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| Todd Engelsen - President |
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 The PEER Servants President is Todd Engelsen. An actuary by profession, he worked at John Hancock Financial Services in Boston for over 20 years. He has volunteered with PEER Servants, formerly Christian Technical Support, since very close to its beginning in 1988 and has been the President since 1990. During the John Hancock years, his vacation time and other free time were devoted to building the PEER Servants volunteer team and the network of MED partnerships that has resulted in twelve partners. While very much enjoying the years at John Hancock and seeing how God was using them to shape him for the future, he knew the day would come when PEER Servants would require full-time attention. In 2004, this became a reality and he serves now as a full-time volunteer.
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| Andy Williams - Director of Operations |
 The PEER Servants Director of Operations is Andy Williams. He has significant experience in the non-profit & ministry sectors. In addition to serving on a number of boards and committees, Andy served as Director of Operations for a ministry and as Assistant Director of Admissions at a national liberal arts college. He volunteered for PEER Servants for 3 years before beginning this position. On the academic side, he has degrees in Business Administration (Furman), Biblical Studies (Gordon-Conwell), and Theology (Harvard).
He was attracted to this position by two things: 1) Christian micro-finance is useful in addressing physical, spiritual and social needs; 2) "My beautiful wife was heavily involved when we met. Anything for love!" |
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| Gary Nielsen-Director of Donor Relations |
 Gary is a California native and a University of Washington Husky (class of '64). He has over 30 years experience in the business world, most of it in the electronics industry, including 15 years in marketing management. His responsibilities led to travel in over 20 countries and contracts with companies such as Apple, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Intel. In 1996 he joined InterVarsity Christian Fellowship; he and his wife Peggy became the first InterVarsity staff in the former Soviet Republic of Moldova, where they pioneered an IFES student movement. While in Moldova, they met PEER Servants president Todd Engelsen and also had a relationship with Ghena Russu, who became Executive Director of PEER Servants' Moldovan partner CAMED/Invest Credit. Gary continues to work with InterVarsity but since January 2008 has been devoting most of his time to PEER Servants. |
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