Chris is a passionate Muslim American entrepreneur committed to building up the global Muslim community to reach its full potential. He was born in Malaysia, raised in the United States and at the age of 16 became a Muslim through the influence of a friend and the Autobiography of Malcolm X. Chris was a top engineering graduate from the University of Michigan where he led the Muslim Students Association as President to win Student Organization of the Year. He received a masters in educational leadership and prior to starting LaunchGood was a teacher at one of the top boarding schools in the world, founded an Arabic non-profit, and was a producer for Bilal's Stand, an award-winning Sundance film about an American Muslim. He started working on LaunchGood in 2011 and launched the site in 2013. In just over a year LaunchGood has already helped raise over $1 million for more than 100 projects across 13 countries. Chris currently lives in Dearborn, Michigan with his wife Amani and new daughter Maryam Yusra, and is an active community volunteer for University Muslim life and new Muslim work.

Amany is a graduate of the School of Social work at Wayne State University, and founding member of the Detroit Minds and Hearts Fellowship (a program of MAS Youth Detroit), a social incubator where she works with Muslim youth to help them develop and launch their own community initiatives for social justice. She has previously worked with multiple organizations in various capacities. Including the project manager and lead coordinator for the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding's Improving Marriage Outcomes Study, Administrative Director of the American Learning Institute for Muslims, Data Fellow with the The Children's Center of Michigan, and Youth coordinator at the Michigan Roundtable for Diversity and Inclusion. When she’s not playing a game of pick up basketball, Amany is quantifying her self development efforts or spending time with her younger sisters. As a youth organizer and macro social worker, she loves the big picture and brings an interesting mix of experience to her work and community.

Omar E. Hamid is a branding expert and founder of Alfenn, an Atlanta-based design agency providing high-end design services to clients across the globe. He is a passionate entrepreneur and uses his design skills communicate his innovations to the world. In addition to founding Alfenn (alfenn.com) in 2008, Omar is a member and founder of many prominent organizations in the metro Atlanta area, and he is a co-founder of LaunchGood.com, the leading Muslim crowdfunding website. One of Omar's unique skills is his strategic design approach and thinking, which allows him to solve problems effectively. He is also skilled in visually communicating his client's messages, inciting emotional responses, and building connections between clients and their audiences. Omar believes that excellence in design is found in the beauty of simplicity. Simple, clean, and modern designs allow for messages to be effectively and efficiently communicated.

Louie graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a degree in Economics and currently lives in the Washington D.C. area. In addition to coaching projects on LaunchGood, Louie coordinates recreational activities for youth at a community center in Fairfax, Virginia. He enjoys reading, traveling, and exercising.

Nabil would like to contribute positively to the world - he is aware that his inhibition is his personal procrastination. Currently he navigates the Higher Education sector (UK) working on various projects, some sinful some not - may God grant him His bounty.

Nafee graduated from the University of Calgary with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. She lives in Calgary, Canada and is involved with various local organizations to empower youth and help with universal causes such as alleviating poverty and orphan sponsorship. She loves travelling and volunteering.

Nusaiba Mubarak is currently pursuing a graduate degree in Sociology at Georgia State University (GSU). She is an advocate of social justice for marginalized groups at the intersections of race, class, gender, and religion. Through the Islamic Speakers Bureau and GSU’s After Malcolm project, Nusaiba is involved in raising awareness on topics such as Muslim Women and contributions of African American Muslims. Nusaiba was born and raised in Panama City, FL and moved to Atlanta, GA in 2012, where she currently lives with her husband and cat.

Raef is an 8 year public high school teacher veteran, an ex-software engineer, and currently an award winning singer-songwriter. Passionate about social-media and using art to build communities.

Haaris is a successful serial entrepreneur who has worked with internet-based businesses since 2001. He graduated from the University of Michigan with his B.A. and from the University of Illinois with his J.D, and serves as legal counsel for Wayne County. When not busy with his work, Haaris is training his daughter to become the next great WNBA starlet.

TA serial Silicon Valley entrepreneur, Shahed Amanullah currently serves as CEO & co-founder of LaunchPosse, a Washington DC-based startup that helps people turn entrepreneurial ideas into reality by leveraging their social networks. Prior to starting LaunchPosse, Shahed served as Senior Advisor for Technology at the US Department of State, where he worked in the bureaus of Secretaries of State John Kerry and Hillary Clinton, and was responsible for building the Generation Change and Viral Peace projects. Shahed worked closely with the White House and other agencies on social entrepreneurship, social media policy, combating online extremism, and fostering innovation.

Shahed is also the founder of Halalfire, a producer of online content and market research for global Muslim communities. In 1998, he created zabihah.com, the world's largest Halal restaurant guide, with 10 million annual users and 500,000 app downloads. He also created altmuslim.com, an award-winning online magazine with 2.5 million annual unique users, and served as its editor-in-chief for 10 years before its 2011 acquisition by Patheos. Earlier, Shahed served as co-founder and CEO of Relatia, a venture-backed mobile software company that was acquired in 2001.

Bob Weins has extensive start-up, business turn-around and venture capital experience. His focus has been technology-based start-ups and business restructuring of mature entities. Examples of his work include: the turn-around of the largest Apple Computer distributor serving the North American educational market; co-founding a web services company that created & hosted over 60,000 small business sites; creating a tier-1 automotive supplier and later transforming it into an aerospace systems firm; and, restructuring the business strategy of an internet search marketing firm (transitioning the company from losses to market leadership in growth and profitability). Bob’s venture capital experience includes 3 roles at Quantum Ventures of Michigan: Board or Directors member; CFO; and, Director of Start-Up Ventures. His professional career began at Arthur Andersen and he later joined the law firm of Chirco Herrinton. He is a licensed CPA and attorney, earning his JD from the University of Michigan.