Global Mapping International Board Elects New Chair
A new chairman was recently elected to the Board of Directors of a missionary research agency that serves evangelical mission ministry leaders in the developing world.
In the Spring 2005 edition its tri-annual newsletter, Colorado Springs-based Global Mapping International announced the election of Dr. Michael Phillips as the new chairman of the board.
“GMI's mission is ‘to produce and present world-class research that fuels emerging mission movements and leaders,’” said GMI’s president and CEO Mike O'Rear, who announced Phillips’ election. “The board's choice for chairman signals the organization's strong commitment to the pursuit of excellence and innovation in research and information technology.”
A researcher and “tech-savvy” statistician with a Ph.D. in economics, Phillips is a professor of Finance, Real Estate, and Insurance in the College of Business and Economics at California State University, Northridge. He is also a partner in Findlay Phillips and Associates, a Pasadena-based consulting firm focusing on statistical, economic, and financial analysis. Besides authoring dozens of academic publications, Phillips is co-inventor on more than a dozen patents and pending patents regarding information processing and database analysis.
In 1999, Phillips was appointed senior research fellow at Global Mapping International, and previously served a term on the GMI board of directors.
Currently, Phillips and his family are on a month-long trip in East Asia where he will visit coauthors, lecture at universities, meet with GMI strategic partners, and serve as Visiting Scholar in Residence at a university in China.
