About Us

Eric Gokcen, M.D.

• Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
• Director, Division of Foot & Ankle Surgery
• Director, Temple Global Orthopaedics
• Department of Orthopedic Surgery & Sports Medicine
• Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University

Eric is currently an Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Temple University, Director of the Foot and Ankle Division, and Director and Founder of Temple Global Orthopaedics. Besides his teaching and clinical duties at Temple, he founded the department’s global outreach program to Kenya, which currently provides training to Kenyan and Temple orthopaedic residents. Prior to that, he lived in Africa for 7 years, working with CURE International as the Medical Director and Chief of Orthopaedic Surgery at the CURE Ethiopia Children’s Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and as an Orthopaedic Surgeon in Kijabe, Kenya, where he taught and performed life-changing surgery on thousands of children.

While in Ethiopia, Eric was one of only 2 western trained orthopaedic surgeons in a country of nearly 100 million people. He focused primarily on caring for disabled children, but as he recognized the shortage of well-trained physicians in both Kenya and Ethiopia, he was able to found successful Orthopaedic Surgery residency training programs in both countries. Prior to Africa, he was in a private Orthopaedic practice in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. He and his wife Corinne currently reside in the Philadelphia area.

Deniece Laurent-Mantey

Deniece Laurent-Mantey’s current role is:  director for Africa at the White House Security Council

Previous to that, she was a Foreign Affairs Officer, serving as member of the Secretary of State’s policy planning staff.  In that role, she was a source of independent policy analysis and advice for the Secretary of State. Undertaking strategic recommendations of U.S.-Africa policy planning and formulation.  Prior to that, she was the Acting Deputy Director in the Bureau of African Affairs, Office of West Africa, deeply involved in shaping and managing the U.S. government’s relationship with 10 coastal countries in West Africa.

She also served as a Special Assistant to Secretary of State John Kerry and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the Executive Secretariat Staff of the Department where she was responsible for advancing and traveling with the Secretary on official trips — domestic and international. Additional assignments also include working in the Bureau of Oceans, Environment, and Science as well as the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor as a Special Assistant.

Mrs. Laurent-Mantey, a native of the Bronx, New York earned her B.A. degree in International Relations from Syracuse University- Maxwell School and her M.A. in African Studies and Public Policy from Howard University. She is married to a Pastor, Henry Laurent-Mantey and together they have two sons. 

Dr. Peter Pendell

• Pastor at Millington Baptist Church, Basking Ridge, NJ for 30 years and for 6 years before that at Calvary Baptist Church in Ossining, NY.
• Graduate of Nyack College (BA), Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary (MDiv) and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (DMin)
• Served for 18 years on the Board of WorldVenture, traveling to many mission fields of the world
• Peter retreaded in 2010 and has since been serving in a variety of churches for pulpit supply and as Interim Pastor.

Born 4/24/44
Born again 6/8/66
Married to Elona Smith 6/29/68
Father of two great kids: Aimee and Jonathan
Grandfather of two greater kids: Austin and Chloe

Robert C. Hutchison

Robert C Hutchison has been working in the computer industry for over 40 years and has been involved in some of the most significant projects in the business. He has run small computer related businesses and has been the CEO of Visual Software since 1994.  Robert currently serves as the Executive Director of The eNeighborhood Project.

Some of the projects he has worked on include the UNIX® Operating System as an operating system developer and as an educator, teaching operating systems and programming techniques to University professors. Additionally, he wrote the first draft of the protocol that has subsequently enabled cell phones to send text messages.

At various times in his career, Robert has written software for telecommunications, phone systems, computer networking, mathematical modeling, education, health care and interoperability.

Robert has written three books, two for limited release on the UNIX Operating System’s internal workings and another published by McGraw-Hill on Data Structures and Algorithms. This was part of their Computer Science Series and was internationally adopted by universities for classroom use.

Jeff Eubank

Jeff Eubank and his wife, Susan, have been attending Riverstone Church in Yardley, PA since 2013 and serves there as Director of Operations. He has volunteered at the church in several areas over the years including being a member of the Finance Team.

For nearly 14 years Jeff had worked as Controller and Director of Business Services at Cairn University, and when the new role for Director of Operations at Riverstone was announced in 2018 he applied and joined the Riverstone staff in January 2019.

Jeff has an MBA from Cairn University and is an adjunct professor there. Originally from Virginia, he became a “northerner” about 25 years ago when he and his family moved to Philadelphia. Jeff has five children and five grandchildren. He and his wife Susan reside in Churchville, PA.

John Abraham

Over 14 years of concentrated experience in implementing ERP software, specifically Workday and Peoplesoft and currently serves as a Managing Consultant at IBM.

Experience includes Fit/Gap analysis, Configuration, hands-on technical skills to support implementation project from concept to development to deployment.