
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Hurmon Hamilton
Senior and Founding Pastor, New Beginning Community Church
Serving with TBC since 2013
“I am hopeful because there is a coalition of top business leaders and pastors coming together to make a difference in Silicon Valley.”
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Susan Van Riesen
Lead Pastor, Palo Alto Vineyard
Serving with TBC since 2023
"I love TBC's vision and passion for the Bay Area. As pastors, it's so easy to stay focused on our own church's needs and mission but I've been convinced that we can do so much more together."
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Peter Wagner
Founding Partner, Wing Venture Capital
Works with non-profit organizations focused on issues of faith, justice, education, health care, economic development and the environment.
“The Bay Area is in a position of increasing worldwide influence, but is itself struggling. The Church can and must play a leading role in the transformation of our region.”
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Rob Kelly
Co-Founder & CEO of the City Leaders Collective
Serving with TBC since 2025
“Because of the Bay Area’s role in shaping culture, imagine the ripple effect across the globe if its pastors, leaders, churches, and communities were alive with gospel transformation, bringing the hope of Christ to every corner of society. That’s the opportunity before us and why I’m so passionate about serving with TBC.”
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Kevin Palau
President and CEO, the Luis Palau Association
Founder, TogetherPDX
Serving with TBC since 2013
“I love to see churches coming together to seek the peace and prosperity of their cities, and to joyfully share the Good News of Jesus. TBC is an amazing example of this, in one of the most influential regions of the world. I’m proud to play a small part in encouraging this ongoing work.”
ADVISORS
The Advisory Board serves as missional partners who advise, advocate, and connect TBC to leaders, ideas, and resources that accelerate Kingdom transformation in the Bay Area.
ANDREW LAFFOON Andrew is the CEO and Co-Founder of Mixbook, the #1 rated photo book company. Recognized by Inc. Magazine’s “30 Under 30” and Forbes as “America’s Most Promising CEO Under 35,” Andrew started coding at age 10, started his first tech company at 15, and has co-authored more than 20 patents. Before Mixbook, he received a BS in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from UC Berkeley.
BEN CHELF Ben and his partners bootstrapped Coverity, a software company that employed hundreds of people, and, in 2014, was acquired by Synopsys. Ben approaches venture with a deep technical background and recent startup know-how. He’s lived every part of the entrepreneurial cycle, served as COO and CTO, and is passionate about sharing his knowledge and experience.
BEN PATTERSON Ben is managing Partner of 10VC, General Partner at Elementum Ventures, Advisor to 1517 Fund, and Partner at 10k Investments (the Coors Family Office). He and his wife live in the SF Bay Area with their four children, Madeleine, Declan, Asher, and Brynn.
BILL COUGHRAN Bill is a technologist in large-scale computing and networking systems with general management experience. His career in computer science spans more than two decades. He has contributed to large-scale Web service systems and products as well as client software. He serves as an investor and coach for developing companies.
CHI-HUA CHIEN Chi- Hua is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Goodwater Capital, the largest consumer-tech focused VC firm in the world. His passion is supporting entrepreneurs who are building amazing digital utilities that promote human flourishing and seek to change the world for good. These products provide better global access to healthcare, food, financial services, housing, etc.
CURTIS CHANG Curtis bridges the worlds of secular institutions and theology. He is the founder and CEO of Consulting Within Reach (CWR), a firm serving nonprofits and government agencies. His consulting work has won an award in social innovation from the Obama White House. He is a consulting professor at Duke Divinity School and a Senior Fellow at Fuller Theological Seminary.
DAVID JACKSON David is a community leader by its most classic definition. He celebrates the complexity, accomplishments, potential, hopes and dreams of his people while also advocating for them, and grieving their tragedies and losses. David founded Evolve Oakland, a shared workspace/membership/events. He is hopeful about the collective rise of local entrepreneurs and creatives in his community.and invests in them.
EARL SMITH Pastor Earl Smith became the youngest chaplain ever hired by the California Department of Corrections when he was asked to become the chaplain at San Quentin in 1983. In 2000, Earl was named National Correctional Chaplain of the Year. He currently serves as chaplain for the San Francisco 49ers and the Golden State Warriors.
HENRY KAESTNER Henry is a Managing Principal at Sovereign's Capital LLC, a private equity fund focused on making investments in Indonesia and the US, particularly in the IT, Healthcare and Consumer Goods/Services industries. Sovereign's invests in leaders whose faith and values create a workplace culture that is about business excellence and community citizenship.
JAKE CHACKO Jake is in the “retirement” phase of life after a 40+ year executive career in technology with stops in communications companies like Bell Labs, Cisco, and one startup. Today, Jake focuses on communications at a deeper level. He is involved with several non-profits that promote human flourishing via learning, dialogue, and reflection. Jake’s most fulfilling role is riding the CalTrain on Tuesdays with his 2 grandsons.
JEFF CHERNISS Jeff has served as a ministry and business executive in the Bay Area for 20+ years. He is the CEO of the Financial Administrative Support Services in San Jose, which outsources accounting for 80+ nonprofits. Jeff served as a founding Board Member and CFO for TBC. Jeff received his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
DR. JO VITALE Jo is a Christian speaker and evangelist. For the last decade, she has ministered to skeptics and those wrestling with doubt by engaging with their intellectual objections and emotional barriers to the Christian faith. From 2016 to 2021, Jo worked in the role of the Dean of Studies at the Zacharias Institute in Atlanta, Georgia, and as an itinerant evangelist for Ravi Zacharias Ministries.
JOHN DEARBORN John is an orthopedic surgeon and joint replacement specialist in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the founder of the Institute for Joint Restoration and Research, which serves patients from all over the world. His blending of integrated systems with a compassionate one-patient-at a-time approach has been emulated widely by hospitals and healthcare systems across the country. He considers his many accomplishments rubbish in comparison with all that he has been given in Christ.
JOHN KIM John is the Chief Operating Officer at Sage, a faith-led technology company developing an infrastructure-agnostic public good to re-imagine the way companies manage and deploy their business logic, and the way communities manage their ecosystems, with current deployments in Europe and Africa. John also serves as Regional Lead for FaithTech in the Bay Area.
DR. KATE LONG Kate is a Research Associate at the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University. Her current work focuses on determinants of well-being, group dynamics of religion on human flourishing, and the development of tradition-specific spiritual well-being measures. She completed her post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard and her doctoral studies at Boston University School of Public Health.
KEN KLEIN Ken is the CEO and Co-Founder at Praisidio, a data infrastructure and analytics company powered by AI. He attended University of Southern California, where he currently serves as Chairman of the Audit, Compliance, Risk, and Privacy Committee and as a Member of the Board of Trustees. He has served on a number of boards, including MobileIron and Certify, Inc.
LANCE JOE Lance is the Founder and CEO of Payzone Systems, a premier Merchant Services Provider (MSP) of Elavon Inc., a subsidiary of U.S. Bank and a global leader in payment processing. Under his leadership, Payzone—rated A+ by the Better Business Bureau—has become known for delivering best-in-class credit card processing solutions to businesses nationwide. Before founding Payzone, Lance held executive management roles at Heartland Payment Systems, where he led key partnerships with state and national hospitality associations. Lance is also the Executive Director of the Christian Entrepreneurs Association and has served on the TBC's advisory Board since 2016.
LARRY LANGDON Larry is a partner at Mayer Brown LLP, in Palo Alto, CA, where he advises clients in all tax matters. From 1999-2003, Larry served as commissioner of the Large and Mid-Size Business Division within the IRS. Prior to the IRS, Larry was the VP of Tax, Licensing, and Customs at HP for 21 years. Larry is currently an elder-at-large at Menlo Church and sits on several non-profit boards.
MICHAEL DITTMAR Michael is passionate about increasing unity and partnership across Bay Area ministries and for increasing their collective impact. By profession, Michael is an entrepreneur and Managing Partner at Colabra, an innovative, boutique management consulting firm focussed on creating competitive advantage through data-driven go-to-market strategy, customer focus, and superior execution.
NIKI SANTO A Harvard trained molecular biologist, Niki has 20 years of executive leadership at the intersection of academia and entrepreneurship. Niki is a deep tech investor focused on innovation and strategy. She is President of the Harvard Club of Silicon Valley and has invested in/advised startups in clean-tech, fintech, AI, e-commerce, digital health, and medical devices.
RICO ROSALES Rico has practiced employment law for over 35 years, and his practice encompasses all aspects of the field, including counseling and representing clients in litigation matters. On a daily basis, he consults with human resources professionals, executives, and board members regarding all aspects of the employment relationship.
ROY GOBLE Roy is a lifelong resident of the Bay Area. He is the CEO of Goble Properties, a family owned real estate investment company based in the Bay Area. Roy is also the co-founder of PathLight International, which serves at-risk students in Belize. He is the author of three books, the most recent being Junkyard Wisdom Rebuilt. He serves on the board of Westmont College.
DR. SHEROL CHEN Sherol has studied AI for over a decade. Currently, she is part of Google Research working on building large Machine Learning models. She's taught AI for Stanford University Pre-Collegiate and around the world in Kazakhstan, China, India, Chile, and Peru. Sherol is a founding member of the Google Inter-Belief Network and served as an inaugural steering committee member for the Google Christian Fellowship.
SUSHIL CHACKO Sushil has worked as a Finance analyst at Lehman Brothers and a Vice President in the M&A/Financial Advisory Department at JPMorgan. More recently, she was a Director in the Transactions Services group at PwC specializing in audit review of private company valuations and portfolio valuations of venture capital firms and private equity firms. Sushil has an MBA (concentration in Finance) from Harvard.
TOM DOWD Tom co-founded and was the CEO of Dowd and Guild Inc., a chemical distribution company, for 32 years. He is a member of the Board of Directors for the John Muir Health Foundation. Co-founding Alliance Partners in 2011, an organization which supports Christian leaders in the community, has led Tom to working with the organization full time, since 2018.
TOM TOGNOLI A Silicon Valley native, Tom co-founded Intero in 2002 and built it into the largest real estate company in Silicon Valley; and one of the top real estate companies in the US. His expertise is in leadership, building healthy teams and healthy cultures to maximize human flourishing and performance. Tom invests in and helps build impactful humans and companies.
TOM WILSON Tom is the Associate Pastor at First Baptist Church Pittsburg. He serves as Board President for Village Keepers Contra Costa which is dedicated to ensuring the safety, health, education, economic/emotional stability of families impacted by racism and poverty. He is also the Director of Teacher Training and Curriculum for the National Evangelism Movement. In 2013, Tom retired from PwC.
VICTOR HO Victor is the co-founder & CEO of Fivestars, a startup on mission to help businesses and communities thrive by turning every transaction into a relationship. Prior to Fivestars, he worked at McKinsey & Company, where he helped build out loyalty and customer engagement strategies for Fortune 500 brands. He started his career as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs, and holds three degrees from UC Berkeley.