Roland currently co-operates Thompson & Blackstone, Inc., a business think tank and investment evaluation platform. His background includes a mix of entrepreneurism, business analysis, engineering, and design. He was also the co-founder of both Frontline Education and CF InFlight, LLP. Frontline Education is an Ed-Tech platform used by most school districts in America, and CF Inflight engineered and introduced the Emmy award-winning Skycam (www.skycam.tv) to the sports broadcasting world (Skycam is used all over the world and is featured on almost all major market American football broadcasts, including Monday Night Football). He has a tremendous amount of experience analyzing new markets and establishing and growing businesses. Prior to these ventures, he spent 10 years building an IT services organization focused on delivering services and software for stock and currency trading applications, as well as developing mobile technology solutions for Fortune 500 companies.

Roland lives in West Chester, Pennsylvania, with his wife, Lisa, and has three children: Christopher, Stephen, and Alicia. Roland is active in his church, Bible Baptist Church of West Chester, and has served as deacon, the chair of deacons, a Sunday school teacher, and a youth worker.

Roland also sits on various foundation, and educational institution boards. He also enjoys mentoring young Christian entrepreneurs as well as flying.

Jim and his wife Rose Ann also founded Christ Freedom Home, a nonprofit ministry that assists men and women transitioning from substance abuse, life dominating sins to productive, God honoring, fruit bearing lives by the grace of God.

Jim and Rose Ann live in Greenville, SC along with their two married children and six grandchildren.

As a young man, Ed began working for his father and brother in the family business known as Graco Children’s Products. He completed his BA from the University of Miami in 1967. Throughout the ’60s and ’70s, Ed served in various capacities within the company. In 1982, through a variety of challenging circumstances, he assumed the role of CEO. He and his executive team led the company through significant growth over the next 10 plus years.

In 1996 Graco was sold, and Ed began CF Capital. As a private equity firm, CF Capital specializes in helping Christian entrepreneurs with financial and leadership advice as they build businesses using Biblical principles. Ed has also served on several for-profit and nonprofit boards, including Christian educational institutions.

Ed accepted Christ as his personal Savior at age 11, having been raised in a Christian home with a godly father to mentor him. Ed and his wife, Jane, have been married for 52 years and have 5 children. One of his greatest joys is spending time with his 22 grandchildren, with all but nine residing near his home. The Cones met at High Point Baptist Chapel and both have actively serving within the church for many years. They have recently moved to a different church and are enjoying meeting many new Christian friends. Ed served as an adult Sunday school teacher for many years, and Jane has taught two-year-olds for over 40 years. They have lived in the Elverson, Pennsylvania area since 1959.