Speakers

Executive Director of Real Champions Inc. which provides full-time, paid mentors for the most vulnerable children South Carolina and is a “Life Coach” with VisionVentures, Inc.

Carl has coached officially for 15 years, but has been training, consulting and equipping people for nearly 40 years. He specializes in helping leaders to clarify their goals, to become more effective in key relationships and in building effective teams.

 

Carl graduated from Clemson University with a B.A. in Political Science and also completed his Masters of Divinity Degree in 1987 and his Doctor of Ministry Degree in 1998.

 

While at Clemson, he was the smallest player on Danny Ford’s National Championship Football Team; Carl played all four years and lettered two years. He played in every game his junior and senior seasons as Clemson posted a 21-1-1 record. Head Coach Danny Ford is quoted as saying about Carl in 1981:

 

“Carl is a super person. Pound for pound he is the toughest player on the team and possibly the strongest. He has a lot of pride in his team and this school. It means a lot to us to have a player like Carl Martin on this team.”

 

Carl lives in Ridgeland, South Carolina near Hilton Head Island and enjoys water sports, golfing, snow skiing, reading, traveling, and eating bacon cheeseburgers.

 

Pastor Carl has been teaching Sunday mornings for the last 3 1/2 years at Worship on the Water which is held in the May River Chapel Sunday mornings at 10:30am. Worship on the Water is a nondenominational Christian service.

 

He celebrated 40 years together with his wife, Peggi Nabors Martin of Greenville SC, a first grade teacher in Beaufort County and the Martin’s have one adult married daughter, Lauren, son-in-law Benny and

two grand boys and one on the way!

 

 

Ken Bloom grew up in Los Alamitos, CA which is in Orange County.  After High School, he attended UCLA where he played baseball for four years while earning a degree in Economics.   After graduating from UCLA in 1984, he moved to the Silicon Valley area in Northern California where he began his career in the computer chip industry.  Ken worked for Maxim Integrated Products for over 20 years in various operations, customer service, and sales roles.  In the 90’s Ken and his family moved to the London area where he set up the sales and operations organization for Maxim in Europe.  He set up offices in London, Paris, and Munich and hired over 100 local people to establish a local sales and operations presence.    After 6 years abroad, he returned to California and ran several sales organizations for Maxim which had him travelling extensively throughout Asia and the US where he made many wonderful relationships on top of the relationships that he made while in Europe.  

Ken decided to challenge himself in a different direction after 23 years at Maxim and set up his own company focused on consulting with tech companies where he could leverage the global relationships that he had made throughout his career.  After 10 years on his own, He was coaxed by a good friend to return to the corporate sales world and worked for Dell Computer for 4 years.  He finished at Dell to spend time with his elderly parents.  Ken still dabbles in the consulting world but on a very limited basis and only with his hand-picked clients.

Ken and his wife Linda were married in 1985 and they have 3 daughters, 2 sons in law and 2 granddaughters.  Ken and Linda have been living in Bluffton for about 4 years and are very fortunate that two of the three daughters and families have followed them to Bluffton and most importantly, the granddaughters are here too.  Ken loves sports, the outdoors, making memories and spending as much time as possible with his friends and family which makes Bluffton the perfect landing spot for him and Linda.