Erika Andresen, JD, CBCP, MPA

Founder
EaaS Consulting, LLC

Erika Andresen, JD, CBCP, MPA is Founder of EaaS Consulting, LLC, and a recognized expert and consultant in business continuity. She has nearly two decades of experience as a lawyer in both the corporate finance world and the military. Erika became a subject matter expert in national security and disaster preparedness and response while advising different commands including during high-risk situations while deployed in Afghanistan. She also has extensive experience writing and overseeing/coaching large-scale military exercises. Her work with actual disasters led her to attain a Master of Public Affairs (MPA). Andresen, who is based in Asheville, North Carolina, was a featured plenary speaker at C-Suite 2025 in Tucson, Arizona and will return this year to facilitate our industry roundtable discussions. 

Greg Bays

Chief Revenue Officer
Cook Media Global

Greg Bays is the Chief Revenue Officer at Cook Media Global, which includes David C Cook, Integrity Music, and Group Publishing. He brings extensive experience across sales, marketing, distribution, and digital business development. Greg began his career in a local Christian bookstore in Arizona, where he developed a lifelong passion for Christian books and music. He later spent 25 years at Capitol Christian Music Group, where he ultimately served as Executive Vice President of Sales & Distribution, creating sales and marketing strategies for a wide range of books, music, and films.

In 2017, Greg joined Integrity Music to lead sales and digital business while also helping to build the label’s Integrated Music Rights division. In 2024, he was appointed Chief Revenue Officer for Cook Media Global, providing strategic oversight and alignment across all sales-related functions for books, curriculum, and music.

Throughout his career, Greg has been dedicated to championing stories and songs, helping people around the world encounter the presence of God and grow in a deeper relationship with Jesus. Greg and his wife have three children and live in Franklin, Tennessee.

Tom Clegg

Founder
Clegg Consulting Group

Tom Clegg is a leadership consultant, executive coach, and organizational strategist. As founder of Clegg Consulting Group, he has more than thirty years of experience helping leaders and teams reach their full potential. Through his work with entrepreneurs, executives, and managers around the world, Tom is known for combining strategic curiosity with grounded empathy — helping organizations not only perform better but become better people. With an engaging, humorous, and story-driven teaching style, Tom brings clarity and heart to the often messy work of leading people.

James Daunt

CEO
Barnes & Noble

James Daunt is Chief Executive Officer of Barnes & Noble, the world’s largest retail bookseller, of stationery and gift retailer Paper Source and of Waterstones, the largest retail bookseller in the United Kingdom. He currently oversees approximately 610 Barnes & Noble bookstores and 125 Paper Source in the United States and over 300 bookshops across the United Kingdom, Ireland, The Netherlands and Belgium, which include Waterstones, Blackwell’s, Foyles and Hatchards. Daunt has over 30 years of experience in bookselling. After eschewing an early career as an investment banker, he opened his own bookstore in London in 1990, called (unimaginatively) Daunt Books. Daunt Books now has nine locations, mainly in London, and remains independently owned by Daunt. In 2011, Daunt was appointed Managing Director of Waterstones when businessman Alexander Mamut bought the struggling bookseller. Waterstones was subsequently restored to profitability, a success that led to the acquisition of a majority stake in the business by Elliott Advisors in July 2018. Elliott acquired Barnes & Noble in August 2019 and Barnes & Noble purchased Paper Source in May 2021. Besides his successes in bookselling, Daunt was elected as an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2017 and appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2022 Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to the publishing industry. He is a graduate of Pembroke College at the University of Cambridge, where he studied history. He is married and has two daughters.

Chriscynethia Floyd

Chief Curriculum Officer
David C Cook and Group Publishing

Chriscynethia Floyd is a publishing executive with over 20 years of experience. Chriscynethia currently serves in the role of Chief Curriculum Officer at David C Cook and Group Publishing. She was formerly the vice president and publisher, U.S. for Our Daily Bread Ministries. Chriscynethia also previously served as vice president deputy publisher at Simon and Schuster (New York) and vice president of sales and marketing at David C. Cook (Colorado). In addition, she has held leadership roles at HarperCollins Christian Publishing as senior director of sales and then vice president of marketing (based in Grand Rapids), HarperCollins Publishing (New York City) and Barnes & Noble as a national book buyer.

Dr. Matt Lucas

CEO/President
Our Daily Bread Ministries

Dr. Matt Lucas has served in Christian non-profits for 20 years. Presently, he is serving as the CEO/President of Our Daily Bread Ministries, a global Bible engagement ministry with a staff of 700 serving in 32 offices to distribute hundreds of millions print and digital resources in 58 languages in more than 150 countries. Prior to ODBM, he served in Christian higher education as Provost at Corban University and Chancellor at Indiana Wesleyan University. He writes for ODBM, speaks regularly, and works with churches around the world. In his spare time, he loves to hike with his wife, Tammy, and spend time with his six daughters and four grandchildren.

Joel J. Miller

Chief Content Officer
Full Focus

Joel J. Miller is chief content officer of Full Focus. As a writer and editor, he has more than fifteen years of experience in the publishing industry, including as a vice president of editorial and acquisitions for Thomas Nelson, an imprint of HarperCollins. He’s the author of four books, including The Revolutionary Paul Revere, a biography of the early American hero and, most recently, The Idea Machine How Books Built Our World and Shape Our Future. His articles have been featured in Reason, the Washington Post, American Spectator, and National Review.

Heather Pubols

President and CEO
Media Associates International

Heather Pubols is President and CEO of Media Associates International, a global network that equips and connects Christian writers, editors, and publishers in underserved regions. A communications leader with more than 20 years of experience, she previously served as editorial director of Evangelical Missions Quarterly, managing editor of Christian Daily International, and founded a global photojournalism initiative with the Wycliffe Global Alliance. She lived abroad for nearly a decade, and her work has taken her to more than 50 countries.

Paul Tokunaga

Founder
Multi-Ethnic Leadership Development

Paul Tokunaga is a third-generation Japanese American from San Jose, California. He earned a B.S. in Journalism from California Polytechnic State University in 1973 and later completed a Master of Christian Studies at New College Berkeley in 1989. He is the founder of MELD (Multi-Ethnic Leadership Development) and former Vice President with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. He has over 40 years of experience in leadership development and diversity training, is a certified facilitator in cultural intelligence and unconscious bias, and author of Invitation to Lead. Paul lives in Atlanta with his wife Margaret.

Dr. Wahid Wahba and Dr. Laila Wahba

Founders
Middle East Leadership Training Institute

In 1976, Dr. Wahid Wahba felt a profound calling from God to invest in others through Christian ministry. A dentist by profession, he responded to this call by leaving his dental practice in 1994 to pursue full-time ministry. Similarly, Dr. Laila Wahba, a pediatrician, answered God's call to step away from her medical career to commit to ministry fully. Alongside her ministry work, Dr. Laila is also a PhD-trained trauma therapist, using her skills to serve those needing healing.

Together, the Wahba’s have equipped millions of Christian leaders worldwide. In 2000, they founded the Middle East Leadership Training Institute (MELTI), which now reaches 45,000 individuals annually across 25 countries in the Middle East and North Africa. The institute aims to train and empower Christian leaders to serve their communities and build the church amidst challenging environments.

The Wahba’s run one of the largest Christian publishing houses in the Middle East, translating the best discipleship and leadership resources from the West into Arabic. 4G3 (For the Global Glory of God) is a not for profit organization that equips individuals with disciple-making tools and training needed to make an impact within their communities and their country. www.4g3.org