Leaders entrusted with stewardship:

Richard Stearns, president Richard Stearns is the second of two children of working-class parents in Syracuse, New York. He worked his way through Cornell University, earning a bachelor’s degree in neurobiology in 1973. After receiving a master’s degree in business administration from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, Stearns began a career in marketing for several Fortune 500 companies, starting with the Gillette Company. From 1977 to 1985, Stearns held various roles with Parker Brothers Games, culminating in his appointment as president in 1984. He joined Lenox, the American gift and tableware company, in 1987 as division president. He was named president and CEO of Lenox Inc., in 1995, overseeing six manufacturing facilities, 4,000 employees, and $500 million in annual sales. Since joining World Vision U.S. in 1998, Stearns also has participated in the larger World Vision partnership, leading efforts to refine the organization’s business practices and advocating for global impact standards to evaluate program effectiveness. Stearns has traveled to more than 40 of the nearly 100 countries where World Vision works. He and his wife, Reneé, have been World Vision donors since 1984. A lawyer by training, Mrs. Stearns also travels and speaks on behalf of World Vision. The couple has five children. Joan Mussa, senior vice president, Mobilization Joan Mussa has provided World Vision U.S. with leadership in communications and fundraising for more than two decades. In 1985, Mussa came to World Vision to produce fundraising videos about the Ethiopian food crisis. She was later based in Nairobi, Kenya, and worked throughout the continent before returning to the U.S. Mussa was named senior vice president for Advocacy and Communications in 2005. In 2009, private fundraising was added to her portfolio. Under Mussa’s energetic leadership, accomplishments include a thorough brand review, development of advocacy and government relations, launch of a capital campaign, as well as award-winning print and electronic media. Among her current areas of focus, Mussa is organizing an incubator project to develop new and innovative fundraising methods. She currently leads a team of 550. Mussa holds a master’s degree from the University of Michigan. She and her husband are the parents of three children. Larry Probus, senior vice president and chief financial officer Larry Probus directs World Vision’s finance, information technology, legal, and corporate service functions. A CPA with 25 years of experience in public accounting and corporate finance, Probus joined World Vision in 2003. Julie Regnier, senior vice president, Human Resources Julie Regnier oversees the human resource functions of World Vision, serving more than 1,100 employees in various locations across the United States. She has specialized in human resources work since 1985, and has served at World Vision since 1995. Regnier has master’s degrees in public administration and in gerontology from the University of Southern California. Chris Glynn, senior vice president, Transformational Engagement As the senior vice president of Transformational Engagement, Chris Glynn leads the World Vision teams responsible for acquiring and distributing resources from corporations (including cash funds, product donations, and service-in-kind donations), as well as the major-donor fundraising team and World Vision’s U.S. programs, which are working to tackle the causes of poverty and injustice in the United States. As an executive leader for more than 23 years, Chris has helped transform organizations, making them more efficient and effective in the work that they do. In 2010, he began to feel that God was calling him to use his gifts for a greater purpose, and he joined in the work of World Vision. Chris holds an MBA with a focus on strategic quality management from Eastern Michigan University, and a BBA in management from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Kent Hill, senior vice president, International Programs Group Kent R. Hill joined World Vision in February 2011, after more than three decades serving in U.S. Government, academic, and non-profit leadership roles. As head of WVUS international programs, Kent collaborates with the international partnership of World Vision to help facilitate the overseas allocation of resources from government grants, corporate donated goods, and individual donors. Kent is based in the Washington, D.C., office. Kent served from 2001 to 2005 as U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Assistant Administrator of Europe and Eurasia, and was responsible for U.S. foreign assistance to 26 countries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Between 2005 and 2009, he was Assistant Administrator of the Bureau for Global Health, heading up all USAID health programs and representing USAID in several interagency, global, and multilateral health initiatives. Kent has extensive experience with multiple US Government departments and agencies, international assistance agencies from other countries, and hundreds of U.S. and international NGOs, including faith-based organizations. He received a Masters in Russian Studies and a Ph.D. in History from the University of Washington, and spent six years as an Associate Professor of History at Seattle Pacific University, was President of the Institute on Religion and Democracy (Washington, D.C.), and later served as President of Eastern Nazarene College (Quincy, MA). Most recently, Kent spent two years as the Vice President for Character Development for the John Templeton Foundation.