Meet the Executive Team

President & CEO

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Rev. Greenwood is the president and chief executive officer of Texas Methodist Foundation. Rev. Greenwood joined the staff of TMF in 2012, serving as vice president for learning and innovation before becoming the president and chief executive officer of TMF and Wesleyan Impact Partners in 2022. 

For over 30 years, Rev. Greenwood has been a change-maker within ministry and faith communities, empowering leaders through learning and innovation and promoting congregational growth. She regularly speaks and facilitates national conversations, creating cultures of purpose, generosity, and courage in the church. Rev. Greenwood is the co-creator and host of the nationally distributed Igniting Imagination® podcast.

Rev. Greenwood is an ordained elder in the North Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church, where she served Highland Park United Methodist Church, First United Methodist Church in Denton, First United Methodist Church in Commerce, and First United Methodist Church in Richardson, Texas. During the last five years of her local church ministry, Rev. Greenwood served as a ministry strategist with Horizons Stewardship Company. Rev. Greenwood earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Texas at Austin and a Master of Divinity from Yale Divinity School.

Chief Financial Officer

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Curtis is the chief operating officer/chief financial officer of Texas Methodist Foundation. Curtis started his career with TMF in 1982, developing computer-based bookkeeping systems. Through the years, he has been involved in all areas of TMF and has been integral in the four merger transactions during its history. Curtis is the son of a Methodist minister and received a basketball scholarship to attend Southwestern University, a Methodist university in Georgetown, Texas, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.

Chief Philanthropy Officer

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Justin is chief philanthropy officer at Texas Methodist Foundation. Justin joined TMF in 2013 after nearly a decade working in various fundraising roles at Southwestern University, including the university’s successful $150 million comprehensive campaign. Justin leads all aspects of TMF’s fundraising and gift planning programs.

Justin holds Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, where he currently serves on the Board of Visitors. He went on to receive a Master of Business Administration from Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. Additionally, Justin is a past president of the Charitable Gift Planners of Austin and holds the Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy (CAP) designation.

Chief Lending Officer

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As chief lending officer, Chris Miller oversees all lending functions for Texas Methodist Foundation and Wesleyan Impact Partners.

Chris has nearly twenty years of banking and commercial lending experience in Texas, supporting the business growth strategies of owner-operated businesses and commercial real-estate developers. He most recently served as Market Area Executive at Simmons Bank. Prior to Simmons, Chris served as Senior Vice President of Commercial Banking at Southside Bank.

Chris is a graduate of the Graduate School of Banking at Louisiana State University, where he served two terms as trustee after graduation, and the Hankamer School of Business at Baylor University, where he is a member of the Young Alumni Advisory Council. Chris is Treasurer of Zilker 351 and a former Board President of The Young Men’s Business League and Austin Sunshine Camps.

Chief Marketing Officer

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Janet is the chief marketing officer of Texas Methodist Foundation. Prior to joining TMF on staff in 2022, she served as the organization’s contract chief marketing officer since 2014. Janet is the principal of M Group Agency, a strategic marketing agency founded in 2005 that builds the businesses and brands of for-profit and nonprofit organizations. 

As chief marketing officer, Janet has developed and launched four companies in Austin, Texas, one to over a $90 million business and recognized as #6 in the Top 50 Fastest Growing Companies by PricewaterhouseCoopers. Prior to that, she served as the vice president of Marketing North America for Duracell, Inc. 

Janet holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, double majoring in Finance and Marketing, from Babson College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, and a Master of Business Administration, with a specialization in business policy and strategy, graduating magna cum laude, from the University of Connecticut, Hartford Connecticut.

Chief Learning and Innovation Officer

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Rev. Dr. Blair Thompson is chief learning and innovation officer at Texas Methodist Foundation and Wesleyan Impact Partners, where she and her team lead the organizations’ three Lilly Endowment-funded initiatives: Courageous Congregations Collaborative (C3), Courageous Leadership Imperative (CLI), and Phygital Preaching Fellows. She also leads Wesleyan Impact Partners’ Locke Innovative Leader Award process and cohorts of spiritual entrepreneurs. Blair is the creator and producer of the Igniting Imagination® podcast.

An ordained Elder in the Horizon Texas Conference of The United Methodist Church, Blair is a seasoned speaker, writer, preacher, and facilitator. Her work focuses on expanding imagination, discerning purpose, and developing leaders across the Wesleyan ecosystem.

Blair joined TMF in 2020 after more than a decade in pastoral ministry. She previously served as senior pastor at Arapaho UMC in Richardson, associate pastor at First UMC in downtown Dallas, and senior pastor at Frontenac UMC in Kansas.

She holds both a Master of Divinity and a Doctor of Ministry from Perkins School of Theology, where her doctoral research explored pilgrimage as a formative practice for clergy leadership.

At the heart of Blair’s work is a commitment to shaping a church that forms her daughter, Abby, and future generations with Wesleyan values, equipping them to make a difference and help transform the world for good in the name of Jesus Christ.