Effective January 1, 2014, the Rt. Rev. David C. Anderson, President and Chairman of the Board, together with the Board of Trustees of the American Anglican Council (AAC), has appointed the Rev. Canon J. Philip Ashey, formerly the Chief Operating Officer of the AAC, to the position of Chief Executive Officer of the AAC. In this capacity Canon Ashey will sit on the Executive Committee of the Board together with Bishop Anderson and the other officers of the corporation. He will administer both the day to day operations and the strategic planning of the AAC.

Canon Ashey has helped focus the resources of the AAC on developing faithful Anglican leaders at all levels of the Church, in North America and globally, equipping Anglican congregations in North America (ACNA) to grow in mission and outreach, and providing strategic legal and canonical counsel to both the ACNA and the Primates Council of the Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans. He will continue this focus as CEO of the American Anglican Council.