Senior Leadership Team
Len Ksobiech, Chief Operating Officer/Chief Financial Officer
Len Ksobiech serves as the Chief Operating Officer and the Chief Financial Officer for Childhelp. He is responsible for financial and fiscal management of Childhelp's operations including providing strategic leadership and establishing long-range planning in the areas of accounting, budgeting, and business planning and administration.
Prior to joining Childhelp, Len was partner at Four Peaks Financial Management in Scottsdale where he directed start-up companies in developing capital structures, accounting, budgeting and reporting systems and high-level sales and finance transactions.
Len earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from DePaul University in Chicago and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Latrice Hickman, Vice President of Program Operations
Latrice serves as Vice President of Program Operations. She is responsible for providing strategic, technical, operational, and executive leadership to Childhelp Programs nation-wide.
Prior to this position, Latrice served as Childhelp’s Vice President of Quality Improvement and Compliance. Her experience is the consensus of fifteen years managing human service agencies and businesses, including: C/W Health Analytics, Devereux Arizona, and Triple R Behavior Health, Inc.
Latrice holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Human Services from University of Phoenix and a Masters degree in Public Administration from Arizona State University. Latrice is also a Phoenix School of Law Juris Doctorate Candidate.
Krystina Lamb, Vice President of Human Resources
Krystina is responsible for providing strategic leadership for Childhelp’s human capital in the areas of organizational development, talent acquisition and retention, compensation and benefits, performance management, employee relations, and compliance with employment legislation.
Prior to joining Childhelp, Krystina investigated allegations of abuse and neglect of children as a Social Worker for the Lake County Department of Job and Family Services in Cleveland, Ohio where she provided protective services and emergency intervention for children in need and collaborated with the County Prosecutor to build legal cases against child offenders.
Krystina earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Bowling Green State University in northwestern Ohio, a Master of Business Administration degree from Ottawa University, and she holds a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) certification.
Sarah Rodriguez, Vice President of Corporate Relations
Sarah Rodriguez serves as Vice President of Corporate Relations for Childhelp. Her senior management responsibilities include supervising all event fundraising activities for the organization as well as all cause marketing activities. She is the corporate officer who directly interfaces with major corporations to form joint alliances and cause marketing sponsorships to benefit Childhelp.
Prior to joining Childhelp, Sarah held senior sales and marketing positions and won numerous awards for outstanding sales results. Sarah has overseen a variety of key management assignments at Childhelp. She has lead responsibilities in major events such as Barrett -Jackson Drive the Dream Gala, cause marketing alliances with Isagenix, SEMA, IHOP, philosophy, Eufora, the Chicago Blackhawks and Verizon, all of which directly benefit Childhelp in administering programs for abused and neglected children. Sarah graduated from UCLA with a Bachelor of Arts degree.
Sarah's experience in fundraising reflects a very strong B2B and individual sales track record. She has managed a number of key relationships for Childhelp that have developed into significant donations, in many cases ongoing year-after-year.
Dr. Cindy K. Knott, Vice President of Special Projects and Prevention Education
Dr. Cindy K. Knott is Vice President of Special Projects and Prevention Education at Childhelp. In this position, she is responsible for the overall management and execution of Childhelp’s initiatives in the area of prevention education, including the Good Touch/Bad Touch program.
Prior to joining Childhelp, Dr. Knott has served as Dean for the College of Education at Grand Canyon University (GCU). Under her leadership, Dr. Knott provided oversight and direction for faculty, staff, and students across the College of Education and Grand Canyon University to include training, support, and mentorship assuring the highest academic integrity and ethical standards. Dr. Knott engages a diverse and global community of learners in the pursuit of finding their purpose.
Dr. Knott has been in the education field for over 25 years. She has been a classroom teacher and assistant director in the public and private school systems primarily in the area of special education. She has also served as an Administrator, Principal, full-time faculty member, and subsequently Dean. Prior to joining GCU, Dr. Knott held the position of Director of Academic Affairs/Regional Assistant Dean for the College of Education at University of Phoenix. Dr. Knott has received numerous awards for her exemplary performance as an educator.
Dr. Knott earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Elementary Education/Special Education and a Master of Education degree from Arizona State University. She holds an Administrative Certificate from University of Phoenix and earned her Ed.D in Educational Leadership from Nova Southeastern University, where her dissertation was titled, “Inclusion Relationships: Collaboration in the Individualized Education Plan (IEP) Process”.
Gene Scholes, Vice President of Interactive Marketing
Gene is responsible for providing strategic leadership for Childhelp’s web product and interactive marketing initiatives in support of donor giving to include design and development of all e-commerce sites, social media engagement and management, integrated marketing to include email marketing and text-to-donate initiatives, customer relationship management (CRM) and overall corporate marketing IT systems.
Gene has over 15 years experience leading the product development and marketing for several large corporation’s web channels to include Lexmark’s Web Store, Cincinnati Bell’s Electronic Yellow Pages and CVS|Caremark’s (formerly AdvancePCS) Online Pharmacy. He is most proud of his own dot com start-up, LifeShare, an online web-to-print photosharing company, where he remains an active Board Member. Gene started his career at Shell Oil Company as a financial analyst and continues to apply those disciplines to his web marketing strategies today.
Gene received his B.S. in Economics from Northern Kentucky University and his MBA from University of Cincinnati. He and his wife, Kathleen, enjoy an active lifestyle in Phoenix where they can be found spending their spare time biking or hiking in one of the preserves
Chandra Stewart, Vice President of Marketing & Communications
Chandra is responsible for providing overall strategic marketing and communications leadership to Childhelp, in support of public relations, chapter development, program and cause marketing, media outreach, internal communications and image campaigns.
Prior to joining Childhelp, Chandra led the marketing and communications efforts for Goodwill of Central Arizona, one of Arizona’s largest non profits, as the Vice President of Marketing & Communications where she built the department and focused on acquiring a strong, local presence for Goodwill as a premier non profit as well as supporting revenue growth from $40M to $70M. Prior to her tenure at Goodwill, she served as a Communications and Media Manager at Raytheon Missile Systems where she directed the internal and external communications campaigns for three product lines. She has also managed marketing communications efforts at General Dynamics and Motorola. Chandra possesses more than 15 years of experience in delivering marketing & communications initiatives at various levels, with the last six years engaged in senior management and executive roles.
Chandra earned her Bachelor of Arts in English from Michigan State and graduated from Goodwill’s Senior Leadership Development program. She currently serves on the Board of Soul Sanctuary in the Desert, a local non profit supporting women and children.