moira.mcqueen@utoronto.ca

Dr Moira McQueen was a lawyer before becoming Director of the Canadian Catholic Bioethics Institute. She teaches moral theology at St Michael’s in the University of Toronto and is a member of the Vatican’s International Theological Commission. Moira and husband Matthew have seven children and eleven grandchildren. She is the President of the Serra Council of Canada, the founding President of the Serra Club of Halton, and proud to serve on the Board of Serra International.

ecsequor@ticino.com

Emanuele is the sixth of nine children and grew up in Genoa, Italy. He graduated from the University of Genoa with a degree in economy and commerce. After spending twenty years between Genoa, New York, and Miami managing the family-owned shipping business, he started his own private equity company, now based in Milan, Italy. He now resides in Lugano, Switzerland. Joining the Serra Club of Lugano in 1997, he has been Club President, District Governor, and President of the Italian National Council. Emanuele has three children and five grandchildren living in the States.

kmetyko@serrainternational.org

After St. Anne's Grade School and St. Thomas High School in Houston, Texas, Kurt obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from Notre Dame University, Class of 1964.  Following graduation, he served on active duty in the Army for two years, including one year in Viet Nam, retiring as a Captain.  After his service, Kurt joined his father's civil engineering firm and is still practicing today.   Kurt became a member of the Houston Serra Club in 1968, joining his father Frank (1977 Serra International President).  Kurt held all the Club, District and U.S. Council positions culminating with the 2011 Presidency of Serra's National Council for the United States.  He has been a member and past Chairman of the Diocese of Galveston-Houston's St. Mary's Seminary Advisory Board, serving from 1978 until March, 2014.  Kurt also serves, since 1997, on the Board of the Shalom Center in Splendora, Texas, a counseling center for Catholic priests and religious.

Richard Arians first joined the Serra Club of Mankato, MN, in 1995, and then joined the Rochester, MN, club when he moved to Rochester in 2001. In Rochester he served two terms as president and a term as District 7-S governor. Upon relocating to the Mankato area, he re-joined his original club, serving a term as President while also serving as the Region 8 Director.

He served on the US Council Board as Vice President—Programs, followed by a two-year term as Board President. Prior to sitting on the US Council Board, he served as chairman of the Council’s Leadership Committee and was a regular contributor to Spring Leadership Trainings Conferences and the Serra Rallies.

Mr. Arians has an undergraduate degree in Mathematics Education from the University of Wisconsin and earned an MBA from Augsburg College (MN). Professionally, he worked in management positions in the food, cellular communications, metal fabrication, and roofing industries. After retirement, he taught Mathematics and Economics at the Saint Jose Del Rio Sanchez Minor Seminary in Mankato and currently works as a tennis official for the US Tennis Association and Intercollegiate Tennis Association. He and his wife Ruth live in Madison Lake, MN, and spend much of their winters in Fountain Hills, AZ. They are active members of All Saints Catholic Church in Madison Lake. They have two children and two granddaughters.

alarkins@serrainternational.org

Anne has been a member of the Serra Club of Melbourne, Australia, for more than 15 years. She joined her father, an uncle and a cousin in the club after coming to meetings as a guest for many years. She served as VP Membership and was the Club President from 2012-2015. She joined the Serra Council of Australia New Zealand and the South Pacific as a trustee, then VP Membership and has served as President since 2016.She has attended a number of Serra International Conventions and USA Serra Rallies over the past 10 years and values the connections with an international community of Catholics. Anne has a 25+ year career as a management consultant. She has a strong practice in probity and in public administration governance and program review. Anne serves on the Bayside Mission Pastoral Council – a Council representing 6 churches in the Melbourne bayside region.

margo@geddie.org

Margo received her B.A. in economics from Skidmore College. She attended the Edwin L. Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University with a double major in accounting and finance. She started her career in wealth management with Morgan Stanley more than thirty years ago and recently retired as Senior Vice President of Wealth Management. Away from the office, Margo serves on the Advisory Board of St. Mary’s Catholic Seminary and is a member of the Board of Directors of Serra International. She enjoys spending time with her family including two precious grandsons.

jeanettedsouza.serra@gmail.com

Jeannette grew up in Agra, the city of the Taj Mahal, in India. She got her Bachelor of Commerce degree from St. John’s College, University of Agra. She worked with the airlines until she got married in 1966 and went to live in Kuwait in the Middle East. After settling down with her two daughters, she worked as Assistant Administrator with a local bank that was run by Chase Manhattan Bank. When Kuwait was invaded by Saddam Hussein in 1990, she returned to India. Rather than retire so early in life she preferred to do her bit for the Church, now that she had the time. She began with teaching spoken English to candidates to the Jesuit seminary and continued to do so for seventeen years. But that was not enough. She felt she had a calling to be a Counsellor and studied for this with the Redemptorist fathers in Bangalore subsequently overseeing two parish-based Pastoral Counselling centres. She specialized in marriage counselling and took class, in this area, for the Redemptorist Seminarians in Bangalore. Jeanette and her husband Carlos were introduced to Serra in 2002 and were both Founding members of the Serra Club of Bangalore, India. Ever since she has been working passionately towards fulfilling Serra’s goals in India. With the help of a hard working and dedicated team, she introduced several innovative ideas to foster and promote vocations, in compliance with the local customs and environment. After her husband passed away she moved to Canada to live with her 2 daughters. She joined the International Board in 2016 and is currently the liason between Serra International and Serra in India. She is also a member of the Serra Toronto West Club in Canada.

fgorges@serrainternational.org

Fred Gorges lives near Wichita, Kansas, and is a member of the Downtown Wichita Serra Club. He joined Serra in 1994. He has held positions in his Club as VP of Programs, VP Vocations, and President. He has also served as District 12-2S Governor for five years, and as Region 9 Director for two years. Fred has been involved in the transportation business for almost 50 years. He owns and operates a transportation company, FCG Inc., that contracts solely to FedEx Ground. Fred and his wife Chris have one wonderful daughter named Grace.

AdamLaraSerra@gmail.com

Adam is the President/Owner of National Utilities Discount for the past 18 years. Adam has been involved in the energy/electricity business since deregulation in the State of Texas in 2001. Adam attended Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. Adam and his wife, Betty, joined Serra Club of McAllen in 2014. They immediately were selected to serve on the Board of Directors’ and work together on increasing membership by facilitating workshops throughout the Diocese of Brownsville. When they learned the objectives of Serra, to bring together informed Catholic lay leaders who understand and live their own Christian vocations to service, foster and promote vocations to the ministerial priesthood in the Catholic Church. To assist members to recognize and respond in their own lives, to God’s call to holiness in Jesus Christ and through the Holy Spirit. Bishop Daniel Flores has asked Adam and Betty to serve on the Case Development Council for the Diocese of Brownsville. Adam is serving as VP Membership and has been named as District Governor-Elect for District 126. Adam has served on other Boards and Foundations mainly focusing in recent years on Rotary International. Adam joined Rotary in 2008 and has served in many capacities. He served as District Trainer serving over 2000 members in fifty-two Rotary Clubs throughout South Texas. Adam has served as Assistant Governor Area 11, McAllen Rotary Club President, District Strategic Planning Committee. Adam has been recognized for his outstanding leadership service and was named “District Rotarian of the Year”. Adam and Betty have four sons and two grandchildren.

Giuseppe was born in Ravenna, Italy and obtained a degree in Physics from the University of Ferrara in 1979. He was a Senior Researcher of the Italian National Research Council from 1985 to 2020. He and his wife Eleonora Carlett have one child. Giuseppe is a member of the Serra Club of Ferrara in Emilia Romagna, Italy. He has served as president of the Serra Club of Ferrara (2006-2008, 2017-2019), Governor of District 76 Emilia Romagna (2010-2012),and Member of the SI Fondazione Italiana Beato Junipero Serra (FIBJS) Board of Directors (2020-2025). Within Serra International, he has served as a member of the SI Nominating Committee (2012-2015), SI Memberships (2018-2019) and Vocations (2019-2021) VP, SI Board Trustee (2015-2024). He is a Ferrara-Comacchio Diocese member, Pastoral Office for Laity and Diocese Eucharist Minister OFS, Secular Franciscan Order Member, 3rd Order Franciscan.

Malena comes from a large Catholic family of eight children. She was happily married to Fernando Dosal for 38 years, with whom she had two sons who continue to live as a family. She has been a widow since 2022. She graduated in commerce and worked in a major bank in Mexico City, at the International Division, until she became a mother. Malena and Fernando were invited to join Serra in 2009, and ever since she has been working hard in her club, later in the national council, and now as a trustee. She has been active in her parish, and enjoys volunteering in her community. She is a Minister of the Word, after studying the Bible for five years.

She and Fernando were coaches for four years of the Family Support Foundation Love and Life programs (marriage programs) in Mexico, led by Fr. Jaroslaw Szymczak. Since 2023 she has been working as a real estate agent at Grupo Lar, a developer from Spain.

engebben@gmail.com

Roberto has been a member of the Serra Club of Vale do Iguaçu in Brazil since 1990. He has served his club as president and has also been a district governor. He also serves as speaker at the ECC-Meeting for couples with Christ and assists in the liturgy of the Catholic Church as a musician. He has a degree in civil engineering from the Federal University of Parana and serves on the engineering board as an advisor. He currently works as a physics teacher and is an expert in civil law, in the field of civil construction projects and construction of residential and commercial buildings. Roberto and his wife, economist Sandra Mara, have two sons, the oldest being a spinal surgeon and the other a plastic surgeon.

bresowar@verizon.net

Jo-Ann has been a member of the University of Dallas Serra Club for more than twenty years. She is a past president of the University of Dallas Serra Club and past Chairperson of the District’s Vocational Awareness Program (VAP). In the past, Jo­­-Ann was President of the Diocesan School Board, chaired Parish Finance Councils, served as a Red Cross Volunteer, is a founding member of the Diocesan Ministry on Disabilities, was Chair of the Laity representation for the Texas Catholic Conference and a Catholic School Grant writer. Jo-Ann attended the University of Dallas, SMU and UTA. Her career was in human resource management with a specialty in International Compensation and Benefits. She worked for major international corporations as well as the US Department of Energy. Jo-Ann retired from Alcon Laboratories in 2010. It was at a Serra International Convention in Chicago that Jo-Ann first heard of the John Paul II Monstrance. The year was 2014 and she was that year’s Chairperson of the VAP. Since that time, District 46 has had the St. John Paul II Monstrance for adoration in our dioceses for seven consecutive years. Jo-Ann is now the District Governor for District 46. The District is no longer 46E and 46W but is one district which now includes the Tyler Diocese. District 46 (Dioceses of Dallas, Fort Worth and Tyler, Texas) hosted the US Council’s Serra Rally in 2022 and 2023.

niphonsa@yahoo.com

Mr. Niphon Saengpradab, who goes by his Christian name Mark, was born on January 21, 1956 in Thailand. He embarked on a lifelong journey of dedication and service to his community and faith. Mark has been happily married to Mrs. Prapai Saengpradab for over five decades, and they are proud parents of three children: Mr. Phumin Saengpradab (33), Mr. Phumipat Saengpradab (31), and Miss Sirikarn Saengpradab (29).

Mark’s professional journey has been deeply intertwined with real estate, land development, and industrial estate management. He proudly served as the Manager at Asia Industrial Estate Co., Ltd. before his retirement. Mark has an unwavering commitment to his faith and has been active in various Catholic and civic organizations. Since 1986, he has been a dedicated member of the Serra Club of St. John’s, and his contributions have been significant. He has held various district offices, including District 140 Governor in 1991, and served as the Serra Council of Thailand’s President in multiple terms, namely 2003-2004, 2008-2009, 2021-2023, and 2023-2024.

Beyond his involvement with the Serra Club, Mark has played pivotal roles in numerous Catholic and civic organizations. He currently serves on the Board of the Catholic Laity Committee, CBCT Commission for Seminary and Vocations, and the Consult Boards of the Catholic Business Executive Group. Furthermore, he holds the prestigious position of President of the Alumni of Camillian Seminary and is a valued member of the Board of Thailand Vocations Promoted Foundation.

He can be reached via email at niphonsa@yahoo.com or sirphon99@gmail.com, and his mobile number is +66 81 911 9522.

lofran1@yahoo.com

Francisca joined Serra Club of Hong Kong in 2015 after her pilgrimage to Jerusalem. She was nominated as a board member the following year and President in 2019. Currently she is serving as a District Governor of Hong Kong and Macau for a second term. She is also on the school board sponsored by the Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong. It is her wish to continue to contribute to The Church and the community at large.

Francisca graduated from McGill University in Montreal with a Master’s Degree in Social Work. She was in charge of two psychiatric units at Montreal General Hospital for 4 years, before returning to Hong Kong to be closer to her family. She received a job offer to work for Merrill Lynch after taking the US General Securities Representative Exam. She worked as an institutional sales director till retirement.

mike.downey@downey.com

J. Michael Downey is President of the US Council for Serra and chair of the Leadership Development Committee for the Council. Until recently, he was also Region Director for the Central Region of Serra—a role he served in for the past 4 years. Prior to that he was District Governor of District 9E (Iowa) covering six clubs and four dioceses representing about 320 Iowa Serrans. He served in this role from 2014 until 2018. Mike is a member of the St. Serra Club of Des Moines, IA and he has held the following offices in that club: President, V.P. Vocations, V.P. Communications and Trustee. He chaired two region conventions held in the Central Region that were hosted by the St. Serra Club of Des Moines. Mike has a degree in Industrial Engineering from Iowa State University (1974) and a law degree from the University of Iowa (1977). He served as Associate General Counsel and General Manager of the Des Moines Register and Tribune Co. and is a former–now retired–business owner and has served as president of three manufacturing companies.