The Board of Trustees are stewards; stewards of the physical resources, stewards of the intellectual climate, stewards of human relationships, and stewards of spiritual resources of Gordon-Conwell Theologial Seminary. We are blessed to have men and women committed to the mission of the seminary. Their names and brief biographies are below.
Co-Chair of the Board of Trustees
Co-Chair of the Board of Trustees
Vice Chair
Secretary
Treasurer (MACT ’17)
(DMin ’05)
(MAUM ’09, MDiv ’13)
(MATS ’92)
(DMin ’22)
(MAUML ’16, ThM ’18)
Born in Kabul, Afghanistan, J. Christy Wilson, III, received his bachelor’s degree from Wheaton College in 1975 and completed law school at the University of Miami in 1981. He specializes in the area of eminent domain at the law firm of Wilson, Leavitt & Small in Orlando and has published articles on the subject in several journals.
He is a member of the Florida Bar, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, the Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers, and the Rotary Club of Orlando. He served in the United States Army from 1976-1978.
Christy joined the Gordon-Conwell Board of Trustees in 1993. He briefly took a leave of absence from the board and returned in 2019. He lives in Orlando, Florida and has a son and a daughter.
John Cissel is an accomplished real estate executive with 35+ years of experience. Working across geographies and cultures, he has advised dozens of organizations, from Nasdaq, Wachovia, and Mitsubishi to The Salvation Army, The Bowery Mission, and Redeemer Presbyterian Church.
For the past 5 years, as President of Development at Core Investments, John lead the successful entitlement of 21+ acres of mixed-use assembly in South Boston called On the Dot®.
In 2002, John co-founded Cornerstone Advisory Services, offering brokerage and development services to faith-based and non-profit institutions. He also served as CEO for Visioneering Studios, a national real estate, architectural design, and construction firm. Early in his career, John co-founded an international real estate brokerage and advisory firm representing many of the earliest internet companies.
Rev. Dr. Arlene Hall is a prophetic voice, pastor, esteemed author, and dynamic leader. She authored Secret Place Dwellers (2023) and co-authored A Giving People (2024). She and her husband, Bishop Raymond Hall, are co-founders of Deliverance Temple Worship Center in Boston, where they have served for over twenty-five years.
She holds key leadership roles on multiple boards, including the Church of God Credentialed Women’s Board, the Pentecostal Theological Seminary Board of Trustees, and the Advisory Board for the Center for African Descent. A sought-after speaker, professor, advisor, and mentor, Dr. Hall’s influence spans ministry, business, and community development, inspiring future generations to walk in their divine calling.
She has been happily married to Raymond for almost 33 years, and they are blessed with five children, one daughter-in-law, and three grandchildren.
Dr. Luis Paz Reyes is a physician specializing in Family Medicine. He is the founding owner of Grupo Médico Dr. Paz clinics in Puerto Rico.
Dr. Paz holds a Master of Arts in Theology (MA) and a Master of Divinity (MDiv) from SBTS. He completed his Doctor of Ministry (DMin) at GCTS and earned a PhD in Theology from the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico.
He is a theology professor at various seminaries, including GCTS.
He serves as an associate pastor at AMEC Casa de Alabanzas Church in Canóvanas, Puerto Rico. He is married to Jannette Candelaria, and together they have a daughter, Siulynet Paz.
As a family, they travel to different countries preaching the gospel and sharing the message of salvation.
Patti Arey currently serves as the Co-Chair of the Gordon-Conwell—Jacksonville Board of Advisors. She teaches a weekly Bible Study at Christ Episcopal Church, trains volunteers for Lay Pastoral Care ministry and facilitates grief groups.
She has a degree from Lenoir-Rhyne University in Christian Education and served for six years at her alma mater as the Director of Alumni and Parent Relations. She graduated from Gordon-Conwell—Jacksonville with a MDiv in 2016. Patti and her husband Todd, were married in 1994. They have one son, Cutter, a student at the University of Miami. She enjoys the beach, snow skiing, time with family and listening to music (especially Cutter’s classical compositions). Her favorite past times are volunteering for Gordon-Conwell—Jacksonville and teaching.
Since 1990, Bishop Alexander has served as the Senior Pastor of The Park Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, where it has grown into a global ministry of thousands with three locations and weekly international reach. He has addressed national/international leaders in the United States, the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, and India.
He is a past president of the Hampton University Ministers Conference, the oldest and largest interdenominational gathering of African-American clergy in the United States. Currently, he serves on the boards of Council for Christian Colleges & Universities, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, BioLogos, Movement.Org, and the Trinity Forum. He provides leadership as chair of the Board of Christianity Today Board of Directors, and of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Board of Trustees, and as Vice Presiding Bishop of the Kingdom Association of Covenant Pastors.
He is the author of Necessary Christianity along with his new release, Required: God’s Call to Justice, Mercy and Humility to Overcome Racial Division coauthored with Dr. Mac Pier.
He and his wife Dr. Kimberly Nash Alexander are the proud parents of two daughters, Camryn Rene and Carsyn Richelle.
A native of New England, Dr. Diana Curren Bennett has worked with local church small group ministries for many years. She started a Community Bible Study chapter while teaching and forming new groups for 13 years. She was Director of Small Groups at two churches and served for several years as Minister of Small Groups at Park Street Church (Boston, MA) followed by directing Small Group Ministries for Vision New England. She served Leadership Transformation, Inc. for more than 14 years, developing spiritual formation programs. She is a spiritual director and serves on the Advisory Board at Boston Trinity Academy.
Diana received a Bachelor of Science from Colby-Sawyer and certification in medical technology from Yale Medical School. Diana earned her Master of Arts in Theological Studies (’96) and Doctor of Ministry (’06) from Gordon-Conwell, and received a certificate in Spiritual Direction from New Way Ministries (’06) and a certificate of Spiritual Direction from LTI’s Selah program (’12). Diana is a licensed minister with Conservative Congregational Christian Conference (CCCC) and has published a book on “Renewing Your Church through Healthy Small Groups.”
Diana lives with her husband, Peter, in Hingham, MA, and attends Park Street Church. They have three married children and 10 grandchildren.
Garth T. Bolinder was born in Englewood, New Jersey, on January 19, 1949. He graduated from Wheaton College in 1971, and attended Gordon-Conwell for two years before transferring to North Park Seminary, where he completed his Master of Divinity degree. He earned a Doctor of Ministry degree from Gordon-Conwell in 1999.
Dr. Bolinder was ordained in the Evangelical Covenant Church in 1976 and has pastored churches in that denomination in Illinois, Michigan, Connecticut, California and Kansas. In 2000, he was installed as the founding superintendent of the Midsouth Conference of the Evangelical Covenant Church. The purpose of this conference is to plant, nourish, and network vital churches in the five-state region of Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana and New Mexico.
Dr. Bolinder is on the board of Bible Study Fellowship. He has been married to his wife, Dixie, for 34 years and has two adult daughters and four grandchildren.
R. Bruce Bradley is the former president of Landmark Publishing Group and Executive Vice President for Landmark Media Enterprises, LLC. He has also served as president and publisher of the Virginian-Pilot, and has held a variety of marketing or advertising leadership positions with newspapers in North Carolina and Virginia. He earned a BS in Business Administration from Villanova University, served as Ltjg in the U.S. Navy and received an MBA from Old Dominion University in 1978.
Mr. Bradley has been president of numerous professional organizations and chairman of service organizations such as Family & Children’s Services, Kids Voting Virginia, YMCA, United Way and the National Maritime Center. He is currently a Session member at Kings Grant Presbyterian Church in Virginia Beach, VA. He resides with his wife, Lilly, in Virginia Beach. They have two adult children.
Born in England and raised for much of her early life in Kenya, Michele originally trained as a teacher. She holds a BA from the University of Sussex, England, and has a master’s degree in Curriculum Studies from London University. In the 1990’s, Michelle transitioned to leadership development and executive coaching in the corporate world, forming her own independent coaching practice and working with senior leaders from clients like Unilever and Barclays Bank. In 2001 Michele moved with her family to the USA, joining the Burnham Rosen Group and becoming a certified trainer for its Interactive Leadership Program. Michele has also taught and coached international C-suite Executives at Kellogg Northwestern Executive Development Program (AMP).
She graduated as a Selah Spiritual Director through Leadership Transformation, Inc. in 2015 and has since served as a spiritual guide at Highrock Church, Arlington. She has continued to develop her journey with Christ and her commitment to the advancement of the kingdom in recent years through a portfolio of activities reflecting her passions and expertise, including executive coaching at World Relief, healing and reconciliation work with GERI, and serving on the Gordon College Faith and Inquiry Advisory Council and the Board of New Wine Collective.
In 2019, Michele was invited to speak at the Accord Conference on what is now the dominant focus of her work, Women and Men Leading Together.
Dr. Aliya Browne is a board-certified clinical cardiologist who specializes in integrative cardiology at Martha’s Vineyard Hospital in Oak Bluffs MA. She received her bachelor’s degree from Temple University and attended New York College of Osteopathic Medicine /New York Institute of Technology, receiving her Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine. She is a fellowship graduate of the University of Arizona in integrative medicine. A licensed minister, graduating from Princeton Theological Seminary with her Master of Divinity, she serves at First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens in Somerset New Jersey, and Union Chapel in Oak Bluffs Massachusetts. She is passionate about caring for the total person, integrating Eastern, Western, and Spiritual practices into one practical prescription for whole body health.
Dr. Browne is a sought-after lecturer and speaker on women and heart disease, and has been featured in newspaper, magazine articles, and radio programs discussing Heart Disease and Women. She is the author of Meditating on God’s word, published in July 2017. One of her life’s passions is the development of spiritual formation and spiritual practices in others. This book seeks to help others learn how to decompress and grow stronger in their relationship with God through meditation. She teaches and leads guided meditations classes throughout the year using scripture. She has a CD entitled Meditations from God for your heart, which pairs music with guided mediations. Her latest production, RIPE, a collection of guided mediations on the fruit of the spirit continues her teaching on meditation for spiritual fitness.
Dr. Browne is happily married to her college sweetheart, Reginald Browne, and is mother to college-aged twins Alex and Myles and a teenage son, Jabril. She lives by the scripture, ‘When someone has been given much, much will be required in return’ (Luke 12:48). She dedicates her medical career to her grandmother, who died suddenly from heart disease when she was thirteen. This had a dramatic impact on her life and has guided her in her specialty path.
Rev. Dr. Soon Chung is the senior pastor and co-founder of University Presbyterian Church, which he and his wife founded in 1991 with the intent to minister to the UCLA campus and its surrounding community. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from UCLA in Political Science, his Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary, and his Doctorate in Ministry from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He is also the Presbyterian Chaplain to UCLA and has served as the Chaplain since 1989. He is a bi-vocational pastor.
Soon is zealous about sharing the gospel, building connections with people, impacting lives, investing in community, and missions. He and his wife currently reside in Santa Monica, CA and have four children: Faith, Grace, John, and James. In his spare time, he loves to spend time with his family, play basketball, travel, and eat.
Barry H. Corey is the eighth president of Biola University. He is leading it into its second century with the launch of an ambitious 10‐year university plan, completing the largest fundraising campaign in their history and exceeding its $180 million goal, creating four new academic schools, and embarking on a major university transformation journey to position Biola to flourish for decades to come. He has done this while honoring the mission of the university and its unique contribution to the landscape of higher education. Most recently, he has served on governing boards such as that of the Museum of the Bible, the Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities, Christianbook International Outreach, and the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities.
A native of New England, Corey previously served as dean of the faculty and vice president for education at Gordon‐Conwell and as vice president for development. He received his BA from Evangel University and his MA and PhD from Boston College. As a Fulbright scholar, Barry lived in Bangladesh, where he researched educational programs for children of the landless poor. Corey has authored two books, and his writing has been featured in publications like The Washington Post, The National Review, Relevant, and more.
He and his wife, Paula, have three children: Anders—who is married to Ashley—Ella, and Samuel.
Mr. Thomas J. Colatosti was CEO of Oasis Systems, a billion-dollar aerospace and defense company that worked with the Department of Defense, Federal Aviation Administration, NASA, and other government agencies. He led the company to a private equity sale in 2023. Tom also served as CEO of Viisage Technology, Inc. and held senior finance and executive operating positions at Digital Equipment Corporation (now HP). Tom co-founded a non-profit that mentors over 1,600 underserved middle and high school students in the Lowell and Lawrence Public Schools of Massachusetts, and his foundation supports initiatives for inner city youth and medical research programs at Dana Farber, Brigham and Women’s, and Lahey Hospital.
He has led and served on several corporate, nonprofit, and ministry boards including Syracuse University, National Center for Manufacturing Sciences, Red Cross of Massachusetts Bay, Africa Inland Mission, Vision New England, and Lahey Hospital President’s Council. He also chaired the board of elders of Grace Chapel and the trustees of Gordon-Conwell.
He earned a BS in Business Administration and MBA from Suffolk University and was awarded a Bronze Start for his service with the U.S. Army’s First Infantry Division. He and his wife Nancy live in Lexington, MA.
Bob Doll is the Chief Investment Officer for Crossmark Global Investments, using his 41 years of industry experience to guide the investment process and serve as portfolio manager for multiple Crossmark large-cap strategies.
Prior to arriving at Crossmark, he held the roles of Senior Portfolio Manager and Chief Equity Strategist at Nuveen and Blackrock, President and Chief Investment Officer at Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM), and Chief Investment Officer at Oppenheimer Funds, Inc. Bob graduated from Lehigh University with a BS in Accounting and a BA in Economics. He later went on to earn an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA®) designation, as well as the FINRA Series 7 and 63 securities licenses. Bob is a regular guest and contributor to multiple media outlets such as CNBC, Bloomberg TV, Moneywise, and Fox Business News.
Bob and his wife Leslie live in Princeton, New Jersey and have three children. Bob dedicates his time as choir director at his local church and also serves on a number of boards including the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals, Word of Life Fellowship, New Canaan Society, Kingdom Advisors, National Christian Foundation, The Lausanne Movement, Movement.org, Cairn University, and the Princeton Healthcare System.
Stan Gaede is President of the Christian College Consortium, having previously served as president of Westmont College from 2001-2006 and provost from 1996-2001. He began his scholarly career at Gordon College in 1974 and served as a professor of sociology from 1974-1996. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Westmont College in 1969; a Masters in Arts degree from California State University, Northridge in 1971; and a PhD from Vanderbilt University in 1974.
Stan and his wife Judy Lynn Gaede married on August 10, 1968. She is currently serving as Assistant to the President, Christian College Consortium, having previously served as Registrar and Assistant to the Dean at Gordon College. They have three children: Heather Gaede Regoli; married to Mark Regoli; mother of two of the cutest boys in the history of the world; attorney in Palo Alto, CA. Nathaniel T. S. Gaede; married to Idonia Schermerhorn Gaede; attorney in Boston, MA. And Kirsten Gaede Van Mourick; married to Topher Van Mourick; artist and mother of two even cuter boys (assuming history allows such a thing).
Stan joined Gordon-Conwell’s board in 2010.
Ivan Hinrichs has been a Trustee of Gordon-Conwell since 2006. He is the Founder of Hinrichs Financial Corporate Benefits in Charlotte, N C.
After graduating from Wheaton College in 1965, Ivan moved to Charlotte, NC and launched a successful career in corporate benefits and insurance. He is the former president of the Charlotte Estate Planning Council and Charlotte Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors.
Ivan served as President of Charlotte’s Habitat for Humanity. With a servants’ heart he worked along- side the working poor of El Salvador, Malawi, Nepal and Charlotte, to fund and construct their Habitat homes.
Stewardship education is his passion. Ivan is an Elder at Myers Park Presbyterian Church. He is on the board of several faith-based organizations and is on the steering committee of Movement Day Charlotte.
Ivan and his wife Marcy live in Charlotte, NC. He has a daughter Keri, a son Greg, and seven grandchildren. He enjoys traveling, reading, biking and golf.
Gerald L. Hector is Senior Vice President for Administration and Finance at University of Central Florida. He oversees accounting, finance, human resources, campus safety, auxiliary enterprises, and all aspects of facilities management. Mr. Hector has a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Howard University and a master’s in Christian Thought from Gordon-Conwell. He has also earned professional development certificates from Harvard, Yale, and the University of Kentucky.
Mr. Hector previously served as Executive Vice President and Chief Business Officer for Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia and held similar positions at Cornell University, Ithaca College, and Johnson C. Smith University. His experiences span all aspects of higher education management that include treasurer, debt management, controller’s office, information technology, post award management, policy office, student accounts/bursar, facilities, grounds, business operations, auxiliary services, risk management, purchasing and procurement, legal, financial aid, campus safety, and public private partnerships.
He has also served as a liaison with local elected officials for construction projects and was corporate controller for the United Negro College Fund (UNCF), where he was responsible for reforming financial practices and policies and creating the initial budgets for the landmark $1 billion Gates Millennium Scholars program for outstanding minority students.
He is married to his college sweetheart, Sharon-Kaye, and is the father of three children, Joshua, Timothy and Kezia.
Dr. Peter James joined the Gordon-Conwell board in 2015 and teaches as adjunct faculty in Practical Theology at the seminary. He served previously as Senior Pastor of Vienna Presbyterian Church in Vienna, VA for 42 years, retiring in 2021. During his ministry in Vienna, he led the effort to plant three churches in the DC area. He received his BA in Religion from Ohio Wesleyan University, his MDiv from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and his DMin from Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, VA. He received the Robert J. Lamott Preaching Award as a Gordon-Conwell student.
Prior to Vienna Presbyterian Church, he served as a campus minister and football coach at Thiel College in Pennsylvania. Pete and his wife, Chris, have two grown children, Andrew and Emily. Their son Andrew is married to Becky, and they have three children—Luke, Wesley and Juliette. Andrew is a 2014 graduate of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and Lead Pastor at First Church Congregational in Boxford, MA. Their daughter Emily is married to Mike, and they have two children—Michael and Ainsley. Emily is an elementary school counselor and coach. Pete is passionate about sharing Christ through preaching, discipleship and church planting.
Born in Eugene, Oregon, Priscilla Lee has been the Co-CEO of Oasis Development Enterprises since 1997. Priscilla graduated from New England Conservatory of Music and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. She co-founded Community Bible Study International (CBSI) in Hong Kong and regularly conducts training in the areas of Leadership, Christian living, and Business as Mission (BAM) together with her husband, the Rev. Raymond C. Lee. Her passion and joy are to discover the life-transforming Truth in God’s Word and to share them faithfully and prayerfully with compassion, courage and clarity.
Priscilla and her husband live in Wellesley, MA. Raymond was the Dean of Chapel and a long-time Trustee of Gordon College. The Lees have three adult children. Her favorite activities are to play with her granddaughter Catherine and to watch fun, uplifting movies with her hubby.
Caleb Loring, III is a private trustee and member of the Investment Committee for The 1911 Trust Company. He graduated from Dartmouth College and earned his MBA from Amos Tuck School of Business Administration in 1971. Previously, he worked for the Bank of Boston in the commercial lending division and with the CIA in Washington, D.C. Currently, he is also director and chairman of the audit committees for MiddleOak Insurance Company and Fidelity Personal Trust Company, FSB; Director and President of the Carter Family Corporation; Trustee and President of the Dumaine Family Trust; and Director and Interim Board Chairman of Geode Capital Management, LLC.
Caleb joined Gordon-Conwell’s board in 1997 and has simultaneously been an active volunteer in his community as well. He serves as a member of the Investment Committee for the North Shore United Way, North Shore Community College Foundation, and the North Shore YMCA. Other board memberships include Vision New England and the Salvation Army of Massachusetts, where he also serves as chairman of the advisory board for the North Shore Corps.
He and his wife, Bonny, live in Prides Crossing, Massachusetts. They attend Christ the Redeemer Church (Anglican) in Danvers, where he is an usher and chairman of the finance committee. Bonny is in charge of church communications and is a long-standing member of the board at Gordon College. They have two adult children and six grandchildren. Caleb enjoys exercising, reading, studying, and being with family.
Garry McDowall is an ordained minister and CEO of the multi-national business consulting firm IMR Solutions. Garry serves on the board of several Christian businesses and NGOs across the Asian continent, giving strategic management oversight and partnering with indigenous entrepreneurs across a broad range of nationalities and cultural spectrums.
Garry and his family have lived overseas for the last seventeen years in various locations throughout Central and West Asia. He is a pioneering entrepreneur focused on quadruple (economic, social, environmental, and theological) bottom line Kingdom advancement. He currently leads a network of independent national leaders across ten Asian nations who have started five indigenously led Bible Institutes.
Garry graduated with high honors from William Penn College in 1986, pursued a master’s degree in socioeconomic studies from Ohio University in 1987 and completed his MBA at Robert Gordon University in 2003. He is a sought-after international speaker in the area of bi-vocational kingdom business and strategy.
Garry and his wife Kim are college sweethearts and have been married for thirty-three years. They came to know Christ together, were baptized together, and have raised four God–fearing children. In recent years they have also been blessed with two granddaughters. Kim continues to work alongside Garry in various administrative capacities. They are passionate for evangelism and discipleship, and living according to Philippians 1:21 remains an intentional focus for both of them.
Leonard is currently Chief Financial Officer of a private equity backed holding company. In his prior roles as CFO, he has helped build the growth strategy and operational infrastructure for start-ups and has led the financial turnaround of companies and institutions.
Mr. Moon previously worked on Wall Street as a mergers and acquisitions investment banker for Bear Stearns and Lazard Freres. As an investment banker, he advised primarily large publicly traded corporations and private equity firms on strategic and financial matters, and he structured and executed complex mergers and acquisitions, debt, and equity transactions across a variety of sectors. He also has several years of start-up and venture capital experience, including having been part of the core founding team that launched a Softbank-funded technology firm in Korea in 2000.
Mr. Moon holds a BS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MBA from Columbia Business School. He was nominated a finalist for the CFO of the Year Award by the Orange County Business Journal in 2014 and 2015 and was the 2017 finalist for Los Angeles Business Journal’s CFO of the Year Award.
Mr. Moon is married to Stephanie, and has two wonderful children, Matthew and Deborah. Having lived in Chicago, Seoul, and Manhattan, the family now resides in Los Angeles.
Shirley Redd retired in 2010 after working for thirty years as an anesthesiologist at Caritas Norwood Hospital and as a partner of the Anesthesia Associates at both Newton-Wellesley and Norwood hospitals. She joined the Gordon-Conwell Board of Trustees in 2001. She has also served on the Board of Directors for the Neponset Valley Health Systems and the Caritas Norwood Hospital/Southwood Community Hospital. She is a graduate of Brandeis University (1973) and Tufts University School of Medicine (1977).
Shirley and Ed worship at Morningstar Baptist Church, Mattapan, MA. They are servant leaders of the Married Couples Ministry, and the Lord has expanded the ministry globally to Africa where they share and co-partner with Inner-City Africa Ministries in Ghana. Prayer is the cornerstone of their ministry together. Shirley is an advocate for elderly services. On Martha’s Vineyard, she has been an active member since 1995 of The Cottagers, Inc., a philanthropic organization of African American women homeowners.
She and her husband the Honorable Edward R. Redd, a retired Justice in the Boston Municipal Court, were married in 1973 and live in Roxbury, MA. They are the proud parents of three adult daughters, Ivy, Sara, and Rachel, and have three adorable grandchildren, Mark Allen, Zion, and Selah. Shirley is an avid reader and enjoys travel and music.
Chi Kong Shue is an entrepreneur who builds ministry and mission platforms for online learning and Bible applications in Chinese and other languages in the mission fields. He received his M.S. degree from Pennsylvania State University in Computer Sciences. After two successful Internet startups, he took early retirement and started working with GCTS in pioneering the Chinese Semlink program. Later he used the experience to help start theological e-learning programs at five other seminaries in the US and Asia. To meet the special need of Chinese Christians and seekers worldwide, his team has developed a very popular mobile Bible App “WeDevote Bible” and an online Christian Middle school “CentriHall Academy”.
Chi Kong and his wife Susan live in Andover, MA. They have two children: Daniel, and Sharon, and five grandchildren. They are members of the Chinese Bible Church of Greater Lowell in Chelmsford, MA, where Chi Kong is a retired Elder. He loves to swim, hike, travel, care for missionaries overseas, and enjoy time with his grandchildren.
Daniel is an independent consultant offering marketing leadership, design thinking, and strategy and has worked with Fortune 500 corporations, major consumer brands, start-ups, and non-profit organizations. He lives with his wife Jennifer and their three children, Tyler, Collin, and Annalise in Reading, MA. They are members of Park Street Church in Boston, where Daniel currently serves as an Elder.
Rev. David Wright was born and raised in Roxbury and is a native Bostonian. A product of Boston Public schools, he is a graduate of the Boston Latin School and holds degrees from Harvard College, cum laude, and Harvard Law. He holds a Masters in Urban Ministry and a Masters in Theology from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He currently serves as an adjunct professor at the Boston campus, CUME.
Rev. Wright is a bar certified attorney with skill in litigation, contract, and employment law. From October 2007 until October 2020, Rev. Wright led the Black Ministerial Alliance of Greater Boston, Inc. (the “BMA”) as its Executive Director. In October 2021, the BMA merged with the Boston TenPoint Coalition, Inc. to become BMA TenPoint (“BMATP”). As Executive Director of this new organization, he is responsible for all aspects of this dynamic faith-based organization. These new responsibilities include setting vision, developing the program directors, implementing board priorities, and ensuring the fiscal and programmatic success of the BMA. Rev. Wright is an ordained, American Baptist minister and serves as the Assistant to the Pastor at Peoples Baptist Church in Roxbury.
He met his wife Shelbey at Harvard Law School, defending indigent people accused of crimes. They have three children.
Rebecca Gyra is an executive with over three decades of international leadership experience in the technology and software industry. She has held positions at renowned technology companies such as IBM, SAP, and NCR Corporation, where she demonstrated a consistent track record of driving business growth, fostering strategic alliances, and leading high-performing teams across global markets. She has also held positions as founder and executive Director of CBSI in Dubai and Director of Hong Kong. Rebecca is an International Advisor for the Thompson Family Office and Ambactus Global Solutions.
She is an active board member, strategist, and advocate across diverse sectors, including commercial, education, disability advocacy, and non-profit organizations.
Rebecca’s key competencies include board governance and advisory, strategic planning and implementation, strategic market development and expansion, cross- cultural communication and negotiation, relationship management, partnership alliances, leadership development and coaching, disability, and non-profit advocacy.
She holds degrees in International Business and Marketing from the University of Colorado, Leeds School of Business, and Executive Business Certificates from the Wharton School of Business.
Maria is a leader in the global professional services industry, where she manages sponsorships and strategic collaborations that advance growth- and purpose-focused initiatives.
She has held roles spanning marketing deployment and digital transformation, partnering with organizations to deliver enterprise marketing, technology, and business change. Prior to her current work, she spent nearly a decade at GE Capital in roles across sales, risk, and strategy. She earned a BA in Economics from Spelman College, an MBA in Marketing from Clark Atlanta University, and an MA in Christian Ministries from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.
Deeply committed to the Church and her community, she serves as a Minister and leads Strategic Programming at New Zion Church. She has also served Gordon-Conwell through the Charlotte Board of Advisors, including as Vice Chair and currently as Chair.
Maria resides in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Rajan specializes in international operations and start-up ventures, turn-arounds, mergers and acquisitions and venture financing. He assisted in raising over $1.5 billion of financing for companies through public and private offerings of equity, debt and private placements. He has managed companies in such diverse places as the USA, Afghanistan, India, UK, France, Germany, Belgium, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.
Rajan has served and continues to serve on the boards of several for-profit and non-profit organizations. He earned both his Master of Business Administration (Finance and Accounting) and Master of Arts (Economics) degrees from Rutgers University and he is a CPA in New Jersey.
He is a committed Christian who believes in the central role of the local church in establishing and furthering the Gospel. He is an Elder at his local church and has served on the boards of several churches and para-church organizations. He teaches bible study and speaks frequently at Christian business and family and youth conferences. He completed his Masters of Divinity from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Massachusetts.
He is married to Grace Mathews, who was a Senior Scientist with Johnson & Johnson and has served as the Vice-Chair of the Lausanne Movement. They have two daughters, Kavita and Nithya.