Christian Union
Matt Bennett
Founder and CEO, Christian Union
Cornell BS '88, Cornell MBA '89
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School MDiv '10
A native of Houston, Texas, Matt earned BS and MBA degrees from Cornell University and holds a Master of Divinity from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He worked for Campus Crusade for Christ (Cru) at Princeton University for 12 years, and developed the ministry into one of the largest in the history of the Ivy League. In 2002, he founded Christian Union. The ministry has been featured in The New York Times, PBS, NPR, Christianity Today, and World Magazine. Matt currently resides in New York City.
James Armstrong
GM of Enterprise Solutions
Princeton University, BA
Purdue University, PhD
James grew up in Leonia, NJ, a suburb of New York. He graduated cum laude from Princeton University with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and computer science. While an undergraduate, he attended Princeton Evangelical Fellowship, started Athletes In Action on campus his junior year, played on Princeton’s soccer team all four years, and was a member of the Cap and Gown Club.
After earning his PhD in electrical engineering from Purdue University, James returned to Princeton, NJ to work for Sarnoff Corporation. His project and team were soon spun out of Sarnoff and became Sarnoff Real-Time Corporation which was bought four years later by DIVA Systems. During these years, James was a guest speaker at the Athletes In Action group at Princeton, got married (Karen, Gordon College `88), served on the Board of Cap and Gown, and saw the founding of Christian Union on campus. James also served actively at Carter Road Bible Chapel in Lawrenceville, NJ, teaching both young people and adults.
In 2002, James moved to Los Angeles to join another startup, Movidis, Inc. While in LA, James picked up surfing and served on the board of the inaugural San Fernando Valley International Film Festival. In 2006, James left Movidis to join Symmetricom, Inc in San Jose, CA. He held the position of EVP/General Manager of its Communications business. After Symmetricom’s acquisition, James joined Spirent Communications in 2014. While at Spirent, James served a two-year stint as Chairman of Christian Union’s Princeton President’s Council and continued for another two years as an active member on the council. In 2018, James left Spirent to spend two years attending his two oldest daughters’ soccer and volleyball games before they went off to college. During that time, James was added to the board of Christian Union.
In January 2021, James joined Sierra Wireless as GM of Enterprise Solutions. He resides in Los Gatos, CA with his wife and four daughters and is active at Hillview Bible Chapel in Cupertino, CA.
Ken Fish
Independent Board MemberGraduate of Princeton University
Masters of Divinity, Fuller Seminary
MBA, UCLA's Anderson Graduate School of Management
Ken Fish has more than 20 years of experience as a senior executive with Fortune 500 corporations specializing in corporate strategy, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, financial management and organizational transformation.
Throughout his life, Ken has worked with parachurch ministries, and in the 1980s he worked full-time for John Wimber for several years at Vineyard Ministries International (VMI). Among his duties at VMI, he worked on various aspects of the conferences that were a hallmark of the early Vineyard movement, including researching and ghost-writing for John Wimber. He has traveled extensively as a conference speaker, teaching on wide variety of topics ranging from leadership and spiritual formation, church growth and revival, biblical authority and exposition, to prophecy and healing and deliverance.
Ed Morgan
Independent Board MemberEd Morgan is a creative and seasoned leader with uniquely broad qualifications developed over more than 40 years of successful Fortune 10 and non-profit leadership experience. He is currently Founder and Principal of Inspirational Leadership, LLC, an organization dedicated to the needs of non-profit CEOs and Entrepreneurs. Before this, he served as President and CEO of the Bowery Mission in NYC for more than 20 years, leading the 136 year-old organization to a renaissance in reputation, program effectiveness and income. Prior to joining The Bowery Mission, Ed had a 20-year career with General Electric in Washington D.C., Fairfield, CT, and Stratford, CT, where he was in charge of creating inspirational communications for several of GE's top officers, won several management awards and founded an award-winning customer magazine.
Dian Naman
Independent Board MemberAlumna, Columbia University
Dian Naman is a wonderful woman of God and is a tremendous addition to the Board. She and her husband Vince first became acquainted with Christian Union through their children’s involvement. It started with Luke, a 2015 graduate of Dartmouth and an active participant in Christian Union activities, and then their youngest daughter Brianna, a 2017 graduate of Brown, who was also involved with Christian Union.
The Naman’s eldest daughters also attended Ivy League Schools but before Christian Union was fully formed and/or present at their respective universities. Natalia, the oldest, went to Princeton earning a BA in English, theater, and African-American Studies (2008). She also earned an MFA, Dramatic Writing from NYU in 2010. Julia attended Yale and graduated in 2012. Christian Union featured the all-Ivy family in CU: The Magazine in 2016.
While Vince is a proud Princetonian and is now a plastic surgeon, Dian attended Columbia University for nursing school and runs their medical clinic and spa, Chattahoochee Plastic Surgery. Dian and Vince have been generous advocates and financial supporters of CU over the years. They love the mission of Christian Union and enjoy the prayer and fasting initiatives from Day & Night. They have also hosted or been a key connector to CU events in Columbus, GA where they are pillars in their community.
