The Signatry Team

As the Applications Systems Administrator, Angela is responsible for the day-to-day administration, integration, and lifecycle health of The Signatry’s business systems portfolio, with primary focus on the Foundation Management Solution (FMS) platform.

Vicky serves as Deputy General Counsel for the legal team at The Signatry. Vicky earned her Bachelor of Arts from Oral Roberts University and her Juris Doctor from University of Nebraska College of Law.  She has spent her career working as a Judicial Law Clerk, Independent, Associate and Staff Attorney, as well as General Counsel.

Savannah Ansett serves as the marketing automation specialist at The Signatry. Savannah develops, implements, and manages the strategies for data flow and personalized marketing automation for the people who have connected with The Signatry, both before and after they become donors. She brings experience from the corporate and non-profit worlds and lives in Spring Hill, TN, with her husband.

Morgan Appleby serves as the Digital Marketing Specialist at The Signatry, where she finds effective and innovative ways to introduce The Signatry to and connect with potential donors through our advertising and public-facing content. She brings diverse marketing experience from a variety of settings to the team and lives in Chambersburg, PA, with her family.

Dale Armstrong serves as the Chief Revenue Officer of the Signatry. In his role, Dale equips and encourages individuals to pursue a life of biblical generosity through sound principles, creative solutions and charitable strategies. Having spent his career as a business owner and consultant working in faith driven initiatives, Dale is uniquely qualified to come alongside Christian business owners and philanthropists who have a passion for growing the Kingdom of God.

Shannon Bartkoski serves The Signatry as Senior Accountant, Donor Fund Accounting. Shannon works on the Finance team to monitor gifts related to donor fund accounting and cash management via Give Interactive. She has over six years experience in wealth management processing and finance services.

Heather Benak is The Lead Donor Care Specialist at The Signatry. Heather provides high touch donors with outstanding, solutions-focused experience delivered with excellence, timeliness, and accuracy. This role ensures all donor interactions align with the legal, operational, and ministry requirements of a donor advised fund (DAF) sponsoring organization.

Lauren serves as Social Media Specialist on the Marketing team at The Signatry.

Michael serves as a Staff Accountant at The Signatry.

Phil Boone is a National Relationship Manager at The Signatry. He serves on our relational team, connecting God’s laborers and Kingdom resources to fulfill the needs of God’s people through the mission and vision of The Signatry.

Andrew serves as Deputy General Counsel at The Signatry. Andrew earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and History from University of Alabama at Birmingham and went on to receive a Juris Doctor from Samford University – Cumberland School of Law in Homewood, AL. Since then, he has worked as a legal associate, assistant law professor, served as the Principal Attorney in a law firm in Alabama and most recently served as General Counsel for Prison Fellowship Ministries.

Aril Brizendine serves as System Administrator, Foundation Systems at The Signatry. She leads The Signatry’s Run Technology function — the people, platforms, processes, and partner ecosystem that keep our business-critical systems available, secure, and reliable day to day. Aril partners with the CIO to translate organizational needs into a sustainable operations strategy spanning Systems Administration, Cybersecurity, and Data Management. Her position holds enterprise accountability for the platform portfolio, oversees managed-service partner relationships, and serves as the senior escalation point for major operational and security events affecting fund operations, donor data, and regulatory reporting.

Trevor Bunch serves as The Signatry’s Chief Information Officer. He is responsible for coordinating the technical solutions that will enable securely serving donors. Trevor collaborates across The Signatry to streamline processes and elevate data to facilitate decision-making by the Board, key executives, staff, and clients. He is responsible for securing platforms and guiding and expanding the footprint of The Signatry’s services.

Trevor started his career in Enterprise Architecture and IT portfolio management consulting for federal agencies. For the past decade, he pivoted his focus on fusing together technical, operational, and marketing goals for nonprofit organizations. Trevor has served as a field-based CIO for a global nonprofit, set product direction for a nonprofit marketing agency, consults on data strategy, and teaches computer science courses.

Trevor and his wife, Julie, along with their three children live, play, and serve in South Central Pennsylvania.

Jared serves as Technical Lead Manager at The Signatry. He leads solution engineering efforts, balancing hands-on technical work with leadership and mentorship. Jared provides architectural oversight, ensures data security alignment, and works closely with business and technology leaders to deliver effective solutions.

Nikki Carlson serves as Senior Manager of Finance Operations for The Signatry and is responsible for Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, billing, reconciliations, and other internal accounting activities. Before joining The Signatry, Nikki gained her accounting knowledge while bookkeeping for a small product-development company, and she has over 10 years of experience in accounting.

Kathryn (Katie) Carr serves as Senior Data Analyst for the Technology team at The Signatry. She is responsible for performing strategic data analysis, conducting internal and market research, and publishing key reports to support executive decision-making and enable operational excellence.

Greg serves The Signatry as the Chief Accounting and Compliance Officer. In this role, he leads the organization’s corporate accounting, payroll and benefits administration, governmental regulatory compliance, tax, and audit leadership functions. A certified public accountant, Greg joined The Signatry in 2023 after holding accounting leadership roles at a number of other organizations.

Benjamin serves as Cybersecurity Implementation Specialist for The Signatry. He supports cybersecurity policy compliance, security awareness training, and incident response, while also contributing to data and solution engineering efforts in collaboration with the technology team and service providers.

Shyla Collins serves as Nonprofit Research Specialist for our Nonprofit Success team. She is part of the team that vets recommended nonprofit grant recipients to ensure they meet The Signatry’s granting criteria. Her education is in psychology, and she has experience working in behavior therapy and administrative support.

Sarah serves on the Donor Care team as a Grants Processing Specialist. She supports the organization’s mission by ensuring grants are processed accurately and on time, while upholding IRS compliance and The Signatry’s biblical values. Sarah brings a detail-oriented approach and a commitment to excellence to help maintain effective grant flow and high processing standards.

Ashleigh serves as an Executive Assistant at The Signatry working directly with the national relationship management team. She is responsible for a variety of tasks to maintain thorough organization, implementation, and communication. Ashleigh is a former business administrator and brings experience working with nonprofits to The Signatry team.

Hailey Dornhofer serves as an administrative assistant on our operations team at The Signatry.

Micah Edman is The Senior Specialist, Capital Administration at The Signatry. Micah is responsible for overseeing and facilitating the deployment of capital within and amongst Donor Advised Funds (DAFs) that are invested in Advisor Managed Accounts (AMAs), and Alternative and Private Investments of The Signatry.

Dane Frazier serves as the Chief Legal Officer of The Signatry, where he manages the organization’s internal legal needs and partners alongside donors and their advisors to structure efficient giving. Since joining The Signatry, he has negotiated gifts and sales of dozens of nonliquid assets, including closely held stock and real estate. A western Kansas native transplanted to North Carolina, Dane enjoys trail running, rucking, and beach trips with his wife, Abigail. Dane is a member of Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Stephen (Steve) French is President and CEO of The Signatry. His primary role is strategic management and leadership of the office. He also devotes his time meeting with advisors, attorneys, individuals, and business owners to develop strategies and solutions to minimize tax liability, while maximizing charitable giving. This is executed with specific emphasis in the area of non-liquid assets such as: stock, real estate, mutual funds, and portions of closely held businesses.

Prior to joining The Signatry, Steve was the founder and CEO of Quovant, a Legal Spend Management company working with law firms in over 13 countries.

Steve is married to his wife Debbie and they have two daughters – Marnie and Rachel, who have blessed them with four grandsons.

Jordan serves on our stakeholder services team as a Donor Care Specialist, assisting with donor requests on all fund related activity. Jordan earned his Bachelor of Science from Grand Canyon University and spent the last two years in Kandern, Germany serving as the Athletic Director for Black Forest Academy.

Kiley serves as a Finance Specialist for The Signatry. In her role, Kiley supports the Finance Team on Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, expense reporting, and certain finance functions within our online donor platform.

Kristin Hammett is the Vice President of Family Generosity Services for The Signatry. She is focused on equipping and encouraging families to purposefully consider what questions God has given them the resources and heart to answer, modeling obedience to his will to current and future generations while actively participating in advancing the kingdom of God.

Tina Haney serves as a Staff Accountant on the Donor Advised Fund Accounting team. Tina has an extensive background in accounting, including nearly three years as an accountant at Black & Veatch. Before that, she worked in grant accounting with Catholic Charities of Northeast Kansas.

Aubrey Hills serves as Assistant Controller for The Signatry. Aubrey assists in managing the organization’s accounting and financial reporting functions. She ensures the accuracy and integrity of financial records, supports month-end and year-end close processes, maintains internal controls, and helps drive continuous improvement within the accounting department.

Brydaniele serves as a Technology System Assistant on the Technology team at The Signatry. She has studied in Information Technology at the University of Kansas and works to ensure foundational IT services are fully operational and services device management, software licensing, and day-to-day technical support among our organization.

Hannah Johnson serves as Corporate Counsel on the legal team at The Signatry. In this role, Hannah is a key player in The Signatry’s nonliquid assets transactions and management. Reporting to the Chief Legal Officer, the she will be involved in the diligence process for nonliquid asset gifts and alternative investments, negotiation and preparation of agreements with donors and related entities, and communicating complex legal and tax principles to internal and external stakeholders while representing The Signatry.

Amber Joy serves on the legal team at The Signatry as Associate Corporate Counsel. Amber Joy earned a Bachelor of Arts from Saint Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri. She went on to receive a Juris Doctor from Seton Hall University School of Law in Newark, New Jersey. Since then, Amber Joy has worked as a Law Clerk with a New Jersey law firm, the Supreme Court of New Jersey, and most recently as an Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Appeals, with the Office of the Attorney General for the State of Oklahoma.

Eric Klinger serves as The Vice President of Financial Planning & Analysis at The Signatry. Eric is responsible for leading our financial modeling initiatives at The Signatry, combining technical financial modeling expertise with the ability to translate the data into clear, actionable insights.

Mark Klinger is an Executive Vice President at The Signatry. He supports the finance team and the CEO on special projects. Mark has an MBA in Finance with experience in large corporate and start-up businesses.

Amy serves as Senior Project Manager for legal team at The Signatry. In this role, she offers broad support to the legal team in areas such as business interest gifts, alternative investments, and administrative tasks, and also works closely with other teams at The Signatry to meet the organization’s diverse legal needs.

Colby Leseberg serves as the Director of Finance with The Signatry team. In his role, Colby handles the accounting processes required for complex assets under management with The Signatry. Colby manages financial functions for gifts of real estate, our biblical artifacts, our Supporting Organizations, and is responsible for finance and accounting functions associated with alternative investments, a rapidly growing part of our business. With over 10 years of experience in finance and accounting, Colby has worked on high level projects in the commercial real estate industry.

Alexa MacDonald serves as a Nonprofit Research Specialist on the Nonprofit Success Team. Alexa received a Bachelor’s Degree in Communications from Tarleton State University in 2009 and a Practical Ministry Degree from Christ for the Nation’s Institute in 2010. She recently moved back to the San Antonio area to be closer to family after spending 10 years as a missionary.

Ben Martin serves as VP of Marketing at The Signatry. Ben is responsible for leading the content and fundholder marketing efforts of The Signatry, including creating marketing strategy for our platforms and managing the project workflow for The Signatry brand initiatives. With over two decades marketing experience with ministries and nonprofit organizations, Ben brings a creative perspective in expanding content approaches and growing donor engagement.

Jill serves as an Executive Assistant to the Chief Revenue Officer at The Signatry. She has a background in Business from Liberty University as well as experience in administration and event coordination.

Julia Oliver serves The Signatry as the Director of Granting. Julia leads both the Grants Processing and Nonprofit Success teams in fulfilling the primary mission of The Signatry — facilitating revolutionary biblical generosity to provide transformational financial support to nonprofit organizations and churches worldwide.

Shanna serves as a Director of Asset Stewardship at The Signatry, coordinating the information, meetings, and relationships necessary to manage gift intakes, asset management, and the disposition process for non-liquid gifts, ensuring each project is completed successfully from start to finish.

Eugene serves as a software developer on the technology team at The Signatry. Eugene is a full stack developer by trade with experience in React, JavaScript, and Python. He’s previously worked as a software engineer at Vista Metals and studied at Chaffey College. He’s passionate about building clean, practical applications from the ground up.

Hannah Peterson serves The Signatry family generosity and legacy initiatives as project manager. She focuses on helping family workshops and education for family units thrive through generosity experiences and specialized training. Her background in developing resources, tools, and coordinating events plays a key part in successful family generosity services for The Signatry.

Alan Pratt, a Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy, serves as a National Relationship Manager. In his role, Alan works to equip others with the creative tools, strategies, and insight they need to maximize their generosity and establish a lasting legacy. Alan seeks to use his decades of experience as a financial professional, legacy advisor, and business owner to help families flourish.

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Karen serves as Junior Legal Project Manager on the legal team at The Signatry. Karen earned her Bachelor of Engineering Science from Penn State University in PA and continued earning additional certifications in Microsoft 365, digital transformation, and business intelligence over the course of her career. She now assists with the asset intake and project workflow for nonliquid gifts for clients at The Signatry.

Samantha serves as Grants Processing Specialist on our Donor Care insuring the dissemination of funds toward impact through grants from the organization.

As Executive Vice President, Stakeholder Services, Stewart Rawley provides strategic direction, operational accountability, and leadership development to the Donor Care, Investment Education, and Nonprofit teams at The Signatry. Stewart’s expertise from leadership roles in people, culture, operations, and human resources helps serve and facilitate the journey of our donor families from the point of contribution to approved grant recommendation. Stewart has over 30 years in leadership experience that he carries into his coordination with The Signatry’s senior leadership on developing our first class donor, nonprofit, and advisor relationships. Stewart lives in the Nashville, TN area with his wife and has three children.

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Allison serves as a Director of Administrative Support at The Signatry, coordinating the information, meetings, and collaboration necessary for the organization’s national relationships, events, and projects at the leadership level.

Bethany serves as the Director of Donor Advised Fund Accounting at The Signatry. She is responsible for the fund accounting of donor advised funds as well as corporate accounting functions and bank reconciliations. Bethany holds a MBA in International Business and has several years of experience in international mutual fund accounting. Bethany also has ministry staff experience and has had the opportunity to teach English overseas.

Alexis serves on the grants processing team to keep the grants flowing out in a timely manner while simultaneously upholding legal IRS compliance as well as adherence to the biblical values of The Signatry. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Exercise Science & Health Science from the University of Nebraska, Kearney, NE, followed by a Master of Business Administration from University of Saint Mary in Leavenworth, KS.

Taylor serves as a Legal Project Manager at The Signatry. With a passion for driving project success, a background in the real estate industry, and discerning attention to detail, Taylor ensures operational efficiency for the Legal Department by managing non-liquid real estate gifts and supporting the organization’s legal functions.

Lauren serves as a Senior Donor Care Specialist for The Signatry. Her main role is assisting donors with their funds and the causes they support and providing lead support for the Kansas City Donor Care team. Lauren has served in customer service and donor relations for over 15 years.

Terri serves as a Gifts Processing Coordinator for The Signatry. Terri brings over 20 years of experience in church business management, bookkeeping, and pastoral support. She is also very involved in the Worship and Children’s ministries at her church.

Melissa serves as the Director of Talent Support at The Signatry.

Kerry Svendsen serves as Senior Specialist, Account Administration at The Signatry. Kerry is an experienced professional in business and customer relations. Her background in volunteering for various organizations and nonprofits brings a desire to serve others. She oversees any new account openings to ensure a smooth transition between The Signatry and investment managers recommended by our donors. Kerry looks forward to helping donors live out their legacy at The Signatry.

Jake serves as the Director of Investment Education and Accounts for The Signatry, where he works with financial advisors, RIAs, and family offices to transform charitable giving through Advisor Managed Accounts (AMAs). He leads investment due diligence for the AMA platform, evaluating advisory firms and alternative investment recommendations, and partners with advisors to help families steward charitable capital for lasting impact. Jake brings nearly 20 years of investment management experience to his role.

Lesli Tyson Carnes serves as Vice President of Client Engagement for The Signatry. Hailing from a background of ministry, missions, and music, she understands the crucial relationship between donors and the nonprofits they love and support. Lesli has spent years training and developing customer service teams that recognize the unique needs and goals of donors and nonprofits involved in advancing the kingdom of God, equipping the team to serve with excellence and care. Her experience in directing a team of eight international offices and a US-based call center has culminated in her desire to integrate strategic process for growth and scaling with a heart of compassion.

Sarah serves as Senior Specialist, Capital Administration for The Signatry. In this role, Sarah is responsible for overseeing and monitoring the information workflow to establish and maintain Advisor Managed Accounts (AMAs) and the investments therein, including alternative investments.

Brenson serves as a Senior Accountant at The Signatry. He assists with complex gifts of real estate, supporting organizations, and alternative investments. With 8 years of accounting and finance experience in manufacturing, logistics, and banking, Brenson has worked to implement and optimize many different financial systems.

Christine Wilkerson serves as Senior Donor Care Process Coordinator for The Signatry. She serves The Signatry community by helping donors with their funds and generosity needs, and coordinating updates with the online giving platform. Christine brings over 9 years of experience in administrative support with nonprofits and higher education institutions.

Amber serves as a Staff Accountant & Treasury Analyst at The Signatry. She has over 6 years of experience in Finance Services. Amber pays the grants and reconciles our bank accounts. She loves being able to use her skills and knowledge to help grow the Kingdom of God.

Lindsee Willis serves The Signatry as Senior Financial Analyst. In this role, Lindsee is responsible for supporting financial reporting, KPI and dashboard development, budget development, and variance analysis for The Signatry.

Saydie serves as a Donor Care Specialist at The Signatry. She provides donors with excellent, timely, and accurate support, ensuring every interaction aligns with legal, operational, and ministry requirements.

Marnie serves as Senior Accountant, Non-Cash Gifts for the finance team at The Signatry. She is responsible for the financial process in business interest gifts, managing the cash flow of business interest gifts, distributions, and sale proceeds with DAFs. Marnie has 30+ years experience in financial planning and analysis, financial reporting, accounting research, and public accounting audit and tax.

Joe Wright serves as a Software Engineer on our technology team at The Signatry. He brings strong problem-solving, edge case identification, and communication skills as he pivots from Messiah University operations into software development.

Drew serves as the Data Manager at The Signatry. In his role, Drew is responsible for maintaining and improving organizational data integrity and accessibility in support of optimizing business operations, organizational decision-making, and customer experiences. This is accomplished through data standardization, database management, targeted data migration, providing actionable insights from data analysis, and recommending improvements to business processes.

Jenn Wynn serves as alternative investments project manager, the central coordinator among the legal, IEA, finance, and donor care teams, overseeing the full lifecycle of alternative investments, from initial due diligence to ongoing management and eventual liquidation.

Jason Yakelis serves as The Signatry’s Chief Operating Officer. Drawing from over two decades of professional experience guiding businesses and nonprofits from idea to implementation, he champions the operational requirements for the foundation’s internal and external customers to successfully engage with its mission. With responsibility for driving decisions around corporate planning, technology, talent recruitment and development, donor care, nonprofit success, investment account management, and administrative support, Jason plays a key role in the activation of The Signatry’s mission.

In addition to his formal role with The Signatry, Jason is a Paterson Guide for StratOp & LifePlan. Through this work, he facilitates organizational, team, and individual development processes, allowing participants to glean new perspectives from their personal or corporate stories, gain clarity on the direction they wish to grow, and commit to living and acting intentionally and accountably from that purpose and vision.

Megan Yeomans serves as Chief Financial Officer for The Signatry. In this role, she leads the organization’s finance functions around its DAF platform transactions, overall investments, and financial planning and analysis. First joining The Signatry in 2019, Megan has over a decade of finance experience, including her work as an international mutual funds accountant.

Yanli serves as a Senior Accountant for Tax and Nonliquid Gifts at The Signatry. She has over 8 years of experience in tax and is a licensed CPA in Missouri. She received a Master’s degree in Accounting from University of Missouri-Kansas City in 2015.