Elder Mathias Held has been a General Authority Seventy since 2018. Prior to serving in the Church, Elder Held worked for more than 25 years for Mercedes-Benz in different countries such as Germany, Guatemala, and Brazil, and - Colombia. Tomas Mathias Eduardo Held was born in Bogotá, Colombia, on June 5, 1960. He married Irene Jungkurth in 1985. They are the parents of three children.