The Entrepreneurship Team
The Edward Lowe Foundation was established by Ed and Darlene Lowe in 1985. In contrast to most U.S. foundations, which are grant-giving entities, we are an operating foundation that funds its own programs.
Laken Ray Stoliker
Senior Executive Specialist
Laken Ray Stoliker joined the Edward Lowe Foundation in January 2022 as a senior executive specialist.
Entrepreneurship team
Laken Ray Stoliker joined the Edward Lowe Foundation in January 2022 as a senior executive specialist. She manages the foundation’s Lansing office and provides primary administrative support to our chairman. She also assists on a variety of special projects for the foundation’s entrepreneurship and conservation divisions.
Before coming to the foundation, Laken spent nine years as a session coordinator in the Michigan Secretary of the Senate Administrative Office, where she worked for three secretaries of the Senate. She comes from state capitol royalty as her grandmother, Bobby Ray, was a Lansing institution, who worked more than 25 years in the state capitol.
Laken is married and has a young son. Her husband, Travis, is a second-stage entrepreneur and co-owner of Saddleback BBQ, a restaurant company with four locations in the Lansing area, which was named Best Small Business by the SBDC in 2018.