First Lady

First Lady Grace Heyliger gave her life to the Lord as a teenager and has been active in various ministries in the church.  She was joined with Pastor Emanuel Heyliger in Holy Matrimony in 2006 and moved to West Virginia from New York.  She spent 15 years on Wall Street as an investment banker and seven years as an auditor.  Lady Grace currently works as an independent consultant advising companies on strategic business issues.   She is a member of the Advisory Board for the graduate school of business at the University of Charleston and is President of  Beyond Billions Investment Club at the church.
While in New York, Lady Grace was a Managing Director at Swiss Re and was responsible for the firm's advisory practice in the insurance industry. Since joining Swiss Re in 1999, she has served on the advisory team on a number of capital raising, mergers and acquisitions transactions and regulatory assignments. Prior to joining the firm, she was a Vice President at a private equity firm specializing in the insurance industry and an Associate in the Financial Institutions Group at Merrill Lynch.

Lady Grace earned an M.B.A. in Finance from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1994 and a B.B.A. in Accounting from Pace University in 1985. Before attending The Wharton School, she was an auditor for six years at Ernst & Young and Grant Thornton. She is a Certified Public Accountant.

Lady Grace has traveled extensively (throughout Europe, Brazil, Russia, South Africa, Nigeria, Bhutan, Tanzania, Estonia, Japan, Thailand), is a licensed sailor and has recently climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and Everest. She has been featured in two books: "Be Happy at Work, 100 Women Who Love their Jobs and Why" by Joanne Gordon and "Doing it Ourselves: Success Stories of African American Women in Business" by Donna Ballard.