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Tom is an architect, developer, and business management expert with more than 30 years of experience. He is a certified accessibility specialist (CASp) in California and has completed hundreds of projects, many with accessibility retroactive compliance. He currently runs a strategic architecture practice that he reestablished after serving as a Development Executive for Atria Senior Living & Essex Property Trust. He received a BS & Bachelor of Architecture from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, an MBA from Loyola-Marymount University, and is NCARB certified. He is licensed to practice architecture in CA, AZ, and NY, and he is an AIA member in good standing.  

Mr. Jankowski is a licensed attorney and has spent the last 34 years working in the surety and construction industries. Early in his career he was a trial lawyer in Philadelphia working in private practice and for several government agencies. At Amwest Surety Insurance Company he was Vice President/Claims. While at Amwest he also helped create two affiliate companies. The first, Horizon Business Resources, Inc. was a national, surety specific, third party claims administrator. The second, Contractor Business Resources, Inc., was Amwest’s in house funds control company. Thereafter, Mr. Jankowski was Senior Vice President/General Counsel for Old Republic Surety Company and, later, a Partner in the Law Offices of Wolff & Samson. Subsequently, he was Senior Vice President at Allegheny Casualty Company and assisted ownership in creating a new civil surety division. Most recently he was COO/General Counsel and Partner in Bluestone Surety. Bluestone was a start-up surety company.  In 2012 Bluestone was acquired by American Safety Insurance Company (ASI). He worked for ASI and Hudson Insurance Company until the end of 2013. Since early 2014 he has served as an arbitrator, expert witness and consultant to surety companies and various investment groups.

Dave Wilkinson grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, a fact that becomes impotent during the baseball and football seasons. He received his BA in journalism from Whitworth University in Spokane, WA, and his masters from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, CA.    Following his ordination as a pastor in the Presbyterian Church, he served as Associate Pastor at First Presbyterian Church in Concord, CA, before moving to Oroville, CA, to serve as pastor at Trinity Presbyterian Church, where he was part of two building programs. After seven years there, he was invited in 1986 to plant a new Presbyterian Church in Moorpark, CA, where he served until his retirement in 2014. This 28-year ministry included three large building projects. Since retirement, he has served as Stated Clerk for the Presbytery of San Fernando,  which is a middle governing body of the Presbyterian Church (USA). He is married to Carol, has two grown sons and three grandchildren.

Chris Gould currently serves as Senior Vice President of National Program Development for Salem Media Group. In his 9th year in this role, he is highly engaged with dozens of local and national ministries and their teaching & preaching ministries, which are released on Salem’s Christian Teaching and Talk radio stations across America. Chris oversees all existing broadcast agreements, handles all program placement, and is continually developing new national programming content and partnerships. Prior to joining Salem’s executive team, Chris served as Salem’s General Manager in Tampa, FL, for 10 years. Prior to joining Salem, Chris held various sales and management positions with Fairbanks Communications, Clear Channel/iHeart, Infinity/CBS, and loyalty marketing leader Fairwest Direct. Chris has become well-acquainted with a wide variety of Christian communicators and pastors—many of who are Salem’s closest ministry partners including John MacArthur, Chuck Swindoll, Jim Daly, Alistair Begg, Charles Stanley, David Jeremiah, Tony Evans, Robert Jeffress, and Albert Mohler.

Married for 31 years, Chris and Michelle now live in Moorpark, CA, and have four children ranging from ages 22 to 29. He leads a bible fellowship group every week and loves the local church. He also loves to read, teach, and, of course, study God’s Word.