Ben Amundgaard

Ben Amundgaard is the Senior Director of Bible Study Products at Faithlife (makers of Logos Bible Software). Ben oversees the English, German, Korean, Chinese, Portuguese, and French products for Logos as well as Faithlife’s Catholic software, Verbum. In his 9 years at Faithlife, Ben has overseen Logos’ content catalog, various product lines, product launches, and publisher relationships. Before joining Faithlife, Ben studied at Regent College in Vancouver, BC where he earned a master’s degree in church history in 2012. Prior to that, Ben worked with YWAM for 4 years. He lives in Bellingham, WA where he enjoys reading, cooking, and spending time with his wife, Jen, and their two children.

Robert Briggs

Robert L. Briggs is the President and CEO of American Bible Society, which was founded in 1816 to bring God’s Word to all people. Before assuming this role, he served for more than 20 years in high-level positions within the organization, including as the Senior Vice President of the U.S. Ministry team, Vice President of the Mission Advancement team, and Vice President of Global Ministries.

Robert is an experienced leader with a demonstrated history of success growing organizations in the nonprofit sector. He displays strengths in nonprofit management, strategic planning, organizational development, board governance, fundraising, and global ministry development.

Prior to joining American Bible Society, Robert held leadership roles with the American Diabetes Association and co-founded Cityhill, a Christian publishing company. Internationally, Robert has served on committees for United Bible Societies, Forum of Bible Agencies, and Every Tribe Every Nation (ETEN).

Kelly Gallagher

Kelly Gallagher is Vice President of Content Acquisition for Ingram Content Group, a comprehensive publishing industry services company that offers numerous solutions, including physical book distribution, print-on-demand and digital services. At Ingram, he manages the content acquisition publisher team for North America and leads Ingram's selling and business development activities for print-on-demand and author self-publishing platform IngramSpark. Prior to joining Ingram, he worked for six years at Bowker serving as Vice President of Publishing Services where he was responsible for the implementation of a host of business intelligence services. Previous career experience includes serving 18 years in the Christian publishing industry including 10 years at Beacon Hill Press as publisher and six years at ECPA.

Cherie Harder

Cherie Harder serves as President of the Trinity Forum. Prior to joining the Trinity Forum in 2008, Ms. Harder served in the White House as Special Assistant to the President and Director of Policy and Projects for First Lady Laura Bush.

Earlier in her career she served as Policy Advisor to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, advising the Leader on domestic social issues and serving as liaison and outreach director to outside groups. From 2001 to 2005, she was Senior Counselor to the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), where she helped the Chairman design and launch the We the People initiative to enhance the teaching, study, and understanding of American history. Prior to that Ms. Harder was the Policy Director for Senator Sam Brownback and also served as Deputy Policy Director at Empower America.

She holds an Honors B.A. in government from Harvard University and a post-graduate diploma in literature from the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, where she was a Rotary Scholar. She is also a Senior Fellow at Cardus, an Editorial Board member of Comment magazine, a past board member of Gordon College and the C.S. Lewis Institute, a current board member of the Convergence Center for Policy Resolution and Faith and Law, and an advisory board member of the National Museum of American Religion.

Dr. Theon Hill

Theon Hill (Ph.D., Purdue University) is Associate Professor of Communication at Wheaton College where he researches and teaches on the intersections of race, politics, and theology. His work has appeared in numerous scholarly journals and edited collections. Currently, he is in the final stages of completing his first scholarly book, an extended study of the future of Black political rhetoric in the 21st century. Theon consults regularly for Christian publishing houses and industry organizations, including the ECPA and the Protestant Christian Publishers Association. Theon also is an active member of efforts to promote racial justice and change in his local community. For his efforts, he was recently named a Civil Society Fellow with the Aspen Institute and ADL. In this two year fellowship, Theon will study community-based strategies for promoting civic dialogue in an age of division with the ultimate goal of developing a venture to promote justice in local communities.

Helen Lee

Helen Lee is the director of product innovation at InterVarsity Press in Downers Grove, Illinois. She is also the author of "The Missional Mom" (Moody Publishers) and co-author with Michelle Reyes of the forthcoming "The Race-Wise Family" (Waterbrook, May 2022).

Nicole Martin

Rev. Dr. Nicole Martin serves as the Vice President of Church Engagement and the Executive Director of Trauma Healing for American Bible Society. She also teaches at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and is the founder of Soulfire International Ministries. She has published numerous articles and is the author of two books, Made to Lead: Empowering Women for Ministry and Leaning In, Letting Go: A Lenten Devotional. She serves on the board for the National Association of Evangelicals and as a Network Catalyst for the Lausanne Movement. Dr. Nicole is a nationally recognized speaker and leader, focusing on engaging all people in the life-changing power of God’s Word.

Kristen McLean

Kristen McLean is the Executive Director of Business Development at NPD Book, a part of The NPD Group. With more than 20 years of experience in the publishing industry in roles including retailing, sales, marketing, and industry advocacy, she oversees research into the consumer behavior of readers, and she is NPD Books' in-house specialist on both the Children's and the Christian markets. She is the editor of the recent ECPA Landscape Survey of Book Buying Trends in the Christian Market. As part of her role as an industry strategist, Kristen speaks extensively on issues facing the publishing world including the effect of technology and culture on books and reading, and evolving models for publishing. Kristen is deeply interested in the confluence of consumer behavior, technology, literacy, and global information in the Digital Age.

Jesse Myers

Jesse Myers is the Director of Original Content for Faithlife and the Publisher of Lexham Press. He oversees publishing at Faithlife as well as its Mobile Education video curriculum program. Lexham is an innovative, evangelical publishing house which serves the church both through traditional publishing channels and through products designed and built especially for Logos Bible Software. Lexham is uniquely positioned to help preserve the traditions and teachings of the church through the technology of today. Jesse has been with Faithlife since 2014 working in a variety of roles and has been in the publishing industry for over 10 years. He has a degree in English Literature from the University of Saskatchewan and a Master’s of Divinity from Providence Theological Seminary. He lives in Lynden, Washington with his mathematician wife, Marilyn, and their two children.