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Bill has been a member of the faculty of Milligan College since 1994. He is the Chair of the Business Area and the J. Henry Kegley Chair of Business and Economics. He is the founding director of the master of business administration program at Milligan. Bill earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration and accounting from Milligan in 1981, an MBA from East Tennessee State University in 1991, and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville in 1999. 

Before joining Milligan’s faculty, Bill served as vice-president of marketing for Silver Creek Technologies. Previous to his involvement with Silver Creek, he worked in business and industry, primarily in the areas of accounting and finance. Bill currently serves as President of the Board of Directors of the Johnson City Federal Credit Union and as the chief learning officer for Sysdine Technologies in Johnson City. Earlier this summer he served as a member of the faculty of the International Business Institute, teaching comparative economic systems in various cities throughout Europe and Russia.   

Bill is a member of Grandview Christian Church of Johnson City, where he has served as an elder for many years. He has also served on the Finance Ministry Team and the Stewardship Ministry Team. He has also been involved with a number of Grandview ministries, including the Interfaith Hospitality Network, youth programs, as well as Grandview’s capital campaigns and building committees. In addition to his church activities, Bill is involved in the community through his membership on the Board of Directors of the Johnson City Little League and was involved in the establishment of a new “challenger league” for children with special needs.

Bill is a member of the American Economic Association, the Association of Christian Economists, and the Christian Business Faculty Association. His book, Ethics and Uncertainty, dealing with the influence of ethics on economic decision-making, was published in 2000.
 

Tom is an educator, consultant and author. He designed and implemented one of the first New Roles for Leaders systems in the world. Formerly with Eastman Chemical Company, a Fortune 500 company and recipient of the coveted Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, Tom has over 35 years managerial and consulting experience in Leadership Development, Personal Development, Quality Management/Performance Improvement, Human Resource Systems Design/ Practice and Organizational Development.

Tom is a member of First Christian Church in Johnson City, Tennessee. He is an Elder, Sunday School Teacher, member of the Personnel Ministry and served as Facilitator of the Long Range Planning Team.  Tom also serves as an organization/leadership consultant to the FCC Staff. Lynnis and Tom have two children, Melanie and Mark.  

Tom has numerous clients, including the State of Tennessee, Eastman Chemical Company, Tennessee Valley Authority, U.S. Department of Labor, Mountain States Health Alliance,  Unicoi County Memorial Hospital, Vanderbilt UniversityMedical Center, Milligan College, King College, Radford University, SPX Corporation, Lawter International, Clinical Trial Management Services, Asbury Place, Eastman Kodak, Collin County- Texas Government, United Way, U.S. Air Force,  and several churches/secondary school systems.   

Tom is co-author of New Roles for Leaders: A Step-by-Step Guide to Competitive Advantage published in 2000 and he is co-author of Taming the Storm: The Art of Synergy published in 2002. He is currently co-authoring a book on Church Effectiveness.  

Tom is a Principal in VisionWorks, LLC.  The VisionWorks staff is engaged in helping leaders worldwide improve organizational effectiveness. He serves on the Adjunct Faculty for Milligan College where he teaches Leadership to assist in providing a servant-leader foundation for students.
 

John holds a B.A. in Christian Education from Milligan College and a M.S. in counseling psychology from the University of Nevada Las Vegas. He has ministered at churches in Tennessee and Nevada and worked as an institutional psychologist and psychiatric hospital administrator prior to developing his own counseling agency in 1990. Most recently, John has served as administrative pastor with The Crossing Christian Church in Las Vegas until his retirement to Northeast Tennessee in 2004.

John has served on the faculty of The National Judicial College in Reno, Nevada, The National Drug Court Institute in Alexandria, Virginia and as a consultant to the American University Office of Justice Programs and the United States Department of Justice. 

John was a primary presenter at the 1998 United Nations International Symposium on Substance Abuse, the Loughborough International Conference on American Drug Courts in Loughborough, Great Britain and the 2000 session of the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission in Washington D.C.   

He has authored several professional articles in the areas of addiction,  treatment and drug testing, helped develop the national standards and curriculum for court run recovery monitoring programs and wrote a complete Christian recovery from addictions program which has been implemented throughout the United States and Europe.