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 – Vice President / Development 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. – Health 
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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, Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, Washington.  Since then he held the position of Professor and Chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Minnesota and is the CEO emeritus of TRIA Orthopaedic Center in Bloomington, MN, Editor in Chief of the Bone and Joint Surgery Journal, and a Professor at the University of Minnesota. Marc is actively involved in training Haitian surgeons at the two Haitian national university teaching hospitals in Port-au-Prince (HUEH) and Delmas (LaPaix).

JOHN BERMEL, Vice Chair

​John Bermel– Vice Chair / Governance
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​John serves 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 - Governance Chair
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Chuck is the former Chairman and current board member of Minnesota Adult and Teen Challenge. He is also co-founder and Chairman of non-profits Clean Challenge and Haiti 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

Mr. Bojan has served 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.

Christian Gustafson 

Christian Gustafson - Technology
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As Chief Technology Director of slashBlue, Christian gratefully serves Purpose Driven organizations in the AEC, Healthcare, Education, and Services industries by leading them through the process of Digital Transformation to achieve their Mission and Purpose.
Prior to joining slashBlue in May 2014, Christian had the joy and privilege to serve many diverse organizations in designing and delivering their Technology Roadmap for Digital Transformation. As a technology leader, Christian brings technology and business teams together to deliver greater business results. Christian has been blessed to serve notable organizations such as Best Buy, Target, Dow Jones, UnitedHealth Group, Volunteers of America MN, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and AvMed Health Plans (to name a few).
He has a passion for serving and equipping people in both his business and personal relationships.
​Christian previously served the ministry of A.C.T. Worldwide, providing strategy and technology guidance to enable the development of future leaders in the country of Haiti and around the world.

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 - Task Force | People and Programs
              
Mr. Victor 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 36 years and is the father of three girls.

Annette Jackson

​Annette Jackson - People and Programs
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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. ​