TWR Names New CEO

Andy Schick has been named the new CEO at TWR. He will become the fifth president and CEO of TWR this August.

Schick will replace Cassius Smith who has been interim president of TWR since Oct 2024. Longtime CEO Lauren Libby, who led TWR as president and CEO for 16 years became TWR’s fourth president in 2008, suffered a major stroke in August 2924 and remains in a local rehabilitation facility.

Andy is a New Zealander, and is married with four daughters, Schick comes to TWR from Christian aid organization World Vision, where he led revenue and technology transformation. He also served as a board member and adviser with TWR partner ministry Reach Beyond.

Previously, he built a tech company from the ground up and later sold it to a large internet provider, where he signed on as marketing director. From there, he helped lead New Zealand’s $200 million Network for Learning initiative, which provided fiber internet to every school in the country.

Raised in a Christian home in rural New Zealand, Schick was introduced to missions during family trips. As a young adult, he was involved in itinerant preaching, church planting and street witnessing in Phoenix, Arizona.

The TWR international board invited him to lead the ministry last month after an extensive search. Schick’s appointment was “nothing less than a direct answer to prayer,” TWR Board Chairman Jeff Jones said. “The board decided early that we needed a leader who could leverage new technologies to expand TWR’s ability to reach ever-growing audiences.”

As Schick and his family will remain in New Zealand, he will work closely with a chief operating officer based in Cary, North Carolina.