University Leadership Team


The Trinity community welcomed Nicholas Perrin as the University’s 16th president in 2019. His university leadership experience and commitment to excellence have contributed to the larger vision for TIU moving forward. “For decades, TIU’s distinctive voice has been a gift to global evangelicalism,” Perrin says. “I look forward to the challenge of amplifying that voice in a clamorous world that—now more than ever—needs to encounter the Word of God afresh in every area of life.”

After serving in campus ministry following college at Johns Hopkins University (BA, English Literature), Perrin pursued a seminary degree at Covenant Theological Seminary and then eventually a doctorate in biblical studies from Marquette University. While at seminary he met Camie, a primary school teacher, at church. They’ve been together ever since (he proposed to her in front of her first-grade class). Together they have two adult sons, Nathaniel and Luke.

While pursuing his writing, academic goals, and personal commitments, President Perrin served both the pastorate and academy. Most recently at Wheaton College (Illinois) as the Franklin S. Dyrness Professor of Biblical Studies and also as dean of Wheaton Graduate School for five years.

Today he is excited to be a part of God’s plan for Trinity in the upcoming years. “I can still remember, as a young TEDS summer student in the late 1980s, coming to the Deerfield campus for the first time and falling in love with this special space dedicated to educating men and women for engagement in God’s redemptive work.”

President Perrin Headshot
Nicholas Perrin
President
Michael Peterson
Vice President and
Chief Operating Officer
Amanda Onapito
Vice President of
Strategic Initiatives
Mark Muha
Vice President of
Student Life
Shawn Wynne
Vice President of
Enrollment and Retention
David Magnuson
Vice President of
Advancement and University Relations
Chris Donato
Associate Vice President of
Marketing & Communications
Paul Eisenmenger
Chief Financial Officer
Dawn Greene
Human Resources
Eric Halvorson
Interim Dean
Trinity Law School
David Pao
Dean
Trinity Evangelical
Divinity School
Karen Wrobbel
Dean
Trinity College and
Graduate School
Susie Cohen
Associate Dean
Trinity-Florida
Bryan Eklund
Special Assistant
to the President
Cheryl Trantham
Executive Assistant
to the President
Luke Ward
Athletic Director

Board of Regents

Preservation of a legacy calls for wise and careful leadership. We are governed by the Board of Regents who carry the responsibility for the successful conduct of the school and for cooperation with local congregations of the EFCA.

As Trinity’s chief governing body, the Board of Regents protects the university’s mission and vision, ensures that it fulfills its goals and the purposes for which it was established, oversee the school’s financial assets and establish a strategic vision for the future.

Bill Bradish, Arlington Heights, Illinois
President, Bradish Associates, LTD
Bill Riedel, Washington, D.C.
Lead Pastor, Redemption Hill Church
Brian Farone (MDiv ’07), Cottage Grove, Minnesota
District Superintendent, EFCA North Central District
Carla D. Sanderson, Jackson, Tennessee
Provost, Chamberlain University
Carlos Lollett, Miami, Florida
Lead Pastor, Reality Church Miami
Edmund C. Moy, Arlington, Virginia
38th Director of the United States Mint (2006–2011)
Edmond L. Soliday, Valparaiso, Indiana
Indiana State Representative
George B. Davis (MA ’89), Hummelstown, Pennsylvania
Senior Pastor, Hershey Evangelical Free Church
Jon Payne, Wausau, Wisconsin
District Superintendent Forest Lakes EFCA
Kendall L. Spencer (MDiv ’77), Jacksonville, Florida
President and CEO, Jacksonville Bancorp, Inc.
Kevin Kompelien (MDiv ’83), San Jose, California
President, Evangelical Free Church of America
Lawrence G. Wee (’99), New York, New York
Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Luder G. Whitlock, Orlando, Florida
President, Excelsis (Retired)
Martin I. Klauber (MA ’81, MDiv ’81), Grayslake, Illinois
Senior Vice President, First Merit Bank
Neil G. Nyberg (BA ’74), Battle Creek, Michigan
VP & Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer, Kellogg Company (Retired)
Nicholas Perrin, Lincolnshire, Illinois
President, Trinity International University
Paul Wheeler, Libertyville, Illinois
Executive Vice President, Inland Real Estate (Retired)
Quintin D. Stieff (MDiv ’86), Des Moines, Iowa
Pastor, Valley Church
Steven Hawn, Woodbury, Minnesota
Attorney
William Kynes, Annandale, Virginia
Senior Pastor, Cornerstone Evangelical Free Church