Our Daily Bread Leadership

Cereen Varghese is a SVP and Chief Technology Officer at Our Daily Bread Ministries and Vice President- Information Technology (Software Engineering Process) at Concentrix and is based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She studied at Assumption College Changanacherry 686 101 between 1994 and 1996 and Cochin University of Science and Technology between 1996 and 2000.

Senior Financial executive with wide-ranging experiences in industry leading global publishing, information solutions and communications companies and with a leading public accounting firm. Expertise includes strategic planning, budgeting, financial reporting, financial analysis and modeling, acquisitions/divestitures, financial controls, audit and SOX compliance and project management. Innovative financial and operational problem-solver. International experience includes a 2-year expatriate leadership role in London, England.

Key leader with a "can do" attitude, innovative, flexible, focused and results oriented. 30+-year career in project management, system engineering, software development, information technology initiatives and system integration successfully managing several large projects. Strong consultative and collaborative skills coupled with demonstrated ability to build key strategic partnerships within the organization and with outside business partners. Proven enterprise-wide strategic and analytical skills in identifying and completing organizational initiatives critical to company’s success. Strong negotiator and relationship builder.

Combining business management skills with technical knowledge, leveraging systems and technology executive background to drive process reengineering and standardization across all business units, reducing costs and improving ROI.

Voted best CIO in Sri Lanka.

Specialties:

Team builder

Team-coach

Guest speaker at various events inside and outside of IS

Strategic planning expert not only for technology plans but also to enable business alignment

Lean Expert

Agile Expert

Scrum Master

Project Management leader

CIO

IT center operations, infrastructure operations

Sets technology vision and technology direction organization wide by aligning technology with business needs

Improve cost effectiveness and therefore decreases the operating budget

Mergers

Acquisitions

Contract negotiations

Matt Brubaker MBA is a Chief Operating Officer at Our Daily Bread Ministries and is based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He has worked as Chief Digital Officer at Jesus Film Project, Adjunct Professor of Marketing at Cornerstone University, and Field Staff Member at Cru. Matt attended Virginia Tech between 2000 and 2004 and Crummer Graduate School of Business at Rollins College between 2013 and 2014.

Max Smith is a CFO at Our Daily Bread Ministries and is based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He has worked as Partner at Deloitte & Touche CPAs. Max attended Ferris State University between 1961 and 1963.