Board of Directors

Jim Blackburn

Jim Blackburn formed Blackburn Consulting Services, L.L.C. after his retirement from Electronic Data Systems (EDS). Blackburn Consulting Services specializes in consulting engagements in the areas of leadership development and operations management. Past engagements include a fifteen-month assignment serving as COO for a global Christian ministry; a leadership development engagement for a Dallas investment firm working to establish corporate culture and improve leadership performance and teamwork; an engagement with a California insurance client with 2B in revenue to develop new processes to support Strategic Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting. Jim has also conducted leadership and human resource training at business seminars in India, South Africa, Cameroon, Ghana, Colombia, and Peru.

Jim retired from EDS in July 2005 where he served as an Enterprise Client Delivery Executive, with responsibility for EDS’ service delivery to large enterprise clients. In this role, Jim had responsibility for account operations, client satisfaction and relations, and EDS staffing and productivity. Jim brings 35 years of broad EDS experience with an emphasis on business and technology management in large outsourcing arrangements.

Rabbi Elliot Klayman, Esq.

Rabbi Elliot Klayman, who is retired from teaching at The Ohio State University, has practiced law for over 40 years. A longstanding Board member of Jewish Voice, he has been associated with the ministry since 1973 and currently serves as Secretary of the Board. He is the Executive Director of Messianic Jewish Theological Institute as well as Messianic Literature Outreach. Rabbi Klayman edits “Kesher Theological Journal” and “The Messianic Outreach.” He has authored several books and over 100 journal articles, primarily on biblical and Jewish historical issues. Rabbi Klayman has been married for 41 years, has two children and four grandchildren. He and his wife, Joyce, reside in San Diego where together they are active members at Kehilat Yeshua, a Messianic Jewish congregation.

Dr. Michael Maiden

Dr. Michael Maiden and Mary, his beloved wife of 35 years, are the senior pastors of Church for the Nations in Phoenix, Arizona. Here he strongly and lovingly prepares God’s people for service in God’s Kingdom with messages that are always relevant, timely and life-changing as well as prophetic.

Dr. Maiden has earned both a Masters and Doctorate Degree in Christian Psychology. He has authored seven books including: The Joshua Generation: God’s Manifesto for the End Time Church, and Turn the World Upside Down, which speaks to this present generation about the next step to take to have a transforming influence in your culture and beyond.

In addition to his work in the local church, Michael is a strong prophetic voice to this generation and has ministered to those holding public offices as well as pastors and ministers throughout the world. He serves on the apostolic board of Church on the Rock International – a dynamic ministry overseeing more than 6,000 churches worldwide. He is also on the board of Jewish Voice Ministries International, Fishers of Men International, and several local churches.

Susan Perlman

Susan Perlman is a first generation Jewish Believer in Jesus from Brooklyn, New York and helped found the organization, Jews for Jesus, which she has served with since 1973. She is their Chief Partnership Officer, overseeing the work of strategic partnerships with other missions, churches, Bible schools and all who minister His Gospel in the world.

She also serves on their Executive Leadership Team. She has a media background and has written evangelistic materials from tracts to skits to blogs to apologetics articles. She is the editor-in-chief of ISSUES, an evangelistic journal that is read by 40,000 seekers. Susan is also the author of two coloring books – one on the Names of God in Hebrew and the other on Messianic Prophecy. Her greatest love is to personally share the Gospel with Jewish people one on one and with anyone else who needs to know Jesus. She lives in San Francisco.
 

Matt Rosenberg

Matt Rosenberg is the Rabbi at Restoration, a Messianic synagogue in Seattle, Washington. He is ordained by the International Alliance of Messianic Congregations and Synagogues (IAMCS) and serves as its Northwest director. He has a B.A. in Religion from Nyack College and completed course work towards a M.A. at Alliance Theological Seminary in Nyack, New York. For five years, before moving to Seattle, Matt served as Associate Rabbi alongside his father, Rabbi David Rosenberg, at Shuvah Yisrael on Long Island, NY and in Manhattan. Matt is passionate about sharing the message of Yeshua with his Jewish people in Seattle and all over the world. Matt is a thinker, reader, dreamer, and leader among his generation in the Messianic movement. He has been a featured speaker at many Messianic conferences and was raised in a Messianic home. His family has been involved in the Messianic movement for more than thirty years. Matt and his wife Laura have three children and live in Seattle.
 

Ronald L. Russell

Ronald Russell has been in executive leadership for over thirty years and is currently the Senior Vice President of Global Human Relations at TTI, Inc., a position he has held since 2005. Ron has also served as Senior Advisor on the Management Advisory Committee of TTI as well as a member of the Board of Citicorp Global Technology/Citicorp International Communications, Inc. A graduate of University of Colorado with a B.S. in Management/Marketing, he has participated in numerous internal and external management development programs throughout his career. Ron has served on the Board of Jewish Voice Ministries since 2014 and is currently serving as the Chairman of the Board. He and his wife have two children and reside in De Cordova Estates, Texas.