As founder and President, Ken provides strategic insight and hands-on support to Challenge Towers and affiliated companies Aerial Adventure Technologies, Blue Ridge Learning Centers, and High Gravity Adventures. Ken got his start in the Challenge Course industry at Pecos River Learning Centers, an early pioneer in corporate team-building. More than 30 years on, he has made challenge-based experiential learning and recreation his life's passion. A winner of the Association for Challenge Course Technology Critical Link Award, Ken has been an active and vocal advocate for the sustainable growth of the challenge course and aerial adventure industry for more than two decades. Ken attended The Ohio State University, earning an undergraduate degree from the Department of Natural Resources before working as a Park Ranger with the National Park Service and later operating a Victorian home renovation company. An avid cyclist, hiker, and cook, Ken likes to celebrate life's little wonders with friends, family, and his employees. He shows up at the office on random Fridays with a home-cooked meal for all who can join. Known affectionately by his employees as the Chief Instigator, Ken assures everyone that he really is a stable genius, and approaches everything he does with a love for adventure, a passion for the outdoors, and a drive for building better communities.