Smalley Relationship Center

In 1979, Gary & Norma Smalley were encouraged to begin an organization focused on helping families. After the formation of a board, they launched the CMI organization out of Waco, Texas. A few years later they moved to Phoenix, Arizona and Gary spoke in places all over the country. Gary co-authored two books with Steve Scott during that time titled, If Only He Knew and For Better or For Best. Those books have sold over one million copies each and have become marriage classics.

In 1985, the organization's name became Today's Family. That year, Gary and Norma hired more staff to enlarge their reach around the country.

In 1988, Gary partnered with American Telecast's Steve Scott and they launched a nation-wide infomercial with Dick Clark as the host of a half-hour television program. That infomercial was re-introduced in 1990 and 1992 through John Tesh & Connie Sellecca and then Frank & Kathie Lee Gifford. The series sold over four million tapes.

Since those early years, Gary Smalley has become one of the country's best-known authors and speakers on family relationships. He is the author and co-author of 28 best-selling, award-winning books along with several popular films and videos. He has spent over 35 years learning, teaching, and counseling. Gary has personally interviewed hundreds of singles and couples and has surveyed thousands of people at his seminars asking two questions: What is it that strengthens your relationships and what weakens them?

Gary's 28 books combined have sold over 6 million copies. Several of them have even been translated into different languages. The Blessing and The Two Sides of Love have won the Gold Medallion Award for excellence in literature. The Language of Love won the Angel Award as the best contribution to family life. All other titles have been top-five finalists for the Gold Medallion Award.

In the last 35 years Gary has spoken to over two million people in live conferences. He has been presenting his live two-day marriage seminars, once a month for the last twenty years. Over one million people have attended Gary's live presentations. His award-winning infomercial "Hidden Keys to Loving Relationships" has appeared to television audiences all over the world.

David Chao

David Chao is an experienced strategic thinker and has been a technology thought leader for the past 15 years. With a diverse background from motion pictures to the Internet, Mr. Chao brings a unique perspective to the technology market with his experience in financial services, movies, manufacturing and technology. Mr. Chao’s skills are focused on setting clear, sustainable strategic differentiators and then manically executing. Currently, Mr. Chao is focused on mobility at the consumer and business level. Current clients include Motorola, Microsoft, Jamcracker, and Pervacio. David is also a founder in Mobilesynch, a mobile device management company.

David Chao was the chief strategist and vice president of business development for NTT/Verio, a wholly owned subsidiary of NTT Communications. NTT/Verio is one of the world’s largest hosting companies and was an early pioneer in the Internet. Mr. Chao was responsible for the company’s SMB strategic direction as well as leading the strategic input into the functional groups of the company. He was responsible for product direction and vision, marketing, strategic alliances and the indirect sales channel. In addition, Mr. Chao was responsible for the global strategic direction and implementation of relationships with Microsoft and Accenture for NTT Communications.

Previously, Mr. Chao was vice president of business development and marketing for ePresence Inc., a provider of secure identity management for the Internet, and prior to that, he was vice president of sales and business development for Navidec Inc., a solutions and software infrastructure company. Mr. Chao has extensive experience in software development as well as in system integration, for companies such as SUN, Netegrity, BEA, IBM Tivoli and others. Mr. Chao also held various business development and marketing positions with companies including Siemens Information Communication Networks and AccessWorldwide Communications.

Hal Anderson

Hal brings over 20 year of experience in developing partnerships to deliver innovative Internet-based products and services. Before joining Memorize Truth he worked Vice President of Business Development for 24-by-7 Service and prior to that, as a Managing Director for eonBusiness Corporation where he leveraged his background in technology and e-commerce to strengthen strategic alliances and help launch and expand new business units such as HomePoint and AtlasOnePoint.

Mr. Anderson was also a founder of Navidec, Inc. where he led its automotive practice group, launching several highly successful e-commerce sites including DriveOff.com, the nation’s first 100-percent online leasing and auto -buying Web site which has since been acquired by Microsoft. Prior to joining Navidec, Mr. Anderson led technology and change management teams at US WEST for nine years.

Mr. Anderson earned a Bachelors degree from the University of Arizona in Management Information Systems and received a Masters degree from the University of Denver in Computer Information Systems. He serves as an advisor to the board of directors of the Denver Street School, one of a nationwide network of non-profit, fully accredited high schools for at-risk youth.

Brad Leiby

Brad knows how to turn a vision into reality using technology and systems. He began his career in Information technology in 1994 at the University of Colorado at Boulder where he also graduated with a degree in Finance and Business Administration. While still a student employee, Brad implemented pioneering imaging technology to convert hundreds of thousands of paper student loan documents into an online multi-user document repository. In 1997, Brad went on to join Prosero Technologies, where he was promoted to Vice President and built and managed a team of systems engineers, programmers, and project managers. His team delivered hundreds of document management and workflow process automation tools primarily to state and local governments.

In 2002, Brad founded Uncommon Solutions, and continues to serve as its Chief Executive Officer and Technology Architect. In its first 5 years, Uncommon grew its revenues year over year by an average of more than 100%. As an “outsourced CIO” through Uncommon Solutions, Brad has consistently joined together the brightest and best technical talent and tools to innovate solutions with measurable impact. In this role, he helped a mortgage company grow to become the largest privately held mortgage company in Colorado by building a Loan Originator portal, a recruiting web site, and integrating its internal CRM and Accounting systems. He helped a Fortune 500 telecom company to refactor and replace its $1.5 million engineering and compliance systems for less than 10% of their original cost while improving system adoption and usage by over 500 field personnel around the country. He helped a small chain of local restaurants to integrate its inventory and accounting systems while it moved from 4 stores to 10.

More recently, in 2006, Brad cofounded Memorize Truth, LLC and managed the development of Verseminder, a desktop gadget that helps its users to connect with their ministry and memorize scripture. Brad lives South of Denver with pride and joy – his 4 children and Noell, his wife.