Our team is comprised of the Executive Director, board members and a host of amazing volunteers who have functioned as trainers, faculty, guest leaders and mentors.
Guest Leaders and Faculty
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Christian marketplace leaders from around the world play an important role in our training, interacting in personal small group settings as guest leaders, trainers, volunteer staff or as mentors. Over the years we have had a lot of amazing people involved. Among them you will find: Emmy award winning producers, Presidential appointees, Harvard, MIT and Yale grads, fortune 100 executives, acclaimed inventor-scientists, nationally and internationally recognized authors, social entrepreneurs, TV personalities, professional athletes, philanthropists, folks quoted in publications such as Time Magazine, Wall Street Journal, Beijing Scene, and Sports Illustrated and many, many more interesting people you may never hear about, but who follow Jesus through their vocation and who have spent time investing in us.
Click here for a directory of many of our past and current guest leaders.
Staff & Trainers
Dr. Sam Akulli
Dr. Sam Akulli is currently working in the Government sector as an IT Project Manager. He has also worked in Non-for-Profit Organizations and Private Industry. He earned his M.S., Political Science (Croatia), M.A., Educational Administration (The Ohio State University), and Ph.D., Educational Philosophy (The Ohio State University). He loves to use education to change lives. Sam is a Baton Exchange graduate of the Leader Incubator program and the Mentoring program.
Harry Anderson, CPA, PMP
Treasurer of Board of Directors
Assistant professor of accounting at Cedarville University
Started the Columbus chapter for Bible Study Fellowship, which now has over 400 men and children involved on a weekly basis.
On the Boards of International Friendships, Inc. (IFI), Child Evangelism Fellowship, and WAM House [The Baton Exchange] (Treasurer).
John Scroggins serves as Executive Director and a trainer
John was born and raised in Ohio. He lives with his wife, Angie (an inner-city school teacher) and daughter, Anaya, in Columbus. John earned his B.S. Business, (Production & Operations Management) from The Ohio State University and his MBA, Executive Management, from Ashland University. He holds a Certificate in Biblical Studies from Rosedale Bible Institute. He’s a Colson Fellow, through the Colson Center for Christian Worldview.
In 2006, John started developing a vision to help Christians integrate faith, work and leadership. In 2008 he launched The Baton Exchange, a nonprofit training organization that focuses on equipping emerging leaders (20-Somethings) to be transformation catalysts for Christ in the global marketplace
and culture. He’s enjoyed seeing the ministry touch about 30,000 lives from 20 countries. Prior to Baton Exchange, John worked in various operations, marketing and strategic consulting roles in small and large businesses. John enjoys international travel and experiencing other cultures. He’s quickly closing in on having visited all 50 U.S. States and has traveled in Asia, Europe and the Middle East. He also enjoys outdoor activities, board games, reading and seeing world famous architecture and natural wonders. John and his family are involved in the Columbus Network of Microchurches (CNM), a house-church planting initiative.
Board of Advisors
Tiffany Crosby
Founder and President, Petra Learning LLC
Senior Research Associate, MBA Research, Curriculum Center
Board Member, Starfish Alliance
Adjunct Faculty – Accounting, Columbus State Community College
Executive Director, Ernst and Young
Board Member, Woman for Economic Leadership and Development (WELD)
Previously on Board of Directors, The Baton Exchange
David Foster, facilitates our Character Formation roundtables President of Board of Directors. (Retired) Executive Director of Hilltop Christian Community Development Corporation, a non-profit that works to develop community in the inner city area of the Hilltop in Columbus, Ohio. Senior Vice-President of Automation Services at ABB, a $20billion, technology-based global provider of power and automation products, systems, solutions, and services. He has led start-up businesses in China, Thailand, and Europe. He was responsible for revenue of $200 million, and 2,000 employees in 35 countries. Yale, B.S. Aeronautical Engineering. Also started at linebacker for the Yale football team. Harvard, MBA. Also serves on national leadership level for Kairos Prison Ministries. He and wife JoAnn attend Upper Arlington Lutheran Church.
Jerry King Jerry leads the individual prayer ministry, praying one-on-one with trainees as they sign up.
Principal of ABBA Enterprises. Core Experience: Strategy and Business planning for SMBs. Strategic Alliances and Partner/Channel Management. Leadership Development, Executive & Staff Coaching, Personnel Assessment Technology. Extensive background with Fortune 500 and Global 500 corporations for technology and change processes.
BS Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology.
MS Management, Aurora University.
Industry Sectors worked in: Manufacturing, IT/Telecom, Process Technology, Healthcare, Senior Care & Retirement Communities, Transportation, Consumer Products.
Jerry attends Vineyard Columbus.
Chuck Kaps
Previously on Baton Exchange Board of Directors. 30 years of experience in public and private practice of law in a broad range of areas
Former Assistant General Counsel to The Quikrete Companies
Legal Counsel for Ohio Bureau of Insurance and Risk Management
Served in numerous capacities on the boards of non-profit organizations
Chuck enjoys sailing and serving nonprofits
Training and Education Advisory Board
Lisa Espineli Chinn
(Retired) National Director of InterVarsity international student ministry; Author of the
books, Think Home, Back Home, and Coming to America/Returning Home to Your Country, books that help international students transition back to their home cultures. She is a certified cross-cultural trainer.
Barbara Davis
Senior Consultant, Instructional Design and Development at Cardinal Health
Senior E-learning Specialist, Battelle. Led and managed course development projects for the global business areas (over 5,000 employees)
Senior Designer/Developer, Progressive Insurance. Led and structured the design/development of learning solutions for the IT business area (over 3000 employees.)
Judy Huang Lewis
President, 889 Global Solutions, Ltd., a sourcing company to China, based in Columbus, Ohio.
Quoted in Time, Newsweek, Beijing Scene. She is from China, graduated with a BA Business, Boston College and attended the MBA program of CIEBS in Beijing.
Rosina Fischer
Training Career
President and Founder of Virtual Business Growth Concepts, LLC; Past President of Take it Virtual!,
a Tony Robbins and Chet Holmes company with Business Breakthroughs International (BBI); VP of
Training for a multi-million dollar division of BBI; Has developed proprietary virtual training tools
and strategies
Doug Franck
Area Director, Search Ministries, Inc.; Search is a marketplace coaching ministry to executives; 14
years with Campus Crusade, including as Campus Director; International Director, Equipping Ministries International (EMI), became an expert in training and equipping Christians both personally and in groups, nationally and internationally.
Dr. Meryl Herr
Ph.D., works as an independent consultant specializing in qualitative research and adult learning. She earned her M.Div. and Ph.D. (Educational Studies) from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and her B.S. in Mathematics and Spanish from Vanderbilt University. Her dissertation research focused on vocational discipleship. Her article Finding a Job that Works for You and for God was published in Christianity Today. Meryl lives in Grand Rapids, MI with her husband and two sons.
Dr. Dondra Maney
Ph.D., Educational Leadership, University of South Carolina-Columbia
Adjunct professor and supervisor of student teachers for Ashland University’s Columbus Center
Governor’s Steering Committee on Teacher Evaluation (Governor John Kasich, Ohio)
Dr. Kevin Maney
Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction/Educational Leadership
Retired Director of Instructional Integration for Ohio SchoolNet
Priest for St. Augustine’s Anglican Church
Joanie Taddeo
Retired award-winning Manager of Training for Abbott Nutrition, a Fortune 100 corporation
Manager of Consumer Relations, Abbot Nutrition
M.A. Spiritual Formation, Leadership, Spring Arbor University
Bernie Torrence
Co-Founder, Director, and International Vice President, LaRed Business Network;
Author of Wisdom for Today’s Leaders: From the Book of Proverbs; Bernie has traveled around the world helping national government and business leaders in almost 90 countries integrate the LaRed character initiatives for cultural transformation.
Jeff Young
Education and Performance Development executive with 30+ years of progressive experience in program design and delivery, and 35+ years of engagement and project management experience. Past roles include: Enterprise Project Manager at OCLC; Director, Intellinex, an e-learning consulting and training development venture of E&Y; Responsible for the on-boarding training done for the entire Ernst and Young consulting practice as Director. LinkedIn Guru, giving over 50 workshops per year.
Marc Papai
National Director of InterVarsity’s International Student Ministry (ISM) division, a position that spans all of InterVarsity’s ISM work nationally. He brings over 25 years of experience with Intervarsity.
Ohio State University, B.S. Chemical Engineering
Regent College, Masters Christian Studies
Nashotah House, pursuing a Doctorate of Ministry
Radian Corporation, Staff Engineer, Washington D.C.
He and his wife Pam have been married for over 30 years and have three married adult children. Marc’s role is to plant and build ISM and ISM friendly undergrad and grad chapters where international students become genuine, formed, deep, and competent spiritual and marketplace leaders who can return to their countries as vocationally adept and culturally savvy Christian leaders, reshaping their nations to believe and obey Jesus Christ.
Dr. Bobby Moser
VP & Executive Dean, The Ohio State University (retired)
International Continuing & Adult Education Hall of Fame
Numerous Teaching Awards
International education administration experience
Led one of largest adult continuing ed programs in USA
Presidential (George W. Bush) and Prime Minister (Manmohan Singh of India) appointment to Knowledge Initiative
Erica Young Reitz
Erica Young Reitz directs Senior EXIT, a one year experience that helps prepare graduating seniors for the transition to life after college. She works for campus ministry Coalition for Christian Outreach (CCO) at Calvary Church, reaching out to students at Penn State University, in State College, PA. Erica has an MA in higher education from Geneva College, with a graduate research focus on the senior year transition. Her first book, After College: Navigating Transitions, Relationship and Faith is published by InterVarsity Press.