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Lauren is passionate about seeing the regeneration of cities which also has positive impact in building and restoring communities. She loves to create and design spaces that promote quality of life and are focused on the end user and their everyday lifestyle.
Loran is a licensed CPA and CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professional and holds the following FINRA securities registrations with LPL Financial: General Securities Principal (Series 24), Registered Representative (Series 7 & 63), Investment Advisor Representative (Series 65).
An experienced professional in the specialty area of Biblically Responsible Investing, Loran provides investment advice and financial planning services to individuals and families in the Spokane community, the greater Pacific Northwest region, and other states around the country. Loran is also a licensed life insurance agent in Washington and California. Loran is passionate about serving with excellence and making a positive impact in the lives of others.
In 2009, Loran became a Certified Kingdom Advisor® (CKA®). Certified members of Kingdom Advisors are individuals who have demonstrated themselves to be believers in Jesus Christ, able to apply Biblical wisdom in counsel, technically competent, ethical and of integrity, and committed to practicing biblical stewardship in their personal and professional life. Loran is also a published author.
Before establishing his practice as an independent financial advisor focusing on faith-based investing, Loran served for five years as First Vice-President of an institutional money management firm in Santa Monica, California, where he gained valuable experience in investment research and management. Loran’s first introduction to the investment business was in 1999 while working as an auditor for Arthur Andersen, and later Ernst & Young LLP, where he planned and supervised audits of investment management firms and banks in the Los Angeles area.
Loran received his bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Los Angeles majoring in Political Science with a Specialization in Business Administration. Additionally, Loran met the rigorous accounting and business educational requirements to earn the CPA license and CFP® certification.
Loran enjoys being active in his local community, having served most recently as an elder and finance team chair for Whitworth Church. Loran has also served on many non-profit boards in Spokane in past years, including the Vanessa Behan Crisis Nursery board of trustees, the Northwest Christian Schools Foundation planned giving committee, YMCA of the Inland Northwest corporate board of directors, Innovia Foundation (formerly known as the Inland Northwest Community Foundation) investment committee, and Christ Kitchen’s mission impact committee. Loran is also a member of downtown Spokane’s Rotary Club 21, having served on the disability committee and invocation committee.
Luke Bolton enjoys serving at the intersection of wealth management and biblical theology. He completed a BA in Theology and an MA in Biblical Studies. After seminary, Luke and his family moved to East Asia where he taught business and theology courses for a year.
In 2007, Luke took a role at Securian Financial in St Paul where he started his career in financial services. At Securian he completed training to become a General Securities Principal (Series 24) and provided regulatory supervision for over 1,000 financial advisors.
He then served as Director of Operations at WaterRock Financial where he supported a financial advisor team with a focus on generosity and investing for impact. While there he served on the LPL/Kingdom Advisor Community’s steering committee to develop a Biblically Responsible Investing (BRI) model that was launched at LPL Financial in 2022. He serves on the board for Faith Driven Network of the Twin Cities and facilitates a bi-monthly conversation group for academic theologians and investment managers.
Luke recently accepted a role with Kingdom Advisors as Executive for Strategic Relations where he focuses on institutional relationships.
Luke and his family are members at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis. In their free time, they enjoy exploring, reading, and having outdoor adventures in the “Land of 10,000 Lakes”.
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Karen Hung is the CEO and Founder of Silver Rock Consulting firm. Silver Rock focuses on transformation and growth at the intersection of strategy, marketing, and innovation. She and Silver Rock have experience and agility across multiple industries, with clients ranging from Ascension Health Care, Kohler, MetLife, AbbVie, Johnson Controls, SubZero Wolf.
Prior to Silver Rock, Ms. Hung was the Senior Vice President, Global Chief Marketing Officer with Lands’ End. She has held executive positions leading global teams with GE, Ann Inc and Citigroup in the areas of Marketing, Strategy, and Innovation.
Ms. Hung serves as a Director on the Boards of KeHE, Florence Eiseman Company and Ascension – Wisconsin. She has taught graduate and undergraduate courses as an adjunct professor of Entrepreneurship and of Leadership with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Lubar School of Business.
An active civic leader, Ms. Hung is serves on the Boards of Directors and Executive Committee with the Rotary Club of Milwaukee as President successor, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra as Governance Chair, Junior Achievement of Wisconsin as Strategy Chair. She is the Immediate Past President of the Harvard Business School Club of Wisconsin.
Karen Hung earned an MBA from the Harvard Business School and a BA from Washington University of St. Louis.
Katherine Trout is honored to serve as Director of Partnerships for Faith Driven Investor, where she focuses on Investor Relations. Katherine is passionate about using entrepreneurship and innovation to serve the Kingdom of God, especially as a means of sharing the hope of Jesus and in caring for the vulnerable and oppressed.
Katherine received her B.A. in International Affairs and Public Policy at Princeton University, and completed additional studies in Old Testament theology at Oxford University and entrepreneurship at IDC Herzliya in Israel. She previously worked as a federal employee at the Office of Economic Initiatives and Entrepreneurship at the White House, as well as at the Office of Management and Budget. Katherine is currently based in her hometown of St. Louis.
Since Christ is our Lord and ultimate treasure, overlooking him in our investing ethics is a problem that should be confronted pastorally and theologically. What would happen if we held up the supremacy of Christ as the foundation for a truly Christian ethic for investing?