Leadership Team

Why am I involved in this work? Why does it matter to me?
I believe very strongly in our broad vision of trying to help equip the local church in Third World countries by teaching and demonstrating sound business and entrepreneurial principles. The local church in so many developing countries and elsewhere desperately need a ‘giving’-minded and business-minded middle class that will support the church and pastors and not see that role as belonging to ‘rich’ Westerners who give to missions. While we as Americans need to continue to give and to increase our involvement in traditional world missions, we also very much need to develop this ‘business-as-missions’ paradigm. In my travels around the world, I have become more convinced than ever of the critical nature of this need. Through the Five and Two philosophy, when we invest ‘little’, He can bless ‘much.’ This was the principle He first showed us through the miracle of the five loaves and two fish.

• On the Board of Five and Two Investment LLC
• President and Founder, Friends of Russian Jewry, Inc.
• Part-time missionary, Life in Messiah International
• Former missionary, Slavic Gospel Association (to Russian Jews in America)
• International Coordinator, Lausanne Consultation on Jewish Evangelism (LCJE)
• Chairman of the Jerusalem Gateway Partnership
• Retired from the computer security industry, having worked for three companies: two successful start-ups, as well as for a Fortune 1000 company
• Retired from 16 years with the U.S. government as Russian affairs civilian analyst, Dept. of Defense (Pentagon – 13 years); 3 years, Ft. Bragg, Special Operations Command
• Author or co-author of two books. America’s Oldest Corporation (2008); Malicious Bots: An Inside Look into the Cyber-Criminal Underground of the Internet (2008), and many journal articles on Russian Jewish ministry and other topics
• Former elder, Immanuel Bible Church (Annandale, Virginia); Church of the Open Door (Fayetteville, NC) (two non-denominational churches)
• Head of Henry Dunster Association (henrydunster.org)
• Retired Colonel, U.S. Army Reserves (30 years commissioned service in the Reserves)

Married to Karen Black Melnick, 36+ years, four children, two granddaughters.
Hobbies: ham radio; in my ‘retired’ status, besides enjoying my family and traveling, I am working on writing several books, including a biography of the first president of Harvard, Henry Dunster.

What I love to discuss are the eternal aspects of what it is we do in the area of our life we call “work.” If our God truly owns the cattle on a thousand hills, if all knowledge comes from Him, if He really has prepared good works for us to do in advance, if every knee really is going to bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, if He really has a plan for us, not to harm us but to give us a hope and future,…then what should our perspective be in regards to the work place? As I traverse the road God has for me, He has shown me that He simply desires us to honor and glorify Him in all we do; at home, at play and at work. What better way to ensure that this can be accomplished in the “work place” than to be involved in a ministry like Five and Two Global Initiatives!

When our perspective is right in regards to business, when we approach our business with a “humble and contrite heart,” then God is able to empower us to make the right decisions that glorify Him and bring Him the honor due his name – and like any true father, He always desires what is best for us. This is the perspective that we desire to see multiplied across the emerging economies of the world.

I am the 8th of 12 children, raised in a loving, Godly home in Flint, MI. I worked to put myself through college, earning a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Michigan – Flint in 1982. In 1983 I began my career as a computer scientist at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren VA., but today find myself as the CEO of SimVentions, Inc. a privately held defense related small business I co-founded in 2000 that is headquartered in Fredericksburg, VA. As the CEO, my primary goals are to provide a solid work environment that is built on Biblically-based principals, and that focuses on caring for our employees, their families, our community, and our customers.

I currently reside in Fredericksburg, VA along with my wife of 31 years and have four grown children. In addition to my job as SimVentions CEO, I serve as a member of the Board of Directors for Fredericksburg Christian Schools, I am Chairman of the Deacon Board at New Life in Christ Church, I am on Liberty University’s Board of Advisors for their School of Engineering, I serve on the Board of Five and Two Global Initiatives, and I serve on the Board of Five and Two Investment LLC.

Jeremy Snow serves as Territory Manager at VAT, Inc., the global leader in high vacuum valves. He joined VAT with over 10 years of industry experience and was appointed to be the Board Director at Pascal Engineering after demonstrating a gift for strategic planning and execution. He is passionate about the Business as Missions approach to ministry and is excited to see how God will use Five and Two to grow His kingdom and transform lives around the world. He earned a B.S. in Management from Southern Tech in Georgia, and served as a youth pastor in Texas and Georgia for several years before finding a home in Virginia.

Scott and Julia Ross met and married in Fredericksburg, Virginia before they moved to Peru in July 2013 to start the work of Five and Two Investment LLC through Five and Two Global Initiatives.  They both have a background in Business Administration and a desire to see Christ’s kingdom spread throughout the world.  They are the feet on the ground working with business as missions projects in Trujillo, Peru.