Dr. Ken Eldred

Founder & Ceo · Living Stones Foundation · Charitable Trust

Address 550 Reserve Street, Suite 460 Southlake, Texas 76092, USA

E-mail ken@lsfoundation.org

Web Lsfoundation.org

Ministry Profile and Brief Biography

Ken Eldred is an investor and founder/CEO of Living Stones Foundation. Currently Ken Eldred focuses his efforts primarily on non-profit projects via Living Stones Foundation and Living Rock Foundation, two charitable entities he endowed, as well as several start-up ventures. He is Chairman of United in Purpose, an organization dedicated to seeing renewal in America. Ken is also working on the growth and development of several innovative companies in the field of social media and technology.

Founding numerous successful companies, including Ariba Technologies, Inc. (now SAP Ariba). Ariba was the first internet business-to-business company to go public and was valued as high as $40 billion. He also founded and ran Inmac, the first direct-mail computer products company, which went public in 1987 and later merged with MicroWarehouse. Ken was named Silicon Valley "Entrepreneur of the Year" in 1988. Internationally, Ken is co-founder and director of Epicenter Technologies, a call center based in In- dia with over 2500 employees. He was also an early investor in Wumart, now China's largest indigenous retailer, and Anapass, a South Korean chip company public on KOSDAQ.

Ken was profiled in Executive Influence by Christopher Crane and Mike Hamel, and he is co-editor of On Kingdom Business (2003), which earned a coveted Christianity Today Book Award. He is the author of God is at Work (2005), named the top book by the Business as Mission Network and now is translated into seven languages, as well as The Integrated Life (2010), which is used at several universities as a text. He speaks at Christian business meetings and has been interviewed on CBN, Family Talk, and other radio programs. Ken spent time as a visiting Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institute. He holds B.A. and M.B.A. degrees from Stanford as well as a Doctor of Laws from Belhaven University. He and his wife, Roberta have been married since 1971.