Bryson Vogeltanz is the seventh President and CEO of Partners International, bringing more than 20 years of ministry experience at multiple levels.

After graduating from Elon University with a B.S. in Business, Bryson went on to coordinate college ministry across multiple campuses in Atlanta through North Point Community Church. In his early 20’s, he oversaw operations on the executive leadership team of Athens Church — a church plant in Atlanta with now more than 4,000 members. In 2010, he joined the leadership teams of Louie Giglio’s Passion City Church (PCC) in Atlanta and Passion Conferences, while also serving as a pastor for PCC’s first campus expansion in 2017.

Through Passion Conferences, Bryson led the way in helping raise nearly $20 million to resource over 50 ministry partners and projects around the world. Bryson has also served as the co-founder and chief steward of the END IT MOVEMENT — an international awareness campaign against modern-day slavery, which has surpassed 1 billion media impressions and raised more than $8 million to fund anti-trafficking efforts.

Bryson met his wife, Emily, while attending Elon University, and they married in 2002. They have four children, three biological and a daughter adopted from Ethiopia. Before joining Partners International, Bryson traveled extensively to many countries, promoting Gospel outreach, especially within the 10/40 Window. His heart prayer is this: “God, I will go anywhere, at any time, and at any cost to ensure that every person has the opportunity to hear and respond to the Gospel.”

Bryson currently resides with his family in Atlanta, Georgia.

Carlos grew up in war-torn El Salvador. As a young man, he served as a youth pastor at his church, Iglesia Nazaret, led at the time by Argentinean Luis Bush who later became the President of Partners International and director of the AD2000 movement.

After completing his B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas, Carlos returned to El Salvador where he coordinated Mission ’84, the first international missions conference in Central America. This conference helped spark a missionary movement across South America.

After marriage, Carlos and his wife returned to Texas where they both earned masters degrees to qualify them to move to the Middle East where they served as leaders of a church-planting team among Muslims. This proved to be an invaluable experience for his future role with Partners International as Area Director for the Middle East and North Africa. He served in this role from 1991 to 2006.

Currently, Carlos serves as Vice President of International Ministries directing the work of all our indigenous ministry partners.

Don Hemmer joined Partners International as Chief Financial Officer in August 2013. He was born and raised in Marysville, Washington. He attended Central Washington University, where he earned a Bachelors of Science in Accounting and a Bachelors of Science in Business Administration with an emphasis in Finance. He is a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Internal Auditor.After college, Don worked in public accounting and banking. In 1989 Don started work as the Controller, then later as the President of Accra-Fab, Inc, a manufacturing company located in Liberty Lake, Washington. In 1999, Don became a co-owner of that company.

Don has served in a number of leadership roles with his local church and served on the board of Valley Christian School in Spokane Valley, Washington. For the last few years prior to joining Partners International, Don served extensively in his church’s benevolence ministry, where he provided financial counseling and pastoral care.

Don has a new-found enthusiasm for diet and fitness. He recently has become a Personal Trainer, teaching High Intensity Interval Training classes. Don and his wife Connie have two children, Matthew and Alyssa.