Reverend Reginald M. Buckley
The Reverend Reginald M. Buckley was born in Jackson, MS, to the Rev. and Mrs. Horace L. Buckley. He is a product of Jackson Public Schools and completed his undergraduate education at Tougaloo College. A recipient of the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, Reverend Buckley entered graduate school at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana in 1994 and completed the Master of Arts Degree in English Literature in 1996.
In 1998, he was called to serve as the Senior Pastor of Second Baptist Church of Danville, Illinois, and ministered there for nine years. During his tenure there, he served as Secretary and 2nd Vice Moderator of the Wood River Baptist District Association, the nation’s oldest continuous Baptist District Association. In 2007, Reverend Buckley accepted the call to return to Jackson, MS, and serve as the Executive Pastor of Cade Chapel Missionary Baptist Church. After serving for seven years, he assumed the role of Senior Pastor in January 2015. He has served as the Dean and the Executive Director of the Congress of Christian Education for the General Missionary Baptist State Convention of Mississippi and as Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Mississippi Baptist Seminary.
A W.K. Kellogg Fellow and a member of the inaugural class of the Mississippi Black Leadership Institute, Reverend Buckley is committed to the causes of community development, social justice, and equity. As Executive Director of the Cade Development Corporation, Reverend Buckley helped to lead the development of an 81-unit senior citizen apartment complex, which opened in 2012 in the Virden Addition community. Reverend Buckley has served on the Board of Directors for the Hinds County Economic Development Authority, the Mississippi Baptist Seminary and Bible College, and currently serves on the Board of Advisors for the Program for Research on Faith, Justice, and Health at the University of Houston and the Board of Directors for the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. Reverend Buckley has also been inducted into the Tougaloo College Hall of Fame and is a recipient of the Tougaloo Meritorious Leadership Award. A member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., Reverend Buckley is married to Lecretia A. Buckley, Ph.D., and they are the parents of two children, Jonathan and Anna.
Demond Martin
Demond Martin is a CEO, founder, philanthropist, and investor shaping a new model of wellbeing to create generational wellness for all. His life spans the full range of the American experience – from city blocks and a down South trailer home, to the Clinton White House, the Obama Foundation, and boardrooms that move billions.
A seasoned investor, Demond spent more than two decades as a senior partner at Adage Capital Management, where he invested across the consumer sector after graduating with an MBA from Harvard Business School. Earlier in his career, he served as assistant to President Clinton’s White House Chief of Staff, Erskine Bowles. Demond holds an undergraduate degree in accounting from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, which awarded him an honorary Doctor of Public Service degree in 2023.
Today, Demond is Co-founder and CEO of WellWithAll, a purpose-driven health and wellness consumer packaged goods company on a mission to close health equity gaps. Grounded in the belief that your ZIP code should never determine how well or how long you live, WellWithAll crafts better-for-you beverages, vitamins, and supplements to empower people to make one healthier choice each day, while investing in long-term change. Through the WellWithAll Foundation, the company reinvests 20 percent of its profits into programs that expand access to care and help close health gaps where they are widest.
Demond leads at the intersection of entrepreneurship and mission-aligned capital. Through the WellWithAll Foundation, he invests in accessible tools, community-centered health programs, and honest storytelling to expand how people see wellness – and who gets to experience it. He executive produced Black Longevity, an NAACP Image Award-nominated documentary, and recently launched the $1M WellWithAll Prize to scale AI-powered innovation in health equity to reach the communities that need it most.
Demond and his wife, Kia, are deeply committed to advancing opportunity in education and healthcare through their family foundation. He has served on numerous nonprofit boards, including as a trustee of the Berklee College of Music, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, the GRAMMY Global Venture Board, and the Obama Foundation.