Global Leadership

James Abraham started his career with Bell Canada, developing advanced services and business models for emerging technologies.

He joined The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in Toronto in 1994 and has worked in industries as diverse as paper, appliances, automotives, oil & gas, and automotive. In 1998, he moved to Mumbai, India to help lead the firm in India during its early period. In 2000, he moved to Delhi, India to open and lead the office. For more than 10 years with BCG in India, he has been involved across sectors including power, transport, infrastructure, telecom, and consumer goods; covering a range of issues from business planning and acquisitions to organization development and financial structuring. In 2009, James was a Senior-Partner with BCG, when he left to lead Sunborne Energy. At SunBorne, James led the largest public-private partnership in solar-thermal RnD and developed a PV EPC team. He was also involved in the early formulation of solar policy in India.

In 2014, he co-founded SolarArise, which focuses on financing, owning and managing utility-scale solar-power plants. SolarArise focuses on running solar plants, so they continue to challenge conventional power plants.

In 2022, he founded Mynzo Carbon PVT Ltd focusing on building technology to reduce emissions from lifestyle activities.

James is a fellow of the Aspen Global Leadership Network, the Kamalnayan Bajaj Fellowship of the Ananta-Aspen Institute, and a senior moderator of Aspen’s values-based leadership programs. James serves on the boards of LnT Power Development, LnT Smart World and Water, Vistaar Financial Services, SmartPower India, and is an Advisor to Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas. James earned a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Waterloo, an M.B.A. (Palmer Scholar) from Wharton, and an M.A. (International Relations) from Johns Hopkins University

Rachel Brand is Walmart’s Executive Vice President of Global Governance, Chief Legal Officer, and Corporate Secretary. She oversees the company’s global legal, compliance, ethics, corporate security, corporate governance, aviation, and investigative functions, including Walmart’s Emergency Operations Center. Before joining Walmart, Rachel served as the United States Associate Attorney General, the third-ranking position in the U.S. Department of Justice. She holds the distinction of being the first woman to serve as Associate Attorney General. In that role, she oversaw the thousands of attorneys and professionals in the department’s civil litigating divisions, including Civil, Antitrust, Tax, Environment and Natural Resources, and Civil Rights; and the department’s research and grant-making offices, including the Office on Violence Against Women; among others.  She has held a number of other key roles in government, starting when she clerked on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and later for Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court of the United States. Rachel served as Associate Counsel to the President at the White House and as the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Policy in President George W. Bush’s administration. In 2012, she was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve on the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. Outside of government, she served as the Vice President and Chief Counsel for Regulatory Litigation at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and as a lawyer in private practice in Washington, D.C. Rachel earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Minnesota-Morris and her J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Andy George is the current President of the National Black Police Association (NBPA) in the United Kingdom and a serving police officer in the Police Service of Northern Ireland having joined the service in 1999. The NBPA seeks to create a police service that represents, engages and delivers its services to all communities in a fair and equitable manner and represents around 5000 members in 47 local associations across the UK. As President, Andy works to improve support for members, liaises with senior leaders and wider stakeholders and engages with community groups from ethnically diverse backgrounds. Andy advises the National Police Chiefs Council, College of Policing, Independent Office of Police Complaints and Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire Service on racial equality, system change and police accountability. He also meets regularly with the government officials such as the Home Secretary and other key figures who are responsible for policing.

Gary Haugen is CEO and founder of International Justice Mission.

Before founding IJM in 1997, Gary was a human rights attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice, where he focused on crimes of police misconduct. In 1994, he served as the Director of the United Nations’ investigation in the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide. In this role, he led an international team of lawyers, criminal prosecutors, law enforcement officers, and forensics experts to gather evidence that would eventually be used to bring the perpetrators of the genocide to justice. Gary received a B.A. in Social Studies from Harvard University, and a J.D. from the University of Chicago.

Gary has been recognized by the U.S. State Department as a Trafficking in Persons “Hero” – the highest honor given by the U.S. government for anti-slavery leadership. His work to protect the poor from violence has been featured by Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, the New Yorker, The Times of India, Forbes, U.S. News and World Report, the Guardian and National Public Radio, among many other outlets. He is the author of several books, including Good News About Injustice (Intervarsity Press) and, most recently, The Locust Effect: Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence (Oxford University Press). Gary was invited to share the themes of The Locust Effect at the annual TED Conference in a talk entitled: The hidden reason for poverty the world needs to address now.

Kevin Keith is Vice President of Product Management and Marketing at Amazon. He leads multiple businesses in the Amazon devices group, including Kindle eReaders, Fire tablets, and Amazon Kids. Prior to this role, Kevin led the Sales and Marketing team for Amazon Devices, where he was responsible for the launch of multiple new device categories, including Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa. Before joining Amazon in 2012, Kevin held various marketing roles at Microsoft (corporate branding, market research, and phone marketing), Blue Nile (eCommerce marketing), and Procter & Gamble (health care brand management). Kevin received his bachelor’s degree in marketing from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He serves on the Board of Trustees of The Bear Creek School, a K-12 Christian classical school in Redmond, Washington. Kevin is married, has two children, and lives in the Seattle region.

Mark Labberton is the Clifford L. Penner Presidential Chair Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Preaching at Fuller Seminary. He served as Fuller’s fifth president through 2022, after being appointed to the position in 2013. As Fuller’s president, Dr. Labberton brought to his leadership a deep awareness of the urgency of the gospel of Jesus Christ—and a passion for the vital role that Fuller Seminary plays in the enactment of that gospel. For Labberton, this urgency was informed by a sense of the critical and unique contribution Fuller is called to make to the global church.

A Washington State native, Labberton embraced a personal relationship with Jesus Christ on the threshold of his undergraduate years at Whitman College. After earning his bachelor’s degree he came to Fuller for his MDiv, a time he calls “a tremendously influential season” in his life. He was ordained in the Presbyterian Church (USA) and began what was to become three decades of pastoral ministry—along the way meeting and marrying his life partner, Janet Morrison Labberton.

Labberton had served for 16 years as senior pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley, California, when he joined Fuller’s faculty in 2009 as Lloyd John Ogilvie Associate Professor of Preaching and director of the newly established Lloyd John Ogilvie Institute of Preaching (now Brehm Preaching—A Lloyd John Ogilvie Initative). In early 2013 he received the call to the presidency, succeeding Richard J. Mouw on his retirement, and on July 1, 2013, stepped into service as Fuller Seminary’s fifth president.

In 1982 he cofounded the Christian International Scholarship Foundation (CISF) to help fund the advanced theological education of those Majority World leaders, and served on the CISF board for 17 years. He has also been chair of John Stott Ministries (which provides books, scholarships, and seminars for Majority World pastors), cochair of the John Stott Ministries Global Initiative Fund, and senior fellow of the International Justice Mission. Labberton has been a popular and well-traveled speaker for years, and has taught at New College Berkeley for Advanced Christian Studies.

In addition to publishing articles in such periodicals as The Atlantic, Christianity Today, Sojourners, and Radix, Labberton has authored the books Called: The Crisis and Promise of Following Jesus Today (2014), (2010), and The Dangerous Act of Loving Your Neighbor: Seeing Others Through the Eyes of Jesus (2010), and The Dangerous Act of Worship: Living God’s Call to Justice (2007). He is the host of the podcast Conversing, produced by FULLER studio, where he speaks with a broad spectrum of leaders on issues at the heart of the seminary’s mission.

Melanie Lane works at the heart of the energy transition, most recently as CEO of Pod Point and prior to that as CEO of NewMotion/ Shell Recharge Solutions, companies that provide electric mobility solutions for businesses and consumers across Europe. She has had a diverse commercial career leading businesses in a variety of sectors and has lived and worked in Singapore, Australia, Italy, UK, the Netherlands, and South Africa.

Mel brings to the board experience in change management, systems thinking, leadership, commercial acumen, front line operations, and organizational culture. She is a strong advocate for diversity, for human-centered leadership, and for achieving a balance between profit and purpose. She graduated from Bristol University with a BSc Hons (1st class) in Social Policy and Politics and subsequently a MSc in International Development - Economics & Policy.

Ruth L. Okediji is the Jeremiah Smith Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, co-Director of the Harvard University Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, and Director of the Harvard Program on Biblical Law and Christian Legal Studies. She has held distinguished visitor-ships and teaching posts, as well as authored an extensive array of work on the relationship between international intellectual property, multilateral trade and development in developing and least-developed countries. She has served as a policy advisor to many inter-governmental organizations, regional economic communities and national governments, including her appointment by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to his High-Level Panel on Patents and Access to Medicines. Professor Okediji has been recognized by Managing IP as one of the world’s 50 most influential people in intellectual property law and received the IP3 Award from Public Knowledge, recognizing significant contributions to the IP field. Since 2010, she has been a member of the Executive Board of the National Order of the Coif and served as Vice President of the Board until 2015 when she was elected President. She currently serves as co-Chair of The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) Committee on improving commercialization of digital products from U.S. National Labs. Professor Okediji is a graduate of the University of Jos and Harvard Law School. She is a member of the New York Bar, the Minnesota Bar, and the American Bar Association.

James Peters is a businessman residing in Burlington, Ontario, Canada. He was most recently the Executive Chairman and a major shareholder of the Hadrian Group of Companies. Hadrian is a worldwide supplier of commercial building products with facilities in Burlington, Ontario, Mentor, Ohio and Phoenix, Arizona. James was President of Hadrian from 1997 to 2017.

James is currently the Chair of Formula Solutions Inc. in Burlington, Ontario, Canada. Formula Solutions Inc. is a Board managed advanced composites manufacturing company.

James’ early career was in financial services and he brought a finance and marketing perspective to Hadrian’s operations with a strong focus on customer satisfaction, utilizing leading software solutions. He was also instrumental in introducing Hadrian to International markets such as Latin America and Asia. Prior to joining Hadrian in 1993, James held first an Accounting Analyst role and then a Marketing Management role at CUMIS (1990-1993) and a Computer Analyst role at the Bank of Montreal (1989).

James has sat on numerous local charities’ boards and was the Board Chair of the Burlington Economic Development Corporation. Currently, James chairs the International Justice Mission (IJM) Canada Board, is a board member of Young Life Canada, chairing the Camping Committee and is Board Chair at Compass Point Bible Church. He is also one of the founders of 541 Eatery & Exchange, a social enterprise located in downtown Hamilton.

James holds a Charter Director designation from the Directors College (DeGroote School of Business and Conference Board of Canada joint effort) an MBA (DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University) and an HBScF (Lakehead University). He has traveled extensively and has spent extended periods of time in Asia, based in Shanghai, assessing and developing Hadrian’s presence there. Married with two children and a son-in-law, favorite pastimes are road cycling, downhill skiing and piloting his airplane

Linda Ranz is currently the Sr. Director/Chief of Staff at Google responsible for building the AI Assistant. Linda was previously the Technical Advisor to the SVP of Devices and Services at Amazon. Prior to that as Director of New Products for Amazon, she was responsible for hardware and software product management of multimodal Echo products (Echo Show, Echo Spot, and Echo Look) and the future Echo product roadmap. Linda has over 15 years of experience leading projects in the high tech space in retail (Starbucks, Amazon, Google) and B2B (Getty Images) ecommerce, consumer products, and wireless. Linda currently also serves on the board of the Stewardship Foundation.

Nicole Bibbins Sedaca is the Executive Vice President of Freedom House, a non-governmental organization that works to expand and defend freedom globally. She is the Kelly and David Pfeil Fellow at the George W Bush Institute. Prior to joining Freedom House, she served as a Professor and Deputy Director of the Master of Science in Foreign Service program at Georgetown University, and also as the Chair for Global Politics and Security concentration in the program. She has held numerous positions in the U.S. Department of State, including Senior Director for Strategic Planning and External Affairs in the Bureau of Democracy Human Rights and Labor and Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs. She directed a local governance project for the International Republican Institute in Quito, Ecuador, where she also worked at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito. Nicole also served as the Director of the Washington DC office of Independent Diplomat, a diplomatic strategy consulting group. She earned her Bachelor of Arts from the College of William and Mary and a Master of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University, and studied at Humboldt Universitaet in Berlin, Germany. She has served on the Boards of the Institute for Global Engagement, Georgetown's School of Foreign Service, Fund for the College of William and Mary, and the Washington Program of the College of William and Mary. She currently resides in McLean, VA with her husband, two sons and daughter.

Joan Singleton currently serves as the CFO of Arcadia University. She previously served as the CFO at Pepperdine University, Azusa Pacific University, and La Petite Academy, as well as VP of Workforce and Organizational Effectiveness at Milton Hershey School. Ms. Singleton, who holds a Master’s in Taxation and Doctor of Education, is also a CPA with corporate experience from Deloitte.

Throughout her career, Ms. Singleton has been responsible for leading hundreds of employees through stewarding financial gifts and resources through the strategy and allocation process. Ms. Singleton has also supported the development and implementation of enterprise-wide strategic planning processes. 

Ms. Singleton’s financial planning skills have made her a sought-after board member, and her board service includes Messiah College, Eastern University Board of Fellows, World Vision, and VisionFund International.