Board of Advisors

Dennis Lifferth

  • Ph.D., Economics, Ohio State U

  • Co-Founder, TechCharities

  • Assistant Professor, Business and Agricultural Economics, Cornell U

  • Former Managing Dir, LDS Welfare Services and President of LDS Charities.

  • Former Sec to LDS Presiding Bishopric

  • Managing Dir, LDS Priesthood Dept.

  • Board of Dir, Utah Legal Services

Lupe Fuimaono

  • Polynesian and Philippine Islands Coordinator

  • Graduate, LDS Business College, Secretarial Science

  • Pathway Connect Graduate

  • Pursuing Marriage and Family Studies Degree, BYU-Idaho

  • BYU-Pathway Missionary, 2018-2021

  • Translator and Interpreter, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Susan Maughan

  • BS, BYU 1972, MS, U of U 1976

  • PTA President, Olympus Jr. High

  • Math Teacher, S.L. Detention Center, Decker Lake Youth Center 1996-2011

  • Senior Missionary, Australia Melbourne Mission 2016-2018

  • Board Member, Ouelessebou Alliance 2014-2016

  • Manager & Board of Directors, Marion D. & Maxine C. Hanks Foundation

  • Sponsor of four Vietnamese Families

  • Volunteer, Hope Clinic

Prosper Mensah

  • Research Scientist - CSIR-Forestry Research Institute of Ghana

  • Teaching Certificate, BA, M.Phil., Ph.D., Wood Science and Technology., University of Education Winneba, Kumasi Campus, Ghana

  • Part-time instructor at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and Akenten Appiah-Menka University of Skills Training and Entrepreneurial Development

  • Chairman, Fantes in the Kwamon community

  • Pres., LDS Kumasi Ghana University Stake

James Ritchie

  • Founder, The Ritchie Group - Real Estate Development

  • Sr. VP, Franklin Quest

  • Adjunct Professor, BYU Marriott School of Business - Entrepreneurship Courses

  • Dir., Entrepreneurship, BYU Hawaii

  • President, Ghana Missionary Training Center

  • Africa Area Dir., Church Education System

  • Board Member, Southern Virginia University

Bri Badger

  • BS, Psychology, University of Utah - 1975

  • DDS, Northwestern University - 1980

  • Practiced Dentistry for 36 years in Salt Lake City

  • President of Great Basin Dental Academy, 1992-1993

  • Full-time Missionary - England East Mission, 1970-1972

  • Served with wife, Cindy, as Mission Leaders in the Iowa Des Moines Mission, 2016-2019

Wayne Carlston

  • HSEF Dir. Supply Chain & Logistics

  • BA, University of Utah, 1974

  • 37 Years - Supply Chain Executive, O. C. Tanner Co., Salt Lake City, Utah

  • Implementing Executive, SAP Enterprise Resource Planning

  • Implementing Executive, Highjump Supply Chain Solution

  • Designer/Implementing Executive, Automated Storage and Retrieval System

  • Member and Leadership Support Missionary - Utah

  • Full-time Missionary - London South Mission, 1969-1971

  • Ordinance Worker - Salt Lake & Orlando Temples

  • Author of The Dragon’s Bones fantasy novels