Allen Ratta
Chief Executive Officer

Allen has been highly effective as the senior pastor of a rapidly growing church for many years and a successful Christian businessman. He was the founder and CEO of Advanced Education Management, dedicated to establishing publicly funded schools in California that honor traditional family values. He was also co-owner of Alphatek Inc. where he developed a methodology for Y2K audits in the aeronautic manufacturing sector. He brings a passion for “ministry that changes lives” into every aspect of ConnectionPower’s focus. His dream is to help local churches, through ConnectionPower, to connect over 1,000,000 million people into the Body of Christ in America and around the world.

His accomplishments include: authoring the Pastor’s Journal, the Pastor’s Time Management System and conducting pastoral conferences across the country involving thousands of pastors and church leaders. He served as founding national director for Project Hope, a peer-mentoring ministry to assist pastors in personal/professional growth in the areas of vision casting, goal setting, time management, effective ministry systems and infrastructure development. As Project Hope director, under the auspices of U.S. Missions of the Assemblies of God, Allen was a featured speaker at the national and district conferences.

Allen continually developed, implemented and modified the Visitor Touching and Tracking System in the church he pastored. It was a key to their growth from 17 to over 1200 in average weekend attendance. The Visitor Touching and Tracking System was also utilized by thousands of churches around the country with very positive results. He has most recently completed program design and beta testing on a robust web-based version of his visitor retention methodology that is being enthusiastically received as a cutting-edge tool for significant church growth.

Paul E. Fjelsta
Director of Business Development

Paul brings to ConnectionPower™ a wealth of executive level managerial expertise and experience. Having assisted top executives of Fortune 500 companies for many years in reengineering management philosophies and processes, he has a vision to bring cutting edge management practices and approaches to the Body of Christ. Paul ’s mission is to assist local churches to apply leading edge management constructs to achieve their ministry objectives and improve ministry effectiveness.

After 8 years with the renowned Rummler-Brache Group, Paul formed the Performance Improvement and Management Network in 2001 to help organizations define and implement growth and performance improvement strategies employing business process improvement and management techniques. In addition to being a founding Principal of Accomplir, the Network utilizes alliance relationships with solution providers specializing in marketing/sales effectiveness and six sigma deployment.

Throughout his over twenty-five years experience in management consulting, Paul has assisted clients in measurably improving quality and productivity through development and delivery of programs focusing on process redesign and management, process improvement, organizational & team effectiveness, leadership development and work control systems analysis/design.

Mark Pfeiler
Director of Technology

Mark brings an unusual mix to the executive team of ConnectionPower™ as he has both a strong technology background and has served as a pastor for a number of years. He possesses several years of experience in the development of web-based applications with specific expertise in subscription-based Internet products to the Christian church market. His passion is to develop and utilize technology to advance the Kingdom of God.

Mark has functioned as the director of Web Application Development for SermonCentral.com a division of Outreach Marketing. Mark was responsible for the total redevelopment and design of SermonCentral.com which led to rapid growth into the pre-eminent Internet sermon site beginning with initial page views of 600,000 per month to current page views of 5,000,000 per month Mark was also co-founder and web application developer for SmartPreach, Inc. Mark brought cutting edge design and technology to their subscription-based Internet site. He also served as the web application designer for SkilledDriver.com, a California state approved web-based driving school which allows drivers to remove tickets from their driving records. The English/Spanish school site designed by Mark works based upon a strategic partnership with Kinkos.