Vice President, Development

Frank Cerutti leads Prison Fellowship’s development department, overseeing the teams that handle strategic gifts, planned giving, foundations and grants, and development services. He loves to see our partners experience the joys of good and faithful stewardship.

Before joining the ministry in 1999, Cerutti spent 25 years in banking and rose to be the President and CEO of the McLean Bank in McLean, Virginia. He also headed the strategic gifts department of the National Rifle Association (NRA) and worked with Lt. Col. Oliver North’s military charity, Freedom Alliance. At Prison Fellowship, Cerutti has helped cultivate lasting relationships with our generous supporters, many of whom he traveled to visit with founder Chuck Colson for several years.

Cerutti holds a degree in business from the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce and an advanced degree from the American Institute of Banking.

Senior Vice President, Advocacy & Public Policy

Craig DeRoche joined Prison Fellowship several years ago as the director of external affairs for the organization’s advocacy arm, Justice Fellowship. Today, DeRoche leads Prison Fellowship’s criminal justice reform efforts.

DeRoche was first introduced to Prison Fellowship while speaking at a national forum on addiction in 2011. He was the youngest statewide Republican leader in the country and was elected Michigan Speaker of the House, but in 2010, after serving a full tenure in the state legislature, DeRoche made national headlines with two alcohol-related arrests. It was only after his arrests, rehabilitation, and a renewed focus on his Christian faith that DeRoche escaped from his life-long struggle with alcoholism. He has been sober since 2010.

DeRoche’s first book,Highly Functional, released in May 2015, is a memoir of his life transitioning from addiction to recovery. DeRoche frequently pens op-eds for publications such asThe New York Times, The Washington Times, and The Christian Post.

Senior Vice President, Field Operations

Sam Dye oversees Prison Fellowship’s in-prison, reentry, and family ministry programming all across the country. Prior to joining Prison Fellowship, Dye worked in health care for 20 years. After a short stint as an in-prison volunteer, he left health care to pursue his love of prison ministry and served as the director of Prison Fellowship’s intensive faith-based reentry program in Iowa, where he led participant recruitment, taught classes behind bars, and served as liaison for Prison Fellowship and the DOC. Dye loves seeing prisoners and former prisoners transform into contributing members of the community.

Dye has served on his church leadership board for 25 years and on the board of Open Arms Ukraine for the past three years. He attended Central Christian College for his undergraduate degree and Des Moines University for his graduate degree in health care administration.

Senior Vice President, Field Programs

As senior vice president of field programs, Dan Kingery oversees all of Prison Fellowship's prison-based programming. He has 30 years of experience working in prisons and community-based corrections and has held various leadership roles with Prison Fellowship since 2000. He has served as a parole officer in the adult and juvenile systems in Iowa. He is a graduate of Iowa State University. He and his wife of 35 years have one daughter and share a love of outdoor activities.

Vice President, Marketing, Communications & Assessment

Kelly Friedlander leads Prison Fellowship's efforts to develop and execute marketing and communications campaigns to increase brand identity and awareness among the ministry’s constituents, as well as measure the ministry's strategic outcomes and key program performance metrics. Friedlander is a member of the 2015 class of the Colson Fellows program. Prior to joining Prison Fellowship, Friedlander led marketing, product development, and sales teams at a variety of publicly traded companies, including Discovery Communications and Morningstar, Inc. She has more than 20 years of experience in strategic planning and managing multi-million-dollar consumer, business-to-business, and direct marketing campaigns. Kelly earned her bachelor of arts degree from Wisconsin's St. Norbert College and lives in Virginia with her husband and stepson.

Executive Vice President, Administration and Operations

With 25 years of experience in nonprofit management, Tim Robison provides executive leadership to Prison Fellowship’s finance, human resources, information technology, customer support, development, and facilities teams. He also managed the design and construction of Prison Fellowship’s Northern Virginia headquarters in 2004 and 2005.

Robison holds a degree in business administration from Liberty University and certification in facilities management from George Mason University. He also served on the Board of Dominion Christian’s classical school of education for three years. Effectively equipping those on the frontline of ministry to restore men and women impacted by crime and incarceration motivates Robison and his team each day.