BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Scott Ritchie
Scott Ritchie is a co-founder and Director of Solutionaries International.
He was raised in New Canaan, Connecticut, and received a BA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. After nearly two decades as an Executive Producer in high-end advertising, followed by 15 years as a General Contractor, Scott shifted his focus to include humanitarian and charitable work, domestically and internationally. He attended a Kingdom Ministry School in California equipping him with Kingdom lifestyle and vision.
This transition included work with Young Life, non-profit work in SE Asia combatting human trafficking, Bethel Global Response- a crisis response team established in Northern California, and involvement with a City Transformation Team in that same region.
Having been raised in America’s East Coast, Scott brings great understanding to legacy and inheritance. Passionate to empower generations to walk in their legacy together, Scott and his wife Diane, launched Solutionaries International, to “ignite hope and revive communities” by championing community catalysts as agents of revival and reformation. By re-engaging with their familial and spiritual legacy, catalysts and their communities can be restored back to their original design.
Scott leads with honor and action. His heart is to equip men to be servant leaders of great marriages and families, and to establish healthy families worldwide. With Diane, they have travelled to Africa, the Middle East, Asia and the Caribbean to serve communities by equipping and empowering leaders and to call up a generation of honorable fathers.
Since the devastating genocide of October 2023, Israel has become their sole focus- connecting international allies with Israeli leaders of revival and reformation.
Although Finnish by heritage, Scott jokes that he is a “Finn with a fin.”He loves a hot sauna after a frigid day skiing, but is just as at home in the Mediterranean surf off Israel’s coast, or kayaking the rivers of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Scott and Diane have 4 wonderful adult children and are enjoying seeing their lives expand and impacting their communities with love.
Diane Ritchie
Diane Ritchie is a co-founder and CEO of Solutionaries International.
Raised in America’s Midwest, she received a BS in Nursing from Bob Jones University in Greenville, SC. After a 15 year stint of Critical Care Nursing, she was honored to raise three extraordinary children and lead numerous children’s and youth programs in her city and churches, coaching and mentoring youth and operating as a Licensed Chaplain in her region.
Diane is known for her passionate and creative visionary leadership which ignites hope within community members and leaders. She launched an innovative non-profit in Southern Arizona championing youth for 15 years as community revival catalysts for deep and lasting transformation. Throughout the years, she has led numerous teams internationally to ignite and engage revival catalysts in countries such as Uganda, Rwanda, Taiwan, Indonesia, Russia, Mexico and the Middle East.
Diane’s passion to see holistic revival emanated from her personal encounter’s with the Father’s love in the early 1990’s. These encounters awakened a burden to offer freedom- spiritually, emotionally and relationally, empowering hundreds out of addictions and bondage.
Diane is known as one who truly “loves the one in front of her,” seeing value and potential in every human being.
With her husband Scott, Solutionaries was launched in 2021 to create a platform to join “kings and priests” to fuel change and ignite hope internationally. After a season of empowering youth with academic scholarships, building homes for widows and orphans and training community influencers with Kingdom Culture, a shift came in October 2023 to focus all their attention on the needs within Israel. In lieu of the war season in Israel, Diane is passionate to see hope restored among those traumatized throughout the land.
If you don’t find Diane out inviting and igniting restoration, you will most likely find her enjoying her children and grandchildren, or enjoying the wild outdoors with Scott, her family and global friends.
Ruth Yim
Ruth is an Executive Board member of Solutionaries International.
Born and raised in Singapore, she was profoundly impacted by the region’s multicultural environment, and fluent in English and Mandarin.
Inspired by her work at the Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Singapore Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, Ruth developed a passion for people, culture and global perspectives. She has a broad marketplace perspective with 30 years of experience across various industries, including Singapore foreign service, IT research and advisory, law, real estate and venture funding, social enterprise and a stint in the missions department at a church in Singapore. She is currently a Client Relations Manager.
Ruth began her journey with Yeshua at 15 yrs. and was profoundly impacted by numerous teachers from Israel sparking an interest in God’s heart for Israel. Her journeys to Israel began in 2000, where she has deepened her understanding about what the Bible says about Israel. She has a great desire to see lives and communities transformed by the gospel of Yeshua, and through Spirit-led education and equipping of sons and daughters who recognize the favor and anointing they carry everywhere as a conduit of God's blessing and redemptive works - she believes we are called to a ministry of reconciliation.
Ruth is a gifted and unique connector for the Kingdom of God as she operates with a keen sense of God working through relationships to expand His kingdom. She leads a prayer hour representing Singapore on Israel Virtual House of Prayer, and is the Singaporean Prayer Coordinator for Ebenezer Operations Exodus, a ministry that helps the Jewish diaspora make aliyah back to Israel. Ruth has three beautiful children, Daniel, Dylan and Jemima who are young adults and live in Perth, Australia.
Alexandra Caldow
Alexandra is an Executive Board Member of Solutionaries International.
Born and raised in South Africa, she completed a Psychology Degree and worked in Cape Town for several years. Her journey of obedience and trust has taken her to work in Hong Kong, Scotland and Ireland where she partnered to see families and communities healed and restored back to their original design.
Eventually she returned home to South Africa where she entered the realm of financial services, moving quickly into recruitment and human capital talent management in the banking sector. A door opened in Northern California where she completed a Kingdom Ministry School that prepared her to step into operational management in the aesthetics industry.
Alexandra is a voice called into the marketplace to see a generation of people transformed through a life of surrender and trust that comes by an encounter with the love of God. Her international experience and passionate obedient lifestyle empowers Solutionaries to achieve their vision and mission to bring hope to global communities for transformation and revival.
Alexandra states that “the honor of being on this board fuels the fire of my heart to see entire nations walking out what was initially intended to be their inherited birthright.”
ADVISORY COUNCIL BOARD
Todd & Robin Winkler
Todd and Robin Winkler have been members of the Solutionaries International Advisory Council Board since 2021. In 1988, Todd received a Pastoral Degree from North Central Bible College, Minneapolis, Minnesota and Robin received a BS in Elementary Education. She served as an elementary teacher for 4 years before becoming mom.
Todd and Robin have been senior pastors in Michigan’s rural Upper Peninsula of Cornerstone Church in Ramsay, Michigan for 31 years. They regularly shepherd 120 people, pastor the local counties, lead weekly radio programs, and lead an annual retreat for pastors. Throughout their ministry years they have passionately fostered thriving weekly children’s programs, youth and young adult ministries and fantastic summer camps.
Seven years ago, a new phase of community influence was launched. They purchased several area buildings to house businesses, a place for mentoring and counseling, and a ministry called Rise Up. An addiction recovery program, Inside Out, was launched to mentor, employ and renew lives of former addicts into Godly, productive men and women. Revival Coffee will soon open with a dual purpose of providing employment and facilitation for women coming out of addiction and incarceration. Furthermore, the White Barn, a local farm was purchased for weddings, celebrations and soon a farm to table venue.
The Winklers acknowledge they could never have dreamed of how the Kingdom of God could advance in the Upper Peninsula into something so culturally transformative. Individual lives, marriages, families, businesses and communities are now being transformed from the inside out!
Larry & Wilma Rich
Larry and Wilma have been members of Solutionaries International Advisory Council Board since 2022. Larry earned a PhD in Physical Chemistry and worked in research and management for 3M Company for 32 years. Wilma received a Masters Degree in Zoology and taught high school science for 20 years. She has authored 6 children’s books revealing her love of creation and the Father’s purpose and design for each one of us.
Larry and Wilma have been married 61 years and live in Northern Minnesota. They have two married children, 17 wonderful grandchildren and now adding great grandchildren, all living in Minnesota.
Larry and Wilma serve with a family organization called GoFam Ministries. This organization, launched by their son-in-law, an ER Physician, has published several marriage and family books and provides family, marriage and parenting seminars and training across the US.
The Riches state that their greatest heart desire is to see the family restored to its rightful place as sons and daughters of the Most High God and to understand how He works powerfully through the generations.
Since joining the Solutionaries family, their hearts have been greatly awakened to the importance of aligning our lives, beliefs and hearts with the nation and people of Israel in these unexpected days of war and turmoil. They bring great insight to empowering men, women, marriages and families throughout Israel and the Middle East.
Fred & Sonja Haley
Fred & Sonja describe their life as nothing short of miraculous. Both of them encountered the presence of God at young ages, beginning a walk of life and power in the Holy Spirit. At the age of 7, Sonja witnessed her father’s death and then a glorious resurrection. This powerful encounter launched a walk of faith and an expectation of the supernatural.
Fred received a Master’s Degree in Church Planting from the University College of Jerusalem and Sonja received her teaching degree preparing her for years of homeschooling their two children. After a short stint pastoring a rapidly growing church in Anderson, California, this dynamic couple ministered internationally to families and equipping leaders.
Partnering with Bethel Church of Redding, California for many years, they led and participated in 38 journeys to Israel with the Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry. They have partnered with USIEA in recent years paving the way for US government leaders to tour Israel and grow in Middle East dynamics. Over the years, they have mentored and equipped hundreds of Kingdom leaders who now impact dozens of nations.
Today they continue pouring into global leaders and mentoring their wonderful grandchildren. Fred and Sonja joined the Solutionaries team in 2022 and are integral in opening doors and hearts in the land of Israel.