Executive Staff + Board of Directors
Earl Ameen
Earl Ameen is the Founder and CEO of The Grey Owl Company, LLC based in Austin, Texas. Originally founded in 1993, the firm has evolved to include a holding company with wholly or partially owned subsidiaries in a wide variety of industries. For more than 30 years Earl has served as advisor to many individuals and companies, helping them achieve and maintain success in both the marketplace and in their lives. He excels at producing elegant solutions to complex challenges by removing uncertainty and instability.
At the heart of all of his success is Earl’s ability to create sustainable social impact and cooperative relations among all parties. From powering humanity through connective energy solutions to helping Ph.D.’s and social workers become better at serving their communities through Embrace, Earl has developed original methodologies that benefit profit and non-profits alike.
On the personal side, Earl was raised in Indiana where his mom, Jean, was the head of Child Protective Services. It is perhaps here where Earl got his servants heart as he watched their family grow while they brought in and cared for numerous foster children. It certainly influenced the evolution of a Christian-based conference that he turned into a monthly series that offers faith-based solutions to the challenges of daily life faced by men, women, teens, families, couples and ministries.
Brent Balke
Jean Bringol, LPC
“My heartbeat is to bring hope to the hopeless and encourage the discouraged.”
That is the reason I got into counseling more than 25 years ago. But, today we live in a much faster-paced world amidst information overload. Difficulties in this life still present as very real. The escalation of pornography from adults to kids 10 years of age is frightening. Devastating.
Joining the PACT Board has been a very interesting experience and, in many ways, the same issues we deal with as a professional counselor. Most people want to ignore (denial) that child sex trafficking exists. It is not their problem they say They don’t want to know that the average of age of kids addicted to pornography is 10.
Everyone needs to understand that this is a community/global problem created from the darkness of man’s heart. All of us need to know that there is hop and there are real solutions to stop this epidemic. PACT gives us the knowledge that epidemic can be stopped.
Nichole Henderson
Nichole Henderson holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Business Management and Master of Science in Counseling/ Marriage, family and Child Therapy Nichole specialities include; Christian Counseling, Grief Counseling, Behavioral Health Management, and Equine Therapy.
Operating a full-time private practice while volunteering therapy services to Local Christian Community Entities allows me to serve individuals of all socioeconomic status and marginalized citizens alike.
Nichole is in pursuance of her PHD in Organizational Leadership with an emphasis in Behavioral Health will provide the opportunity to educate, provide mentoring, and produce and publish advanced research and contributions to the Mental Health Field.
Nichole goes above and beyond to meet and exceed industry standards to educate youth, adults, parishioners, and mental health professionals often grooming pathology to ensure increased awareness that prevents to the exploitation of potential victims.
Nicole Hudgens
Rick Naylor
Rick is a graduate of UC Berkeley with a BS degree in Business. His career in the technology sector spans 40 years with companies included: Xerox, IBM and Honeywell as a Senior Executive with responsibilities both nationally and internationally. He has been recognized and published for his work as “The Architect” for creating some of this nation’s largest public-private contracts that changed the landscape of government and corporate contracting through effective partnerships.
Beneath his business acumen are his personal passions and interests from building boats to his years of “hands on advocacy” in environmental policy in San Francisco, the Make A Wish Foundation and disaster relief efforts in Texas, Oklahoma and Missouri as a certified CISM for Austin Disaster Relief Network.
But his “day job and career” all changed back in 2014 when he heard about the fastest growing crime in America: child sex trafficking. His founding of Partners Against Child Trafficking (PACT) was a “calling by God” to help unite our community to fight against child sex trafficking.
Rick is married to his wonderful wife, Peggy, and their three grown children and three grandchildren. They attend Hill Country Bible Church where Rick also heads up PACT as a Community Impact ministry.
Richard Neusch
Joe Wargo
Denny Winkelman
Dennis Winkelman, Board of Directors, Branding An avid fan of his University of Oregon Ducks, Dennis was born and raised in the printing industry where he and his family ran one of the largest and oldest printing plants in San Francisco, Howard Quinn Publishing Company. From his early days of learning the printing business to developing client relationships and partners throughout the western region, Dennis helped take a local business and spread it throughout the nation, finally settling in Nashville. As one of the original founding members of PACT board of Directors, Dennis’ vision is to see PACT develop a platform of education.
Dennis’s community service extended past his service at the Portland First Presbyterian Church to mentoring others while on the board for Boys & Girls Clubs of Portland Metropolitan Area. The father of four girls and now 4 grandchildren, Dennis’ understanding and appreciation of the vulnerability of young girls is extremely acute.
Advisory Board
Trey Crowdus
Trey attended the University of Texas in Austin and received his MBA and subsequently completed Yale’s School of Management’s (SOM) Executive Management Program. His gift was the ability to solve complex IT issues for private and public sector companies.
Outside the IT world is where his heart really beats, as he and his wife, Trey, are deeply involved in healing ministries with Barbara Bucklin. Through a “coincidental” meeting, Trey was led to PACT to gain an understanding of the issues that generate child sex trafficking so he could help build awareness as to the solutions to help stop it. Trey was one of the first people that helped build PACT starting in 2015.
Lisa Hoover
Lisa is the prayer group lead for PACT. She is a believer in Jesus Christ as her savior and Lord. Her life goal is to continue getting closer to Father, Son, and Holy Spirit and grow in all that Father has given her through Christ and release it.
Lisa spent a large portion of her working career as an environmental consultant. Now she is currently involved in various focus/prayer groups, studying/researching, writing, teaching, speaking, ceramics and working on their property. Her main focus is to be like Him through love and help others do the same. Lisa also authored the book, The Reflections With God vol. 1, as part of what she has processed with God. The book is aimed to help others learn how to do life from the kingdom of God and not the kingdom of the earth by reflecting with God into life changing revelations, encounters and experiences.
Speakers Forum
Sophie Buechler
Jamie Chaidez
