Amy Carter received her BS in Nursing at South Dakota State University and MS in Nursing Leadership in Healthcare Systems at Regis University. She worked many years as a Registered Nurse and now enjoys fitness, gardening, reading, and cooking. She is a wife, mom of two grown children, and grandmother of two little ones. Amy finds community, family, and friendships wherever she and her husband Steve are living. 

Donna Davis is an expert in virtual reality (VR), digital embodiment, tech equity and inclusion, and digital social capital. At the University of Oregon in Portland, she is an associate professor and director of both the Oregon Reality Lab and the new Immersive Media Communication Master’s program that launched in Fall 2023. Her ethnographic research focuses on the potential uses of social virtual worlds, gamification, and other emerging immersive media, with a special interest in marginalized and vulnerable communities.

John Ewert values collaborative business relationships and leading technology companies through sustained rapid growth. As a business partner his over 25-year tenure includes Fortune 500 companies (5X), initial public offerings and numerous buy-side and sell-side acquisitions. Early in his career John earned his MBA from the University of California, Berkeley and as COO/CFO has led operations, development, legal, finance and administration, customer facing and investor relations functions. More recently he has served on non-profit and for-profit boards in both board chair and committee chair roles. When not indoors focused on business partnering, John enjoys spending time in the great outdoors adventuring with his wife and four daughters.

Ian King, former Beaverton city council member, earned his doctorate at George Fox University. He has his Master of Business Administration from Chapman University and Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from the University of Southern California. He currently instructs in the Management Department at the Oregon Institute of Technology. His teachings focus on Business Administration, Ethics, and Economics.

John Kurdelak is the Executive Director at Trinity Academy, a Christian school serving students in grades 6-12 in North Portland, OR. Before that, he was the Senior Director of Advancement at Trinity School at Greenlawn in South Bend, IN. John has been known to take on singing projects from time to time, and he has a specific passion for bringing Christians together across denominational lines. He brings a breadth of advancement and nonprofit governance knowledge. John is Vice President and Secretary of the Oregon Federation of Independent Schools, and as a 2X Notre Dame graduate, he serves on the board of the ND Club of Portland. John and his wife Claire have seven children.

Tyler McKinley is a senior product and intellectual property executive who has delivered digital products and technology within data, imaging, analytics, signals, mobile, SaaS, and connected devices. He is an inventor or co-inventor on twenty-one patents in fields of precision timing and geolocation, mobile devices, steganography, smart meters, synchronized metrology in power systems, and video encoding. He is dedicated to the craft of product design, development and growth, and loves building strong teams. He is a multi-time start-up founder and CEO, having his most recent venture acquired in 2017. Tyler is currently a Managing Director at GTT Group, a strategic patent advisory and transactions firm and serves as a Managing Director of Ideaship, its venture fund.

Chris Murphy is the pastor at Newberg First Presbyterian Church in Newberg, Oregon. He received his Master of Divinity and Doctor of Ministry from Fuller Theological Seminary. In addition to pastoring, Chris is a spiritual director and retreat leader who occasionally teaches with Renovare, CFDM Northwest (Christian Formation and Direction Ministries), and Portland Seminary. He is excited to partner with SOMA Digital in providing creative ways to bring spiritual formation to people on a journey to know and love God deeply. Chris is also grateful for his wife Karen and two daughters, Cate and Chiara.

Steve Sanders has worked at numerous startups and small businesses and multinational corporations over his forty-year career in communications, management, and marketing. He was an initial partner in launching soma.digital. Steve received a BS in Mathematics from Stanford University and an MBA from The Anderson School at UCLA. As a volunteer, he provides strategic communications consulting for one of the largest K - 8 sports and camp nonprofits in the U.S., a faith-based organization.