Diane Ashley
Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer
Director, Office of Minority and Women Inclusion
       Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Chair, Board of Trustees
       New York Theological Seminary

Before joining the Federal Reserve, Ashley was senior vice president and director of supplier diversity at Citigroup. She has also worked for The Hollins Group Inc., Eric Salmon, and Gould, McCoy and Chadick.

A Baptist lay person, Ashley serves on the board of ThinkQuest NYC.

George K. Brushaber
(In Trust's Board Chair)
President Emeritus
    Bethel University

Brushaber served Bethel College and Seminary for 27 years, leading the institution to university status and a name change to Bethel University. Before being called to the presidency, Brushaber served as vice president and chief academic officer at Bethel and at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California.

Brushaber has also had a dual career in religious journalism, including a decade as executive editor and chair of the editorial committee of Christianity Today. He has chaired the Minnesota Private College Council and the Consortium of Minnesota Theological Seminaries, and he has served on various national boards and organizations in higher education and ministry.

Brushaber is an ordained minister of the Baptist General Conference.

Howard Claussen
Director of Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate Plans Department (Retired)
       DuPont Company
Board of Regents
       Concordia Theological Seminary

Claussen was employed by DuPont for 39 years in various technical, manufacturing, marketing, and management functions before retiring in 1994.

A member of the board of directors of Valparaiso University for 18 years, Claussen served at various times on the executive, administration and finance, facilities and campus planning, and public relations and marketing committees.

He is a member of Concordia Lutheran Church (Missouri Synod) in Wilmington, Delaware.

Robert B. Coutts
Executive Vice President (Retired)
       Lockheed Martin Corporation
Board of Governors
       Wesley Theological Seminary
Former Chair of the Board
       Sandia Corporation

Coutts has served on the boards of directors of Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems, Lockheed Martin United Kingdom, and Lockheed Martin Espana, and he is an elected member of three New York Stock Exchange boards of directors. He is a member of the endowment investment committee at Wesley Theological Seminary and has served on the seminary's board for 12 years. He is a member of University Methodist Church in Syracuse, New York, and an associate member of Hunt's Memorial United Methodist Church in Riderwood, Maryland.

Edwin I. Hernandez
Senior Program Officer for Research, Education, and Congregational Initiatives
       DeVos Family Foundations
Research Fellow
       Center for the Study of Latino Religion
       University of Notre Dame
Board of Trustees
       Andrews University

After earning master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Notre Dame, Hernandez served on the faculty of Andrews University in the department of sociology. In 1996, Hernandez was named vice president for academic affairs at Antillian Adventist University in Puerto Rico, and later he served as a program officer at the Pew Charitable Trusts. From 2002 to 2006, he was director of the Center for the Study of Latino Religion at Notre Dame, and today he remains as a research fellow there.

Ordained in the Seventh-day Adventist Church, he is a member of the Berrien Springs Spanish Seventh-day Adventist Church in Berrien Springs, Michigan.

Martha J. Horne
Dean and President Emerita
       Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary
       in Virginia

Horne retired in 2007 after heading the largest Episcopal seminary for 13 years. Previously she served on the seminary's faculty for eight years and was associate dean for six. She was president of the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada (ATS) from 1990 to 1992 and has served on several ATS committees and task forces. A member of the executive committee and board of the Washington Theological Consortium for many years, she received its distinguished service award in 2007.

Horne is an ordained priest in the Episcopal Church. Since retiring, she has joined the faculty of CREDO, a vocational wellness initiative for clergy and lay leaders in the Episcopal Church. She also serves as dean of ATS leadership development initiatives for presidents of theological schools in the United States and Canada.

Christa R. Klein
President
       In Trust
       Association of Boards in Theological
       Education

Klein was cofounder of In Trust in 1989 and served on the organization's board from 1995 until 2003. For the past six years, she has served as president and executive director of In Trust, overseeing an expansion of its services and its transformation into a true member service organization with an award-winning magazine and on-site services promoting good governance among North American theological schools.

Over 30 years, Klein has worked as an independent consultant on governance and on teaching and learning in theological education with Lilly Endowment Inc., the Bonfils Stanton Trust, the Association of Governing Boards, the Association of Theological Schools, and with several dozen theological seminaries. She is a senior fellow of the Cheswick Center, a research and education trust for study and improvement in nonprofit governance.

G. Douglass Lewis
(In Trust's Board Chair Emeritus)
President Emeritus
    Wesley Theological Seminary

Lewis was named president emeritus of Wesley Theological Seminary in 2002 after having served as president for 20 years. He helped transform Wesley's board of trustees and created a program of trustee development for United Methodist seminaries. He is past president of the Association of Theological Schools and a consultant for Auburn Seminary's "Leadership That Works" research project.

Ordained in the United Methodist Church, Lewis was co-editor of A Handbook for Seminary Presidents.

Carol Lytch
President
    Lancaster Theological Seminary

Lytch became president of Lancaster Theological Seminary in 2011. Previously she was associate executive director of the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada. An ordained minister of the Presbyterian Church (USA), Lytch has also served as a pastor and as an adjunct faculty member at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary.

The author of numerous articles on theological education and a fellow of the Fund for Theological Education, she is a frequent speaker on issues related to theological education.

Patricia A. Maloney
(In Trust's Board Secretary)
Associate Principal Director
    NPOESS Integrated Program Office,
    The Aerospace Corporation
Board of Trustees
    Washington Theological Union

Maloney is a senior technical and programmatic executive with 30 years' experience in aerospace, defense, and energy.

Maloney earned an M.B.A. at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. From 2003 to 2007, she was a member of the board of Covenant House California, a faith-based social service agency for homeless youth. She served on the board of trustees of Washington Theological Union for 2000 to 2009, and she has recently been re-elected to a term that will begin in 2011.

She is currently a lector and chairs the finance council at St. John Neumann Catholic Church in Reston, Virginia.

Jeremiah McCarthy
Executive Director
       Seminary Department
       National Catholic Educational Association

Msgr. McCarthy is a Catholic priest of the diocese of Tucson, Arizona. In addition to ongoing service as an associate pastor and administrator in that diocese, he served for 18 years as professor of moral theology, academic dean, and rector-president of St. John's Seminary in Camarillo, California. From 2002 to 2009, he was director of accreditation and institutional evaluation and secretary to the Board of Commissioners for the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada (ATS).

Roger McGrath
(In Trust's Board Treasurer)
Vicar General and Director of Seminarians
       Catholic Diocese of Camden, New Jersey

A Catholic priest of the diocese of Camden, New Jersey, Msgr. McGrath served as both an associate pastor and pastor of parishes in the diocese before he was named director of diocesan relations at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Later he served on the faculty and then as vice rector of St. Mary's Seminary and University in Baltimore. McGrath has also served on the boards of both institutions. For 12 years he was treasurer of the Catholic Theological Society of America.

Brian C. Stiller
President Emeritus
       Tyndale University College & Seminary
Global Ambassador
       World Evangelical Alliance

A former national president of Youth for Christ in Canada, Stiller served as president of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada from 1983 until 1997. He founded the national magazine Faith Today and also hosted a weekly television program, Crosscurrents.

In 1995, Stiller was named president of Tyndale University College & Seminary. After his retirement as president in 2009, he was appointed to lead the school's fundraising foundation, the Tyndale Foundation, where he helped raise money for the purchase of a new campus. He has also served on the board of directors of the Association of Theological Schools.

Stiller, an ordained minister in the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada, attends Cedarview Community Church in Ontario.

Anne M. van den Berg
Board of Trustees
       St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological
       Seminary

In addition to her service on the board of St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, van den Berg has served as parish council president for the Orthodox Church of St. Stephen the Protomartyr in Orlando, Florida, and as capital campaign director for the parish. At St. Vladimir's she spearheaded a summer internship program for students.

Admitted to the bar in two states, van den Berg currently tends her family of six children ranging in age from grade school to college.

John Vissers
(In Trust's Vice Chair)
Director
    Montreal School of Theology
Principal
    The Presbyterian College

Before joining The Presbyterian College in 1999, Vissers held academic posts at Knox College and then at Tyndale University College and Seminary in Toronto, where he continues to be an adjunct professor. Ordained in the Presbyterian Church in Canada, Vissers has pastored three Presbyterian congregations, including the historic Knox Presbyterian Church in Toronto.

Vissers is the author of two books and many articles and editorials for a variety of publications. He is currently director of the Montreal School of Theology, a consortium of three denominational theological schools and the theology faculty of McGill University.