Leadership Is Made For Service

​The US Board works in coordination with the Haitian leadership team and the HTC Foundation Board acknowledging that our role is not about how we're going to fix Haiti, but how we are going to walk together with our Haitian brothers and sisters, establishing trust, supporting their leadership, helping them to recognize their resources, building leadership capacity and developing strategy to achieve deep and lasting change.

The HTC Board ensures adherence to mission and accountability by creating a strong strategic plan, communicating strategic direction, monitoring financials, program outcomes and key performance indicators and ensuring that every board decision and goal is to make HTC Haitian owned, Haitian led, Haitian supported, and Haitian driven.  

US Board of Directors

VICKI JEFFERIS, Board Chair

Vicki Jefferis – Executive Committee Chair 
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Vicki has been with Haiti Teen Challenge since the beginning. While serving on the Minnesota Adult and Teen Challenge Board she was part of the initial team that went to Port-au-Prince, Haiti at the request of the Haitian government and businesses, to explore launching a Teen Challenge in Haiti.  Previously she served as President of the Board of Directors for Antwerp International School in Belgium, on the School Board in Orchard Park, New York, and for a period of time was a small business owner. She has a B.A. in Business from Bethel University.

MARC SWIONTKOWSKI, Secretary

Marc Swiontkowski, M.D. – Executive Committee
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​Marc is the past president of the Orthopaedic Trauma Association and the American Orthopaedic Association. He has worked at the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center in Tanzania, as Associate Professor at Vanderbilt University and University of Washington, and as Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Chief of Orthopaedic Surgery at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, Washington. Since then he has held the position of Professor and Chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Minnesota, CEO emeritus of TRIA Orthopaedic Center in Bloomington, MN, and Editor in Chief Emeritus of the Bone and Joint Surgery Journal. He is currently a professor in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Minnesota. Marc is actively involved in training Haitian surgeons at two Haitian national university teaching hospitals in Port-au-Prince (HUEH) and Delmas (LaPaix).

JOHN BERMEL, Vice Chair

​John Bermel– Vice Chair | Executive Committee | Security Task Force Chair | Strategy & Risk Committee
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​John currently serves as Chaplain for Fountains at Hosanna. He is also a Councilmember for the City of Lakeville. Prior to this, he served as the Director of Security and Emergency Management at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. Before Carleton, John served 33 years as a police officer in Apple Valley, Minnesota retiring as a captain. John is the President/Founder of Influence International™, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that equips law enforcement and other public service professionals and organizations, focusing on developing leaders of virtue, cultures of trust, and systems of integrity. John has a Master of Divinity Degree from Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota and a Bachelor's Degree in Organizational Management and Communication from Concordia University in St. Paul, Minnesota. John and his wife Kris have two adult children and two dogs. John enjoys spending time with Kris and their kids, umpiring baseball, and remote wilderness camping.​

Chuck Beske, Treasurer

Chuck Beske - Executive Committee | Audit & Finance Committee Chair
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Chuck is the former Chairman and current board member of Minnesota Adult and Teen Challenge. He is the co-founder of two non-profits: Haiti Teen Challenge and Clean Challenge. He serves as Chairman of Clean Challenge, which focuses on improving waste systems, environmental health, food security and youth leadership in developing countries. Chuck is a retired businessman and has a degree in Marketing and Finance from Minnesota State University of Mankato. ​

William S. Bojan, Jr.            ​

Bill Bojan - Governance Committee

Bill currently serves as the Dean of the Business School for Crown College. He has also served in the following executive-level roles throughout his 30-year career: Start-up Founder, CEO, Chief Risk Officer, Chief Ethics Officer, General Auditor, Board Member, Board Chair, Governance Committee Chair, Board Advisor/Consultant, and Public Accounting practice leader. Bill’s expertise and advisory experience extends to all aspects of corporate governance, including: Board operations, risk management, ethics, internal audit, and compliance disciplines.​

Bill holds a B.S. degree and a Masters of Accountancy from DePaul University.

Annette Jackson

Annette Jackson - People and Program Team

Annette graduated from Crown College with a Pastoral Ministries degree and has spent the past couple of decades doing the “Pastor thing” at Woodridge Church in Medina, MN. 

She got to visit Haiti for the first time in 2012, and followed that up with 17 more trips until Covid hit in 2020. She has a love for the people of Haiti and it has been a joy of her life being able to introduce others to the beautiful people of Haiti.

Annette lives in Plymouth with her husband, David, and they love being the parents of their two college-aged kiddos, Corrina & Brandon. 

PAUL McVety

Pastor Paul McVety – Board Pastor

Paul is the Lead Pastor at Chapel Hill Church in Eagan, MN. He served as a missionary in Haiti for three years and has never lost his love for the people and country of Haiti. Paul is passionate about making disciples wherever God has him, which has included missionary terms in Haiti and Senegal, and serving in the American church as Youth Pastor and now Lead Pastor. Paul is even more passionate about his wife Kim and three sons. 

mondy victor

​Mondy Victor - Strategy and Risk Committee | RVC Representative
              
Mondy is the Founder & CEO of Agence de Supervision et de Contrôle S.A. (Est. 2008) which is a surveying company specializing in Inspection Supervision, Quality Control, Commissioning Audit, Quality Management System ISO 2005, Oil, Gas and Chemicals Discharge Supervision,  Sampling and Measurement of Vessels & Shore Tank, Non Destructive Testing (Liquid Penetrant, Ultra Sonic Testing), Final Random Inspection (Soft Goods  and Hard Goods), Factory Audit, Factory Risk Assessment, Physical Inventory, and Warehouse Management.
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Mondy attended the School of Law at Université d'Etat d'Haïti and holds an Online Global MBA from Salford University Manchester UK / Robert Kennedy College Zurich Switzerland. 

Personal Beliefs: "I am convinced that a major part of our lives on earth as a person, but mainly as Christians, is to help those in need, to rescue the weak and to salvage those openly considered as lost. This is why I feel appreciative, and commend and praise to the utmost what HTC and RVC are jointly doing for and with the youth in Haiti."

Mondy has been married to Cathline Tudor for over 35 years and is the father of three girls.

rich Scherber

Pastor Rich Scherber - Strategy & Risk Committee | Development Team Advisor

Rich is the founder and CEO Emeritus of Minnesota Adult and Teen Challenge, where he served for the past 31 years. Prior to this appointment with Teen Challenge, Rich and his family served as missionaries working inside the Black Townships of South Africa during the most dangerous years of Apartheid. He has spent the past 50 years in full-time ministry. Rich has a B.A. from North West University and a Master’s Degree from the University of Wisconsin. Rich was part of the original formation of Haiti Teen Challenge.