Ken Ferris
Ken Ferris serves as a Corporate Advisor at Luna Innovations Incorporated, Roanoke, VA, where he was most recently President of Luna’s Products Division.

Ken, an engineering graduate of Virginia Tech, has been on the founding team of three technology start-up companies each of which was sold to a large, publically traded company. The technologies involved included fiber optic communications, DSL, and wireless sensors. He began his career with the Department of Defense in Northern Va.

Ken is past President and currently on the Board of the NewVa Corridor Technology Council (NCTC) which serves the Roanoke and New River Valleys. He has also served on the Board of the Science Museum of Western Virginia and was a founding board member and served for a number of years as Chairman of the Board for the Blueridge Women’s Center, formerly the Crisis Pregnancy Center of the Roanoke Valley. He has been involved in starting and growing two churches and is currently the Moderator of the Session for Christ Our Redeemer Community Church in Roanoke.

Ken lives in Botetourt County, Virginia with his wife of 38 years, Trisha. They have two children and six grandchildren.

Dr. Robert Hamrin, Chairman
Dr. Robert Hamrin is the founder and President of Great Dads, an international nonprofit organization that presents seminars which train fathers to be great dads to their kids and motivates them to turn their heart to their children. Over 33,000 dads across America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and India have received this training in live seminars presented by Dr. Hamrin and his team of 45 certified Associates.

Prior to founding Great Dads in 1996, Bob served (1983-1996) as an independent economic-business consultant, author and speaker. His clients included the World Bank, the National Association of Manufacturers, and a host of other corporations and organizations in the business, labor, environmental, media and government sectors. From 1974 to 1983, he served as a staff economist for the Joint Economic Committee of Congress, the EPA, a Presidential Commission, and a U.S. Senator in his Presidential candidacy.

Dr. Hamrin has written seven books and numerous published articles and has served as a professor at two universities. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin.

Bob and Carol, his bride of 39 years, live in Clifton, Virginia and are the parents of three grown children: Eric, Krista, and Kira.

Major General Don Riley, Secretary
Major General Don Riley came to the Army Corps of Engineers Headquarters in Washington, DC following command of the Corps' Mississippi Valley Division in Vicksburg, Mississippi, where he received a Presidential appointment as President of the Mississippi River Commission.

Prior to that, Don was the Engineer for the U.S. Army in Europe, headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany, where he was also European Coordinator for the non-profit ministry, Officers Christian Fellowship.

A native of Hayward, California, Don is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. He later earned a Master of Engineering degree from the University of California, Berkeley and is a Registered Professional Engineer in California. He also holds a Master of Military Arts and Sciences degree from the University of Kansas. During his many Army assignments, he has led neighborhood Bible studies and taught multiple levels of Sunday School.

Don is exceedingly blessed by his wife, former Roslyn Shelton (Retired Army Nurse Corps Lieutenant Colonel) of Shreveport, LA, and four wonderful children: Devin and wife Marie with granddaughter Addison, Army Captain Darren, Daniel, and Caitlyn.

John Walter, Treasurer
John Walter leads the Ministry Advancement unit of the American Bible Society. He has also served as the leader of its Global Scripture Fund. As co-founder of the ABS research unit – Global Scripture Impact – he pioneered the development of performance philanthropy disciplines within ABS and other international ministries.

Prior to ABS, John helped both new and established technology firms grow in sectors as diverse as the United States Congress, Christian Internet sites, and Polish research laboratories. John and his wife Pam lived and worked in Poland after the collapse of the Wall in the early 1990s.

John serves as board chair for Gather and Care, a ministry in service to widows and orphans in former Communist countries, and Register of the Vestry of The Falls Church. John is an accomplished organist, pianist and worship leader. He holds a BS from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an MBA from the Cox School at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX.

John and Pam have been married for 18 years, and are blessed with four children. They make their home in Falls Church, Virginia.

Dr. Daniel B. Wright
Dr. Daniel B. Wright was appointed Managing Director for China and the Strategic Economic Dialogue at the U.S. Department of Treasury in March 2007.

Prior to his appointment, Dr. Wright was Vice President and Washington D.C. Office Director of the National Bureau of Asian Research since 2004. From 2000 to 2004, he served as the Executive Director of the Hopkins-Nanjing Program of Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), the premier educational joint-venture program between the United States and China. From 1997 to 1999, Dr. Wright held a fellowship with the Institute of Current World Affairs, during which he lived in southwest China’s Guizhou Province. He has also worked as Manager of Asian Affairs for the Washington, D.C. consulting firm Andreae, Vick & Associates and as a translator at the Foreign Language Bureau in Beijing.

Dr. Wright is a member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and is a delegate to the U.S.-Japan Leadership Program. He also serves as an elder at Vienna Presbyterian Church in Vienna, Virginia. He earned his B.A. in history from Vanderbilt University, his M.Div. from Fuller Theological Seminary, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins SAIS. He has been a visiting scholar at Qinghua University’s School of Public Policy and Management. He studied Chinese at Beijing University, Beijing Foreign Language Institute, and the Beijing Languages Institute. Dr. Wright is the author of two books and numerous articles that examine current issues in China.

He is married to Guowei Wright and they have four children: Margaret (13), Jon (11), Peter (5), and James (4).