Our Staff
Ken Peterson
Chief Investment and
Stakeholder Relations Officer
Ken Peterson has extensive experience in the investment management business serving in senior leadership positions in both the private sector and with the United Methodist Church.
During a 20-year investment career in the New York area, he managed a wide range of investment portfolios including corporate finance, emerging markets, bankruptcies and workouts, leveraged buyouts, mergers and acquisitions, real estate finance, structured finance and high yield bonds. He served five years as Partner and Head of Fixed Income with a global diversified asset management firm in NYC with approximately $30 billion in assets under management.
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Ken’s service with the United Methodist Church traveled a parallel path to his private sector career and extended over a similar 20-year period.
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For ten years Ken served local churches in NJ and VA as either chair of the Finance Committee or on the Board of Trustees. He went on to serve the Virginia Conference as President of the Pension and Benefits organization (VUMPI), followed by serving as Vice President of the Council on Finance and Administration (CF&A) and Chair of the Virginia CF&A Investment Committee. He also served as an ad hoc member of the Virginia United Methodist Foundation Investment Committee.
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In 2025 Ken answered a calling to serve the United Methodist Church as Chief Investment & Stakeholder Relations Officer (CISRO) of InvestUMC.
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Ken earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from the United States Military Academy and an MBA in Finance, Accounting and Economics from the Kellogg School at Northwestern University. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC).
Our Board Members
Ivanna L. Cole
Ivanna L. Cole, CPA serves as the CFO United Methodist Foundation, Inc. (based in Garner, NC). She has been with UMF since October 2014. Prior to UMF, she served as the Controller for the NC Conference of The UMC for over 6 years. She has also held positions as the Chief Audit Officer at NC Central University and as an Experienced Assurance Associate at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Ivanna attended the University of Maryland, College Park, earning a degree in Accounting and General Business. She is a CPA and, in addition to that, has a Not-for-Profit Certification II from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
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Ivanna is married with two children and enjoys spending time with them doing fun things like road trips, indoor rock climbing, bowling and attending University of Maryland football and basketball games.
Appadurai Moses Rathan Kumar
Appadurai Moses Rathan Kumar is the General Secretary and Treasurer for The General Council on Finance and Administration of The United Methodist Church.
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With over 50 years of business experience and a lifelong faith, Appadurai Moses Rathan Kumar was elected the General Secretary of the General Council on Finance and Administration (GCFA) in August, 2008. The General Council on Finance and Administration is one of several administrative agencies doing the global work of the United Methodist denomination.
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Moses served for eight years as the Treasurer and Executive Director of Administrative Ministries for the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference of The United Methodist Church prior to joining GCFA. He also previously served at Palmer Theological Seminary for four years as the Vice President for Finance and Operations.
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As general secretary of GCFA, Moses Kumar serves as the chief executive of GCFA as he leads the organization to fulfill its responsibilities to the denomination. In his role, he serves as the chief financial officer for the denomination which has 13 million members. Duties in this position include oversight and administration of the United Methodist global financial resources, statistical data collection, insurance products and legal interests of The United Methodist Church, among other areas of administrative ministry.
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Moses possesses, and has exemplified, innovative vision for ministry in the services provided by GCFA in order to increase its servant ministry and responsibilities to the people of The United Methodist Church.
Moses has served on the United Methodist Insurance Board (UMI) for four years.
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In June 2018, Moses was certified as a local licensed Pastor at the Tennessee Annual Conference.
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Pastor Kumar holds a Master of Business Administration from Eastern University in St. Davids, Pennsylvania, and a Bachelor of Commerce from Madras Christian College in India. He is married to Rev. Felicia Kumar and they have two adult daughters and six grandchildren.
Sabrina Singh
Sabrina Singh has spent the last 15+ years working in the secured lending and leveraged loan industries. She currently originates new financing opportunities for Bank of America and her prior experience includes underwriting and managing corporate loans for several financial institutions. In addition to serving on the Board for FIM, Sabrina is actively involved in the Secured Finance Network and Association for Corporate Growth. Sabrina earned her Bachelor’s degree in Finance from the University of Toronto and a Masters of Business Administration from McMaster University. Sabrina resides in Chicago with her husband, two children, and an energetic golden retriever.
Rev. Sharon L. Williams
The Rev. Sharon L. Williams is an Elder in full connection in Indiana Conference of The United Methodist Church with more than 20 years transformational leadership experience as a pastor, strategist, consultant and coach.
Rev. Williams currently serves as the Senior Pastor of Christ-Indianapolis, has served under appointment in a variety of pastoral leadership contexts in Indiana inumc.org; and in the Missouri Annual Conference, where she served as an Associate Director in the Office of Mission, Service, and Justice. Prior to trusting the call to become a 1st generation Methodist and enter the ordination process, she served in a variety of missionary contexts – from Philadelphia to Atlanta, even Central America. Her ecumenical heart and spirit of collaboration has opened doors to partner with International Ministries to pastor a Spanish-speaking church start in Bluefields, Nicaragua, to serve as a hospice chaplain resident, a PRN chaplain and staff chaplain for level 1 Trauma centers in Atlanta and Philadelphia.
Rev. Williams is a sought-after resource leader with a deep respect for the faithful and a message of hope for the church. She celebrates the gift of Christ’s call and brings to her current commitment to pastoral ministry an enthusiasm for inspiring the all-sufficient grace of living sentin service with God’s church to a whole world. Rev. Williams cherishes a host of support from friends and family, especially that of her husband, The Rev. Dr. Jacob C. Williams Jr. (also a United Methodist Elder).
