Board of Directors

Denny Winkelman

Interim Chairman

Denny Winkelman was the very first Board member of PACT in 2015 through 2016 and then rejoined the Board of Directors in 2019. We are excited to have him as interim Chairman as Denny has a strong board management background discipled by his faith that will lead PACT into 2020. Denny's community service started when he was the youth leader at Portland First Presbyterian Church. From there, Denny was brought on the board for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Portland Metropolitan Area and served for 10 years. In his earlier career, Denny was in the families printing business in San Francisco a very successful large-scale printing and publications company in San Francisco, The Howard Quinn Publishing company. Denny and Rick Naylor have been best friends since high school and to work together now is an incredible blessing. Denny has four grown daughters scattered across the US and is married to Jill. In fact, Rick officiated over the marriage of Denny and Jill in Austin, Texas.

 Jean Bringol, LPC

Vice-Chairman​

​“My heartbeat is to bring hope to the hopeless and encourage the discouraged.” That is the reason I got into counseling more than 25 years ago. But, today we live in a much faster-paced world amidst information overload. The escalation of pornography from adults to kids 10 years of age is frightening. I have learned that most people want to ignore (denial) that child sex trafficking exists. It is not their problem they say. They don’t want to know that the average of age of kids addicted to pornography is 10. This is where PACT along with their partnership with Dr. Laurel Mellon and her staff at EBT (Emotional Brain Training) created Xp a unique and extremely effective set of counseling services. All of us need to know that there is HOPE and there are real solutions to stop this epidemic. PACT provides us the knowledge and the solution that this epidemic can be stopped.

Richard Neusch

Secretary

​Richard is Senior Leader at True Life Church located in the thriving town of Round Rock, Texas. A student from Concordia University and graduate of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. Richard and his wonderful wife, Sylvia accepted their first pastorate in Washington State for the first nine years before heading back to Texas. Hungry for more of the Holy Spirit, Richard and Sylvia left their denomination in 1990 where God began removing old mindsets and replacing them with His heart and plan for their lives. When PACT came out of God’s plan in 2015 for Rick Naylor, it was Richard Neusch and hand full of others that stepped into the challenge in forging PACT. Richard is the sole of PACT and he leads us in prayer each board meeting and provides counsel to all of us. We are honored to have him as one of our Board members.

Joe Wargo

Treasurer​

Joe Wargo became very familiar with PACT in 2015 as he attended the same Bible Studies, affectionally known as the Belt Bible Brothers, with Rick. With Joe's stewardship and attention to details in financial matters, he another perfect fit as the PACT Treasurer. Joe Wargo is a full-service, practicing CPA with extensive hands-on experience in accounting, auditing, tax preparation and planning in a variety of industries, sizes and types of organizations. During his career he was also with two of the Big Four global CPA firms during his career; auditing industrial firms, government programs, loans and grants. Joe understands explosive growth as his practice earned him recognition in Magazine’s 500 Fastest Growing Companies five years in a row. Joe holds B.S. degree in Business Administration from Lake Erie College in Painesville, Ohio where he graduated with honors (cum laude). 

Trisha Blake, JD

PACT Compliance Officer

Trisha brings a unique set of professional skills to the PACT Board from her undergrad years in college where she worked a boy’s juvenile home and witnessed the injustice of how children were treated and not protected. This led her to achieve her, BS, MS and finally her JD degree. Justice was now her baseline and advocacy. Trisha is a native of Hawai’i and has an incredible family heritage from many countries across the globe. Her family now lives in Round Rock where they have three teenage boys and a stronger purpose in life to protect them. She is well aware of the issues in child sex trafficking. “Slavery of any kind is inhuman and human trafficking is the greatest crime towards humanity. But child trafficking is by far the most egregious.” Trisha leads the board in developing compliance requirements for PACT corporate business partners so that they are in alignment with the laws that prohibit Modern Day Slavery in accordance with the UN established requirements.

chuck farrow

Corporate Development

Chuck brings a wealth of experience in acquiring and developing corporate partnerships around the world. Joining PACT with that background and his passion for ensuring the safety of children was a natural fit. “As an executive in the technology sector for so many years, I know how supply chains have to respond affirmatively in managing to a zero tolerance for any human trafficking. However, the far larger problem and more heinous crime that is being committed is child sex trafficking that is hidden from most people as they don’t want to recognize it.. I have watched PACT grow over the last 5 years professionally since I have known Rick. PACT’s mission and purpose to eradicate child sex trafficking by educating our children so they can be safe in their environment is where we must spend our focus. We need to take a preemptive strike and we must bring corporations together to share in the responsibility to keep our children safe.

Brent Balke

Chair Emeritus​

Brent served as the Chairman of the PACT Board of Directors from 2017-19. Brent helped PACT grow while maintaining the commitments to PACT's Mission and Purpose. As a CPS and Director of Financial Operations at Texas Association of School Boards, he was well versed in building strategic partnerships for the betterment of the community. A Texas native and graduate from Sam Houston University in business and accounting, Brent was a real asset to PACT during his tenure.

Rick Naylor

Founder and Executive Director​

Beyond his business acumen in the technology sector for most of his career, lies his real gift has been an advocate for those voices that are silent. Rick has always been an advocate from his days at UC Berkeley where he brought students and business executives together to discuss corporate social responsibilities, While at Cal he decided to take on one of the biggest corporations in town, Standard Oil Company, who was constantly spilling oil into his beloved San Francisco Bay. This fight gave him lessons in life in where he learned power brokers and how they could manipulate the press and all messaging.
​He fought a TRO, a contempt of court, slander and writing information that might sway public opinion” and won. But his “day job and career” all changed back in 2014 when he heard about the fastest growing crime in America: child sex trafficking. His founding of Partners Against Child Trafficking (PACT) was a “calling by God” to help unite our community to fight against child sex trafficking.

crystal armstrong

Graphic Designer

Crystal has been associated with PACT from the very beginning. Actually before the beginning. She was recommended to the Executive Director by Dr. Rich Carney, Executive Director, at Austin Bridge Builders Alliance, ABBA. That was in early 2015 when Rick called her and introduced her to his “divine appointment and new mission” along with sending her a copy of a design he did on a paper napkin. From that phone call and a sketch she developed the first logo for PACT.
​Crystal began her career as a graphic designer while she was a flight attendant, her real full time job. But her passion to create something from nothing drew her all the way in until she rolled out her new company Crystal Armstrong Graphic Design. She continues to support various clients with exceptional work while balancing her life as a mother, wife and soon a new baby due later this year.

Nicole Hudgens 

Advisor Board

Nicole is our on the ground warrior in Washington DC. Living a life of Christ and leading values and principles from her days as a lobbyist for Texas Values where she proposed legislation from freedom of religion to pro-family values. She was often in front of the City of Austin Counsel and Austin Independent School District fighting for those rights. 
In her new role at the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management at the US Department of Labor she continues to carry the banner for all of us. Her job is all encompassing as she helps craft various policies from civil rights to freedom of religious expression in the workplace. Nicole has a Masters of Arts in Public Policy from Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA  and a Bachelors from LSU.

Trey Crowdus

Advisor Board

This says it all: Trey has been with us since day 1. Outside the IT world is where his heart really beats, as he and his wife, Trey, are deeply involved in healing ministries with Barbara Bucklin. Through a “coincidental” meeting, Trey was led to PACT to gain an understanding of the issues that generate child sex trafficking so he could help build awareness as to the solutions to help stop it.
​Trey was one of the first people that helped build PACT starting in 2015. Trey attended the University of Texas in Austin and received his MBA and subsequently completed Yale’s School of Management’s (SOM) Executive Management Program. His gift was the ability to solve complex IT issues for private and public sector companies.

Lisa Hoover

Lead Prayer Warrior

Lisa is the prayer group lead for PACT. She is a believer in Jesus Christ as her savior and Lord. Her life goal is to continue getting closer to Father, Son, and Holy Spirit and grow in all that Father has given her through Christ and release it.
​Lisa spent a large portion of her working career as an environmental consultant. Now she is currently involved in various focus/prayer groups, studying/researching, writing, teaching, speaking, ceramics and working on their property. Her main focus is to be like Him through love and help others do the same. Lisa also authored the book, The Reflections With God vol. 1, as part of what she has processed with God. The book is aimed to help others learn how to do life from the kingdom of God and not the kingdom of the earth by reflecting with God into life changing revelations, encounters and experiences.

Speakers Forum​

​Sophie Buechler

St. Andrews HS Student Ambassador

Jamie Chaidez

​Faith Ramirez

UT Student Ambassador