| Key | Value |
| Accuracy | Bandwidth's NEW HQ (opened 2023) is at Edwards Mill Rd, Raleigh — NOT the old NC State Centennial Campus. There is no rooftop running track (a prior internal note was wrong — dropped). The carved- |
| Action needed | Manual search of Carter's inbox for correspondence with this contact. |
| Age | ~52 (b. ~1974, Los Angeles) |
| Alignment Score | 95/100 |
| Bandwidth IR | bandwidth.com/investors (public company, must go through proper channels for investment-related) |
| Bandwidth Q1 2026 Performance | - Revenue: $209M (record; +20% YoY) |
| Bandwidth Q1 2026: Record $209M revenue, +20% YoY | Company thriving; AI-driven growth |
| Bandwidth as AI Infrastructure (2026) | - "These results show our structural advantage as the mission-critical foundation for the AI-driven enterprise." — David Morken, Q1 2026 |
| Bandwidth positioning as AI infrastructure | Direct parallel to Genesis positioning |
| Best approach | Carter → Henry Kaestner → David Morken (one hop, warm, 25-year relationship) |
| Born | ~1970 (age ~54-55 as of 2025) |
| Bridge | 10/10 |
| Capital | 7/10 |
| Capital Behavior | Kingdom deployer. Co-founded Sovereign's Capital specifically to fund Christ-following entrepreneurs. Sovereign's Capital invests in "visionary leaders who view culture as a competitive advantage." No |
| Career Arc | - Early 1990s: Marine Corps Judge Advocate (JAG); criminal prosecutor; Special Assistant U.S. Attorney; Headquarters Company Commander. Served 4 years on active duty (called up 1995). |
| Children | Yes (number not confirmed publicly) |
| Church | Active in local church; co-founded Durham Cares with faith-driven community engagement |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Class III Director re-election through 2029 | Long-term stability at Bandwidth; not going anywhere. |
| Classification | Genesis Sovereign AI — Investor Intelligence |
| Command Center | Active |
| Command center | Planning dossier at planning/kings-dossiers/DOSSIER_DAVID_MORKEN.md \ | Site content at planning/site-content-s1290/SITE_DAVID_MORKEN.md |
| Company | Bandwidth Inc. (NASDAQ: BAND) — Co-founder, CEO, Chairman |
| Compiled | June 2, 2026 |
| Conferences (2026) | Needham Conference (May 13), B. Riley Securities (May 20), Jefferies Software/Internet/AI (May 27) |
| Confidence Level | VERY HIGH (extensive public record; public company CEO) |
| Critical connection | The Morken→Kaestner link is gold. Henry Kaestner is rank #1 on the entire roster with a 95 coverage score and direct warm path. Morken and Kaestner co-founded Bandwidth, share faith values, still cont |
| Current Roles | Co-Founder, CEO & Chairman, Bandwidth Inc. (NASDAQ: BAND); Co-Founder & Chairman, RelayPro; Co-Founder, DurhamCares (nonprofit); Advisor, Sovereign's Capital |
| Data completeness | 30% |
| Denomination | Evangelical Christian (Oral Roberts University heritage; non-denominational evangelical) |
| Dignity gate on children | the "Ohana"/family theme is shown through place (the campus, a child's small shoe by a glass wall, the soccer field) — no identifiable children, no faces. |
| Direct Quotes | - "I'm a Jesus freak." (WRAL TechWire, 2019) |
| Direct? | YES — Carter first-degree |
| Domain | Enterprise Communications + Cloud Infrastructure + AI Voice |
| Dossier | planning/wave3-dossiers/david-a-morken.md |
| Driven by Calling, Not Ambition | Morken frames everything as "God's will" and "calling" — not ego or career advancement. This is genuine, not performative. |
| DurhamCares | durhamcares.org |
| Education | BA, Oral Roberts University (served as Student Association President); JD, University of Notre Dame Law School; Virginia Bar Association member |
| Endurance | Ironman World Championships (9:43), Race Across America, Furnace Creek 508, Wasatch 100-mile Ultramarathon |
| Estimated Total | $300M–$500M+ |
| Faith | "A Jesus freak" — opens company meetings with prayer, employs chaplains |
| Faith (Broad) | 10/10 |
| Faith Driven Investor | faithdriveninvestor.org (Kaestner's platform) |
| Faith Driven Investor events | Regular gatherings where Morken/Kaestner convene the community — natural venue. |
| Faith Driven Investor/Entrepreneur growth | Network expanding; Kaestner increasingly influential |
| Faith Heritage | Father taught religion at Oral Roberts University. Grandparents were missionaries. Describes himself as "a Jesus freak." Faith permeates every dimension of his professional identity. |
| Faith Practices in Business | - Opens quarterly all-staff meetings with prayer (since 1999) |
| Faith register | DEVOUT — opens corporate meetings with prayer; self-described "Jesus freak"; Oral Roberts graduate; missionary family heritage; explicit "for God's glory" statements; co-founder's book with J.D. Greea |
| Family | Married; father taught religion at Oral Roberts University; family of missionaries (grandparents) |
| Family Heritage | - Father taught religion at Oral Roberts University |
| Flourishing | 10/10 |
| Former Roles | Chairman & CEO, Republic Wireless (spun out 2016, sold to Dish 2021); Trump FCC Transition Team (2017); U.S. Marine Corps Judge Advocate & Company Commander (1995–1999); Co-Founder, efiling.com (1994, |
| Founded | Bandwidth (1999) |
| Full Name | David A. Morken |
| Full name | David A. Morken |
| Generated | 2026-06-15 12:50 |
| HIGH confidence | - Career history (public company filings, news, Wikipedia) |
| HQ | Raleigh, North Carolina |
| Hub | planning/command-center/7-david-a-morken.md |
| Jefferies Software, Internet, and AI Conference (May 2026) | Morken attending — actively positioned in AI conversation. |
| Justification | Morken is one of the most openly faith-driven public tech CEOs in America. Faith is not peripheral — it IS the company's DNA. He runs a $1.6B public company with prayer meetings, faith values, and mis |
| Kingdom Alignment | 95+/100 |
| Kings tier for a reason | Morken controls a public-company platform + holds deep faith conviction + has a 25-year track record of integration |
| Link | https://david-morken.myday7.com |
| LinkedIn | David Morken (active) |
| Location | Durham/Raleigh, North Carolina |
| MEDIUM confidence | - Exact Republic Wireless sale proceeds (terms undisclosed) |
| Market Cap | $2B+ peak; ~46% voting shares (with Kaestner) |
| Military | U.S. Marine Corps, 4 years active duty: Judge Advocate, Criminal Prosecutor, Special Assistant U.S. Attorney, Headquarters Company Commander; Marine Corps Triathlon Team (2x member) |
| Mined by | C3 window, S1334 LAST RUN |
| Model case | His story IS the Day 7 thesis — that a person can be fully seen in both their calling and their faith, without flattening either |
| Network bridge | Through Kaestner, Morken is already one degree from the Faith Driven Entrepreneur world, which is one degree from Carter's network |
| OPEN QUESTIONS | - Carter's personal relationship to Kaestner (does warm path already exist?) |
| One-line | The Marine-turned-CEO who built a $209M/quarter communications infrastructure empire as explicit Kingdom work — now positioning Bandwidth as "mission-critical foundation for AI" — same calling, differ |
| PRIMARY | Henry Kaestner |
| Pattern | Morken's giving is more operational (co-founding Durham Cares, building faith culture at Bandwidth) than checkbook. His giving expresses through building institutions, not just writing checks. The com |
| Personalized site | https://david-morken.myday7.com |
| Previous Coverage | 30% → Current Coverage: 88% |
| Primary | Henry Kaestner — co-founded Bandwidth, Sovereign's Capital, and the Faith Driven Investor movement with Morken. The entire FDI ecosystem exists to make this connection. One warm message from Kaestner |
| Protective of Culture | Guards Bandwidth's faith-first culture fiercely; controls 46% voting power specifically to maintain it. |