Gordon Robertson became the Chief Executive Officer of CBN on November 30, 2007.  Prior to being named CEO, Gordon was the Executive Producer of The 700 Club for the past six years and a member of the board of directors for the past five years.

As the son of Pat and Dede Robertson, Gordon grew up in Portsmouth, Virginia and watched as God expanded the ministry of CBN. After graduating from Yale University in 1980, Gordon earned his Juris Doctor degree from Washington and Lee University. For the next 10 years, he practiced law in Norfolk, Virginia.

Then, during a short-term missionary trip to India, God opened Gordon's heart to the plight of millions of unreached souls. Sensing God's call to win the lost to Christ, Gordon resigned from his law firm and moved his family to the Philippines. He joined CBN in July 1994 and founded CBN Asia, Inc., CBN's first WorldReach center in Asia.  Gordon created CBN Asia's weekly magazine show The 700 Club Asia, which is produced live in Manila.

After training leaders and facilitating the development of CBN centers in India, Indonesia, Thailand, Hong Kong and Beijing, Robertson relocated to the United States in April 1999.  He now co-hosts CBN's original flagship program, The 700 Club, and is actively involved in all aspects of programming for the ministry in both television and the Internet.

Gordon and his wife, Katharyn, reside in Virginia with their three children.

Ben Edwards, vice president of CBN WorldReach, felt God's call to international ministry from a very young age.  His desire to work in communications led him to pursue a bachelor's degree in radio, television and film at the University of Texas and a master's degree in communication from Regent University. 

Starting his career with CBN in 1984, Edwards joined CBN News and gained experience in his early roles as supervising producer, news editor, assignment editor, and managing editor.  From 1987 to 1989, Edwards held the position of news director where he managed a team of over 20 journalists and was the chief liaison with news bureaus in Washington, Jerusalem and Beirut.

From 1989 â€" 1998, Edwards served as director if international programming for CBN and was responsible for the development of CBN productions in over 40 countries using culturally relevant story content, indigenous languages, and coordinated teams of domestic and international production staffs.

Additionally, in 1995, a children's animation division was formed under Edwards' leadership and has become one of CBN's most effective global outreach tools.

In Edwards' current role, he oversees 15 international regional ministry centers with more than 1200 employees that coordinate media, follow up and humanitarian activity for CBN all over the world.  He is committed to developing strategic partnerships to reach people who have not yet heard the Gospel.

Animation veteran Tom Bancroft started his career in 1987 when he attended California Institute of the Arts, to study character animation.  After only a year and a half Bancroft was accepted into the prestigious Walt Disney Feature Animation internship program.  Upon successful completion of the program, he was asked to be a part of the opening of the new Walt Disney Feature Animation at the Disney/MGM Studios in 1989.

Over the next 12 years Bancroft animated on such films as: "Rescuers Down Under", "Beauty and the Beast", "The Lion King", "Aladdin", "Pocahontas", "Mulan", "Tarzan" and "Atlantis".  On the film "Mulan", Bancroft was given the opportunity to be the Supervising Animator for the character of "Mushu" the dragon.  Chief in this assignment was to design the character of "Mushu" for the production.  For this project Bancroft was nominated for both a RUEBEN and an ANNIE Award.  Throughout this time Bancroft also animated shorts with Roger Rabbit, Disney Commercials, Disney Theme Park Attractions, and created comic book art for Disney Comics.

In the beginning of 2000, Bancroft left Disney to work for Big Idea Productions, makers of "VeggieTales", where he was the senior character designer, and contributed to conceptual art, computer animation, and storyboarding.  He also was the character designer and Supervising Director of the new "Larryboy" video series.

Bancroft left Big Idea Productions in 2002 to start an animation development and illustration company with his friend and artistic partner, Rob Corley.  He has been involved in projects such as children's books, character designs, animation, and comic books for Disney, Fisher-Price, Big Idea Productions, EMI Records and DC Comics, among others. Through his publishing company, Funnypages Press, Bancroft publishes his creator-owned comic, "OPPOSITE FORCES" along with other comics by talented creators.  Bancroft has drawn covers and pinups for the comic books "Tellos", "Danger Girl" and "Herobear".

In 1990 after completing his Illustration studies at Ringling School of Art and Design, located in Sarasota, Florida, Corley achieved his life long goal of becoming a Disney animator.  In the fall of that same year Corley was hired as an artist for Walt Disney Feature Animation, located at the Disney/MGM Studios in Orlando, Florida.

Over his years at Disney Rob has had a hand in creating such Disney classics as "Rescuers Down Under", "Beauty and the Beast", "The Lion King", "Aladdin", "Pocahontas", "Mulan", "Lilo and Stitch" and most currently "Brother Bear".  His animation responsibilities have also included various non-feature films such as "John Henry", "Trail Mix-Up", "Prince and the Pauper" and "Off his Rockers" as well as numerous projects for the animation services division of the feature animation department.

Corley has also worked as a freelance animation and animation supervisor on several television commercials from Cocoa Pebbles to Froot Loops, Rice Krispies, and Little Debbies for San Marco Films, formerly Cornell/Abood. He has also worked with Curious Pictures located in New York as well as many of his own personal animation projects.

Animation aside, Corley has teamed up with his friend and fellow artist Tom Bancroft to form an animation development and illustration company, Funnypages Productions.  Through their subsidiary company, Funnypages Press, Corley and Bancroft publish their own creator-owned comics, as well as comics by other talented writers and artists.

Sean Roche is an Emmy Award winning writer who has produced hundreds of hours of children's television.  Over the last sixteen years, he has worked for most of the major studios and children's networks including Warner Brothers, Universal Studios, Disney, Cartoon Network, DIC, Klasky Csupo, Hanna Barbera, ABC, CBS, NBC and PBS.  His credits span a wide spectrum of children's fare from X-MEN EVOLUTION to Big Idea's LARRYBOY, A FLINTSTONE FAMILY CHRISTMAS (Emmy Nominated) to BIKER MICE FROM MARS and Cartoon Network's new ALIEN RACERS.

In the last few years, Mr. Roche completed producing and story editing Universal Cartoon Studio's revival of the classic comedy, THE WOODY WOODPECKER SHOW, (52 half hours) and immediately went on to run the second season of artist Michael Bedard's SITTING DUCKS, seen on the Cartoon Network.   He has held staff positions as Creative Director at FOX KIDS, developing his own animated series' and sitcom pilots for the network, and at DIC ENTERTAINMENT where he was the writer/producer of an animated series based on popular magician/illusionists, SIEGFRIED AND ROY â€" a show nominated for BEST FAMILY ANIMATED SHOW at the 1996 YOUNG ARTIST AWARDS.  During his years on staff at HANNA BARBERA STUDIOS, Mr. Roche had the honor of co-writing and working with Mr. Bill Hanna on

"THE LAST HALLOWEEN," starring Rhea Perlman and Richard Moll.  HALLOWEEN was one of the first television specials to utilize full computer animated characters interacting with human actors.  The project won the year's Emmy for Best Visual Effects and has gone on to become a Halloween perennial.

Over the course of his busy career he has been honored with awards including the New York Festivals World Medal for International TV Programming and seven Emmy Award nominations in both

Daytime and Prime Time Animation categories.  Mr. Roche won the Emmy for Outstanding Animated Series for his work writing and co-producing the acclaimed educational series, WHERE ON EARTH IS CARMEN SANDIEGO? 

Most recently, Roche has completed episodes of ZULA PATROL, a new preschool science series for PBS and he is currently co-producing three new series pilots for KLASKY CSUPO and CARTOON NETWORK.  His current animated video and DVD releases include TONKA TOUGH TRUCK ADVENTURES for Hasbro - The feature film, "DINOTOPIA â€" LEGEND OF THE RUBY SUNSTONE," for Hallmark and S.D. Entertainment, based on characters from the successful HALLMARK/ABC production of DINOTOPIA   - and Wacky World Studio's/ 20th Century Fox release of THE MANE EVENT, the newest installment of their highly acclaimed Christian video series THE ROACH APPROACH.  

Mr. Roche was born in San Francisco, was raised in New York City, and lived for many years in Los Angeles.  He continues to work full time in animation and children's television, while dividing his time between California and New upstate York, where he and his wife are renovating a two hundred year old stone farmhouse in the Hudson Valley.  Mr. Roche grew up with outer space aliens and has never slept.