About Us

Joseph W. Handley, Jr., Ph.D. (CEO)

Joe was born and raised in Southern California. He attended Azusa Pacific University where he earned a B.A. in psychology and an M.A. in Theology. Joe served nine years at Azusa Pacific University where he was the founding director of their Office of World Missions and leader of one of the first multi-national high school mission congresses in Mexico City in 1996. The Lord then called him to Rolling Hills Covenant Church in 1998 where Joe served as the Global Outreach Pastor and later the Associate Pastor for Outreach Ministries. In July of 2008, Joe answered the call of God to become the fourth president of Asian Access, a leader development movement that began in 1967.

Joe strives to develop leaders for missional movements across Asia. His passion is to come alongside local leaders to encourage and empower them in their calling to reach the world for Christ.

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R. Elliott Snuggs (COO)

Elliott Snuggs has been with A2 since 1983 when he served in Japan as short-term missionaries and currently serves as Executive VP at Asian Access and COO for A2.business. His primary responsibility is to assist the president in the area of organizational management. His primary focus is on strategic planning, launching new initiatives, and facilitating key leadership teams. He has invested significant time and expertise in helping launch A2.business, and building it to be a growing leader development program for the marketplace in several countries.

Elliott has an M.Div. from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California and a Masters of Management Arts from the Peter Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. He is from Texas and is a Dallas Cowboys fan.

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David D. Kim (Advisor, Faculty)

Founder at Telos VC – a Christ-centered venture capital fund

David D. Kim has a corporate finance and corporate law background and has been advising and investing in startups for over a decade. David’s experiences include Wall Street with Bank of America Merrill Lynch, corporate law with Hogan Lovells, co-founding Mulix and Total Ventures in Silicon Valley. David holds a Bachelors of Science in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Laws from the Georgetown University Law Center.

David is forever indebted to Jesus and to the Western missionaries who followed the call to Korea in the 1880s. In keeping with his family legacy, David committed his life to business and missions at the Urbana Mission Conference. David serves faithfully at his church, Menlo Pres in Silicon Valley as a ruling elder, and is active in the world of global missions in partnership with various agencies. David is also a member of the Asian Access board of directors, offering expertise and serving as a catalyst to help launch A2.business to empower marketplace leaders. David, like Elliott, is a huge Dallas Cowboys fan.