Jeff Church

Who is Jeff Church?

Jeff Church is the cofounder of NIKA Water Company, a unique social entrepreneurial model that donates its profits in hopes of alleviating global poverty. The combination of seeing the impact of the global clean water crisis first-hand during a 2008 visit to Kenya combined with the ideas of his children and the inspiration of Craig Kielburger of Free The Children, led Church to form NIKA with business school classmate Mike Stone in March 2009. NIKA translates from Zulu as “to give.”

Church graduated from Michigan State University in 1983 with a B.A. in accounting and was named one of the top twenty-five graduating seniors out of 8,000 students. He later attended Harvard Business School and graduated with a Masters in Business Administration in 1988.

Between graduating from Michigan State and attending Harvard, Church worked as a CPA for Ernst & Young.

After business school Church bought, built and sold multiple businesses.

An avid runner, Church also climbed five of the Seven Summits including mountains Kosciuszko, Kilimanjaro, Elbrus, Aconcagua and Vinson Massif.