Brad is a 1986 summa cum laude graduate of Messiah College, and a 1990 graduate of the University of Rochester School of Medicine. He served as a flight surgeon in the U.S. Air Force for four years until returning to Hershey, PA in 1995 to complete his residency in Internal Medicine at the Penn State University Medical Center, where he also was named chief resident in his residency program from 1997-98. He now practices medicine at the Lebanon VA Medical Center in Lebanon, PA, where he serves as the medical director of the Home Based Primary Care program, a collaborator for the introduction for the Care Coordination and Telehealth program, the POW medical examiner, and researched, proposed and introduced the current pulmonary rehabilitation program.

Brad and his wife, Jo, are high school sweethearts and the parents of four biological and two adopted children. They became increasingly involved in adoption and orphan care following their first adoption in 2003, and several medical trips to China. In subsequent years, he has worked with and sits on the boards of several adoption agencies and humanitarian organizations to promote adoption awareness and global orphan care.

Mark Sprenger joined HISG in 2007 after 33 years of experience in emergency response and emergency response training. He is a gifted teacher whose forward thinking has earned local, national and international distinction among peers and students.

Mark began his career as a firefighter in Fort Collins, Colorado in 1973. He responded to an estimated 10,000 emergencies over 17 years and was promoted to leadership positions directing Rescue Squads, Companies, and an entire Fire Battalion consisting of nine stations and over 100 personnel.

As a firefighter, Mark identified a need for training among emergency responders in handling hazardous materials. He formed Fire Management, Inc. in 1980 to fill this need. FMI took on the challenges of creating and publishing training materials, inspecting facilities for safety, and even writing new laws and standards. Everything FMI produced was the first subject matter material of its kind, and Mark was asked to teach hazardous material seminars to emergency responders, local officials and utility workers nationwide.

Following the success of Fire Management, Inc., Mark launched a second company in 1986 called OnGUARD. OnGUARD soon became the largest publisher of emergency response video and textbook training programs in the world. It was distributed worldwide to roughly 20,000 agencies and is responsible for training about 5.5 million firefighters, emergency medical technicians and law enforcement officers. Mark constantly incorporated new technology including PowerPoint Presentations, Excel spreadsheets, and audio and video training to provide a comprehensive and state of the art training course.

By 2001 Mark was a full-time training and curriculum expert, and expanded OnGUARD to become Emergency WORLD. This new company provided e-learning courses for emergency responders all over the world. Emergency WORLD was quickly adopted as the training module for the United States Air Force, the Depart of Defense and the California Peace Officers. Mark’s Emergency WORLD courses combined comprehensive conventional training and with training for emerging threats like terrorist attacks or biological warfare. The cost-effectiveness of the system along with the thorough and easy-to-use nature of the courses spurred Emergency WORLD’s success and it was soon purchased in a multi-million dollar buyout by Oklahoma State University.

Mark lives at the foot of the Rocky Mountains in Fort Collins, Colorado with his wife Maria.

Steve Lencke is the financial controller for HISG. Steve started at HISG in 2006 after a successful and diverse career managing operations, finances, and administrative duties for several different large companies.

Steve began his career in accounting working for KPMG Peat Marwick in Columbus, Ohio in 1986. He worked for that firm for seven years as an audit manager, handling primarily insurance companies, but also banks, retirement and pension funds, and manufacturers. He also trained the staff on computer systems to support their auditing. In 1993 Steve was promoted to Director of Accounting and Finance for the same firm. His role as director involved overseeing 13 offices in five states, payroll management, monthly financial analysis reports, contracts, and 11 sets of financial statements. He also developed a new policy and procedure manual, consolidated 13 offices into a centralized accounting model, and coordinated the consolidation.

After 11 years at KPMG Peat Marwick, Steve was offered the Chief Financial Officer position for ASP Westward LP, a publishing group based in Houston that produced more than 60 community newspapers. As CFO he oversaw the accounting department for each of the publications, presented all financial information to banks and board members, wrote all accounting policies and procedures, managed and selected all insurance plans, and reviewed all significant leases and contracts. His tenure at ASP Westward prepared Steve for all sorts of acquisitions, divestitures and other dealings with bank syndicates. He also worked with senior management on 13 acquisitions and 4 divestitures and led the company through a buying and selling process in 2002.

Steve also became Publisher and President for the Colorado Community Newspapers division of ASP Westward while working as the CFO. As publisher he managed 13 community newspapers, a printing facility and over 100 employees. Steve doubled the cash flow of the Colorado newspapers from $1 million to $2 million.

At HISG Steve’s role encompasses all the different aspects of administration for an international non-profit group. He manages human resources, travel budgets, shipping budgets, payroll, disbursements, tax filings, and any other financial operations involved with HISG. In addition to his duties at HISG, Steve also oversees financial operations for seven other unaffiliated companies, including three non-profits.

Steve is a black belt Taekwondo instructor and enjoys skiing and cycling in Colorado. He and his wife Tammi have three children and live in Castle Rock, Colorado.

Norm Brinkley joined HISG in 2007 as Director of International Operations for Africa and the Middle East. He has extensive experience in international business and humanitarian relief and development that make him uniquely qualified for this position.

Norm graduated from Azusa Pacific University in 1974 then continued his education at Talbot Graduate School. From there he became the Mid-East Project Director for a company called International Services, operating in Egypt, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia, Cyprus, Belgium, and Spain. During that time Norm founded the North Africa Consultancy for Business and Culture which provided counseling, mentoring and strategic advice for individuals entering Arab cultures. He also established a training center for recruiting and training staff that were then deployed in Algeria, Morocco, Spain and Tunisia.

In 1995 Norm left North Africa and took his leadership and team-building skills to the non-profit arena. From 1996 to 1999 he served as Executive Director of Inland Empire 2000, organizing over 100 different non-profit organizations to coordinate and cooperate in providing for the less fortunate people of Ontario, California. Norm filled a similar need from 1999 to 2003 as founder and CEO of Somebody Cares Southland. Somebody Cares Southland assembled more than 150 separate organizations into a cooperative, efficient network that acquired and distributed more than $20 million of resources in the Inland Empire Region of California.

Norm returned to the Middle East and North Africa region in 2004 to coach and deploy individuals and families trying to learn Arabic and adapt to the culture of the Arabian Peninsula. He also managed local humanitarian aid for ADRA in 2005 and moved $1 million of supplies and equipment into Yemen. He also partnered in the 2007 launch of a coffee shop called The Coffee Trader in Sana’a, Yemen, and assisted other independent entrepreneurs in business startups and strategic partnerships across the Arabian Peninsula.

Norm is an avid reader and lifelong learner. He and his wife Joni have been married since 1973 and are currently based in Hesperia, California. They have four children and four grandchildren.

Tom and Charlene Jennings are the International Directors of Relief and Development in Asia and South America for Humanitarian International Services Group. The Jennings started working with HISG in June of 2007 through an existing business relationship with Mike McCausland.

Tom graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from Upper Iowa University in 1972. After graduation he worked for the Chicago and Northwestern Transportation Company until he moved to Germany in 1973. Charlene and he were married in 1976 and were involved with leadership development training of university students and businessmen in Germany, Switzerland and Austria.

In 1987, Tom and Charlene moved to Hong Kong, where they incorporated the import-export company, Jensco Ltd. The scope of business included the incorporation of Pentoc, a Joint Venture company in China, which received the “Joint-Venture Choice of the Year” award in the Tibetan Autonomous Region of China. During that time, Tom attended an MBA program at the University of East Asia in Macao. Tom and Charlene founded charities in Hong Kong, Sichuan, China, and Outer Mongolia in addition to their business activities.

After moving their family to the USA in 1996, they incorporated the consulting company, Jennings & Associates Inc. and also set up a 501 c (3) charity in Colorado to provide humanitarian assistance to the poor and needy of Asia. They each bring over 35 years of extensive international and domestic experience, consulting and training organizations from every continent in such areas as leadership development, team building, effective communication skills and customer service.

Tom and Charlene reside in Colorado Springs, Colorado. They have two married daughters.