Our Leadership
Executive Director, LION Outreach International
JERRY VREEMAN, Executive Director of LION Outreach International, United States, is an internationally recognised motivational teacher and trainer, consultant, businessman, and former radio/television producer. He is also a certified instructor with the John Maxwell Leadership organisation and an ordained pastor in the Christian Reformed Church.
His extensive media experience includes directing and producing hundreds of stadium and television events with well-known evangelists, actors, speakers and pastors.
He travels worldwide many times a year to consult, train, teach, and coordinate LION activities and operations. Jerry is mentoring numerous leaders worldwide, has created multiple leadership resources, and is currently developing a "Leadership in the workplace" course.
A man of faith, vision, and compassion, Jerry and his wife Cori, who shares his mission, have dedicated their lives to serving God and others. They have 6 children and 9 grandchildren.
Director, LION Outreach UK
SAMSON OLUWATOBI EMMANUEL is the managing partner and team lead for LION Outreach United Kingdom. He is a development enthusiast with training and experience in leadership and Management across industries. He works in the UK as a Business Development Manager leading a multi-ethnic community of team members. As a volunteer for LION, he also interacts with the LION Africa team, managing the effective deployment of resources. He holds a Masters degree from the University of Hull, United Kingdom, Certification in leadership and Management from the School of Politics, Policy and Governance, a diploma in public policy from the Clinton Global Foundation University affiliated with Vanderbilt University, Certificate Diploma in Leadership from the Transformers Leadership Academy, and a Diploma in project management with London Institute of Skill Development UK,.
Samson has served in various capacities; from leading the "Northern region" team of the Africa Project Against Suicide Project, to organizing Community-development-centered outreaches and conversations both in Africa and the United Kingdom, to working with a team of change agents dedicated to national and global growth. Samson is an evangelist for the message that says "if we must lead a people, we must first lead ourselves", hence he is committed to the train of ENCOURAGING, EQUIPING, EMPOWERING AND ENGAGING as a L.I.O (Leader in Obscurity).