Oct
24
Join us on Thursday, November 10 at 7pm for an evening with with the leaders of Red Dot Buildings. Ray Sanders and Tod Bush will share a powerful story of a company dedicated to transformation.
About Red Dot
Founded in 1963 Texas-based Red Dot Buildings designs, manufacturers, and constructs pre-engineered and structural steel buildings. With a workforce of over 150 and annual revenues of $30-40 million, Red Dot serves the U.S. and overseas markets.
About Ray
Ray Sanders is President and CEO of Red Dot Buildings, Inc. In addition to leading Red Dot Buildings, Sanders is an enthusiastic world traveler with a passion for transformation. He regularly leads teams of professionals on life-impacting experiences throughout the world through GiANT Experiences, a non-profit organization he founded with a vision for mobilizing purpose-driven leaders with a desire to use their influence to impact the world for good through sustainable life-changing solutions. GiANT Experiences is a member of the GiANT family of companies, including GiANT Impact, GiANT Partners and GiANT Capital. The goal of GiANT is to grow leaders and companies in order that their profits might be used for a purpose.
Sanders serves on the Business Advisory Board for Compassion International and Oklahoma Baptist University. Additionally, he serves as an advisor to the Center for the Creation of Economic Wealth at the University of Oklahoma. He is a member of the Communications Advisory Committee for the Baptist Foundation of Oklahoma and serves on the Board of Directors for a U.S.A. inspirational film company, Sherwood Pictures and Red Dot Buildings International. Nothing thrills him more than spending time with the love of his life, his wife, Stephanie. Together they have six children.
About Tod
Tod Bush serves as Chief Impact Officer for Red Dot Buildings in Athens, Texas as well as Director of Red Dot 100X. Red Dot 100X is an initiative designed to steward Red Dot’s employees and company profits in a manner that glorifies the Lord through local ministry opportunities and international mission work, primarily orphan care. Prior to joining Red Dot in 2007, Tod had a 14-year career as an assistant DA for the Dallas County District Attorney’s office, including 10 years as a prosecutor representing Child Protective Services in child welfare cases.
Tod received a BBA from Baylor University in 1989 and a JD from Baylor Law School in 1992. He and his wife, Robyn, have been married for 20 years and have 3 children.
Jul
24
Grasping God’s Power
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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.
Steve Yencho, Founder / CEO Water of Life
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 Cardica, Inc. (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.
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.
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