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

Stephen Abu

  • VP, International Operations

  • BS, Business Marketing, USU, 2004

  • MA, Strategic Communication, Westminster College, 2022

  • Founded Abu and McConkie Investments Ltd

  • President, Ghana Tema Stake

  • Founder, World Joy Foundation

  • Deeply Involved in Ghanaian Humanitarian Efforts

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

Danny Raymer

  • HSEF Director of Technology

  • BS, U of Missouri, 1976

  • MPA, BYU, 1999

  • PhD, BYU, 2007

  • Information Manager for Fortune 500 company

  • BYU IT Assistant Manager, including BYU Web Board Chair

  • Project Member for LDS technology incentive use teams

  • BYU Honors & Life Sciences Professor

  • BYU-Pathway Missionary in Utah, Brazil, and Nigeria

  • Owner & director of Web Data Solutions, LLC

  • Director of Teaching Individuals and Families Independence through Enterprise in Shenzen, China and Kinshasa, DR Congo (2007-2008