CEO Summit Hosted by Liberty University

Rayah Levy, FCD Invest President
Oct 28
3 min read

FCD Invest President, Rayah Levy, attended the 2025 CEO Summit at Liberty University in Virginia. Liberty University is such a spectacular campus, and the students were all very respectful and a delight to be around. The prospects for these emerging CEOs are undeniably radiant.

We want to offer a sincere thanks to the staff at CEO Summit and Liberty University for being such gracious hosts, and James Mosely (Director of International Development, Liberty University) and his lovely wife, Madlene Mosely. The event was well-organized, impactful, and inspirational. All of the speakers are pioneering leaders within their fields and offered unique perspectives in business, law, technology, artificial intelligence, national defense, and more.

Above all, we want to share a warm and special thanks to our dear friend, Robert Dotson, Managing Partner at HKP Strategic, who invited Rayah to the summit, and went above and beyond to maximize Rayah’s time and connections with colleagues and dignitaties. Robert organized a tour of Mathena Studios for Rayah and Claudia Chan, CEO of She Globl, who also attended the summit. Rayah was honored to receive a private studio tour, along with Paul Long (Kappa Studios President) and Brad Silverman (Kappa Studios Chief Content Officer).

We would also like to take a moment to wish Robert a happy birthday.

The Keynote Speakers were:

Lee Zeldin, 17th Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Liz Truss, Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Dan T. Cathy, Chairman, Chick-fil-A, Inc.
Pat Gelsinger, Executive Chair & Head of Technology at Gloo and General Partner, Playground Global, Fmr. CEO, Intel Corporation
Doug DeVos, Co-Chair, Amway
Michael Flynn, Lieutenant General, U.S. Army (Retired)
Ken Eldred, Founder & CEO, Living Stones Foundation
Jack Hollis, Fmr. EVP & COO, Toyota Motor North America, Inc.
Alexander Tah-Ray Yui, Ambassador, Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States (TECRO)
Jack Brewer, Lead Director, GEO Group, Inc.
Brian Wesbury, Chief Economist, First Trust Advisors L.P.

Featured Speakers include:

Ash Shrivastav, Managing Partner, Uma Ventures
Jeff Hoffman, Chairman, Global Entrepreneurship Network
Kent Pearce, Managing Director The Pearce Group, Merrill Lynch
Noach Hacker, Minister of Economic Affairs, Israeli Embassy
T’Neil Walea, Director – AI, Quantum, and Biosecurity, Microsoft
Saeed Amidi, CEO & Founder, Plug and Play
John T. Hewitt, Co-Founder, Jackson Hewitt Tax Service
Kevin Bush, CEO, Managing Member, Lead Line
Sebastian Harris, Founder and Managing Partner, Sandbox Fund
Gregory Petroff, Managing Partner, Reitler Kailas & Rosenblatt LLP
Matt Cole, CEO, Strive
Jeffrey Hayzlett, Chairman and Founder, C-Suite Network
Randal Linville, Co-Founder & Managing Director, ClearSight Ventures LLC
Mamadou Balde, Market Leader & Managing Director, Western PA & West Virginia, CBRE
Sean Kouplen, Chairman & CEO, Regent Bank
Nate Fischer, CEO, New Founding
Hanna Tomory, Managing Partner – Canada, Palantir Technologies
Spencer Patton, Founder, Patton Foundation
Dave Rivers, Head of Enthusiast Brand Management, Ford Motor Company
Bridger Pennington, Co-Founder, Fund Launch & Ugly Unicorn Crypto
Edwin Poots, Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly
Lindsey Nicholas, President, International Roofing Corporation
Jeff Koh, Partner, Reitler Kailas & Rosenblatt LLP
Richard Zhang, Staff Research Scientist, Google Deepmind
Bryce McDonald, Head of Operations, Western Trail Capital
David Rice, Founder & CEO, New Home Star