Greg Jamison, President, San Jose Sharks

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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John Brandon has served as Vice President of the Americas and Asia Pacific for Apple Computer 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’s degree from the University of California at Davis.

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Ed Silvoso, founder and president of Harvest Evangelism, is widely recognized as a missions strategist and solid Bible teacher who specializes in evangelism, city reaching, marketplace transformation and gender reconciliation.

He is the author of the best-selling books That None Should Perish, Women: God’s Secret Weapon, and Prayer Evangelism. Initially trained in business, his background includes executive leadership in banking, hospital administration and financial services.

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.

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Kevin R. Compton is a General Partner with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Silicon Valley’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.

Kevin has been featured in many technology publications, has been profiled in Fortune, Forbes and Inc. Magazine, and helped edit “Guide to the Digital Universe”. 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.

The church and his family are at the center of Kevin’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.

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.

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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’s Darden School of Business Administration.

Dean Hovey is President and CEO of MagnaWare, Inc.,
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’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’s top business schools to merge MBA content with current best business practices.

Prior to Pensare, Mr. Hovey held the position of Vice President Business Development and General Manager of Caere Corporation’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
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.

John Mumford is a Founding Partner, Crosspoint Venture Partners.

John founded Crosspoint Venture Partners in 1970 and in that time has >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.

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Featured Speaker:

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’s presence. He promises to share provocative insights he’s gained from his experience as an executive following Christ at Apple Computer, Electronic Arts, Lucent, and others. He’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.

Keith Potter: Pastor of Saratoga Federated Church,

Brian Lehnen: Executive Director of Village Enterprise Fund

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He is currently devoting the majority of his time to non-profit (ministry) endeavors.

His present affiliations include:

• Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Stanford Institute of Economic Policy Research, Stanford University
• Guest lecturer at Stanford Business School
• Board of Directors member for Voyager Expanded Learning
• National Board Member of Young Life
• National Board Member of FaithWorks
• Elder, Menlo Park Presbyterian Church

Wally has a B.A. from Stanford University and a M.B.A. from Harvard University.

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.

Wally currently resides in Atherton, California.

Jeremy Rivera, The Door
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.

Karin Stahl, eBay Foundation & Project Faith
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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

Medin has a BS in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley.

Jeremy Rivera, The Door
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.

Dudley Weiner, Bridges
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.

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Scott Grant, Peninsula Bible Church
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’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.

Bill Arnopp, Executive Director for Habitat for Humanity
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.

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Jeff Finger, Golden Gate Community Church (’99 parish)
Jeff is the pastor of the “99″ parish of Golden Gate Gate Community Church in San Francisco.

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.

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 “99 Parish” 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.

Bruce Hansen, Intervarsity Christian Fellowship
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship promotes the gospel of Jesus Christ
on college and university campuses throughout the United States. In
Northern California we have ministries on 18 campuses involving 1400 Christian
students and faculty who reach out to thousands more as witnesses for
Christ. We have a legacy of equiping our alumni to be lay leaders for
the church, the marketplace, missions and their local communities. We are
known for leading students into rigorous, thoughtful Bible study that shapes
their character and their vocations.
Bruce Hansen is a member of the No. Calif. regional leadership team and
has served as IVCF campus staff for 16 years at U.C. Berkeley, SF State,
USF,and UCSF.

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Greg Slayton, President and CEO, ClickAction

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Participant Bios

John Brandon, Executive Vice President, Lightspan, and President, Academic Systems Corporation
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.

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.

Mark Mitchell, Senior Pastor, Central Peninsula Church
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.

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.

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.

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Participant Bios

Michael Yang, CEO of NetGeo 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’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.

Drew Field, senior pastor, Silicon Valley Project (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.

Birdie Reznicek, Enterprise Director for Golden Gate Community Inc., 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 & Hamilton. Birdie was a Wharton undergrad at the Univ. of Penn and a ’98 graduate of the Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

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