Silicon Valley Fellowship is a forum for young business leaders in their 20's and 30's of all Christian denominations to explore the intersection of faith and work, while building God-centered relationships with peers and mentors. 2008-09-30T16:15:39Z WordPress http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/feed/atom Ryan MacCarthy http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/2008/dr-steve-yencho 2008-09-30T16:15:39Z 2008-07-24T19:29:29Z

<p>Learning to hear God better has enabled Steve to set higher goals. Steve will describe lessons from his journey and how God is enabling Water Of Life to impact thousands of people in developing countries.</p> <p><strong>Steve Yencho</strong>, Founder / CEO <a href="http://wateroflife.biz" title="Water of Life">Water of Life</a></p> <p>Water of Life, LLC is the third company founded by Steve Yencho.  Water Of Life develops and markets low cost safe drinking water purification systems for the poorest of the poor using breakthrough technology.  Water Of Life systems are currently providing safe water for thousands of people in villages worldwide.  Prior to Water of Life Steve was the Founder and CEO of <a href="http://cardica.com/" title="Cardica, Inc." target="_blank">Cardica, Inc.</a> (NASDAQ:CRDC), the world leader of implanted surgical connectors for coronary artery bypass graft surgeries.  Steve was the Assistant Director at the Stanford University Rapid Prototyping Laboratory and co-founder of Omeros Corporation (NASDAQ:OMER).  He has held a variety of technical and management positions with Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Caterpillar Tractor Company, and the Institute of Defense Analyses.</p> <p>Steve holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois and a Masters in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from Stanford University. In addition, he was sponsored by a Hewlett Packard Fellowship in the Ph.D program in Precision Machinery Engineering at the University of Tokyo.  He earned his Doctorate in Material Science and Engineering from Stanford University.  He is the inventor of over 50 issued United States patents.</p> <p>He currently serves on the Advisory Board of the Pacific Justice Institute.  He co-led the Science and Faith Seminar Series at Stanford University from 1997-2001.  He resides in Menlo Park, CA and attends Calvary Church in Los Gatos</p> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/?p=109&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_109" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=wWXdta3fl9Y:4tzyuF6RR-E:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=wWXdta3fl9Y:4tzyuF6RR-E:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?i=wWXdta3fl9Y:4tzyuF6RR-E:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=wWXdta3fl9Y:4tzyuF6RR-E:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=wWXdta3fl9Y:4tzyuF6RR-E:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SiliconValleyFellowship/~4/wWXdta3fl9Y" height="1" width="1"/> http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/2008/steve-yencho Ryan MacCarthy http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/2008/ma-%e2%80%93-finding-and-keeping-the-love-of-a-lifetime 2008-06-18T20:25:20Z 2008-06-18T20:25:20Z

<p>Less than 50% of M&amp;A business deals meet their original objectives; less than 50% of marriages finish the way that God intended. Tom Steipp will share from scriptures and a lifetime of personal experience God’s principles for improving your odds of being successful in business, and more importantly, in marriage.</p> <p>We live in Silicon Valley, business can be demanding, marriage can be frustrating. Many young Christians think that if they simply go to church regularly and follow the mores of American culture, they will have a God-glorifying career, marriage and family. The belief that we can have it all drives many careers and marriages to the ragged edge – and beyond. We cannot put our lives and behaviors on auto-pilot, losing sight of the Bible&#8217;s teachings, and expect to find real success in either arena.</p> <p>God designed marriage for our benefit and enjoyment. Tom and his wife, Deb, have been married for 35 years; he readily acknowledges the challenges of trying to balance career, marriage, family, and ministry. He will share some of his bigger mistakes along with his greatest joys in navigating those turbulent waters. Along the way he has become convinced that the best principles for business and marriage come straight out of Bible.</p> <p>Join us as Tom, accompanied by the love of his life, shares some of the Biblical principles that have molded his own life.</p> <p><strong>Tom&#8217;s Bio</strong></p> <p>Tom Steipp is the President and CEO of <a href="http://www.symmetricom.com" target="_blank">Symmetricom, Inc.</a></p> <p>Tom joined Symmetricom, Inc. in March 1998, as President and Chief Operating Officer of Telecom Solutions, a Division of Symmetricom, Inc. Since December 1998, he has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Symmetricom, Inc.</p> <p>From 1996 to 1998, Tom was Vice President and General Manager of Broadband Data Networks at Scientific-Atlanta, where he led the development and deployment of one of the industry&#8217;s first Cable Modem solutions. Prior to that he spent seventeen years at Hewlett-Packard, where he held a number of Marketing and General Management positions in their Disk Storage, Networking and Federal Government Divisions.</p> <p>Tom spent eight years in the United States Air Force as an Instructor Pilot in T-38 aircraft and an Electrical Engineer.</p> <p>Tom has 2 children and 3 grandchildren, and resides in Los Gatos, California, with his wife, Debra. He attends church at Venture Christian Church in Los Gatos. He has served on the Boards of Living on the Edge; Walk Thru the Bible, and Mount Hermon Christian Conference Center.</p> <p>Tom holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the United States Air Force Academy and an MBA from Purdue University.</p> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/?p=108&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_108" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=NY-oDQ5I1gk:zJvqmp4Vw5w:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=NY-oDQ5I1gk:zJvqmp4Vw5w:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?i=NY-oDQ5I1gk:zJvqmp4Vw5w:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=NY-oDQ5I1gk:zJvqmp4Vw5w:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=NY-oDQ5I1gk:zJvqmp4Vw5w:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SiliconValleyFellowship/~4/NY-oDQ5I1gk" height="1" width="1"/> http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/2008/ma-%e2%80%93-finding-and-keeping-the-love-of-a-lifetime Ryan MacCarthy http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/2008/tom-gutshall 2008-04-05T00:04:29Z 2008-04-03T20:40:28Z

<p>It&#8217;s all about: Me&#8230; Us&#8230; You.</p> <p><a href="http://loudrhino.com/album/headshots/tom_gutshall.jpg" title="Tom Gutshall"><img src="http://loudrhino.com/wp-content/photos/thumb_tom_gutshall.jpg" class="alignright" alt="Tom Gutshall" width="107" height="150" /></a>Living and working in the Silicon Valley comes with many distractions. Tom Gutshall will share with us some of his experiences and insights as to how God continually guides us on His path through business and ministry.</p> <p><strong>Profile</strong></p> <p>Mr. Gutshall is Co-Founder and Chairman of Cepheid and former President and COO of CV Therapeutics. He is a senior executive with over forty years of multi-national experience in specialty chemicals, pharmaceuticals and diagnostics. His P&amp;L responsibilities span three decades with professional expertise in manufacturing operations, restructuring, productivity improvement, acquisitions &amp; divestitures and integration.</p> <p>Mr. Gutshall serves on the board of MAP International, Pacific Medical Research Foundation, and CityTeam Ministries. In addition, he is active with Silicon Valley Prayer Breakfast, and is a member of Union Presbyterian Church in Los Altos.</p> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/?p=107&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_107" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=opVc5UnTZV0:39Nmt8jlAFI:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=opVc5UnTZV0:39Nmt8jlAFI:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?i=opVc5UnTZV0:39Nmt8jlAFI:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=opVc5UnTZV0:39Nmt8jlAFI:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=opVc5UnTZV0:39Nmt8jlAFI:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SiliconValleyFellowship/~4/opVc5UnTZV0" height="1" width="1"/> http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/2008/tom-gutshall Ryan MacCarthy http://loudrhino.com/2007/dan-scifres 2008-01-18T07:51:03Z 2007-10-18T21:03:43Z

<p>God works in wonderful ways. Dr. Scifres will share the ways God has communicated with him and guided him to achieve business success.</p> <p><a href="http://loudrhino.com/album/headshots/DonScifres.jpg" title="Don Scifres"><img src="http://loudrhino.com/wp-content/photos/thumb_DonScifres.jpg" class="alignright" alt="Don Scifres" width="106" height="150" /></a>Dr. Donald Scifres, with God’s help, has achieved a number of professional accomplishments. These include founding a company, taking it public, growing it into one of the top 25 NASDAQ companies by market capitalization, and selling it in 2000 for $41 billion. This was the largest technology company merger ever announced up to that point in time. Along the way, Dr. Scifres also found time to author or co-author over 300 technical publications and over 100 patents.</p> <p>Dr. Scifres is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and has been honored with a number of awards for technical innovation.</p> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/?p=34&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_34" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=Unbph3fSVe0:O7oVq8l2opE:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=Unbph3fSVe0:O7oVq8l2opE:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?i=Unbph3fSVe0:O7oVq8l2opE:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=Unbph3fSVe0:O7oVq8l2opE:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=Unbph3fSVe0:O7oVq8l2opE:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SiliconValleyFellowship/~4/Unbph3fSVe0" height="1" width="1"/> http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/2007/don-scifres Ryan MacCarthy http://loudrhino.com/?p=1 2007-10-18T18:51:55Z 2007-10-12T19:31:58Z

<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html%3FASIN=0195326660%26tag=svfellowship-20%26lcode=xm2%26cID=2025%26ccmID=165953%26location=/o/ASIN/0195326660%253FSubscriptionId=1N9AHEAQ2F6SVD97BE02" title="Buy Faith in the Halls of Power - How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite on Amazon"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21g79TAK39L.jpg" alt="Faith in the Halls of Power - How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite" align="right" width="105" /></a>Michael Lindsay, Professor of Sociology at Rice University shares about his research and book &#8220;Faith in the Halls of Power: How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite.&#8221;</p> <p><strong>Abstract:</strong></p> <p>Evangelicals, once at the periphery of American life, now wield power in the White House and on Wall Street, at Harvard and in Hollywood. How have they reached the pinnacles of power in such a short time? And what does this mean for evangelicals—and for America?</p> <p>Drawing on personal interviews with an astonishing array of prominent Americans—including two former Presidents, dozens of political and government leaders, more than 100 top business executives, plus Hollywood moguls, intellectuals, athletes, and other powerful figures—D. Michael Lindsay shows first-hand how they are bringing their vision of moral leadership into the public square.</p> <p><strong>Profile:</strong></p> <p><img src="http://www.media.rice.edu/images/media/2007RiceNews/0921_Lindsay.jpg" alt="D. Michael Lindsay" align="right" /></p> <p>D. Michael Lindsay is assistant professor of sociology at Rice University where he is also the faculty associate of Leadership Rice and assistant director of the Center on Race, Religion and Urban Life at Rice University. Dr. Lindsay earned his Ph.D. in sociology at Princeton University, where he was named a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow in 2002 and the Harold W. Dodds Fellow in 2004. He also received the 2003 Outstanding Teaching Award—the university’s highest award for graduate student teaching—from Princeton’s Graduate School and the Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni.</p> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/?p=1&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_1" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=5KeCmJyjkiw:Tbzr41-uayM:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=5KeCmJyjkiw:Tbzr41-uayM:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?i=5KeCmJyjkiw:Tbzr41-uayM:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=5KeCmJyjkiw:Tbzr41-uayM:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=5KeCmJyjkiw:Tbzr41-uayM:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SiliconValleyFellowship/~4/5KeCmJyjkiw" height="1" width="1"/> http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/2007/faith-in-the-halls-of-power Ryan MacCarthy http://loudrhino.com/2007/can-you-be-on-fire-for-god-yet-have-a-secular-career 2007-10-18T20:20:32Z 2007-07-18T17:14:27Z

<p>Sanjay Poonen, SVP, GM of Analytics Business at SAP</p> <p>Sanjay currently serves as SVP and GM of the Analytics Business at SAP, the world&#8217;s largest applications software company. Prior to SAP, Sanjay Poonen served as VP of Line of Business Operations, at Symantec, reporting to the President. Sanjay played a key role in the $13B merger integration of VERITAS and Symantec.<br /> Prior to the merger, Sanjay was VP of Strategic Operations at VERITAS, where he had sales responsibility for over $400MM in revenue from strategic accounts. Prior to VERITAS, Sanjay served as an executive officer of Informatica, first as the VP and GM of the Applications Business Unit and then as the SVP and GM of worldwide marketing. Early in his career, Sanjay also worked Apple and Microsoft.</p> <p>Sanjay has an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he graduated as a Baker Scholar. He has a Master&#8217;s degree in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University; and a Bachelor&#8217;s degree in Computer Science &amp; Math/Engineering from Dartmouth College.</p> <p>Sanjay lives in the bay area with his wife, Kathy, and their 11-month old daughter, Sofia.</p> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/?p=31&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_31" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=68Lmen5-iAo:nbMHrdMgV20:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=68Lmen5-iAo:nbMHrdMgV20:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?i=68Lmen5-iAo:nbMHrdMgV20:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=68Lmen5-iAo:nbMHrdMgV20:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=68Lmen5-iAo:nbMHrdMgV20:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SiliconValleyFellowship/~4/68Lmen5-iAo" height="1" width="1"/> http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/2007/can-you-be-on-fire-for-god-yet-have-a-secular-career Ryan MacCarthy http://loudrhino.com/2005/guy-kawasaki 2007-10-18T15:54:59Z 2005-12-18T15:48:33Z

<p>Guy Kawasaki is a managing director of <a href="http://www.garage.com/">Garage Technology Ventures</a>, an early-stage venture capital firm and a columnist for Entrepreneur Magazine. Previously, he was an Apple Fellow at Apple Computer, Inc. Guy is the author of eight books including The Art of the Start, Rules for Revolutionaries, How to Drive Your Competition Crazy, Selling the Dream, and The Macintosh Way. He has a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from UCLA as well as an honorary doctorate from Babson College.</p> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/?p=26&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_26" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=jJB40j9t0Fo:7ATwNR9bd-0:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=jJB40j9t0Fo:7ATwNR9bd-0:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?i=jJB40j9t0Fo:7ATwNR9bd-0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=jJB40j9t0Fo:7ATwNR9bd-0:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=jJB40j9t0Fo:7ATwNR9bd-0:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SiliconValleyFellowship/~4/jJB40j9t0Fo" height="1" width="1"/> http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/2005/guy-kawasaki Ryan MacCarthy http://loudrhino.com/2005/greg-jamison 2007-10-23T22:44:46Z 2005-09-18T15:47:08Z

<p>Join us to hear from Greg Jamison as he shares about the challenges, joys and responsibilities that come from leading a major league sports team. Including how his reliance on God has helped him through the ups and downs that come with his position.</p> <p>Greg Jamison, President, San Jose Sharks</p> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/?p=25&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_25" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=woU3glF7qGQ:c7_0gAcwLfA:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=woU3glF7qGQ:c7_0gAcwLfA:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?i=woU3glF7qGQ:c7_0gAcwLfA:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=woU3glF7qGQ:c7_0gAcwLfA:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=woU3glF7qGQ:c7_0gAcwLfA:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SiliconValleyFellowship/~4/woU3glF7qGQ" height="1" width="1"/> http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/2005/greg-jamison Ryan MacCarthy http://loudrhino.com/2004/spiritual-gifts-seminar 2007-10-18T16:13:23Z 2004-10-18T16:07:24Z

<p>What am I gifted to do?  What do I love to do?  What natural talents and skills do I have?  Where does my personality best suit me to serve?  Am I in the right career?</p> <p>Do you feel like you are using the gifts that God has given you to their fullest potential to glorify Him and serve others?</p> <p>Nancy Ortberg</p> <p>Nancy Ortberg served as a Teaching Pastor for 8 years at Willow Creek Community Church in So. Barrington, Illinois. During that time she led the Network ministry, helping people identify their spiritual gifts and find a place of service in the church. She also led Axis, for the 18-20 something generation.</p> <p>Axis included weekend services of 1200-1500 people in their 20&#8217;s who worshipped together, served the poor and participated in small group communities. Nancy is a founding partner of Teamworx2, a consulting firm that works with organizations, helping leaders overcome the team dysfunctions that are obstacles to high performance and work enjoyment. She and her husband John live in the Bay Area and have three children, Laura, Mallory, and John.</p> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/?p=29&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_29" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=V-u3qSbZdr8:zO_TPWgyDqE:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=V-u3qSbZdr8:zO_TPWgyDqE:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?i=V-u3qSbZdr8:zO_TPWgyDqE:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=V-u3qSbZdr8:zO_TPWgyDqE:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=V-u3qSbZdr8:zO_TPWgyDqE:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SiliconValleyFellowship/~4/V-u3qSbZdr8" height="1" width="1"/> http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/2004/spiritual-gifts-seminar Ryan MacCarthy http://loudrhino.com/2004/building-principled-companies-in-the-silicon-valley-war-stories-from-an-entrepreneur 2007-10-18T16:06:43Z 2004-10-18T15:57:54Z

<p>Join us for dinner with Randy Scott as he shares war stories from an entrepreneur.</p> <p>Randy Scott, Co-Founder &amp; CEO, Genomic Health, Inc.</p> <p>Randy Scott is the co-founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of Genomic Health. Dr Scott brings more than 18 years of experience to Genomic Health and has a strong history of scientific innovation. In addition to founding Genomic Health, Dr Scott co-founded Incyte, the worlds’ first genomic information business. An inventor on 25 issued patents, Dr. Scott has authored numerous scientific publications in the fields of protein biology, gene discovery, and cancer. In 1997, NASDAQ and Ernst &amp; Young recognized him as Silicon Valley Entrepreneur of the Year for life sciences. Dr. Scott received a bachelor&#8217;s degree in chemistry from Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas. In 1983, he earned a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Kansas, where he conducted studies in protease biology.</p> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/?p=28&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_28" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=hZehDjw6SFk:b5XVwD_q_po:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=hZehDjw6SFk:b5XVwD_q_po:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?i=hZehDjw6SFk:b5XVwD_q_po:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=hZehDjw6SFk:b5XVwD_q_po:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=hZehDjw6SFk:b5XVwD_q_po:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SiliconValleyFellowship/~4/hZehDjw6SFk" height="1" width="1"/> http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/2004/building-principled-companies-in-the-silicon-valley-war-stories-from-an-entrepreneur Ryan MacCarthy http://loudrhino.com/2007/balancing-faith-family-and-work 2007-10-18T05:10:34Z 2004-10-18T03:00:59Z

<p>Each week our hours seem to dwindle more and more, especially in the Silicon Valley. They say we&#8217;re supposed to get 8 hours of sleep each night (56 hours/week), spend 50 hours at work, 7 hours in prayer and reading scripture, 7 hours working out, 20 hours in community with family or friends, 2 hours in a church Bible study, 2 hours keeping up with bills and mail, and 1 hour cleaning and keeping up with the house, and on, and on, and on&#8230; When you get down to it, we need more than a week just to do what we&#8217;re supposed to do. Was this what God intended? How did Jesus handle these pressures? How does he expect us to? Pat Gelsinger will join us to discuss these issues an more.</p> <p id="event_speaker_profile">&nbsp;</p> <h3>Profile: Patrick P. Gelsinger</h3> <p><img src="http://svfellowship.org/__v2/img/headshots/Pat_Gelsinger.jpg" />Pat Gelsinger is Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Intel Corporation. Gelsinger joined Intel in 1979, and has more than 20 years of experience in general management and product development positions. Gelsinger leads Intel&#8217;s Corporate Technology Group, which encompasses many Intel research activities, including leading Intel Labs and Intel Research, and driving industry alignment with these technologies and initiatives. As CTO, he coordinates Intel&#8217;s longer-term research efforts and helps ensure consistency from Intel&#8217;s emerging computing, networking and communications products and technologies.</p> <p>Before his appointment as the company&#8217;s first CTO, Gelsinger was the Chief Technology Officer of the Intel Architecture Group. In this position, he led the organization that researches, develops and designs next-generation hardware and software technologies for all Intel Architecture platforms for business and consumer market segments.</p> <p>Previously, Gelsinger led the Desktop Products Group, where he was responsible for Intel&#8217;s desktop processors, chipsets and motherboards for consumer and commercial OEM customers as well as Intel&#8217;s desktop technology initiatives and the Intel Developer Forum. From 1992 to 1996, Gelsinger was instrumental in defining and delivering the Intel® ProShare® video conferencing and Internet communications product line. Prior to 1992, he was general manager of the division responsible for the Pentium® Pro, IntelDX2™ and Intel486™ microprocessor families. Other positions Gelsinger has held during his Intel career include director of the Platform Architecture Group, design manager and chief architect of the original i486™ microprocessor, manager of CAD methodologies, and key contributor on the original i386™ and i286 chip design teams.</p> <p>Gelsinger holds six patents and six applications in the areas of VLSI design, computer architecture and communications. He has more than 20 publications in these technical fields, including &#8220;Programming the 80386,&#8221; published in 1987 by Sybex Inc. He has received numerous Intel and industry recognition awards, and his promotion to group vice president at age 32 made him the youngest vice president in the history of the company.</p> <p>Gelsinger received an associate&#8217;s degree from Lincoln Technical Institute in 1979, a bachelor&#8217;s degree from Santa Clara University in 1983, Magna Cum Laude, and a master&#8217;s degree from Stanford University in 1985. All degrees are in electrical engineering. Gelsinger is married and the father of four children.</p> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/?p=5&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_5" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=4-73eJ64vlI:6f4rypZjG3I:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=4-73eJ64vlI:6f4rypZjG3I:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?i=4-73eJ64vlI:6f4rypZjG3I:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=4-73eJ64vlI:6f4rypZjG3I:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=4-73eJ64vlI:6f4rypZjG3I:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SiliconValleyFellowship/~4/4-73eJ64vlI" height="1" width="1"/> http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/2004/balancing-faith-family-and-work Ryan MacCarthy http://loudrhino.com/2004/spiritual-gifts-seminar-2 2007-10-18T16:17:57Z 2004-03-18T16:13:24Z

<p>What am I gifted to do?  What do I love to do?  What natural talents and skills do I have?  Where does my personality best suit me to serve?  Am I in the right career?</p> <p>Do you feel like you are using the gifts that God has given you to their fullest potential to glorify Him and serve others?</p> <p>God empowers each of us with at least one spiritual gift.  Join Nancy Ortberg for a morning of discovering how God has gifted you and how your skills, personality and unique experiences can best be used for His glory in ministry, your career, and your personal relationships.</p> <p>Lunch will be provided during the workshop.</p> <p>Nancy Ortberg</p> <p>Nancy Ortberg served as a Teaching Pastor for 8 years at Willow Creek Community Church in So. Barrington, Illinois. During that time she led the Network ministry, helping people identify their spiritual gifts and find a place of service in the church. She also led Axis, for the 18-20 something generation.</p> <p>Axis included weekend services of 1200-1500 people in their 20&#8217;s who worshipped together, served the poor and participated in small group communities. Nancy is a founding partner of Teamworx2, a consulting firm that works with organizations, helping leaders overcome the team dysfunctions that are obstacles to high performance and work enjoyment. She and her husband John live in the Bay Area and have three children, Laura, Mallory, and John.</p> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/?p=30&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_30" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=F1M3MZ5YbIs:1lp2fF5R1js:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=F1M3MZ5YbIs:1lp2fF5R1js:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?i=F1M3MZ5YbIs:1lp2fF5R1js:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=F1M3MZ5YbIs:1lp2fF5R1js:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=F1M3MZ5YbIs:1lp2fF5R1js:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SiliconValleyFellowship/~4/F1M3MZ5YbIs" height="1" width="1"/> http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/2004/spiritual-gifts-seminar-2 Ryan MacCarthy http://loudrhino.com/2004/ken-eldred-2 2007-10-24T12:06:29Z 2004-03-18T15:44:32Z

<p><a href="http://loudrhino.com/album/headshots/ken_eldred.jpg" title="Ken Eldred"><img src="http://loudrhino.com/wp-content/photos/thumb_ken_eldred.jpg" class="alignright" alt="Ken Eldred" width="111" height="150" /></a>Ken Eldred<br /> Founder, Ariba Technologies, InMac, MySoftware Co, and Norm Thompson Outfitters<br /> Founder and CEO, Living Stones Foundation</p> <p>Ken Eldred has founded many successful companies including Ariba Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARBA), the leader in the internet Business-to-Business industry, which reached a market valuation of $40 Billion. He was Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Inmac, which went public in 1987 and grew to $400 million in annual revenues as the first business to sell computer products, supplies, and accessories by direct mail and which later merged with MicroWarehouse.</p> <p>Mr. Eldred also helped found and is on the board of advisors at Crosspoint Venture Partners, a leading venture capital firm in the United States (Ariba, Brocade, Foundry Networks, Juniper Networks, among others), which has a capital base greater than $1 billion. He has founded several other companies, including Mysoftware Co. and Norm Thompson Outfitters, Inc., a direct mail, consumer specialty retailer. In 1988 he was named Retail Entrepreneur of the Year for the San Francisco Bay Area by the Institute of American Entrepreneurs. He currently serves as Chairman of Parakletos @ Ventures, a Venture Capital firm focused on investing in telecommunications infrastructure and business-to-business services in the US and Asia.</p> <p>Mr. Eldred currently focuses primarily on charitable projects and providing services to Christian organizations as a board member or as independent advisor. He is the Founder and CEO of Living Stones Foundation Charitable Trust, a public support organization with approximately $100 million in assets for the purposes of supporting Christian work and charity around the world. He is also an elder at Yoido Full Gospel Church in Seoul, South Korea, the world’s largest church led by Pastor David Yonggi Cho with over 880,000 members.</p> <p>He is Chairman of the Kingdom Business Forum and a ministry partner along with Louis Palau Evangelical Association. Mr. Eldred is a visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institute at Stanford University. Ten years ago he started and still leads a weekly Bible study for business leaders in Silicon Valley. Mr. Eldred is formerly a board member of The Sentinel Group; an international Christian ministry based in the US and has also served on the Board of Trustees for Regent University, where he served on the Executive Committee.</p> <p>Ken Eldred was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay area of California. He graduated from Stanford University in California with an undergraduate degree in Political Science and a Masters in Business Administration. He also has a doctorates degree in law from Belhaven University.</p> <p>Mr.Eldred, 60 and his wife Roberta have three sons and divide their time between their home in Silicon Valley, California, and their ranch in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. He enjoys horseback riding, hunting, water skiing and snow skiing.</p> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/?p=23&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_23" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=TBQhCUlohVo:YJ_0j1mVbGc:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=TBQhCUlohVo:YJ_0j1mVbGc:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?i=TBQhCUlohVo:YJ_0j1mVbGc:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=TBQhCUlohVo:YJ_0j1mVbGc:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=TBQhCUlohVo:YJ_0j1mVbGc:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SiliconValleyFellowship/~4/TBQhCUlohVo" height="1" width="1"/> http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/2004/ken-eldred-2 Ryan MacCarthy http://loudrhino.com/2003/john-brandon 2007-10-24T00:23:42Z 2003-08-18T15:39:21Z

<p>John Brandon VP Sales Americas/Asia Pacific, Apple Computer</p> <p>John Brandon has served as Vice President of the Americas and Asia Pacific for <a href="http://apple.com">Apple Computer</a> since June 2001. Prior to joining Apple, he was President and Chief Executive Officer for Academic Systems, an educational content company. Also, John spent ten years with Adobe Systems, Inc., a graphics software company, where he served as the Vice President and General Manager of North America. Before joining Adobe, he held both sales and sales management roles at General Parametrics Corporation, a presentation graphics hardware company and Texas Instruments, a semiconductor and computer hardware company. Mr. Brandon earned his Bachelor&#8217;s degree from the University of California at Davis.</p> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/?p=22&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_22" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=gcSZMVbqWCY:7e2E5JUiz5U:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=gcSZMVbqWCY:7e2E5JUiz5U:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?i=gcSZMVbqWCY:7e2E5JUiz5U:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=gcSZMVbqWCY:7e2E5JUiz5U:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=gcSZMVbqWCY:7e2E5JUiz5U:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SiliconValleyFellowship/~4/gcSZMVbqWCY" height="1" width="1"/> http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/2003/john-brandon Ryan MacCarthy http://loudrhino.com/2003/ed-silvoso 2007-10-24T00:24:58Z 2003-05-18T15:36:48Z

<p>Ed Silvoso International Businessman, Pastor, and Author of &#8220;Anointed for Business&#8221;</p> <p>Ed Silvoso, founder and president of <a href="http://www.harvestevan.org">Harvest Evangelism</a>, is widely recognized as a missions strategist and solid Bible teacher who specializes in evangelism, city reaching, marketplace transformation and gender reconciliation.</p> <p>He is the author of the best-selling books That None Should Perish, Women: God&#8217;s Secret Weapon, and Prayer Evangelism. Initially trained in business, his background includes executive leadership in banking, hospital administration and financial services.</p> <p>Ed and his wife, Ruth, have raised four daughters and reside in San Jose, California. He is a prayer warrior and is helping lead dozens of worldwide efforts to transform cities and nations through the marketplace.</p> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/?p=21&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_21" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=NJu1QysvYLI:LPy43IkkNdI:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=NJu1QysvYLI:LPy43IkkNdI:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?i=NJu1QysvYLI:LPy43IkkNdI:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=NJu1QysvYLI:LPy43IkkNdI:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=NJu1QysvYLI:LPy43IkkNdI:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SiliconValleyFellowship/~4/NJu1QysvYLI" height="1" width="1"/> http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/2003/ed-silvoso Ryan MacCarthy http://loudrhino.com/2003/kevin-compton 2007-10-24T00:26:40Z 2003-02-18T15:34:28Z

<p>Kevin Compton, General Partner, Kleiner, Perkins, Caulfield, &amp; Byers.</p> <p>Kevin R. Compton is a General Partner with <a href="http://www.kpcb.com/">Kleiner Perkins Caufield &amp; Byers</a>, Silicon Valley&#8217;s most successful high technology venture capital firm. Kevin and his partners have invested in many of the most powerful and high profile start-ups over the past 30 years, including America On-Line, Compaq Computers, Lotus Development, Sun Microsystems, Intuit, SkyTel, Tandem Computers, Genentech, Citrix Systems, Netscape Communications, Amazon.com and Juniper Networks. These companies employ over 300,000 people, have annual sales in excess of $100 billion and carry a public market value in excess of $160 billion.</p> <p>Kevin has been featured in many technology publications, has been profiled in Fortune, Forbes and Inc. Magazine, and helped edit &#8220;Guide to the Digital Universe&#8221;. He is a regular speaker for many of the nations largest corporations offering a sneak preview into the direction of the computer and communications industries. Kevin serves on the board of a dozen public and private technology companies and has been rated as one of the Top 20 Venture Capitalists in the World.</p> <p>The church and his family are at the center of Kevin&#8217;s world. Kevin has been married to his high school sweetheart for 25 years, has a daughter attending Duke University and a son at Valley Christian High School. Kevin has served many years on the board of his local church, has been the church treasurer and has taught a weekly Bible Study to almost 200 seniors for 14 years.</p> <p>Outside of work Kevin enjoys family time, coaching Pop Warner Football and PONY League Baseball. His passion for sports extends into the professional sports area as well. Kevin is the co-owner of the National Hockey League San Jose Sharks, the American Hockey League Cleveland Barons and the Major Soccer League Champion San Jose Earthquakes.</p> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/?p=20&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_20" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=0lE9WIig8mg:2ehG8tNyANQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=0lE9WIig8mg:2ehG8tNyANQ:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?i=0lE9WIig8mg:2ehG8tNyANQ:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=0lE9WIig8mg:2ehG8tNyANQ:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=0lE9WIig8mg:2ehG8tNyANQ:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SiliconValleyFellowship/~4/0lE9WIig8mg" height="1" width="1"/> http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/2003/kevin-compton Ryan MacCarthy http://loudrhino.com/2007/business-ethics-where-do-we-go-from-here 2007-10-18T15:33:32Z 2002-10-18T15:33:01Z

<p>David Gill is the Co-Director of the <a href="http://www.ethix.org">Institute for Business, Technology and Ethics</a>.</p> <p>David is also author of &#8216;Becoming Good,&#8217; (plus four other books), teaches Ethics at Fuller Seminary, and Founded New College Berkeley. He loves God, and seeks to live his life in passionate pursuit of the right thing. He and his wife, Lucia, have two children, five grandchildren, and make their home in Berkeley.</p> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/?p=19&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_19" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=ADuWA2blNmw:Oef9ddXSnZI:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=ADuWA2blNmw:Oef9ddXSnZI:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?i=ADuWA2blNmw:Oef9ddXSnZI:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=ADuWA2blNmw:Oef9ddXSnZI:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=ADuWA2blNmw:Oef9ddXSnZI:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SiliconValleyFellowship/~4/ADuWA2blNmw" height="1" width="1"/> http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/2002/business-ethics-where-do-we-go-from-here Ryan MacCarthy http://loudrhino.com/2002/compass-leadership-a-practical-plan-for-lift 2007-10-18T15:29:12Z 2002-05-18T15:26:54Z

<p>Tom Steipp is the President and CEO of <a href="http://www.symmetricom.com/">Symmetricom, Inc.</a></p> <p>Tom joined Symmetricom, Inc. in March 1998, as President and Chief Operating Officer of Telecom Solutions, a Division of Symmetricom, Inc.  Since December 1998, he has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Symmetricom, Inc.</p> <p>From 1996 to 1998, Tom was Vice President and General Manager of Broadband Data Networks at Scientific-Atlanta, where he led the development and deployment of one of the industry’s first Cable Modem solutions.  Prior to that he spent seventeen years at Hewlett-Packard, where he held a number of Marketing and General Management positions in their Disk Storage, Networking and Federal Government Divisions.</p> <p>Tom spent eight years in the United States Air Force as an Instructor Pilot in T-38 aircraft and an Electrical Engineer.</p> <p>Tom has 2 children and resides in Los Gatos, California, with his wife, Debra.  He attends church at Santa Cruz Bible.</p> <p>Tom holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the United States Air Force Academy and an MBA from Purdue University.</p> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/?p=18&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_18" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=v1o6fGAxw0w:D0IXnCnL3Eg:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=v1o6fGAxw0w:D0IXnCnL3Eg:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?i=v1o6fGAxw0w:D0IXnCnL3Eg:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=v1o6fGAxw0w:D0IXnCnL3Eg:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=v1o6fGAxw0w:D0IXnCnL3Eg:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SiliconValleyFellowship/~4/v1o6fGAxw0w" height="1" width="1"/> http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/2002/compass-leadership-a-practical-plan-for-lift Ryan MacCarthy http://loudrhino.com/2002/entrepreneurship-in-ministry 2007-10-18T15:33:48Z 2002-04-18T15:24:26Z

<p>Greg Newman is the founding partner of Integrity Partners and CEO of Cumulus9. With over 14 years of industry experience, Mr. Newman has offered considerable contributions to many of technology&#8217;s leading firms. Mr. Newman was the Co-Founder and VP Marketing of C2B Technologies, a revolutionary e-commerce infrastructure company that provided a web-based, private-labeled, comparative shopping engine to top tier Internet portals. C2B was ultimately acquired by Internet infrastructure giant, Inktomi Corporation in August of 1998. Prior to his success with C2B, Mr. Newman played a key role as the Director of Marketing for e-commerce and Internet Technologies at Oracle Corporation. Mr. Newman was also one of the original members of the Macromedia marketing team, heading up the evangelism efforts, defining multimedia for the computer industry and helping establish Macromedia as the dominant market share holder in multimedia authoring. After Macromedia, Mr. Newman headed up sales, marketing and product management at New Video, a digital video hardware company funded by Intel and Apple. Later, at Apple Computer, where Mr. Newman served as Senior Product Manager for QuickTime, he was instrumental in establishing QuickTime as the standard in cross-platform system level multimedia software.</p> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/?p=17&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_17" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=tRx5RjutsNQ:tclM89OwS1o:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=tRx5RjutsNQ:tclM89OwS1o:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?i=tRx5RjutsNQ:tclM89OwS1o:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=tRx5RjutsNQ:tclM89OwS1o:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=tRx5RjutsNQ:tclM89OwS1o:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SiliconValleyFellowship/~4/tRx5RjutsNQ" height="1" width="1"/> http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/2002/entrepreneurship-in-ministry Ryan MacCarthy http://loudrhino.com/2002/would-you-hire-a-christian 2007-10-24T00:29:34Z 2002-02-18T15:21:40Z

<p>Would you hire a Christian? How are Christians perceived in the workplace? What does it mean to &#8220;wear your faith naturally&#8221; when you are being hired or hiring?</p> <p>Katherine Leary is head of Marketplace Ministries at Menlo Park Presbyterian Church, former CEO of e-Learning company Pensare, and former president of Private Satellite Network (PSN). She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the U.S. Distance Learning Association and holds an MBA from the University of Virginia&#8217;s Darden School of Business Administration.</p> <p>Dean Hovey is President and CEO of MagnaWare, Inc.,<br /> producers of software components designed to complement and interoperate with Human Resource Information Systems and Applicant Tracking Systems from SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, and Recruitsoft. MagnaWare&#8217;s core Document Understanding Technology automates data capture to speed business processes and leverage employee networks. Previously Mr. Hovey was Sr. Vice President of Pensare, Inc., a provider of eLearning business solutions for large organizations. that partnered with the world&#8217;s top business schools to merge MBA content with current best business practices.</p> <p>Prior to Pensare, Mr. Hovey held the position of Vice President Business Development and General Manager of Caere Corporation&#8217;s Imaging Products Division. Caere brought Optical Character Recognition technology to the masses with its market-leading software OmniPage. Mr. Hovey also served as general partner of Avalon Ventures. Before entering the venture capital industry, Mr. Hovey founded a computer accessories company Trace Systems, Inc., a robotics start-up Elfin Technologies, and the Product Design firm<br /> Hovey Kelley Design, now IDEO. Mr. Hovey is the author of several patents and holds BS and MS degrees from Stanford University in General Engineering Product Design.</p> <p>John Mumford is a Founding Partner, Crosspoint Venture Partners.</p> <p>John founded Crosspoint Venture Partners in 1970 and in that time has &gt;invested in numerous successful technology and business-to-business companies. He was co-founder of 4 public companies: Hello Direct, Inmac, Office Club (Office Depot) and Ariba. He has 12 years hands-on operating experience, as well as 20 years of seed venture capital investment experience. John currently sits on 12 portfolio company Boards including Founding Chairman of E2open and Comergent. He earned an MBA from Stanford.</p> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/?p=16&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_16" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=nUHQSRAz_1o:KN0oJrbz_WI:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=nUHQSRAz_1o:KN0oJrbz_WI:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?i=nUHQSRAz_1o:KN0oJrbz_WI:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=nUHQSRAz_1o:KN0oJrbz_WI:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=nUHQSRAz_1o:KN0oJrbz_WI:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SiliconValleyFellowship/~4/nUHQSRAz_1o" height="1" width="1"/> http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/2002/would-you-hire-a-christian Ryan MacCarthy http://loudrhino.com/2001/god-at-the-office 2007-10-24T00:31:03Z 2001-12-18T15:18:20Z

<p>Can we encounter God at work? What&#8217;s God&#8217;s perspective on our work? And what can you do to make the marketplace a spiritually rich place? Please come hear Dave Evans (see bio below) address these and other issues at our next dinner event. It&#8217;s a great way to explore both your relationship with Christ and your work for the upcoming year.</p> <p>Featured Speaker:</p> <p>Dave Evans: Dave Evans has been pursuing a blended vocation of business and ministry for 26 years. A formidable presence in Silicon Valley business circles as well as a dynamic speaker, Dave claims that the office is rich with God&#8217;s presence. He promises to share provocative insights he&#8217;s gained from his experience as an executive following Christ at Apple Computer, Electronic Arts, Lucent, and others. He&#8217;s also been a strategy consultant for Oracle, HP, Intel and more; and in his spare time he got his graduate degree from San Francisco Theological Seminary.</p> <p>Keith Potter: Pastor of Saratoga Federated Church,</p> <p>Brian Lehnen: Executive Director of Village Enterprise Fund</p> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/?p=15&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_15" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=M0E_Wt0hqkY:Zl4ZAZadM74:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=M0E_Wt0hqkY:Zl4ZAZadM74:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?i=M0E_Wt0hqkY:Zl4ZAZadM74:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=M0E_Wt0hqkY:Zl4ZAZadM74:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=M0E_Wt0hqkY:Zl4ZAZadM74:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SiliconValleyFellowship/~4/M0E_Wt0hqkY" height="1" width="1"/> http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/2001/god-at-the-office Ryan MacCarthy http://loudrhino.com/2007/gary-daichendt 2007-10-24T00:32:00Z 2001-09-18T15:17:44Z

<p>Gary Daichendt, Former Executive, VP, Cisco Systems, Inc.</p> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/?p=14&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_14" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=9iDBaTB5u74:XhmFlYExRrs:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=9iDBaTB5u74:XhmFlYExRrs:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?i=9iDBaTB5u74:XhmFlYExRrs:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=9iDBaTB5u74:XhmFlYExRrs:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=9iDBaTB5u74:XhmFlYExRrs:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SiliconValleyFellowship/~4/9iDBaTB5u74" height="1" width="1"/> http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/2001/gary-daichendt Ryan MacCarthy http://loudrhino.com/2001/steve-graves 2001-05-10T15:56:23Z 2001-05-10T15:56:23Z

<p>Steve Graves, Life@Work Magazine</p> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/?p=27&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_27" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=4MZgXSIFLkw:wqLDPY2zo3U:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=4MZgXSIFLkw:wqLDPY2zo3U:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?i=4MZgXSIFLkw:wqLDPY2zo3U:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=4MZgXSIFLkw:wqLDPY2zo3U:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=4MZgXSIFLkw:wqLDPY2zo3U:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SiliconValleyFellowship/~4/4MZgXSIFLkw" height="1" width="1"/> http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/2001/steve-graves Ryan MacCarthy http://loudrhino.com/2001/wally-hawley-jeremy-rivera-karin-stahl 2007-10-24T00:34:59Z 2001-04-18T06:18:24Z

<p>Wally Hawley, Co-Founder, Interwest Partners<br /> Wally is a co-founder of InterWest Partners (1979) one of the larger venture capital partnerships in the United States. Mr. Hawley’s prior experience includes seven years as president of SHV North America Holding Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of a Netherlands corporation and several years as a consultant with McKinsey and Company in their San Francisco and Amsterdam Offices</p> <p>He is currently devoting the majority of his time to non-profit (ministry) endeavors.</p> <p>His present affiliations include:</p> <ul> <li>Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Stanford Institute of Economic Policy Research, Stanford University</li> <li>Guest lecturer at Stanford Business School</li> <li>Board of Directors member for Voyager Expanded Learning</li> <li>National Board Member of Young Life</li> <li>National Board Member of FaithWorks</li> <li>Elder, Menlo Park Presbyterian Church</li> </ul> <p>Wally has a B.A. from Stanford University and a M.B.A. from Harvard University.</p> <p>He has been married to Alexandra Hawley for 37 years. They have two daughters and two grandsons. His hobbies are hiking, fly fishing, and reading.</p> <p>Wally currently resides in Atherton, California.</p> <p>Jeremy Rivera, The Door<br /> Jeremy Rivera serves as the founder and teaching pastor of The Door, a ministry of Menlo Park Presbyterian Church that is embracing the post-modern generation on the Peninsula with the gospel of Christ. While finishing up a degree in Finance and International Business from Hawaii Pacific University, Jeremy had originally intended on working in investment banking. He had served a four-year summer internship with the Federal Reserve Bank and had no plans to enter the vocational ministry. However, while surfing in Hawaii, he was struck by Walt Whitman’s striking words, “the powerful play of life goes on and you may contribute a verse.” God revealed to him that his “verse” to the play of life would best be invested by giving his life away to those things that would last for all eternity, Christ and people. Jeremy graduated from International Theological Seminary with an M.A. in Biblical Studies while starting a ministry in Hawaii called The Bridge, which continues to thrive in reaching the next generation with the unchanging gospel. He enjoys playing guitar, fly-fishing, golf and writing.</p> <p>Karin Stahl, eBay Foundation &amp; Project Faith<br /> Karin Stahl first went to Guatemala in July of 1997 to meet the eight-year-old boy she sponsored through Compassion International. Her life was changed when she went to San Pedro La Laguna on Lake Atitlan and saw the way God was using a Mayan pastor, Emilio Battz to empower the children of his community. With very little money, Pastor Emilio donated his land, the inheritance for his children, to start a Christian School called Colegio Bethel. The school was created not only to teach the shy Mayan children to read and write, but also impress upon them their worth as humans, made in the image of God.</p> <p>Karin immediately realized though watching the children, that her visit to Guatemala was much more than a short vacation. It was an invitation by Christ to get involved in a dynamic and blessed ministry.</p> <p>The school appeals to the poor children in the village, and therefore keeps tuition very low, so teachers at Colegio Bethel were being paid 25% of national minimum wage. Karin, committed to raising teacher’s salaries. Karin partnered with Alaskan supporter Joe Lomonaco, who called the project, “Project Faith”, (or Proyecto Fe in Spanish).</p> <p>Since 1998, Karin has gathered mission teams of individuals to go to the school to work on a variety of projects, including the implementation of a computer center, financial planning courses for the community, make-shift medical clinics and training seminar, construction and more.</p> <p>As an early employee of the online auction service, eBay, Karin Stahl had access to the executives, and was able to share her vision of empowering this Mayan community. The company donated computers, and as a result of her efforts, they invited her to head up the eBay Foundation. She now dedicates her professional time managing the eBay Foundation, and her volunteer time working on Project Faith.</p> <p>Karin keeps her roles in these two organizations separate in that the Project Faith ministry is not an official grantee of the eBay Foundation. However, eBay has recently accepted Karin’s proposal to fund an Internet Café in the village, where community members will receive access to computers and the Internet. Proceeds from this business will help fund the school that Project Faith works with.</p> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/?p=13&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_13" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=HGkQOuTkx7c:3GnaoZEZu9o:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=HGkQOuTkx7c:3GnaoZEZu9o:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?i=HGkQOuTkx7c:3GnaoZEZu9o:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=HGkQOuTkx7c:3GnaoZEZu9o:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=HGkQOuTkx7c:3GnaoZEZu9o:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SiliconValleyFellowship/~4/HGkQOuTkx7c" height="1" width="1"/> http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/2001/wally-hawley-jeremy-rivera-karin-stahl Ryan MacCarthy http://loudrhino.com/2001/milo-medin-jeremy-rivera-dudley-weiner 2007-10-24T00:36:35Z 2001-03-18T06:15:35Z

<p>Milo Medin, Chief Technology Officer, Excite@Home<br /> Mr. Medin oversees the development of Excite@Home&#8217;s high-speed backbone. @Home&#8217;s performance-engineered scalable network removes Internet &#8220;traffic jams&#8221; and enables true end-to-end management. In addition, the Network employs replication and caching technologies that dramatically improve network efficiency.</p> <p>Prior to joining Excite@Home, Medin served as project manager at NASA Ames Research Center. During his tenure, he directed the NASA National Research and Education Network project that, in combination with partners at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab, deployed a high-speed national ATM infrastructure connecting major supercomputing and data archiving centers. He also supervised the primary west coast Internet interconnect network. In addition, he pioneered the global NASA Science Internet project, providing network infrastructure for science at more than 200 sites in 16 countries and 5 continents, including Antarctica, and initially helped establish the TCP/IP protocol as an industry standard.</p> <p>Before NASA, Medin held various positions at Science Applications, Inc., programming supercomputers for defense program activities at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab and Los Alamos National Lab, under contract to the Defense Nuclear Agency.</p> <p>Medin has a BS in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley.</p> <p>Jeremy Rivera, The Door<br /> Jeremy Rivera serves as the founder and teaching pastor of The Door, a ministry of Menlo Park Presbyterian Church that is embracing the post-modern generation on the Peninsula with the gospel of Christ. While finishing up a degree in Finance and International Business from Hawaii Pacific University, Jeremy had originally intended on working in investment banking. He had served a four-year summer internship with the Federal Reserve Bank and had no plans to enter the vocational ministry. However, while surfing in Hawaii, he was struck by Walt Whitman’s striking words, “the powerful play of life goes on and you may contribute a verse.” God revealed to him that his “verse” to the play of life would best be invested by giving his life away to those things that would last for all eternity, Christ and people. Jeremy graduated from International Theological Seminary with an M.A. in Biblical Studies while starting a ministry in Hawaii called The Bridge, which continues to thrive in reaching the next generation with the unchanging gospel. He enjoys playing guitar, fly-fishing, golf and writing.</p> <p>Dudley Weiner, Bridges<br /> Dudley was born and brought up in Los Angeles, California. He attended the University of California at Los Angeles, where he was a History major, a cross-county, track and rugby athlete as well as involved in a fraternity . While attending UCLA, he seriously began his quest for truth, the meaning of life and answers to many spiritual questions. During that search he gave his life to Jesus Christ and became a fully devoted follower. Shortly after that time he became convinced that he was called into full time Christian ministry. He graduated from UCLA with a BA in History and attend two Theological Seminaries in Southern California in the Master of Divinity Program, Fuller Theological Seminary and Talbot Theological Seminary. He met his wife Janet while attending UCLA and they were married shortly after graduating from University. They moved to the San Francisco Bay area after seminary where he was an intern-pastor at Peninsula Bible Church in Palo Alto. For two years he worked with the single adult ministry with Ron Ritchie. Upon the completion of his internship they moved to Europe to be involved in church planting, evangelism and discipleship. They lived in Amsterdam, Holland for 15 months, where they helped plant a church to the English speaking international community, called the Crossroads. Following Amsterdam they moved to France where they spent 7 years working with Youth With A Mission doing leadership training, evangelism and church planting in Paris. Five years ago they moved back to the Bay area and are presently living in Menlo Park . Dudley is the founder and Director of an evangelism and missions ministry called Bridges. They have four children: Joshua-18, Jessica-14, Hannah-12 and Sarah who is 9.</p> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/?p=12&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_12" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=9WFzAIWLbVY:00Rm27-hwuk:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=9WFzAIWLbVY:00Rm27-hwuk:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?i=9WFzAIWLbVY:00Rm27-hwuk:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=9WFzAIWLbVY:00Rm27-hwuk:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=9WFzAIWLbVY:00Rm27-hwuk:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SiliconValleyFellowship/~4/9WFzAIWLbVY" height="1" width="1"/> http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/2001/milo-medin-jeremy-rivera-dudley-weiner Ryan MacCarthy http://loudrhino.com/2001/bill-younger-dean-smith-andy-hartwell 2007-10-18T06:23:12Z 2001-02-18T06:12:39Z

<p>Bill Younger, Sutter Hill Ventures<br /> Bill is a managing director of Sutter Hill Ventures, a venture capital firm located in Palo Alto and funding primarily technology-based startups.</p> <p>Bill is chair of the Venture Capital Committee at the Stanford Graduate School of Business Trust and president of the Menlo Atherton High School Foundation. He is past president of the Western Association of Venture Capitalists. Bill has a special interest in helping disadvantaged youth through his involvement with Young Life.</p> <p>He has a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan and an MBA from Stanford University&#8217;s Graduate School of Business. Before coming to Sutter Hill Ventures in 1981, Bill worked at Cummins Engine.</p> <p>Dean Smith, The Highway<br /> Dean Smith serves as the main teaching pastor for the HighWay Community. One of the co-founders, Dean has over 20 years of ministry experience - the 12 most recent of which were invested as Executive Pastor at The HighWay Community&#8217;s mother church, First Baptist Church of Los Altos. Dean, his wife Diane, and their three children, Ryan, Matthew, and Courtney, live in Mountain View. Dean likes to watch movies, play golf, and coach youth sports. He also trains the family dog, Betsy, to compete in agility and flyball.</p> <p>Andy Hartwell, Bayshore Christian Ministries<br /> Bayshore Christian Ministries focuses on helping youth from the city of East Palo Alto and adjoining neighborhood of eastern Menlo Park. (City population of 23,000 with the largest groups of youths being Blacks and recent Mexican immigrants)</p> <p>The Bayshore Christian Ministries programs consist of:</p> <ul> <li>Evangelism: Bible clubs for youth where youth hear the gospel and receive Christian discipleship.</li> <li>Teen Parent Assistance: Weekly Teen Mom Parenting class, provide mentors and a home for teen mothers.</li> <li>Employment Assistance: Refer high school students to summer jobs and provide job search skill training.</li> <li>Leadership Development: Weekend camps, summer internship, mission trips, opportunities to attend youth conferences.</li> <li>Education: After school academic assistance, summer academic enrichment program.</li> </ul> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/?p=11&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_11" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=Vv1tlC5C0gc:x-ZLekLgm4Q:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=Vv1tlC5C0gc:x-ZLekLgm4Q:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?i=Vv1tlC5C0gc:x-ZLekLgm4Q:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=Vv1tlC5C0gc:x-ZLekLgm4Q:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=Vv1tlC5C0gc:x-ZLekLgm4Q:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SiliconValleyFellowship/~4/Vv1tlC5C0gc" height="1" width="1"/> http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/2001/bill-younger-dean-smith-andy-hartwell Ryan MacCarthy http://loudrhino.com/2001/eff-w-martin-scott-grant-bill-arnopp 2007-10-24T00:37:40Z 2001-01-18T06:10:03Z

<p>Eff W. Martin, Goldman Sachs &amp; Co.<br /> Eff is a Managing Director of Goldman, Sachs &amp; Co. He leads Goldman Sachs’ investment banking coverage of many of the most prominent technology companies, including Adobe Systems, Agilent Technologies, Apple Computer, Cisco, Commerce One, Hewlett-Packard, Juniper Networks, Microsoft, ONI Systems, Palm Computing, Siebel Systems and Sun Microsystems. He was involved in the early stages of the firm’s High Technology effort and continues to play a leadership role in that sector. Eff is the Chairman of the Finance Committee and a member of the Board of Governors of the San Francisco Symphony. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Overseers of the Hoover Institution and the Advisory Board of The Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. In addition, he is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Menlo School. He is active in a variety of community organizations and is an elder at Menlo Park Presbyterian Church. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs in 1983, Eff was a Managing Director at Dean Witter Reynolds. He obtained a B.A. and a Masters of Mechanical Engineering from Rice University in 1971 and an M.B.A. from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business in 1973. Eff resides in Woodside, California with his wife, Patricia and their three children.</p> <p>Scott Grant, Peninsula Bible Church<br /> Scott Grant has served as a pastor at Peninsula Bible Church since 1994. He has headed up the singles ministry at the church, currently focusing on the Young Adults Fellowship for adults in their 20s, which began in 1996. Scott grew up in Mountain View, Calif., coming to Christ through a high school church group. He graduated from Pepperdine University in 1979 with a bachelor&#8217;s degree in journalism. He worked for 11 years as an editor or reporter for several newspapers in Northern California. While working for a newspaper based in Pleasanton, Calif., he began studying the scriptures intensely and teaching the scriptures to high school and college students. He left the newspaper business in 1990 to serve as an intern, further his training in the scriptures and learn ministry at Cole Community Church in Boise, Idaho. After graduating from the Cole Center for Biblical Studies, he joined the staff of Peninsula Bible Church.</p> <p>Bill Arnopp, Executive Director for Habitat for Humanity<br /> Bill Arnopp heads up the South Bay chapter of Habitat For Humanity. Habitat for Humanity is an international organization that brings families and communities in need together with volunteers and resources to build decent, affordable housing. Since 1976, Habitat has built more than 100,000 houses in more than 60 countries, including some 30,000 houses across the United States.</p> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/?p=10&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_10" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=xMWSxPmTkTo:4nK3AqAt3Kw:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=xMWSxPmTkTo:4nK3AqAt3Kw:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?i=xMWSxPmTkTo:4nK3AqAt3Kw:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=xMWSxPmTkTo:4nK3AqAt3Kw:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=xMWSxPmTkTo:4nK3AqAt3Kw:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SiliconValleyFellowship/~4/xMWSxPmTkTo" height="1" width="1"/> http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/2001/eff-w-martin-scott-grant-bill-arnopp Ryan MacCarthy http://loudrhino.com/2000/john-sage-jeff-finger-bruce-hansen 2007-10-24T00:38:46Z 2000-12-18T06:05:03Z

<p><strong>John Sage</strong>, CEO, Pura Vida Coffee<br /> John Sage manages the general business operations of <a href="http://www.puravidacoffee.com/">Pura Vida Coffee</a> from the company&#8217;s administrative office in Seattle, Washington. Prior to launching Pura Vida Coffee, John spent nine years working in various high-tech marketing positions. He served as Vice-President of Marketing and Business Development for Starwave Corporation, a leading Internet media company recently acquired by Disney and Infoseek. Prior to joining Starwave in 1994, John spent five years at Microsoft, where he ran the Microsoft Works business and later directed marketing for the company&#8217;s flagship application product, Microsoft Office. John graduated from Harvard Business School in 1989. In addition to devoting professional energies to Pura Vida Coffee, John is active in a number of philanthropic and charitable activities. He serves on the board of the Northwest AIDS Foundation, the Northwest Leadership Foundation and on the Board of Governors of Opportunity International, a micro-credit lending organization based in Chicago.</p> <p><strong>Jeff Finger</strong>, Golden Gate Community Church (&#8217;99 parish)<br /> Jeff is the pastor of the &#8220;99&#8243; parish of <a href="http://www.ggcc.org">Golden Gate Gate Community Church</a> in San Francisco.</p> <p>Originally from Nashville, Tennessee, Jeff has a background in Mathematics and Engineering, spending several years in the aerospace industry working for both McDonnell Douglas and Rohr Industries. He has also taught high school Mathematics at Thurgood Marshall Academic High School in San Francisco. Becoming more and more convinced that he should respond to a sense of God’s call on his life to preach, he returned to graduate school in August of 1991. Jeff completed his Master of Divinity degree at Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky in August of 1994.</p> <p>Since 1997, Jeff has been a pastor at GGCC as its worship leader and pastor in residence. In July of last year, GGCC was prepared to extend its influence further into the city by commissioning Jeff as the pastor of its second parish. Jeff then left teaching in order to serve Golden Gate full time and helped develop the core of people that established the &#8220;99 Parish&#8221; on November 6. He has been serving as parish pastor ever since and still marvels at the wonder of his good fortune to be formed as a pastor by such a graced community of people.</p> <p><strong>Bruce Hansen</strong>, Intervarsity Christian Fellowship<br /> <a href="http://www.ivcf.org">InterVarsity Christian Fellowship</a> promotes the gospel of Jesus Christ<br /> on college and university campuses throughout the United States. In<br /> Northern California we have ministries on 18 campuses involving 1400 Christian<br /> students and faculty who reach out to thousands more as witnesses for<br /> Christ. We have a legacy of equiping our alumni to be lay leaders for<br /> the church, the marketplace, missions and their local communities. We are<br /> known for leading students into rigorous, thoughtful Bible study that shapes<br /> their character and their vocations.<br /> Bruce Hansen is a member of the No. Calif. regional leadership team and<br /> has served as IVCF campus staff for 16 years at U.C. Berkeley, SF State,<br /> USF,and UCSF.</p> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/?p=9&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_9" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=bX1PN64hCm8:NyVmomOLbMg:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=bX1PN64hCm8:NyVmomOLbMg:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?i=bX1PN64hCm8:NyVmomOLbMg:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=bX1PN64hCm8:NyVmomOLbMg:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=bX1PN64hCm8:NyVmomOLbMg:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SiliconValleyFellowship/~4/bX1PN64hCm8" height="1" width="1"/> http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/2000/john-sage-jeff-finger-bruce-hansen Ryan MacCarthy http://loudrhino.com/2000/greg-slayton 2007-10-24T00:39:52Z 2000-11-18T05:37:07Z

<p><strong>Participant Bios</strong></p> <p><strong>Greg Slayton</strong>, President and CEO, ClickAction</p> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/?p=8&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_8" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=7ZJvP7hPGt4:KvmJknwI5BY:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=7ZJvP7hPGt4:KvmJknwI5BY:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?i=7ZJvP7hPGt4:KvmJknwI5BY:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=7ZJvP7hPGt4:KvmJknwI5BY:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=7ZJvP7hPGt4:KvmJknwI5BY:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SiliconValleyFellowship/~4/7ZJvP7hPGt4" height="1" width="1"/> http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/2000/greg-slayton Ryan MacCarthy http://loudrhino.com/2000/john-brandon-mark-mitchell-steve-chung 2007-10-24T00:40:45Z 2000-10-18T05:33:30Z

<p>Come join us for our November meeting.</p> <p><strong>Participant Bios</strong></p> <p><strong>John Brandon</strong>, Executive Vice President, Lightspan, and President, Academic Systems Corporation<br /> John has served in his current position since Lightspan acquired Academic Systems in September 1999. For the 10 years prior to joining Academic Systems, Mr. Brandon was Vice President and General Manager of North America for Adobe Systems. He also held sales management positions at both General Parametrics Corporation and Texas Instruments.</p> <p>Over the past two years, John has organized multiple panels of Silicon Valley executives to visit business schools around the country to promote and encourage integrity and ethics in the marketplace.</p> <p><strong>Mark Mitchell</strong>, Senior Pastor, Central Peninsula Church<br /> Mark Mitchell began his service at Central Peninsula Church in 1986 and is currently serving as the Teaching Pastor. Prior to his service at Central Peninsula Church, he served as Youth Pastor at Valley Community Church in Pleasanton, California for three and one-half years.</p> <p>Mark Mitchell was born and raised in the San Francisco Peninsula area. He met Christ at the age of 17 and has been passionate about studying and teaching the Scripture ever since. After graduating from Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, California, he attended Scribe School at Peninsula Bible Church in Palo Alto, California from 1979 to 1981 and attended Denver Seminary in Denver, Colorado and in 1987 earned a Master of Arts degree in Church History. He is currently working on his Doctorate of Ministry degree in preaching from Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Massachusetts.</p> <p>Mark has been married to Lynn for the past 21 years and they have three children. Mark loves to read, jog and coach his kids in youth sports.</p> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/?p=7&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_7" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=rksH2dS6ZQM:hOoQyh2bUcE:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=rksH2dS6ZQM:hOoQyh2bUcE:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?i=rksH2dS6ZQM:hOoQyh2bUcE:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=rksH2dS6ZQM:hOoQyh2bUcE:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=rksH2dS6ZQM:hOoQyh2bUcE:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SiliconValleyFellowship/~4/rksH2dS6ZQM" height="1" width="1"/> http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/2000/john-brandon-mark-mitchell-steve-chung Ryan MacCarthy http://loudrhino.com/2000/kickoff 2007-10-24T00:41:34Z 2000-09-18T05:25:53Z

<p>Come join us for our kickoff meeting.</p> <p><strong>Participant Bios</strong></p> <p><strong>Michael Yang, CEO</strong> of <a href="http://www.netgeo.com" title="NetGeo">NetGeo</a> was the founder and CEO of mySimon - selected by Time Digital as one of Top 25 e-Commerce sites in 1999. mySimon was acquired by CNET for $700M in January 2000 and has become the world-leader in online comparison shopping. From 1984 to 1998, Michael held technical and executive positions with several Silicon Valley high-tech companies including the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Intergraph Corp., Samsung Electronics Corp., and Jazz Multimedia Inc. Michael is a member of Governor George W. Bush&#8217;s Information Technology Advisory Council and the Silicon Valley Bush 2000 Committee. He holds a BS degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley, an MBA from the Haas School of Business, and an MS in computer science from Columbia University.</p> <p><strong>Drew Field</strong>, senior pastor, <a href="http://www.siliconvalleyproject.org">Silicon Valley Project</a> (a new church plant in the Bay Area). Drew was an investment banker specializing in media and entertainment companies until 1992, when Drew left his Wall Street career to attend Westminster Theological Seminary. Upon graduation, Drew returned to New York City, where he was an Associate Pastor at Redeemer Presbyterian. In 1999, Drew was interim pastor at The Village Church in Greenwich Village, Manhattan. Drew and his wife Donna have three children: Timothy, Sarah and Elizabeth.</p> <p><strong>Birdie Reznicek</strong>, Enterprise Director for <a href="http://www.ggci.org">Golden Gate Community Inc.</a>, a community development non-profit that is part of the Roberts Enterprise Development Fund (REDF) portfolio. She is responsible for the development of social purpose businesses that create jobs and training opportunities for individuals in recovery from homelessness and substance abuse. Prior to entering the world of social entrepreneurship, Birdie was a Director at MetLife and interned at Booz Allen &amp; Hamilton. Birdie was a Wharton undergrad at the Univ. of Penn and a ’98 graduate of the Kellogg Graduate School of Management.</p> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/?p=6&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_6" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=mX3ocykWUxg:_SpUkqgTmGI:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=mX3ocykWUxg:_SpUkqgTmGI:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?i=mX3ocykWUxg:_SpUkqgTmGI:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=mX3ocykWUxg:_SpUkqgTmGI:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?a=mX3ocykWUxg:_SpUkqgTmGI:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SiliconValleyFellowship?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SiliconValleyFellowship/~4/mX3ocykWUxg" height="1" width="1"/> http://siliconvalleyfellowship.org/2000/kickoff