Michael Regina
Principal

As a key company executive with 20 years of industry experience and expertise, Michael strategizes, oversees and performs multiple mission critical initiatives for Big Sky. His areas of direct responsibility include project feasibility analysis, project management and business development.

Michael Regina is co-founder of Big Sky Enterprises, a leading commercial design and build firm founded in 2003 that strategizes, executes and oversees every aspect of the company’s proprietary Project Development Life Cycle to provide clients with single professional contact-point control.

Michael is also the Co-Founder of Big Sky Financial Services, which provides financing and advisory services. Here he’s charged with project feasibility analysis and business development.

In addition to his professional duties, Michael is committed to serving those in his community, steadfast in his belief that it is better to give than receive.  He supports a variety of socially conscious organizations, currently sitting on an Advisory Board for the Christian Chamber of Commerce - an organization he has been a part of since 2003.  Also a former Deacon, Michael now works as the youth ministry High School Director at his church.  He previously served on the Executive Board of Directors for Berlin, New Jersey-based Women of Hope - an organization that assists those struggling with alcohol, drug and physical abuse.

Michael, a Medford native, currently resides in Cherry Hill, New Jersey with his wife and three children.  When not fostering personal and professional community development, he can be found on the field coaching his son’s baseball and football teams.

Ryan Regina
Principal

With more than 15 years of experience, Ryan brings well-honed knowledge, insight and intra-industry relationships to his executive leadership role.  He manages and executes a broad array of key functions integral to Big Sky’s success, holding direct responsibility for domestic and international client and project development, strategic planning and project management.

In partnership with his brother Michael, Ryan Regina is the co- founder of Big Sky Enterprises – an industry leading design and build firm that strategizes, executes and oversees every aspect of a project development life cycle to provide clients with single professional contact-point control.

Ryan also Co-Founded the company’s Big Sky Financial Services division, which provides financing and advisory services.  In this capacity, he executes project/land development and project feasibility analysis.

A staunch community advocate, Ryan has served in his church’s Entrepreneurs for Christ ministry where he held various real estate workshops and counseled those who expressed interest in the industry. He has also sat on numerous advisory boards at his church, focusing on the needs and development of children and teenagers. Alongside his wife, Ryan currently helps lead a young adult ministry at his church designed specifically for 18-25 year old men and women.

Ryan earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management from West Chester University in Pennsylvania. He also studied construction management at East Carolina University in Greenville, NC. Ryan hails from Medford, New Jersey where he continues to live with his wife and son.

Edward Willis
Managing Partner for Financial Services (Big Sky Financial Services)

Ed currently holds the position as Managing Partner for Financial Services at Big Sky Financial Services, LLC. His key roles within the company include financial feasibility assessments, project finance analyses, underwriting and project capitalization.  Other responsibilities include relational consultation, capital stewardship programs and executive compensation analysis.

Ed brings over 35 years of financial experiences to Big Sky Financial Services including, President of a Sun Oil Company venture capital subsidiary, Manager of Project Finance at Sun Oil and President of the Carver Loan and Investment Company, a multi-office publically traded consumer finance company.

His most recent position was a member of the senior management team for Living Faith Ministries of Camden County NJ Inc (LFM) – a more than 9000-member 501c3 religious organization -- with several legal affiliates.  For most of his employment, he was the CFO with responsibility for all finance functions including Financial and Managerial accounting, Capital Budgeting, Capital Acquisition, Cash management, Capital stewardship, Banking relationships and Legal.  In addition, he oversaw all property acquisitions, project development, and construction including – three substantive building projects where he completed all of the financings.

In addition, he was Superintendent of Schools for a two campus, two facility K-12 private school (Living Faith Christian Academy), Superintendent of Christian Education at LFM and Superintendent of the Living Faith Bible Training Center, a separate legal affiliate at LFM where he created and taught 3 graduate level courses on Church Government, Church Administrative and Church Leadership. As a member of the Boards of Director at LFM, Living Faith Christian Academy, Living Faith Bible Training Center, Athletes in Christ, and Entrepreneurs in Christ, he was a valued member of the leadership team and counselor to the founding Pastor during its growth from less than 200 members to its mega church status.

As an adjunct activity, he was appointed by the Pastor to counsel his son and daughter churches on an array of business, legal, finance, project development, and compensation issues, among others.

Ed has also been a consultant to developing countries, and has served as a consultant to the US State Department on Private Sector Development, Public Sector divestitures, and Capital Formation, principally in Africa.  In addition, he was an adjunct professor at several colleges and universities – including the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School (where he was a member of the task force which created the Wharton Entrepreneurial Center) -- for entrepreneurial, economics and accounting courses.  He also was appointed to the US Department of Commerce’s Science and Technology Advisory Committee on Entrepreneurship and received several nominations and citations for Entrepreneur or small businessman of the year. His efforts or articles have appeared in several magazines, including Business week. He volunteers often, including currently serving on the Burlington County Economic Development Committee.

Ed, a native of Americus, Georgia currently resides in Burlington, NJ and is happily married to his wife of 42 years and has 4 beautiful children and 2 grandchildren.  He has an MBA from Harvard University, in addition to numerous other degrees and business or finance certifications.  

Scott Hartkopf
Director of Field Operations

Scott Hartkopf brings over 25 years of professional construction experience to Big Sky Enterprises.  His background includes multiple entrepreneurial construction industry ventures as well as various construction management roles with commercial construction companies and with a national homebuilder. Scott’s legacy of quality, efficiency, problem solving strategies, and customer satisfaction directly benefit clients at BIG SKY, where he directs all construction activities in the field while assisting in design and project management endeavors.  A firm believer in impacting today’s youth through involvement, Scott has coached youth football and actively participates with his daughter’s dance programs that often take him up and down the east coast.  A long time resident of South Jersey, Scott graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree with a small business management specialty from Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey.

Sara Joy Knoedler
Administrative Assistant