OUR LEADERSHIP

 Brady Anderson  

Brady Anderson has served as United States ambassador to Tanzania, administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, and assistant attorney general of Arkansas. He has also acted as an advisor to the United States secretary of state and to the United States national security advisor.  

Anderson is the chairman of the Wycliffe USA Board of Directors in addition to his role on the Wycliffe President’s Council. He and his wife, Betty Wray Anderson, worked with Wycliffe in Africa for five years in sociolinguistics. During that time, he worked in Tanzania, Kenya, and Ethiopia.  

His service as a U.S. naval officer onboard a destroyer earned him the Vietnam Service Medal and the Navy Commendation Medal.  

Anderson holds a juris doctorate from the University of Arkansas, a bachelor’s degree in political science from Rhodes College, a diploma in missions from All Nations Christian College, and an honorary doctor of humane letters degree from Houghton College.  

He is the father of two adult daughters.    

Frank Batten, Jr.  

Frank Batten, Jr., is chairman and CEO of Landmark Media Enterprises, a diversified company with subsidiaries in newspaper, broadcast, telecommunications, and Internet. He succeeded his late father, Frank Batten, Sr., the founder of The Weather Channel, in this position. He is also recognized as a successful venture investor.  

Batten holds a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College and a master’s in business administration from the University of Virginia. He and his wife, Aimee, are members of Tabernacle Church in Norfolk, Virginia.    

Bob Creson  

Bob Creson was appointed president of Wycliffe Bible Translators USA in May 2003. Since first joining Wycliffe in 1983, he has served in a variety of positions, including leadership roles in Wycliffe Bible Translators International and SIL International, Wycliffe’s primary partner organization with headquarters in Dallas, Texas.   

Creson served as the field director in Cameroon and Chad, international field director for SIL International, international vice president for personnel, and as member of the board of directors of SIL. He currently serves as a member of the board of directors of Wycliffe Bible Translators International.  

In addition to his role at Wycliffe, Creson serves as chairman of the board for Crisis Consulting International, an organization that assesses and works to reduce risks for missionaries.  

Creson holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Pepperdine University. He pursued graduate studies in business management at California Lutheran College and in linguistics at the University of Oklahoma (Norman) and the University of Texas at Arlington.   

He has been married to his wife, Dallas, since 1973, and they have four adult children.    

David Dean  

David Dean is the president of Dean International, Inc., a management consulting firm with a focus on engineering and transportation issues. He is also the lead partner of David Dean and Associates, P.C., a Dallas, Texas, law firm with a focus on international law. Prior to the formation of both companies in 1994, he was also a partner at the Dallas law firm of Winstead, Sechrest and Minick.  

A member of the Texas Bar since 1973, Mr. Dean was active in politics prior to entering private practice. He served as the secretary of state of Texas in the early 1980s and was counsel to two Texas governors. David has recently joined the Wycliffe USA board of directors.  

He and his wife, Jean, are active in a number of nonprofit and civic ventures in Dallas, including the Dean Learning Center, a school for children with special needs.    

Phil Doud  

Phil Doud is the president of John & Phil’s Toyota Subaru Scion dealership in Corvallis, Oregon, which was founded in 1970. The dealership has won numerous corporate awards, and Doud received Time magazine’s Oregon Dealer of the Year award in 2008.  

In 2004, Doud served as an officer for the Board of Trustees of the Linn-Benton Community College Foundation. He served on the Wycliffe USA board of directors from 1996–2005.  Phil and wife, Sharon, are members of Northwest Hills Community Church, where they are advisors to young married couples. They have two grown children.    

Paul Edwards  

Paul Edwards is executive director for Wycliffe’s Last Languages Campaign, a ten-year drive to raise the people, prayer, and financial resources to start the  remaining Bible translations for language communities that still have not heard God’s Word.  

Edwards began his development career in 1978 at Stanford University, serving in both university and medical center development and eventually implementing all fundraising training for a billion-dollar campaign. Since then, he has served in executive positions at Prison Fellowship Ministries, Promise Keepers, and Hawaiian Islands Ministries.  

A graduate of Stanford and Fuller Theological Seminary, Edwards’ passion is strengthening the capacity of organizations and the skills of leaders to raise funds equal to their vision. He and his wife, Jeannie, live in Denver, Colorado.    

Dalton Lott  

Dalton Lott is the founder and CEO of Club Marketing Services, which provides sales and marketing services to wholesale clubs such as Sam’s, Wal-Mart, and Costco.  

Lott holds a bachelor’s degree and an honorary doctorate from Baptist Christian College. 

He began his career as a salesman for a major food distributor and soon became a principal in Oliver Taylor Food Brokerage Company in Dallas. He formed Club Marketing Services in the early 1980s, and today the firm has offices across the country and headquarters in Duncanville, Texas. Lott also owns and manages a number of businesses in Texas and other states.  

He is currently vice chairman of the Metro Economic Development Corporation and a member of the steering committee for the University of North Texas at Dallas. He is also a member of the board of managers for the Parkland Health & Hospital System.  

He lives in Duncanville, Texas, with his wife, Linda.    

Bernie May  

Bernie May joined Wycliffe in 1954 with his late wife, Nancy. He became a pilot with JAARS, a Wycliffe partner organization, and flew missions in the Amazon and other areas of South America. Later, he served as the president of JAARS for 5 years and president of Wycliffe USA for 12 years.   

In 1982, May started the Bibleless Peoples Prayer Project, a Wycliffe initiative that connects Christians with prayer opportunities for unreached people groups around the world. The next year, he established The Seed Company, a Wycliffe partner organization that empowers national workers to translate Scripture into their own languages.  

May is the author of the book, Under His Wing: Adventures in Trusting God.    

Roger Owens  

Roger Owens serves as the events coordinator for the Wycliffe Last Languages Campaign.  

He retired from IBM after 32 years, having held senior management roles in the United States and Europe. He also served as president of Broadway & Seymour in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Alltel Information Services in Little Rock, Arkansas.  

Owens has helped lead fundraising campaigns for several nonprofit organizations, including United Way. Since his retirement in 2000, he has served as a board member with JAARS. He was also a founding member and vice chairman of the board of Wycliffe Foundation.    

Mark Taylor  

Since 1984, Mark D. Taylor has been president and CEO of Tyndale House Publishers, a full-service Christian publishing company founded by his parents.  

Taylor served as chief stylist and director of the Bible Translation Committee for the New Living Translation. His father, Kenneth N. Taylor, wrote The Living Bible, a paraphrase of the King James Bible.  

Taylor is a graduate of Duke University. He and his wife, Carol, have five grown children, two of whom work at Tyndale House.