Christian A Wiggins

Chief Executive Officer  

FarmHouse  

Fraternity Christian holds significant experience in higher education, non-profit leadership and business operations management. He currently serves as the chief executive officer for FarmHouse Fraternity where he leads a staff of 12 and a volunteer team of almost 700. Christian is charged with guiding the organization’s strategic direction and shaping an experience that benefits more than 25,000 members through collegiate life and beyond. Before joining the FarmHouse team, he was the Chief Operating Officer for Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity where he managed operations, expansion and growth, training and education, communications, technology and lifelong member engagement.  

In his nine years as COO, he led a staff who more than doubled student membership, facilitated a successful organization re-brand, partnered with the Foundation to raise more than $9.3 million in major gifts and led the organization through a strategic plan and crafted and implemented another. Prior to the COO role, Christian served as Director of Alumni Services for Pi Kappa Phi, and as a member of the hotel operations team for Harrah’s Entertainment. He is also an entrepreneur, holding investments in residential real estate and serves as an independent consultant who helps non-profits through a variety of complex challenges, including human capital and change management, board/staff alignment and campaign readiness. Christian holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of South Carolina-Darla Moore School of Business and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration Management from the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business at Elon University in North Carolina. 

Over the course of his career, he has served on more than a dozen non-profit boards, including current service as board chair for the Association of Fraternity/Sorority Advisors Foundation and member of the Governing Council of the North American Interfraternity Conference. He has also given more than a decade of volunteer service at multiple levels with his Alma Mater, including current service as co-chair of the Elon LEADS Campaign, a $250 million comprehensive campaign. He has been recognized with a number of honors including the 2015 Elon University LGBTQIA Community Enrichment Award and being named one of the 2015 Connect, 40 Under 40 (Young Professional) Award recipients and a 2013 Elon University, Top 10 Under 10 (Young Alumni) Award recipient. Christian spent most of his childhood in rural western North Carolina where he was raised by his grandparents. In his spare time he enjoys time with friends, traveling, cheering on a number of collegiate and professional sports teams, reading (especially biographies and works of history), staying active in his community, playing with his labrador, Lumen, and studying political science.