Dan and Gina Blaze

Dan and Gina are the “Visionary Stewards” for the NEPC. For the past sixteen years they have dedicated their lives to ministering to people in need. In Easton and the environs, they have helped many during family crises and tragedies, encouraged people in their faith, and inspired hope. They have also traveled to disaster areas, such as helping victims of a tsunami to rebuild their village. Their compassion and generosity of spirit have encouraged people locally and further abroad. Their vision for the next generation has helped create the New England Prayer Center. Dan has a very creative talent in stone masonry, a trade in which he has worked for over 30 years. He looks forward to restoring the stone walls of Running Brook Farm to their original beauty.


Frederick Zarrilli

Frederick Zarrilli has worked for twenty-three years in institutional investment management and investment banking. He has served as an investor representative, board member, and advisor to companies in multiple business sectors and at varying stages of their growth and development, and he brings this organizational and financial experience to NEPC’s board. Mr. Zarrilli holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Tufts University and a Master of Business Administration degree from The Wharton School. He grew up in Fairfield, CT, where he currently resides with his wife and two children.


Eric Eitel

Eric has served a number of Ivy-league and private secondary schools in New England. He was the Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations at Phillips Academy, Andover, the Assistant Director of Development at Yale School of Medicine, Associate Director of Development at Choate Rosemary Hall, and Director of Leadership Gifts at Columbia Law School. In his twenty-one years as a non-profit executive, Eric has traveled the world and helped create programs on four continents. He founded the World Vision Connecticut Office in 1995 based in Greenwich, Connecticut. In six years, he built this satellite to be one of the top producing development regions in the country for that NGO. While serving World Vision, Eric traveled extensively to Africa, Eastern Europe, and South America. In 2006, Eric was recruited to be the Executive Director of a private family foundation in Scarsdale, NY, which funds organizations serving the poor and underprivileged around the Tri-state area. Eric provides strategic advice, including funding recommendations, to the family foundation. He will travel to Vietnam this Fall to oversee a school project the foundation is funding. In 2006 he also formed his own consulting firm. In that capacity Eric has provided counsel to UNICEF, Sir Evelyn and Lady de Rothschild, The Mercury Fund, Xposure Foundation, and several other clients.


Judy Shaw

The daughter of Bishop Carl Roberson of the Saints Home Church of God in Christ in Buffalo, Judy decided to follow in her father’s footsteps and become a minister. She founded the Center of Life Church in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, twenty-three years ago, which is still thriving today. Judy is actively involved in the government of Sioux Falls, where she has served two terms on the City’s Commission Board, three years on the County Commissioner’s Diversity Board. Judy is a sought-after speaker and most recently traveled to Hawaii to assist Simon T. Bailey in a seminar based on his bestselling new book Release Your Brilliance. Judy was invited to be part of the all-star cast that recorded the 2007 Audiobook of the Year, The Bible Experience. Judy can be heard alongside Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, Samuel L. Jackson, Cicely Tyson, Forest Whitaker, Blair Underwood, and many others as they vocally perform the Bible from start to finish. Judy has traveled to more than fifteen foreign countries and has spoken before heads of state, to groups as small as twenty, and to audiences as large as 25,000. Judy also serves as an advisor to many in the Business and Entertainment Industries.


David Wagner

David Wagner felt the call to full-time ministry in 1997. He moved to Pensacola, Florida, and found a home at Jubilee Christian Center, where he has served in a variety of roles including Assistant Head of School at the church’s elementary school, Jubilee Christian Academy. He has become an invaluable member of the ministry staff and today serves on their Board of Elders. Days after 9/11, David flew to New York and Connecticut to personally minister to those affected. Since then he has been a guest of several Fairfield County and regional churches and bible study groups from Greenwich to New Haven. David now travels extensively around the world ministering in South America, Central America, Canada, Asia, and throughout the United States. David and his wife, Molly, are kept busy raising their five beautiful children.


Paul Michalski

Paul Michalski became a follower of Jesus Christ in December 2003 when his marriage hit a wall (and nearly ended in divorce). Purely through the grace of God, he and his wife Lisa are together in Darien, CT with their children, James and Annie. Paul graduated from Harvard College in 1983 and Harvard Law School in 1986. He was an attorney in the corporate department of Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, a New York based law firm, for over 22 years. Paul joined Cravath in 1986, became a partner in 1994, and from 1996 through 2000 was resident in the firm’s London office. He took a leave of absence from Cravath from October 2008 to June 2009 to help the New Canaan Society (NCS), a Christian men’s organization founded in New Canaan, CT, in its transition from a regional to a national organization and realized that he was meant to begin a new chapter in his life.

Since September 2007, Paul has been leading NCS New Canaan (the founding Chapter of NCS), and he currently serves as a Director and as Vice President and the Corporate Secretary of NCS. He also serves as Chairman of the Benjamin Franklin House Foundation and as a Director of the New York Law Institute.