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| The National Christian Foundation's senior leadership team has more than 150 years of combined experience in charitable, estate, tax, and legal planning. The following are short biographies on NCF's Executive Leadership Team.  | A retired senior partner in the 475-member law firm of Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, Terry has been instrumental in helping to create over 100 non-profit Christian organizations and churches. He has also served on a number of their boards. Terry received his undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt University and his Master of Law in Taxation and Doctor of Law degrees from Emory University School of Law. He has done extensive legal work in the estate and gift planning fields. Licensed to practice law since 1965, Terry is admitted to practice before all Georgia courts, the U.S. Tax Court, the U.S. District Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court. |  |
David has practiced law since 1988 and currently advises numerous families and several major Christian ministries, helping donors with gift and estate planning. His primary areas of practice for the last 12 years include charitable gift planning, exempt organizations (specifically in the public and private foundation arenas), estate planning and fiduciary-related matters. David joined NCF in 1998, having previously served as director of gift and estate planning at Focus on the Family. He is also Of Counsel with the 200+ member law firm Thompson & Knight, L.L.P. in Dallas, Texas. David lectures throughout the country on issues involving foundations and nonprofit organizations, the transition of wealth, responsibility from one generation to the next, and tax and spiritual issues in charitable giving. He earned his B.B.A. from Baylor University and his J.D. from Baylor Law School and completed post-graduate work at Dallas Theological Seminary. David serves on several boards, including Generous Giving, Hope for the Heart, Reach International and the ProVision Foundation. |  | Ken brings more than 25 years of management experience to his role as head of NCF's operations. Prior to joining NCF, he worked as a controller in the corporate accounting areas of Lanier Worldwide, Inc. and MCI Telecommunications, Inc. Ken has also served as CFO of two start-up technology companies in Atlanta and provided management consulting services to entrepreneurial firms in the Southeast. He received his B.A. in Accounting from Mercer University in Atlanta and holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration from Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia. |  |
Dave manages and oversees the finance and accounting functions of NCF. He became a CPA while working in the audit practice at Deloitte & Touche's San Diego office. He then served as the CFO of The INJOY Group, a conglomerate of companies that specialize in leadership development, church growth and capital fundraising consulting for private and nonprofit organizations. Dave came to NCF after serving as a consultant to small businesses in the areas of finance, accounting and administrative management. He received his B.S. in accounting from San Diego State University and is a CPA licensed in California and Georgia. | | | |  |
Mick oversees the delivery of gift planning services for the Foundation, after previously managing the gift planning programs at Emory University, The University of Texas at Austin and the University of Missouri-Columbia. Prior to entering the field of gift planning, Mick spent 16 years divided between practicing law as an estate planner and managing small bank trust departments. He earned his B.A. from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, his J.D. from Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and is a member of the Missouri, Illinois and Iowa Bar Associations. Mick and his wife, Pam, have been married for over 30 years, have three adult children and were blessed in April 2006 with their first grandchild. |  |
Pam manages the Complex Gift business for the Foundation and oversees Donor Relations. She received her B.B.A. in Finance from Georgia State University with a minor in Real Estate. She comes to the Foundation with 10 years of service experience in the institutional banking and brokerage environment. |  | Greg is the co-founder of Sperry & Odachowski, a firm that provides gift and estate planning services. In 1991, he spearheaded the effort to form an independent Christian community foundation, providing services that enabled individuals to give more to the church and its ministries. Greg is a frequent presenter at seminars and charitable gift planning forums, focusing on the tax, legal and stewardship aspects of gift planning. To stay on top of changes in the field, he is involved annually in The Heckerling Institute of Estate Planning, the National Conference on Planned Giving and Charitable Giving Techniques. At NCF, his mission is to meet with donors and prospective donors to assist them in their planning and giving. He entered the practice of law after attending Wheaton College in Illinois and Vanderbilt University School of Law in Nashville, Tennessee. |  |
Tim has practiced corporate and tax law since 1991, most recently as a principal with the Atlanta law firm of Townsend McKee, P.C. (now McKee & McKee). In addition to business clients, Tim served numerous denominations, colleges, national ministries, churches, and family foundations. He has freqently addressed complex exempt-organization legal issues, and has spoken on such issues for various professional organizations, including the Georgia Society of CPA's. Tim received his B.S. degree in Accounting from Bob Jones University in South Carolina, and his law degree from the University of Michigan. He serves as an elder on the session of his church, and as advisor to his church's summer youth camp. |  |
Dave is responsible for building and managing NCF's network of Local Christian Foundations. He has 13 years of experience in managing nonprofit organizations in North Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia, and seven years of experience in bank management in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Dave also oversees the Association of Christian Foundations and is involved with gifting goals and strategies of individual donors for NCF nationwide. Prior to joining NCF, Dave served as the founding president of the first local Christian community foundation in the country, the Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation. He holds a B.A. in nonprofit administration from High Point University in North Carolina.
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