Meet the Team
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James Olson
James has more than 25 years experience in church ministry and global missions. For the last decade he has served as a strategy consultant, developing & managing strategic church partnerships for one of the largest Christian non-profits in the world. James has served as Project Manager for two Think Tanks, one for the African American Church and one for the Hispanic Church. Through his work he understands the needs of churches and has developed close friendship with many church leaders across the U.S and abroad.
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Kyle Thompson
Kyle has 30 years experience working directly in the development & sales of media products to churches. He has served in leading roles on marketing teams for more than 55 faith-based theatrical movie releases, earning the respect of both church and movie industry leaders for integrity and creativity. Additionally, Kyle has strategically amassed a substantial & valuable relationship-database of tens of thousands of Church leaders. He understands the needs of churches and has developed close friendship with many church leaders across the U.S.
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Christoph Dill
For nearly 3 decades, Christoph worked in the management of various areas of Data & Technology for many Swiss-based tech firms, including Allgeier, Siemens, Alcatel, & eventually as a director with UBS-AG: Zurich.
Leaving Switzerland to attend Bible School in the US, he and his wife now serve as worship pastors at his local church in Tulsa and he is currently in service as Director of Technology for Catalyst Resource Group.
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David Johnston
Since co-founding the company that became Sermon.net in 2005, David has played a lead role in the development of live streaming for houses of worship since the technology was first in its infancy. He oversaw the initial pay-to-play model and led a free service platform that provided streaming for 30,000+ churches.
Originally from Canada, David now resides in Buffalo, NY and serves as Executive Director of Sermon.net.
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Nick Yepez
Nick begin his tech work in web development, specifically frontend user facing & site administrator reporting, with a focus on custom functions. Over the last 9 years, he trained himself in multiple languages, including JavaScript (ES5 & ES6), PHP, SQL, HTML, CSS, BASH & Ruby.
Desiring a more holistic purpose to tech, Nick joined Catalyst and currently serves as Associate Director of Development for Catalyst Streaming, residing in the St. Louis metro.
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Cinthia Gutiérrez
For over 10 years, Cinthia’s work had centered around communications & multimedia in Mexicali’s medical and aerospace industries. She specialized in media in training and real-world applications, even teaching Video Production at CETYS University after completing her degree there in Digital Graphic Design Engineering.
Taking a step of faith, she relocated to Tulsa, OK for Bible School and serves as the Online Pastor for a Tulsa-based Church. She currently leads Design & Development for Catalyst Missions.