William Murdock

William Murdock is the co-founder and CEO of the Eblen Charities and the Eblen Center for Social Enterprise in Asheville, North Carolina. A graduate of T. C. Roberson High School, Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College and Mars Hill College, he also is a graduate of the Duke University non-profit management program the Harvard Graduate Business School and the John F. Kennedy School of Government non-profit management program Stanford University Institute for Social Innovation and has served as an instructor for the Duke University program and has served on and consulted with numerous local, state, and national organizations.

Bill has authored several books and has had published numerous articles in national magazines. His books include Brisco-The Life and Times of NCAA and World Heavyweight Champion Jack Brisco, Nikita-A Tale of the Ring and Redemption, The Inklings at Chritmastide, and In the Final Analysis

He has been named an outstanding scholar in social enterprise by the International Biographical Centre of Cambridge England, and the Eblen Children's Pharmacy has won national acclaim from the Peter F. Drucker Award for the Eblen Children's Pharmacy in 2001 for being the most innovative nonprofit program in the country. Eblen's work has also been featured nationally in the New York Times and on PBS Newshour.

He was inducted into the International Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2007 and in 2014, along with Dr. John Maxwell, was awarded the Mother Teresa Global Peace Prize.