Rod D. Martin, founder and CEO of Martin Capital, Inc., is a venture capitalist, technology entrepreneur and futurist from Destin, Florida. He was a senior advisor to PayPal founder and CEO Peter Thiel, served as policy director to Governor Mike Huckabee, and was thrice elected president of the National Federation of Republican Assemblies. He is a former officer of the Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention, America’s largest Protestant denomination.