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Board of Directors
Brian R. Smith
Chairman
Managing Director • S3 Ventures
Serving Since 2009
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Brian serves as Board Chairman for Davar Partners International. With an extensive background in executive leadership, technology, and electrical engineering, Brian currently serves as the Managing Director of S3 Ventures, an early, expansion and growth stage venture capital firm focused on technology and medical device companies. Brian passionately desires to eradicate Bible poverty for oral learners worldwide and to see lives changed by the power of God’s Word. Brian and his family reside in Austin, Texas.
Mark Perkins
CEO • Davar Partners International
Serving Since 2016
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Mark served on Davar’s Board of Directors for over two years and in 2018 was appointed CEO. With his business background and years of C-level leadership experience, Mark leads Davar forward in wisdom, stewardship, and efficiency. As CEO, Mark values collaboration and partnership at every stage of our process – from new relationships with translation partners, to stories of life change from engagement partners, Mark is enthusiastic about bringing the Body of Christ together in order to effectively finish the Great Commission task. Mark is a Partner with the Austin Stone Community Church. He and his wife reside in Austin, Texas.
John Dann
Co-Owner • RiskScape
Serving Since 2009
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John serves as a longstanding member of the Board of Directors at Davar Partners International. John is actively engaged in commercial business as Co-owner of RiskScape. He offers a wide variety of technical expertise in GPS technology and data solutions. As an entrepreneur and technology pioneer, John provides Davar with both knowledge and passion to make the Word of God freely and widely available to all people. John and his family reside in South Africa.
Michael Blue
Executive Director • Ron Blue Institute
Serving Since 2019
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Kevin Peck
Lead Pastor • Austin Stone Community Church
Joined January 2020
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Kevin Peck is the Lead Pastor of The Austin Stone Community Church in Austin, TX. Kevin works to bring strategic leadership, strong teams and a passion for developing leaders to the local church. He also serves as the Vice President of Leadership Development for Acts 29 and coaches dozens of senior leaders every year through Strategic Leadership Communities with Lifeway Leadership. Kevin completed his doctoral work in Executive Leadership at Southern Seminary. He co-wrote “Designed to Lead: The Church and Leadership Development”. He is married to Leslie and together they have 3 beautiful girls Ellie, Halle, and Ivey.
It is our mission to create opportunities for oral learners to fully experience the Bible in their home language.
Team
Mark Perkins
CEO
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Mark served on Davar’s Board of Directors for over two years and in 2018 was appointed CEO. With a robust business background and years of c-level leadership experience, Mark leads Davar forward in wisdom, stewardship, and efficiency. As CEO, Mark values collaboration and partnership at every stage of our process – from new relationships with translation partners, to stories of life change from engagement partners, Mark is enthusiastic about bringing the Body of Christ together in order to effectively finish the Great Commission task. Mark is a active member and elder at the Austin Stone Northwest campus, where he has attended, led, and served in various capacities for the past 30 years. Mark and his wife reside in Austin, Texas.
Ehab Jabour
CFO
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Riaan de Lange
Productions Manager
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Riaan leads the Productions department, ensuring we are able to deliver high quality productions on time and within budget. He has been with Davar since 2013 and resides in Pretoria, South Africa.
Riaan has 22 years in project management, of which 12 years were in media production management.
Heidi Dann
Financial Coordinator
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Anna Jenkins
Investor Relations Coordinator
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We are excited to welcome Anna to the Davar team in the newly-created role of Investor Relations Coordinator. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from Angelo State University and a Masters of Arts in Communications from Texas Tech University. Anna has a proven and extensive background in Event Planning and Communications. Anna loves Jesus and is excited to be a part of Davar’s ministry. She is a native Texan who lives just north of Austin with her beautiful family. Anna has already made an impact in the short time she has been with us.
Nathan Court
Productions Technical Manager
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Rev Ngwenya
Sound Engineer
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