Barney Ford has been with InterVarsity for more than thirty five years serving in a wide variety of positions - Campus Staff Member, Area Director, Regional Director, Associate Director of Campus Ministry, Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Urbana Director and Dean of Leadership Development. In 2001, he asked to step down from all positional authority in order to pursue greater depth in the spiritual disciplines and to provide pastoral care for staff.

In addition to his work within InterVarsity, his experience includes the Harvard Business School Executive Education Program and Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management. Barney has chaired several boards - International Fellowship of Evangelical Students, Chapel of the Air Ministries and the Christian Partnership Council. He continues to serve as a Vice President of International Fellowship of Evangelical Students.

Barney is married to Arlene. They have three daughters and reside in Madison, Wisconsin.

Jim received his B. S. in Business Administration from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and an M. A. R. from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. While Regional Director for twenty plus years, the Great Lakes West Region grew steadily with significant expansion in ministry with Asian Americans, Graduate Students, Greeks and Roman Catholics. He co-directed Marketplace ’86, InterVarsity's conference on marketplace ministry. Jim serves on the Board of Directors of Overflow Ministries (focused on developing leaders in racial reconciliation) and the General Council of Latin America Mission.

He loves (to his great sadness all too often) the Chicago Cubs and Bears. He enjoys reading in the areas of history, leadership development and The Bible Speaks Today series from InterVarsity Press.

He is currently serving as the Publisher of InterVarsity Press (Westmont, Illinois) and a senior vice president of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. Bob and Alice have two daughters. Dorie is married and living in Iowa City with her husband Steve who is pursuing a doctorate in Religious Studies at the U. of Iowa. They have two sons, Nathan and Justin. Bob and Alice's younger daughter, Elisa is editor of Shaw Books at Waterbrook Press in Colorado Springs with her husband, Eric Stanford. Alice continues to be heavily involved in a spiritual direction ministry with women in the Chicago area and in their church. The Frylings live in Woodridge, Illinois.

Jim Tebbe joined InterVarsity Christian Fellowship in 2002 to become the Director of Urbana 03, InterVarsity’s triennial mission convention, held in December 2003 at the University of Illinois-Champaign/Urbana. He also directed Urbana 06, held in December 2006 at The America's Center and the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis.

Jim moved to InterVarsity from Interserve, an international, interdenominational fellowship ministering throughout South and Central Asia and the Middle East. He pastored international churches in Pakistan and Bangladesh before joining the Christian Study Center in Pakistan, a resource for the Christian churches in that country in the areas of the culture and religion of Islam. In 1992, Jim was appointed Interserve’s International Director.

He did his undergraduate work at Indiana University, where he was President of the InterVarsity chapter. He received a M.Div. from Gordon Conwell Seminary, an MA in Near Eastern Studies/Islamics from Princeton, and a Ph.D. from St. John’s College in Nottingham, England.

Jim is married to Beth, who joins her husband in working in the Madison, Wisconsin based headquarters of InterVarsity. They have four children.

Karon was born in Santa Monica, CA and grew up learning all aspects of ETronics, the electronic manufacturing business her parents owned and operated. Karon was co-manager of the business in the early 1970s.

She came to faith in Christ in 1973 through the college ministry of Bel Air Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles, and as a result highly values the ministry of college students to college students. She was active in the college group leadership team for seven years, and was on the church staff for three years, frequently serving with college ministry directors who were current or former InterVarsity staff.

Karon earned a B.S. in Business Administration with a Journalism minor from California State University, Northridge. While working on her degree Karon also did contract and office management for Econergy, an energy consulting firm working on Dept. of Energy contracts.

In 1980 Karon joined InterVarsity as Registrar for Washington 80 and Urbana 81. In 1982 she became Urbana Operations Director, serving Urbana's '84, '87, '90, '93, '96, and 2000 in that role. In addition she was Director of the Conference Services Department of InterVarsity in the 1980's. She has also served as Associate Director of Urbana, Operations Director of Missions, and Senior Associate Director of Missions and Urbana. Since 1997, Karon has served as Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer. In this role, she oversees support service areas including General Services, Donation Services, Accounting, Information Services, Human Resources, Web Store, Legal, and InterVarsity's retreat and training centers: Campus by the Sea, Beartrap Ranch, Cedar Campus and Toah Nipi.

Andy, Karon's husband, is a biologist who works in Water Resource Management for the Department of Natural Resources for the State of Wisconsin. The Mortons live in Madison with their two sons, Scott and Jon, and attend Blackhawk Evangelical Free Church.

Paul is a third-generation Japanese American who grew up in San Jose, California. He graduated from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo with a B.S. in Journalism in 1973. He also holds a Master of Christian Studies, from New College Berkeley.

Paul has been with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship since 1973 in a variety of leadership and management roles, including Southeast Regional Director, National Asian American Ministry Coordinator and Associate Dean for Leadership Development. As Vice-President and Director of Strategic Ministries he oversees ministries focused on Greek, Nursing, and International Students, as well as Evangelism, and Staff Development and Training departments.

Paul is a co-author of Following Jesus Without Dishonoring Your Parents (1998), editor/co-author of Faith on the Edge (1999), author of The Power of Friendship (2002) and Invitation to Lead: Guidance for Emerging Asian American Leaders (2003) all published by InterVarsity Press. He also edited Developing Asian American Leaders (1998), an in-house handbook for InterVarsity staff working with Asian American student leaders. He is the creator of “Remember! A Multi-media Reader’s Theater of InterVarsity’s Multiethnic History." He has written many articles for Christian and secular publications.

Paul speaks regularly at conferences for adults and young professionals as well as for college students. He was a featured speaker at Urbana ’90. A large part of his ministry in recent years has been consulting with senior and middle management in the development of Asian American and multiethnic ministry.

He is the founder/director of The Daniel Project, a 15-month intensive leadership development program to prepare Blacks, Latinos and Asian Americans for senior leadership positions in InterVarsity. He has also served on advisory councils for several Christian and secular organizations. Paul was a founding board member of the Southeast Chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League. He is a registered conflict resolution court neutral for Georgia and Florida legal systems.

Paul and his wife Margaret live with their son Sam in Atlanta, Georgia.

Paula Fuller was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She joined the staff of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship in 2005, after serving as a volunteer for seven years. Paula has served in full-time vocational ministry since 1996, first as the Director of Outreach and Development at Abundant Life Christian Fellowship, a nondenominational, multiethnic ministry in Menlo Park, CA. After completing seminary in 2001, she joined the pastoral staff and served as the Pastor of Business Operations.

Prior to joining the ministry of Abundant Life, Paula worked in the banking and telecommunications industries in the areas of risk management, business development, marketing and strategy.

Paula received a B.S. in Finance from U.C. Berkeley in 1987, an MBA from Stanford University in 1992, and a Masters of Divinity degree from Fuller Theological Seminary in 2001. She has served as an advisory team member, speaker and student mentor for InterVarsity's National MBA Ministries (1998-2000) and she joined the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship Board of Trustees in 2000. Paula served as the Chair of the Board of Trustees from 2002 until 2004 and the Chair of the Multiethnic Committee of the Board.