F&WM's Advisory Board
ANDREW POTTENGER
Andrew is the Engineering Manager for a team of engineers serving Global Operations at Facebook. Prior to this, he was the Co-Founder and CTO of FinTech Startup and an Engineering Manager at LinkedIn. Andrew is Purdue alumni with 12+ years experience in engineering management, web and mobile development at scale. Andrew is passionate about God’s word and faith and work integration. He holds certificates from RZIM’s Bible, Ethics, and Core Modules. He currently serves as the Global and Local Interfaith Leader for Christians@FB. When he was at LinkedIn, he also served as the ERG Faith Leader. He now resides in Austin with his beautiful wife Melissa and his two children.
SHEROL CHEN AND JON LIANG
Currently, Sherol is working on applied research in AI-enabled believable characters for the Stadia gaming platform at Google. Sherol Chen was an advocate for Machine Learning on Google Cloud, and has worked in Research at Google Brain for Machine Learning in Music and Creativity on the Magenta team. She's taught Artificial Intelligence at Stanford and around the world in six different countries. Her PhD work is in Computer Science, researching storytelling and Artificial Intelligence at the Expressive Intelligence Studio. Sherol also leads Passion Talks, an intellectual faith movement that seeks to answer both why and how to live for a better world. Her husband Jon works as a software engineer.
MIMI CHAN
Mimi Chan is a founding leader of Christians at Amazon. She studied economics at Stanford University and found her professional passion creating award winning marketing programs at Fortune 500 companies for the last 20 years. Mimi is active in the community, volunteering with organizations like TEDx Oakland and Faith & Work Movement. You can talk books with her at goodreads.com/mimicychan or find her travelling with a camera in hand and her mini schnauzer alongside
GRANT HOFFECKER
Grant is a Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn. He has been one of the faith leaders for the inChrist workplace group at his corporate campus for several years. His passions include reconciliation in the workplace, basketball, and adventuring outdoors. He recently began both a blog and podcast. Grant partnered with us to help grow the SF city team driving north early in the morning to pray with our SF catalyst group. He also serves as a small group leader in his church. He is a graduate of Cornell university where he met his wonderful wife Michelle and together they have a dog named Benji.
F&WM's Team
Roy and Esther - Co-Founders
In both Los Angeles and the Bay Area, Roy served in cross-cultural, and multi-ethnic contexts. Roy’s passion is to catalyze ministries and maximize leaders. He currently also pastors Compass, a missional community church plant. Roy holds an an MA in Cross-Cultural Studies from Fuller, and an M.Div equivalency from Reformed Theological Seminary.
Esther has served in the Public Education sector for most of her career. She has held various roles including an instructor, specialist, curriculum writer, and most recently Educational Technology Coach. She currently also directs operations for F&WM. She holds a BA in Economics and Business and an Masters in Education, both from UCLA. Roy and Esther are joyfully married and have raised three children in the Bay Area.
ELAINE FUNG - Events
Elaine is an Event Coordinator for the F&WM. A Bay Area native, Elaine received a BA in Communication Studies from Biola University, MA in Communication Studies from San Jose State University, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Communication with Regent University. Elaine likes being in spaces and talking about communication, creativity, community, higher education, faith integration, work-life balance, mentorship, and more. Elaine enjoys tea and crafting