The NCS Council of Limited Partners is comprised of brudders who have made significant contributions of time and/or resources to the New Canaan Society and who continue to be supportive of the mission of NCS in various ways. The purpose of the LP Council is to advise the NCS Board and Management Committee.
 Dave Dias
Dave lives in the San Francisco Bay area and graduated from San Jose State with a degree in Criminology. Dave was the Vice President at InterWest Insurance Services, one of the largest privately held insurance brokerages in the U.S. He now serves on their Board of Directors.
In April, 2011, he Founded Insurance Thought Leadership, a site containing articles, resources and best practices from experts in their field. Focus on the following fields: Healthcare, Worker’s Compensation, Property & Casualty, Auto, Sophisticated Life Insurance designs, Directors & Officer’s, Safety, Risk Control or other Claims Management.
Dave is Chairman of the Board for Primere Legacy Films, a media company that produces heirloom documentaries that can be viewed by the next generation. He also serves on the Board of Trustees for Azusa Pacific University.
Dave is married to wife Irene and has 2 adult daughters, Jocelyn and JoAnna. In May, 2007, Irene was diagnosed with Primary Amyloidosis and End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD). Website : www.Irenedias.com.
Dave has authored Irene's Journey of Faith and Sales Ethos: Building Long Term Client Value.
 Bill Jolly
Bill and Susan, his wife of 29 years, live in Connecticut with their two sons, Sam and Ruben.
Bill worked in consumer marketing for many years with Procter & Gamble and Scott Paper in Cincinnati, Geneva, Singapore, Hong Kong and Jakarta. Currently, Bill works with a boutique investment bank that focuses on innovative capital solutions for micro-cap companies.
Bill has served for several years on the Board of Director of Integrity Media, Inc., the largest independent producer of Christian contemporary music.
Bill's family is active in his local church, and he has been known to golf on the odd occasion.
 Eric Metaxas
Eric Metaxas is the author of the New York Times #1 bestseller, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, which was named “Book of the Year” by the ECPA. Bonhoeffer also won the 2011 John C. Pollock Award for Biography awarded by Beeson Divinity School and a 2011 Christopher Award in the Non-fiction category. Called a “biography of uncommon power,” Bonhoeffer appeared on numerous 2010 “Best of the Year” lists and was featured in the Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, The New Republic, Harper’s, Kirkus (starred review), NPR, FoxNews, C-SPAN’s Book TV, Christianity Today, The Weekly Standard, and First Things.
In a decidedly eclectic career, Eric Metaxas has written for VeggieTales, Chuck Colson, and the New York Times, three things not ordinarily in the same sentence. He is a best-selling author whose biographies, children’s books, and works of popular apologetics have been translated into German, Albanian, Portuguese, Spanish, Korean, Turkish, Galician, French, Complex Chinese, Dutch, Danish, Italian, Polish, and Macedonian.
Metaxas was the keynote speaker at the 2012 National Prayer Breakfast in Washington DC, an event attended by the President and First Lady, the Vice President, members of Congress, and other U.S. and world leaders. Previous speakers have included Mother Theresa, Bono, and Tony Blair.
In 2011, Metaxas was the recipient of the Canterbury Medal awarded by the Becket Fund for Religious Freedom. Previous medalists include Archbishop Charles Chaput, Mitt Romney, and Elie Wiesel.
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 Dave Robinson
Dave Robinson serves as President of BlueSky Ministries. He enjoys leveraging his connecting abilities and has a passion to engage, equip and expand the influence of business leaders by involving them in strategic kingdom opportunities. Previously, Dave served 22 years with a large global non-profit, working with college students, emerging leaders and senior-level leaders throughout the U.S. and in Asia. In 1994-1995, Dave worked in the Hong Kong office focused on East Asia expansion.
Dave co-founded and leads NCS Orlando which began 2004, and is known as The Parks Society. NCS Orlando has nearly 600 men on the roster and regular attendance approaching 100. Dave serves on the leadership team of Men at the Cross Orlando annual conference, on the Regional Advisory Board for Hope International microfinance non-profit and has been a consultant to the Soderquist Center for Leadership and Ethics.
He is a graduate of the University of Memphis, and has pursued graduate biblical studies at Reformed Theological Seminary. Dave enjoys life in Orlando, FL with his wife Angela and their four children, son Bennett, and daughters Victoria, Meredith and Karenna.
 B.J. Weber
William J. Weber has lived and served in New York City since 1979. Upon first coming to Manhattan, B.J. started a street ministry, where for five years he served in rescue and recovery efforts with addicts, prostitutes, teenage runaways and the homeless while co-pastoring a mission church in Times Square.
In 1984, B.J. founded the New York Fellowship, an interdenominational ministry, which provides spiritual direction, counseling and pastoral care to leaders in the business and professional communities of the New York City area.
For twenty years, B.J. served as Chaplain for the World Series Champion New York Yankees. He is the co-founder of more than 25 inner-city ministries, including the East Harlem Little League, Youth Impact, Pregnancy Help, Brooklyn Little League, Kids to Camp Program. He also was co-founder of the Amistad Mission Clinic and Orphanage in Bolivia, and has been the catalyst for launching other endeavors that reflect Christ's love for those in need.
B.J. Weber is an ordained minister, attended the Presbyterian Seminary in Dubuque, Iowa, and graduated with a B.S. in psychology at Iowa State University in 1971. During seminary, he lived for six years as a non-vowed monk, attached to the New Melleray Trappist Monastery in Iowa, where upon a casual visit to buy their homemade bread, he first came to faith in Christ. He worked and lived for those seminary years in relationship with their sister Trappistine convent, Our Lady of the Mississippi Abbey, whose chaplain, as well as the abbess, provided spiritual direction and mentoring during B.J.'s early years in faith.
Since 1980, B.J. has been married to his wife Sheila, a journalist and public relations consultant, who has also been vitally instrumental in the founding and managing of the New York Fellowship. They run a hospitality house in midtown Manhattan, which serves visitors from all over the world and hosts ongoing dinners and outreach events. Their two children, Max and Rachel, attend Vanderbilt University.
B.J. preaches regularly at St. George's Episcopal Church in Manhattan and in his sermons very frequently pronounces New Testament names and places correctly.
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