Resource Global welcomes three new marketplace leaders to the Global Board of Directors
CHICAGO, IL - Resource Global is pleased to announce three new board members joining our Global Board of Directors. They are Keri-Leigh Paschal, Marissa Maren and Ling Kung. They replace Board Chairman Willian Adeji, Wayne Pedersen, and Julia Mulligan, who have completed their terms on the Board. We greatly appreciate the committed work of William, Wayne and Julia, and are excited to welcome our new members.
Keri-Leigh Paschal
Executive Trustee and Co-Founder
Nation Builder Trust at Mergon
Keri completed her post-graduate studies in biochemistry, specialising in HIV research, and subsequently qualified as an educator. Whilst working in marketing and development roles, Keri initiated and led a national drive to raise awareness for autism in South Africa - the catalyst for her social investment passion.
In 2011, Keri joined Mergon, an investment group that exists to create Kingdom impact and equip others to do the same. Emerging from this Mergon vision, the Nation Builder Trust came into being in 2012. Nation Builder inspires and equips the business community in South Africa to lead social change. There are three key principles that underpin Nation Builder’s approach - selfless pursuit of a common goal, valuing each person’s unique role and contribution, and moving beyond conversation to collaboration and co-creation. The ultimate goal is to secure a prosperous South Africa for all of its people.
Keri and her husband Brandon are actively involved in church leadership and love to travel, run, and explore the outdoors.
Marissa Maren
New Business and Strategy, Busana Apparel Group
Director of the Kingdom Entrepreneurship Academy
Resource Global alumna
Born into a multicultural family, with an Irish-American mother and an Indian-Indonesian father, Marissa has lived half of her life in Indonesia and the other half in the United States.
On both sides of the world, Marissa finds energy in using business as a vehicle for shining God’s light and truth into the world. At Busana Apparel Group in Indonesia, Marissa develops new business opportunities and drives corporate strategy. She is thankful for the opportunity to serve God in this family business, founded by her late father. The group’s factories employ over 25,000 people, of which many are young women around Marissa’s age. Marissa has a particular passion for businesses that touch the middle and bottom of the pyramid.
Prior to working with Busana Apparel Group in Jakarta, Marissa worked for several years at Barclays Capital in their investment banking division in New York, where she issued corporate bond and loan offerings. Marissa started her career at Lehman Brothers where she lived through the firm’s collapse in 2008 and experienced firsthand how businesses can be misused and balance sheets can be misrepresented.
Starting from 2008 in New York, Marissa has been active in pursuing a spiritual integration of faith into her work. At the Center of Faith and Work, a ministry of Redeemer Presbyterian Church, Marissa was a fellow of the 9-month Gotham fellowship in 2011. In Jakarta, Marissa has been part of a similar community that is focused on the integration of faith and business, the Kingdom Entrepreneurship Academy. In 2014, she completed the 6-month program where businesspeople in Jakarta gather to learn and grow as a community of skilled kingdom-builders.
As of 2015, Marissa has taken a leadership position as a Director of the Kingdom Entrepreneurship Academy. She is also a graduate of Resource Global’s Cohort Program in Jakarta.
Marissa graduated with high honors from Tufts University, in the greater capital region of Boston, Massachusetts. She holds a Bachelors of Science degree with a major in mechanical engineering and a minor in entrepreneurial leadership.
Ling Kung Joe
National Director, Technology Innovation
Kaiser Permanente
Ling Kung currently leads Care Delivery Technology innovation for Kaiser Permanente and loves working at the intersection of design, technology, and healthcare to bring creative solutions to market in service of improving the total experience of members and clinicians.
Ling started her Kaiser Permanente career as an administrative fellow in Southern California, and has had the opportunity to work across the Permanente medical groups, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals, and now sits in Technology. Her former roles include strategic planning for the Medicare Line of Business, department administrator for OB/GYN, regional program manager for special needs programs, and product innovation for commercial lines of business where Ling and her team launched the first three digital health solutions partnerships for the organization.
Ling has a passion for mentoring and discipleship – especially in faith at work. She was a board member for 4Word (a Christian women’s business organization) in San Francisco and a small group leader and area mentor at RealitySF.
Prior to KP, Ling was a management consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers. She holds a Masters in Business Administration from The University of Texas at Austin and a Bachelors in biology and finance from Washington University in St. Louis. In her spare time, Ling can be found making purees for her new son, dreaming of an international trip, or enjoying the outdoors.
About Resource Global
The mission of Resource Global is to teach, mentor and connect emerging Christian marketplace leaders around the world so they can transform their workplaces and cities for the Gospel. Our vision is to catalyze a global movement of marketplace leaders using their resources to advance human flourishing and multiply Gospel impact across all sectors of society. We seek mentors and supporters who want to change the world by discipling the next generation. www.resourceglobal.org.