Latter-day Saint MBA Podcast

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Glenn Bingham Apr 11, 2023

Glenn is an expert in strategy and technology with over 40 years of experience in both the public and private sectors. He is the founder of two successful software companies in the travel industry and currently devotes his time to a non-profit humanitarian organization that he founded. He received an MBA from the Harvard Business School and a Post Graduate Diploma in Strategy and Innovation from Oxford University. He
was also a CPA.

Matt Dicou Mar 20, 2023

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Matt is currently in his second year at Stanford GSB. He grew up in Sandy, UT and after serving in the France Lyon Mission received his Bachelor's in Business Strategy at BYU.

Prior to graduate school, he spent five years at Visa--first in a leadership rotational program where he worked across product, marketing, and sales, and then he spent his two most years on Visa's product team focused on social impact fintech.

Matt is now a social entrepreneur whose passion is addressing how expensive it is to be poor in the U.S. to help blue-collar families like his own.

Scott & Kassidy Sorensen Dec 13, 2022

Scott Sorensen is an MBA Candidate at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Prior to the GSB, he led the finance, data, and technology endeavors of Twin Bridges Hospitality, a hospitality-focused asset management firm with $1.2B AUM. He was the first employee who helped expand the portfolio from one hotel with 31 rooms to fourteen hotels with more than 2,000 rooms. Within this role, Scott wore many different hats to drive business initiatives forward, including business intelligence system implementations, operational due diligence, cost structure evaluation, website development, and property renovation oversight.

Prior to joining Twin Bridges, Scott worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in their Capital Markets Accounting Advisory Services (CMAAS) practice in the Dallas and Washington, D.C. offices. While there, he worked with many Fortune 500 Clients to identify, strategize, and implement technical accounting solutions. Scott received his B.S. in Accounting from the Marriott School of Business at Brigham Young University. He is originally from Salt Lake City and enjoys swimming, surfing, and playing pickleball in his spare time.

Kassidy is a first year MBA candidate at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Prior to the GSB, Kassidy was a product manager at Capital One where she led product strategy for the Capital One credit card application. She hopes to continue on the path of leveraging technology to provide more inclusive financial resources.

She grew up in Las Vegas, NV, but was most recently living in Dana Point, CA. She graduated with a degree in Finance from Brigham Young University. She loves pickleball, volleyball, yoga, and sushi – she served a mission in the Japan Fukuoka Mission.

Astrid Tuminez Dec 07, 2022

Dr. Astrid S. Tuminez (pronounced too-MEE-nez) was appointed the seventh president of Utah
Valley University in 2018. Born in a farming village in the Philippine province of Iloilo, she
moved with her parents and siblings to the slums of Iloilo City when she was 2 years old, her
parents seeking better educational opportunities for their children.

Her pursuit of education eventually took her to the United States, where she graduated summa
cum laude with a bachelor's degree in international relations and Russian literature from
Brigham Young University (1986). She later earned a master's degree from Harvard University in
Soviet Studies (1988) and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in political
science (1996).

Before UVU, President Tuminez was an executive at Microsoft, where she led corporate,
external, and legal affairs in Southeast Asia. She also served as vice dean of research at the Lee
Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. She has worked in
philanthropy and venture capital in New York City and is a permanent member of the Council
on Foreign Relations. She is the author of Russian Nationalism Since 1856: Ideology and the
Making of Foreign Policy and many other publications. She and her husband, Jeffrey S. Tolk,
have three children. In her spare time, she enjoys running, dancing, and traveling.

John Keller Nov 29, 2022

John is the 4th of 13 children born to an engineer father and a farmer mother. He grew up as a fairly free-range child in Rose Park, a suburb of Salt Lake City, Utah. After serving his mission in Bangkok, Thailand, John knew he wanted to pursue entrepreneurship and somehow impact the world for good through scalable, impact-based businesses.

As an entrepreneur, turned consultant, turned serial entrepreneur, John has been involved in numerous start-ups and high growth businesses; including companies in the E-commerce, and B2C and B2B services and retail spaces. John is obsessed with the possibilities of scalable businesses with a purpose. He loves the challenge and excitement of his current role as President of Redlist, LLC a B2B SaaS company in the heavy-equipment related industries’ space--where his teams provide maintenance, safety and operational software solutions to medium and large enterprise customers that are involved in building fundamental building blocks of civilization.--Customers like Georgia Pacific, ExxonMobil, Kinross, Dart, etc.

John currently lives a wannabe farmer’s life in Wallsburg Utah, with his wife and their seven children.

Elder Robert Gay Nov 22, 2022

Elder Robert C. Gay is an emeritus General Authority Seventy of the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. As a General Authority he helped develop and implement the
Church’s global self-reliance initiative and served as the Chairman of Self-Reliance Services and
the Perpetual Education Fund Committee. He also served as a member of the Presideny of the
Seventy, as the President of the Asia North Area and as a member of the worldwide Missionary
Executive Council and the Board of Trustees for The Church Education System. Additionally, he
has served as a full-time missionary in Spain and as mission president for the countries of
Ghana, Sierra Leone, and Liberia.

Professionally, Elder Gay has dedicated most of his service to private equity management. He is
currently Chairman of Kensington Capital Holdings which has investments throughout Asia,
Europe, and the United States. He is the co-founder and past CEO of Huntsman Gay Global
Capital, past CEO of Bain Capital Europe and Chairman of the Management Committee for Bain
Capital Worldwide. Previously Elder Gay also worked in investment banking and as an
international management consultant for McKinsey & Company in the United States and the
UK.

Elder Gay along with his wife, Lynette, have co-founded and served as a director on multiple
global humanitarian organizations which have focused on building schools, medical clinics,
microenterprises, clean water boreholes, latrines, and rescuing at risk persons including those
trapped in modern slavery and illiteracy. Lynette directs their NGO, Engage Now Africa, and the
Ensign Global College in Ghana which they founded. Together they endowed the Ballard Center
for Social Impact at Brigham Young University and recently announced a new global partnership
and Center for Business, Health and Prosperity between the University of Utah and their Ensign
Global College.

Elder Gay earned a PhD in business economics from Harvard University where he also taught
economics and international finance. He is the recipient of the Utahan of the Year Award, the
United States Presidential Service Award and the Martin Luther King Center Special Recognition
Service Award for Non-Violent Social Change.

Robert Christopher Gay was born in Los Angeles, California, on September 1, 1951. He married
Lynette Nielsen in April 1974. They are the parents of seven children and twenty-two
grandchildren.

Jacob Jones Nov 15, 2022

Jacob Jones’ journey to a business management career was unexpected (at least to him) and involved leaps of faith, major disappointments, and several miracles. Jacob is now mid-career, middle management, having recently joined Eastman Chemical as the Corporate Director of Product and Pricing. His previous decade was spent at 3M in a variety of strategy and business roles. Originally a Chemical Engineer, Jacob holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.S. from Brigham Young University where he co-founded what is now the Global Engineering Outreach program. He served as a full-time missionary in the Australia Sydney South mission. Jacob and his wife Summer recently moved from Minnesota to Eastern Tennessee, where they are attempting to conscript their four children into a family bluegrass band.

Richard Flores Sep 20, 2022

Richard Flores is a current MBA student at Harvard Business School, expected to graduate in 2023. He hails from American Fork, UT and attended BYU for his undergraduate education in economics and business strategy. Richard began his career consulting with Bain & Company in Dallas, TX before transitioning to a product strategy role at Capital One in McLean, VA. He served his mission in London, England where he gained a love for all things fashion (and a stronger testimony of the Gospel too). He is married to Kelsey, who is currently a clinical instructor at Harvard Law School. Richard and Kelsey have two sons, Baer (3) and Jack (1). Richard enjoys basketball, European soccer, and Star Wars, and has recently started giving fashion consultations for his friends and classmates.

David Checketts Aug 10, 2022

David W. Checketts is one of the most seasoned and well-known sports, media and entertainment executives in the
industry with a career that has spanned over four decades. Over that time, Mr. Checketts has been responsible for the
success of some of the most iconic brands in their respective industries.

Mr. Checketts is the Managing Partner of Checketts Partners Investment Management, a private equity firm founded
in 2011 focused on sports, media and entertainment with investments in premium hospitality, ticketing, Artificial
Intelligence / data analytics and broadcast technology services. The firm has also advised investors and owners in
professional sports leagues around the world.

From July 2018 to June 2021, Mr. Checketts served as the President of the England – London Mission of the Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, overseeing the Mission’s diverse and impactful operations in the midst of the
global pandemic.

Since 2016, he has served as Non-Executive Director of Gravity Media, the leading global provider of complex live
broadcast facilities and production services to content owners, creators and distributors, where Checketts Partners is
an investor.

Mr. Checketts was Chairman and CEO of Legends Hospitality Management, the premier provider of hospitality,
merchandising and premium ticketing services, founded by the New York Yankees and Dallas Cowboys. Checketts
Partners held an equity stake in the company until October 2015. As Chairman and CEO from December 2011 to
October 2015, Checketts guided the company through a substantial period of expansion and growth in market
share, establishing it as one of the industry’s standard-bearers. Under Checketts leadership Legends made a major
expansion both domestically and internationally. Added to the core Yankee and AT&T (Cowboys) Stadiums, are
iconic venues such as LA Angel Stadium, Levi’s (49ers) Stadium, and Manchester City Football’s Club Etihad
Stadium. Notably, under Mr. Checketts’ guidance, the company was awarded, designed, built and now
operates the heralded One World Observatory at the top of One World Trade Center. The Observatory opened in
May 2015 and is a must-visit for New Yorkers and tourists alike.

Previously, Mr. Checketts founded SCP Worldwide in 2006. Under his direction and leadership, SCP has owned and
operated an impressive stable of assets including: the St. Louis Blues, Scottrade Center, Peabody Opera House, the
2009 Major League Soccer (MLS) Champions Real Salt Lake, Rio Tinto Stadium and ESPN 700 Sports talk radio as
well as other investments in live entertainment and TV production. The Blues went from worst to first under his
leadership and the expansion club Real Salt Lake became the model franchise for MLS teams.

Mr. Checketts established his sports media company after a successful ten-year career at Madison Square Garden
(MSG). As President and Chief Executive Officer from 1994 - 2001, Mr. Checketts oversaw all operations of “The
World’s Most Famous Arena” and its three sports franchises, the New York Knickerbockers of the NBA, the New
York Rangers of the NHL, and the New York Liberty of the WNBA – along with the award winning MSG Network
and FOX Sports Network. Mr. Checketts was also responsible for the acquisition and restoration of New York’s
historic Radio City Music Hall. Under his leadership, MSG was named Arena of the Year for six straight years, and
established the MSG “Cheering for Children” foundation, which created after school programs for thousands of New
York City school children.

Mr. Checketts began his career at Madison Square Garden as President of the New York Knicks in March 1991. In
the four seasons he served as President, the team finished twice in first place, made it to the Eastern Conference
Finals twice and captured the Eastern Conference Champion Title in 1994. During this time, the team set records in
attendance, ratings and revenues including setting the all-time sellout streak of 460 games at The Garden. During his
tenure Forbes named the Knicks the most valuable franchise in the NBA.

Prior to joining the Knicks, Mr. Checketts spent one year as General Manager of NBA International, working with
NBA Commissioner David Stern on building a presence for the league in broadcasting and licensing around the
world.

In 1983, Mr. Checketts was named President and General Manager of the Utah Jazz. At 28 years old, he became the
youngest chief executive in the history of the NBA. During his six-year tenure, the team captured two Midwest
Division titles and enjoyed a multi-million dollar economic turnaround.

Mr. Checketts did his undergraduate studies at the University of Utah and earned his MBA from Brigham Young
University in 1981, where he graduated with top honors. Upon completion of his studies, he joined the Boston-based
consulting firm, Bain & Company.

He previously served as a Director of JetBlue Airways, IMG Worldwide (serving as Chairman of the Audit
Committee), Citadel Communications (serving as Chairman of the Audit Committee), Cablecom (Switzerland) and
Republic Mortgage Home Loans.

He resides in Connecticut with his wife Deb. They have six children and eighteen grandchildren.

Kevin Rollins Aug 04, 2022

Kevin Rollins served as CEO of Dell, Inc from 2004-2007. He was responsible for worldwide sales, marketing, and service and for overseeing Dell's Worldwide Home and Small Business Group, European operations, and the Personal Systems Group. Prior to being elected to his current position in December 1997, Mr. Rollins served as president, Dell Americas. In this position, he was responsible for the company's operations in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Latin America.

Formerly a partner and director at Bain & Co., Mr. Rollins specialized in strategies and management for high technology and consumer product clients. While with Bain, he helped develop strategies that propelled Dell into a leadership position in the direct selling of computer systems in the United States. Mr. Rollins earned his master's of business administration and bachelor's degrees from Brigham Young University.
Kevin served as bishop ('92-'95) and stake president of the Boston Massachusetts stake from 2012 to 2020. He and his wife Debra have 4 children and 9 grandchildren.

Matthew McConkie May 18, 2022

Mr. McConkie is a Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Tunbridge Peak, LLC a subsidiary company of Peak Capital Partners. Matt began his career in investment banking at Goldman Sachs in New York. Matt went on to become the Vice President of Capital Markets at Crosland, a diversified real estate development company in Charlotte NC. His current company, Tunbridge Peak, is a real estate private equity company that invests in self-storage, retail, and senior housing facilities. Matt is married to Shelley McConkie, and together they have seven children and live in Holladay, Utah.

Education: M.B.A., The Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania; M.A, International Studies, University of Pennsylvania, B.A., English, Brigham Young University

Bruce Larson Apr 20, 2022

Bruce Larson is currently a partner and the global head of Human Resources at The Carlyle Group, a global alternative asset manager. He joined Carlyle in 2019 after 32 at Goldman Sachs. At Goldman Bruce was an M&A banker, global head of HR, and filled several other managerial roles. At Goldman Bruce was based in New York, Tokyo, and Hong Kong. He left Goldman as a partner. Bruce graduated with a BA from the University of Utah with a degree in Finance and Japanese. Following his undergraduate degree, Bruce received his MBA from the University of Chicago. Bruce and his wife Gayle have been married for 38 years and have five children and six grandchildren.

Emily Snyder Apr 05, 2022

Emily Snyder loves collecting experiences and loves inviting people to take their thinking one step deeper than usual.

With a teacher-heart, she graduated from BYU with a degree in Elementary Education. From there Emily has had a variety of professional “chapters” in her life: she has taught 6th, 7th, and 8th grade; worked for the general Relief Society presidency; helped run Professor Clayton Christensen’s world at the Harvard Business School; was the Chief of Staff at Magnolia (Chip and Joanna Gaines’ company in Waco, TX); and was president at Establish Design.

Currently, Emily is consulting with various organizations, and is a Senior Product Manager at Church Headquarters.

Emily received her Master of Business Administration at Columbia Business School in Manhattan. She gets to teach Gospel Doctrine in her ward, served a full-time mission in the St. Petersburg, Russia mission, and is working on her annual round of birthday goals.

Paul McKinnon Mar 29, 2022

Professional experience:

Senior Advisor - Peterson Partners
Senior Advisor - McKinsey & Company
Senior Lecturer - Harvard Business School
Head of Human Resources - Citigroup
Sr. Vice President, Human Resources - Dell, Inc.

Education:

Ph.D. Organizational Studies - Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Master of Organizational Behavior - Marriott School of Management, Brigham Young University
Bachelor of Arts, History - Brigham Young University

Randy Shumway Mar 15, 2022

Randy Shumway founded Cicero Group (www.cicerogroup.com) in 2001. It began humbly, with four
people working out of Randy’s house. Today, Cicero has grown to a highly respected, global management
consulting firm, rated one of the globe’s top 50 overall consulting firms, and one of the five best
consulting firms in the world to work for, with offices located across the United States.
In 2016, Randy was awarded Utah’s CEO of the Year and in 2017, Randy was recognized with Utah’s
Lifetime Accomplishment award.

Randy’s vision in founding the company was for Cicero to reside at the crossroads of data, strategy, and
transformation, with Cicero helping organizations – both traditional for-profit operations as well as non-
profit and educational institutions – make and implement better, evidence-based decisions.

During his 21 years at Cicero, Randy has led multiple strategy, transformation and operational excellence
engagements for Fortune 1000 clients as well as non-profits and government entities. His experience
spans such sectors as High Tech, Telecommunications, Life Sciences, Manufacturing, Financial Services,
Non-Profit, Government, and Education.

Prior to starting Cicero, Randy was an Executive Vice President and Managing Director at Answerthink
(Nasdaq: ANSR), a 2,500-person global consulting firm. Before completing graduate school, Randy
worked for Bain & Company and Dow Chemical.

From 2010 - 2019, Randy served as Economic Advisor to Zions Bank and as an Adjunct Professor of
Strategy at the University of Utah David Eccles School of Business.

Today, Randy serves on the University of Utah Board of Trustees and on the State of Utah Homeless
Board. He serves on two corporate boards, a publicly traded software company and a privately held
hospitality company, and multiple state and community volunteer, service-oriented boards. He is a
prolific author in the Deseret News and in Forbes regarding effective education and economic public
policy.

Randy obtained his MBA from Harvard Business School, graduating with highest academic honors
(Baker Scholar). He earned bachelor’s degrees in Business Management and in Political Science from
Brigham Young University. He speaks Mandarin Chinese, having lived in Taiwan for two years as a
volunteer Christian missionary.

Randy is married to Maureen Shumway and is the father of five. Maureen has a Bachelor of Science in
Nursing and a Master of Science in Early Childhood Development. She is a pediatric nurse at Primary
Children’s Hospital and is currently completing her Doctor of Nurse Practitioner, Pediatrics at the
University of Utah. The Shumways live in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Liz Wiseman Mar 08, 2022

Liz Wiseman is a researcher and executive advisor who teaches leadership to executives around the world. She is the author of New York Times bestseller Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter, The Multiplier Effect: Tapping the Genius Inside Our Schools, Wall Street JournalbestsellerRookie Smarts: Why Learning Beats Knowing in the New Game of Work, and Wall Street Journal bestseller Impact Players: How to Take the Lead, Play Bigger, and Multiply Your Impact.

She is the CEO of the Wiseman Group, a leadership research and development firm headquartered in Silicon Valley, California. Some of her recent clients include: Apple, AT&T, Disney, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Nike, Salesforce, Tesla, and Twitter. Liz has been listed on the Thinkers50 ranking, and in 2019 was recognized as a top leadership thinker in the world.

She has conducted significant research in the field of leadership and collective intelligence and writes for Harvard Business Review, Fortune, and a variety of other business and leadership journals. She is a frequent guest lecturer at BYU and StanfordUniversity and is a former executive at Oracle Corporation, where she worked as the Vice President of Oracle University and as the global leader for Human Resource Development.

Cromwell Wong Mar 01, 2022

Cromwell Wong currently serves as an executive and a board member at IsoTruss®. Prior to IsoTruss®, he was a part of the team that managed Saudi Aramco's (TADAWUL: 2222) then $140 billion debt portfolio. Cromwell also assisted in the IPO listing of the company in the local stock exchange. Before Saudi Aramco, Cromwell worked as a VP for QRI Group, an upstream Oil & Gas consulting and investment firm in Texas. He started his career working on Wall Street with JPMorgan and Ernst & Young in NYC. Cromwell, who invests in start-ups, private and publicly companies, and real estate, is a member of the Academy for Creating Enterprise’s Ambassador Council, received his MBA from Brigham Young University - Provo and undergraduate degree from BYU - Hawaii. Cromwell who loves traveling the world with his family, scuba diving, and playing guitar, is fluent in English, Tagalog, and Bikol, and proficient in Hokkien and Mandarin Chinese

Scott Porter Feb 22, 2022

Scott Porter, San Diablo Artisan Churros founder, has delivered deep-fried happiness to over 3,000 celebrations since 2016, winning back-to-back Best of State for pastries in Utah. Scott is a seasoned entrepreneur and leader having been the executive director of two nursing homes and a home health agency, co-founder of the first all-you-can-fly membership airline Surf Air, co-founder of the game of Reverse Charades, co-founder of the international non-profit organization Singular Humanitarian and management consultant with Gartner, InsideOut Development and General Assembly. His “Search for the Perfect Taco” leadership training teaches how to unlock the power of breakthrough culture and brand experience to thrive. He holds a B.A. in public relations and an M.B.A. in international business, marketing and entrepreneurship from Brigham Young University, and an M.A. in Spanish from California State University-Sacramento.

Evan McMullin Feb 15, 2022

Evan McMullin is a proud Utahn, former undercover CIA officer and chief policy director in Congress, who ran for president in 2016 as an independent.

Evan grew up in a family like many in America, one that struggled to put food on the table and heat their home in the winter. At an early age, Evan learned the value of hard work and to always honor family and country.

Inspired by books and movies at age 15, Evan contacted the CIA and asked to join. He was told to call back when he was older. After graduating from high school and serving a two-year mission to Brazil for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Agency recruited Evan into its student trainee program while he was attending Brigham Young University. He alternated semesters between training at CIA headquarters in Langley, VA and school until he graduated.

During those years, Evan spent time in Israel and Jordan studying Arabic and working for a refugee resettlement program. From a young age, Evan learned of similar histories in his own family. His mother’s grandparents had left Poland around the time of World War II seeking greater opportunity in America and, nearly one hundred years earlier, Evan’s paternal ancestors were driven into the Great Plains and the mountains of Utah by religious persecution.

After completing his CIA service, earning an MBA at Wharton, and working in the private sector, Evan was called back to service, advising Republicans and Democrats in Congress on national security and other issues from 2013-2016. In 2017, Evan co-founded Stand Up Republic, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization which led efforts across the country to unite Republicans and Democrats against extremist movements and politicians in defense of American democracy.

Evan believes America has reached a crossroads between chaotic decline and continued progress towards a more perfect union. Political extremes don’t represent the majority of Utahns, or Americans more broadly, yet they’ve polarized the nation and now prevent it from overcoming major challenges. From droughts to forest fires, water shortages, the rising cost of health care, and a never-ending pandemic, America requires leaders who unite instead of divide, finding solutions based on truth and common ground.

With an eye towards service, honor and civility, coupled with a deep love of country and conviction about what America must be, Evan McMullin is poised and ready to continue his service as Utah’s next United States Senator.

Ben Wanamaker Feb 01, 2022

Ben joined Humana in 2020 where he leads the corporate strategy team.

Ben came to Humana from CVS Health / Aetna, where he was Vice President and General Manager over
the analytics product portfolio and the Attain by Aetna business, a joint venture created with
Apple. Prior to Aetna, Ben worked at Walmart, where he co-founded and successfully launched a start-
up business, Walmart Care Clinic, as well as joint ventures with McKesson and Quest Diagnostics. Before
joining Walmart, Ben led the healthcare practice at the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive
Innovation. Prior to business school Ben worked in med-tech at Covidien and at
PricewaterhouseCoopers advising on M&A transactions.
Ben is also an active advisor and / or board member for three early stage health technology companies.
Ben earned a bachelor’s degree in Management from Brigham Young University and an MBA from
Harvard Business School. Ben and his wife Kelcy have four young children and love to travel and spend
time in the outdoors together as a family.

Derrin Hill Jan 25, 2022

Derrin builds empowered individuals and teams, systems for growth, motivated communities, and strong companies. Having founded/co-founded 10 companies to date. The most recent company is RevRoad, a venture services firm, with a portfolio of 44 high growth technology companies. He has worked across the United States and over a dozen countries around the world.

Derrin’s greatest priority is his role in building a great marriage and a wonderful family with his wife Nicole and their five children. He is a graduate of Duke University Fuqua School of Business and Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.

While growing many companies organically, Derrin has also created growth with several M&A events. These deals ranged from several million dollars to well over $100M. Derrin has also led many government relations campaigns working with Governors and state legislatures to establish legislation and funding for state level business deals in over a dozen states.

Derrin has served as a Director on many Boards including the Smithsonian Science Education Center, the DECA National Advisory Board, BYU Rollins Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology, and the Virginia Tech Innovate National Advisory Board. corporate boards such as Imagine Learning, Glynlyon, Journeyfront, Elios, PhoneSoap, Hallo, RaceReady, and others.

At Imagine Learning Derrin led all revenue activities from the start and today Imagine Learning serves over 2 million students each day. As majority owner and chairman of the board at PhoneSoap, he helped the team grow from an early prototype and almost no revenue to being the industry leader in UV disinfection to prevent infectious disease. These patterns of growth continue at RevRoad and RevRoad portfolio companies.

In addition to entrepreneurial ventures and building companies as a board member, Derrin helped create the digital division at the world’s largest educational publisher, Pearson Education with record-breaking success.

Volunteer service is important to Derrin with service to the Boy Scouts of America, DECA, Junior Achievement, Rising Star Outreach India for those affected by leprosy, Mother’s Without Borders, Dahlia’s Hope, The Responsibility Foundation, Ryan White Program, The Family Support & Treatment shelter for battered women and children, a variety of youth groups, public school community councils, church and civic organizations.

Derrin grew up on a farm in Missouri where he learned the importance of growth, to work smart and hard, the power of teams, and to be amazed by people and nature. He graduated High School in the top of the class while working two part time jobs to save money to serve as a volunteer for two years in Australia at 19 years old.

Derrin’s Specialties: Leadership, strategy, mergers & acquisitions, government relations, building sales organizations and systems, competitive analysis, contract negotiation, effective compensation structures, branding, attracting and retaining the strongest industry talent, forecasting, building sustainable and profitable business models.

Stephen Gibson Jan 05, 2022

Stephen W. Gibson has created or funded more than a dozen entrepreneurial businesses, including being the first investor in 1-800-Contacts, Omniture, and Ancestry.com. He also co-founded the Utah Angels, the first Angel investment group in Utah. In 1999, he and Bette moved to the Philippines on their own for 19 months and created a non-profit educational system, The Academy for Creating Enterprise, for Filipino returned missionaries. The Academy now has more than 671 alumni chapters in the Philippines, Mexico, Peru and expanded to Brazil in 2019. The chapters are led by more than 1,900 volunteers who are learning leadership skills that they apply in business, church, family and their communities. Gibson also taught as Entrepreneur in Residence and later as full-time faculty for the Marriott school for a total of 15 years having retired in 2011. He continues to enjoy writing, investing and mentoring and traveling with his wife, Bette. They have been married for 56 years.

Whitney Johnson Nov 23, 2021

Whitney Johnson is the CEO of human capital consultancy Disruption Advisors, an Inc. 5000 2020
fastest-growing private company in America. One of the fifty leading business thinkers in the world (#14)
as named by Thinkers50, Whitney and her team are expert at helping people grow their people to grow
their organization.

Having worked at Fortune 100 companies, been an award-winning equity analyst on Wall Street,
invested with Harvard’s Clayton Christensen, and coached alongside the renowned Marshall Goldsmith,
Whitney understands how companies work, how investors think, and how the best coaches coach–––all
of which she brings to her work in coaching CEOs and C-Suite executives. Whitney works with high
growth venture-backed start-ups and Fortune 100 companies across a variety of sectors including
consumer goods, technology, higher education and financial services. In 2017, she was selected from
more than 16,000 candidates as a “Top 15 Coach” by Dr. Marshall Goldsmith.

She is the award-winning author of Disrupt Yourself (Harvard Business Press, 2019), a world-class
keynote speaker, and frequent lecturer for Harvard Business School’s Corporate Learning. She is a
popular contributor to the Harvard Business Review, has 1.8 million followers on LinkedIn, where she
was selected as a Top Voice in 2020, and her course on Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship has been
viewed more than 1 million times.

Whitney was the cofounder of the Disruptive Innovation Fund with Harvard Business School’s Clayton
Christensen, through which they invested in and led the $8 million seed round for South Korea’s
Coupang (NASDAQ: CPNG), currently valued at more than $70 billion. She was involved in fund
formation, capital raising, and the development of the fund’s strategy.

As a former award-winning Wall Street stock analyst, Whitney understands momentum and growth. She
was an Institutional Investor–ranked equity research analyst for eight consecutive years, rated by
Starmine as a superior stock-picker. As an equity analyst, stocks under coverage included America Movil
(NYSE: AMX), Televisa (NYSE: TV) and Telmex (NYSE: TMX), which accounted for roughly 40% of Mexico’s
market capitalization.

She hosts the weekly Disrupt Yourself podcast (guests have included Simon Sinek, Brené Brown, and
Zaza Pachulia). She hosts the weekly LinkedIn Live Calm Amidst Chaos and publishes a popular weekly

newsletter. Whitney is married, has two children, and lives in Lexington, VA. For more information,
please visit www.whitneyjohnson.com.

Links:
Disrupt Yourself Podcast: https://whitneyjohnson.com/disrupt-yourself-podcast/
Whitney Johnson Books: https://whitneyjohnson.com/books/
Whitney Johnson Newsletter: https://whitneyjohnson.com/newsletter/

Ryan Smith - 2021 Conference Replay Oct 13, 2021

Mike Maughan (Northwestern's Kellogg MBA student) interviews Ryan Smith about scaling your whole life .

Spencer Millerberg Oct 06, 2021

Spencer Millerberg is an average mountain biker, a bad golfer, and a good samaritan. Professionally, Spencer worked in marketing and merchandising for Amazon.com and Walmart before founding One Click Retail, the first Amazon analytics and sales measurement tool. He and his partners sold One Click Retail to a London based firm and finished working there in 2019. Spencer is currently working on his next business, holds various board positions, and is active in building mountain bike trails in Utah and in the non-profit space at large. Spencer holds a BS in International Finance and an MBA from Brigham Young University. Spencer and his wife Amanda live in South Jordan Utah with their 5 children.

Crystal Green Sep 29, 2021

Crystal Green grew up in Tucson, Arizona, and is the second of five daughters in a family of six kids. As a kid, she'd organize her siblings to create small stands and compete to see who could earn the most fake money with their idea. This was the beginning of her interest in business.

After graduating cum laude from Harvard, she came to Utah to work for a non-profit called Humanitarian Experience, Inc or HEFY. At HEFY she travelled the world, planning humanitarian trips for LDS teens. When she became Executive Director of HEFY, she transformed their finances to be independent of external donors and doubled the size of the organization.

While at HEFY, Crystal applied for law school but the Founders were adamant that Business School would be a better option. It took multiple grad school standardized tests, personal essays, and lost deposits for her to come to the same conclusion, that an MBA was more up her alley.

Crystal attended Oxford Said, living with her husband beside the business school. It was an incredible opportunity to learn about business surrounded by people from all over the world. After graduating, she went to work for Qualtrics as a Global Operations Manager and then as the Manager of the Workflow Automations and Analytics team. She was at Qualtrics through the SAP acquisition and led the procurement of Genesys to improve the technology around their support.

After almost 2 years, she left Qualtrics to spend more time with her family. She now has two young children (2 years and 6 months), serves on several Boards, consults on data and operations part-time, and is training for a triathlon. She feels busy and fulfilled and looks forward to returning to more full-time work when her children are a little less dependent on her.

Gavin Christensen Sep 15, 2021

Gavin Christensen is the founding visionary at Kickstart Fund. In 2008, he recognized the need for both leadership and seed-stage capital in the region, so he launched Kickstart to fill this gap. Starting a seed-stage firm away from the coasts amidst the Great Recession was not easy, to say the least. But this experience means Gavin understands what it’s like to see a vision for the future that few others do, and he knows what it takes to make that vision a reality. His guidance to founders is born of first-hand experience and a desire to build not just a fund but an entire ecosystem. Kickstart is now the most active investor in Utah and has expanded to Colorado, New Mexico, and the rest of the Mountain West. Gavin loves being part of the startup journey for entrepreneurs. Before helping to pave the way for seed funding in Utah, Colorado, and the Mountain West, Gavin was an analyst, associate, and principal at vSpring Capital (now Signal Peak). Outside of Kickstart, Gavin can be found spending time with his family, multitasking while riding his Onewheel, fine-tuning his VR gaming skills, and playing tennis.

Mitt Romney - 2021 Conference Replay Sep 08, 2021

Christopher Gong (Wharton MBA student) interviews Senator Mitt Romney about faith, balance, and success.

Mark & Jane Johnson Aug 24, 2021

Jane Clayson Johnson is an award-winning broadcast journalist widely known for her work over the last decade as a radio host on NPR. Before that, Jane worked in television for many years… first at CBS News, hosting the network morning program, interviewing presidents and Hollywood stars. Many remember her high-profile interview with Martha Stewart… just before Martha went to prison. Jane was also on the air on 9/11. Before CBS, Jane was a correspondent at ABC News, where she traveled the world from Kosovo to Indonesia, covering the biggest news stories of the day. She started her career at KSL Television in Salt Lake City.

Jane is an accomplished musician… she went to BYU on a violin performance scholarship. A popular speaker — Jane is also the best-selling author of two books. Her latest book, Silent Souls Weeping, is a candid look inside the core-shaking world of clinical depression. Jane and her husband, Mark Johnson live outside Boston.

Mark W. Johnson co-founded the strategy and innovation management consultancy Innosight with Harvard Business School Professor Clayton M. Christensen, in 2000 (which was acquired by the Huron Consulting Group in 2017). Mark advises CEOs and other leaders on how to envision the future, create new growth, and manage transformation. He is the co-author of the book Lead from the Future: How to Turn Visionary Thinking into Breakthrough Growth (April 2020), a manifesto for “Future Back” thinking and a hands-on guide to long-term planning, strategy development, and execution within established organizations. He is also the author of Reinvent Your Business Model: How to Seize the White Space for Transformative Growth (2018) and a co-author of Dual Transformation: How to Reposition Today’s Business While Creating the Future (2017), Mark has written and co-written numerous articles for a wide range of publications, including the McKinsey Award-winning “Reinventing Your Business Model” for Harvard Business Review, one of HBR’s 50 Best-Selling articles of all time. Prior to Innosight, Mark was a nuclear power-trained surface-warfare officer in the U.S. Navy. He received his MBA from Harvard Business School, a master’s degree in civil engineering and engineering mechanics from Columbia University, and a bachelor’s degree with distinction in aerospace engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy. Mark and his wife Jane Clayson Johnson are the parents of five children and the grandparents of three.

Links:
Silent Souls Weeping
Lead from the Future

Davis Smith Aug 04, 2021

Davis is the founder and CEO of Cotopaxi, an outdoor gear brand with a humanitarian mission. He is a member of the United Nations Foundation's "Global Leadership Council" and a Presidential Leadership Scholar. Davis was Silicon Valley Community Foundation’s “CEO of the Year” and previously started Brazil’s "Startup of the Year." Davis holds an MBA from the Wharton School, an MA from the University of Pennsylvania, and a BA from Brigham Young University. Davis is an adventurer who has floated down the Amazon on a self-made raft, kayaked from Cuba to Florida, and explored North Korea. He lives in Salt Lake City with his wife, Asialene, and their four children.

Daniel Snow Jul 28, 2021

Professor Snow is an Associate Professor and Lee Tom Perry Distinguished Fellow at BYU's Marriott School of Business. He serves as director of MBA Programs at BYU. Before rejoining the Marriott School's faculty, he was an Associate Professor of Technology and Operations Management at Oxford University's Saïd Business School. He also was a Fellow (faculty member) at Oxford University's Exeter College. He was an Associate Professor at the Marriott School from 2010-2018. He was a chaired Assistant Professor at the Harvard Business School from 2004-2010, where he taught the core MBA course in Technology and Operations Management, and he co-developed and taught the Operations Strategy elective course. He was a lecturer at Wharton in 2010-2011 and has been a Visiting Lecturer at Oxford University, a Visiting Professor at Dartmouth University's Tuck School, and a Visiting Professor at Harvard Business School. He has taught in executive education programs at HBS, including Building Competitive Advantage through Operations (BCAO), Leading Product Innovation (LPI), and Senior Executive Program, China (SEPC). He has also taught executive education programs at UCLA, Tsinghua University, Chalmers University, University of Xiamen, Universidad de La Sabana (Bogotá), and many others.

Professor Snow's research addresses two areas. The first seeks to improve our understanding of technological innovation, and specifically of the complex relationship between new and old technologies that exist during technology transitions.

His second area of research is in Service Operations—both in the building of theoretical microfoundations to help define the field and in empirical research on the impact of IT on service employee productivity.

He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, and an MBA from BYU's Marriott School of Management. He has worked for Ford Motor Company as a financial analyst, and he advises firms facing decisions about Research and Development, technology transitions, and the issues associated with new technology adoption. He serves on the Board of Directors of Ceramic Process Systems (NASDAQ: CPS-H).

Ronell Hugh Jul 21, 2021

Ronell Hugh is first and foremost a husband and father. He is married to Briawna for 18 years, and they have 4 energetic children, Palmer, Portia, Teya, and Thatcher. Being a husband and father is the most important part of Ronell’s life and he is intentional about making sure that he and his family are mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually strong.

Ronell recently accepted a new role as the Vice President of Product Marketing for Drift. Prior to Drift, Ronell was the Global Head of Product Marketing for Adobe Experience Platform at Adobe Inc. where he led the team driving the product marketing and strategy and go-to-market efforts for the overall business. He is also an advisory board member of BYU Marriott School of Business, Ensign College, the Utah Black Chamber Foundation, The Mentor Method, Laduma, and Fairstream. In addition, he recently launched a social enterprise focused on racial inclusion called Breathing Inclusivity.

Prior to joining Adobe, Ronell worked at Microsoft on the Xbox games business where he managed the product marketing and strategy efforts for various games. Before joining Microsoft, Ronell worked at Walmart Corporate in Bentonville, Arkansas where he led the Entertainment categories marketing efforts for 2 ½ years. He spent two years with Hewlett- Packard Company as a partner marketing and account manager where he provided sales and marketing expertise to partners in the Midwest. Ronell began his career in 2004 as the Media Relations Manager for Real Salt Lake of Major League Soccer where he led the day-to-day media relations team, gameday efforts, and managed all interviews with players, coaches and executives.

Originally from Bad Kreuznach, Germany, his hobbies included photography, golf, snowboarding, basketball, football (or as Americans call it, soccer), mountain biking, and gaming. Ronell earned his MBA from the Brigham Young University Marriott School of Business and completed his undergraduate work in communications also at BYU.

Jeff Harbach Jul 14, 2021

As President and CEO of Kauffman Fellows, Jeff Harbach leads the team in delivering a world-class experience for each Fellow, providing leading-edge content around capital formation, and creating networking opportunities to help Fellows maximize their personal and professional development. As a Fellow from Class 16, he has brought a unique perspective and passion for the organization to the team since he joined as Managing Director for recruitment and class design in June 2014.

Jeff has been an entrepreneur and investor since 2002, and was Executive Director of the Central Texas Angel Network (CTAN), based out of Austin, TX, from 2011–2013. He has led multiple startups, including two 7-Eleven stores, a luxury furniture store and interior design firm, a golf destination club, and a private country club golf network. He was also an angel investor himself with the Vegas Valley Angels.

Jeff holds a BS in business management/information systems from Brigham Young University and an MBA from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, where he served as the Director of the Venture Fellows program and the co-founder of Texas Venture Labs.

He is married to his sweetheart and has four beautiful daughters, with whom he spends much of his time away from work. Jeff is also an ecclesiastical leader in his church and spends 15+ hours each week serving the members of the congregation. He enjoys all sports and outdoor activities, particularly golf, tennis, and running.

Links:
Jeff's interview on the Leading Saints podcast

Vanessa & Nate Quigley Jul 07, 2021

Nate and Vanessa Quigley are the co-founders of Chatbooks (the internet’s favorite photo book company), and of 7 beautiful children. They met in their first year of college at Brigham Young University and were married a few short years later. Vanessa has a degree in Vocal Performance and Pedagogy from BYU, and Nate earned a BS in Accounting from BYU and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

On a mission to strengthen families, Nate serves as CEO of Chatbooks and Vanessa as the Chatbooker-In-Chief.

Links:
O Remember, Remember, Henry B. Eyring
Lean Startup
Patrick Lencioni Books
How Will You Measure Your Life?by Clayton M. Christensen

Brigitte Madrian Jul 01, 2021

Brigitte C. Madrian is the Dean and Marriott Distinguished Professor in the Brigham Young University Marriott School of Business where she has a joint appointment in the Department of Finance and the George W. Romney Institute of Public Service and Ethics. Before coming to BYU, she was on the faculty at the Harvard Kennedy School (2006-2018), the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School (2003-2006), the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business (1995-2003) and the Harvard University Economics Department (1993-1995). She is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and served as co- director of the NBER Household Finance working group from 2010-2018.

Dr. Madrian’s current research focuses on behavioral economics and household finance, with a particular focus on household saving and investment behavior. Her work in this area has impacted the design of employer-sponsored savings plans in the U.S. and has influenced pension reform legislation both in the U.S. and abroad. She also uses the lens of behavioral economics to understand health behaviors and improve health outcomes.

Dr. Madrian received her Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and studied economics as an undergraduate at Brigham Young University. She is a recipient of the Skandia Research Prize for outstanding research on “Long-Term Savings” with relevance for banking, insurance, and financial services (2019), the Retirement Income Industry Association Achievement in Applied Retirement Research Award (2015) and a three-time recipient of the TIAA Paul A. Samuelson Award for Scholarly Research on Lifelong Financial Security (2002, 2011 and 2017).

Mike Maughan Jun 23, 2021

Mike Maughan is head of strategic initiatives at Qualtrics and runs the office of the
Executive Chairman. Previously, ran global corporate communications, strategic
business development, and helped establish the employee experience business at
Qualtrics.

Mike co-founded 5 For The Fight with Ryan Smith, which is focused on raising funds
for cancer research. He developed a groundbreaking partnership with the NBA’s
Utah Jazz putting the 5 For The Fight logo on the Utah Jazz jersey and partnering
with them to raise $50M for cancer research.

Mike earned an MBA at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management and an MPA
at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government where he also taught public
speaking. He received his BA from Brigham Young University.

Steve Wheelwright Jun 09, 2021

Dr. Wheelwright, with his wife, Margaret, presided over the Boston Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from
November 2015 through October of 2018. He and his wife live in Oakley, Utah where he continues to serve on a handful of Boards of Directors. He and Margaret love to spend time with their five children, 20 grandchildren, and soon-to-be 3 great-grandchildren. From June of 2007 through July of 2015, Dr. Wheelwright served as President of BYU-Hawaii, one of three BYU campuses operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. BYU-Hawaii primarily serves students from the Pacific and Asia and offers a full complement of undergraduate programs. With over half its students from outside the U.S. and with students from over 70 countries, it has one of the most diverse
student bodies of any U.S. University.

From 2003-2006, Professor Wheelwright was a Baker Foundation Professor and SeniorAssociate Dean, Director of HBS Publication Activities. In that role, he oversaw the HBSPublishing Company (including HBR, HBS Press books, HBS cases, e-Learning products, and newsletters/conferences). He also oversaw the major on-campus construction projects. From 2000-2003, after retiring from the faculty, he and his wife fulfilled a full-time voluntary assignment as the President of the London, EnglandMission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

From 1995-1999, Professor Wheelwright served as Senior Associate Dean responsible for the MBA Program. He then served as Senior Associate Dean and Director of FacultyHiring and Planning and had oversight responsibility for distance learning. Professor
Wheelwright has taught the required first-year MBA course in Technology and Operations Management, several second-year MBA courses, and in a number of HBSExecutive Education Programs.

Professor Wheelwright first taught at Harvard from 1971-1979 and was the ThomasHenry Carroll-Ford Foundation Visiting Professor from 1985-1986. He rejoined the Harvard faculty in 1988. In his years away from Harvard, he was the Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield, and Byers Professor of Management at the Stanford University GraduateSchool of Business. In his position at Stanford, he directed the strategic management
program and was instrumental in initiating the manufacturing strategy program.In his research, Professor Wheelwright has examined product and process development and their connection with competitive advantage and operations excellence. His most recent business book, developed with HBS colleague Clayton Christensen and Stanford colleague, Robert Burgelman, is Strategic Management of technology and Innovation, 5th ed. (Boston: McGraw-Hill Irwin, 2009). Along with Harvard colleagues Bob Hayes, Gary Pisano, and Dave Upton, Professor Wheelwrightpublished Operations, Strategy, and Technology - Pursing the Competitive Edge(New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2004), a complementary volume to the highly regarded books, Dynamic Manufacturing: Creating the Learning Organization (NewYork: Free Press, 1988) and Restoring Our Competitive Advantage-CompetingThrough Manufacturing (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1980). He has also co-
authored several works with Harvard Business School colleague Kim Clark, including leading Product Development: The Senior Manager's Guide to Creating andShaping the Enterprise (Free Press, 1995). Professor Wheelwright is also the author or
co-author of more than a dozen other books.

Professor Wheelwright has a B.S. degree in Mathematics from the University of Utah and an M.B.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. In addition to his Harvard and Stanford positions, Professor Wheelwright served on the faculty of INSEAD (European Institute of Management) in Fontainebleau, France. He was Vice President of Sales in a family-owned printing company and has consulted in the areas of business/operations strategy and improving product development capabilities.

Tagg Romney Jun 02, 2021

Tagg founded Solamere Capital in 2008 with Eric Scheuermann and Spencer Zwick. Prior to co-founding Solamere, Tagg held a number of senior operating and investing roles. He served as Chief Marketing Officer for the Los Angeles Dodgers, VP of Onfield Marketing and Head of Strategic Planning for Reebok, and Director of Strategic Planning and Finance for Elan Pharmaceuticals. Tagg worked as a management consultant for both McKinsey & Company and The Monitor Group. Tagg was also a successful entrepreneur, founding and selling a sports-related SaaS firm.

Derrick Porter May 27, 2021

Derrick Porter, CEO of Beauty Industry Group (BIG), has spent the last 15 years
building BIG into a global portfolio of beauty brands with offices in 5 countries on three
continents. As the company has grown Derrick has partnered with two leading private
equity firms, Gauge Capital and Huntsman Gay Global Capital, together acquiring eight
companies and resulting in its products now being sold in more than 165 countries.
Derrick was recently recognized by Ernst & Young as 2020 Entrepreneur of the Year in
the Utah Region and was honored by Goldman Sachs as one of the top 100 most
intriguing entrepreneurs at its 2020 Builders + Innovators Summit. Derrick also sits on
the board of the World Trade Center, Utah, and in that capacity serves as Chair of the
Global Business Services Committee.

Prior to his time at BIG, Derrick built and operated Porter Brown Distribution, a third-
party logistics company with facilities in Texas, Colorado, and Utah. Porter is also a
principle in a multi-family real estate development office with properties along the
Wasatch Front. He graduated Cum Laude with a BS in Technical Sales from Weber
State University and earned his MBA from The Ohio State University.

Whether on skis or a bike, Derrick enjoys spending his free time high in the mountains.
The highlight of Derrick’s week is time spent with his wife and six children and working
with his sons on their entrepreneurial pursuits.

Manoel Amorim May 12, 2021

Manoel Amorim served as President/CEO of several leading companies in
different sectors in Latin America and in Europe. He also served as a
Director in several Boards in the USA, Latin America, and Brazil.
He currently has investments as a non managing partner at Peak Capital
Partners in UT and MXF Partners in UT and at K2A Partners in Brazil. He
serves in the National Advisory Committee (NAC) of the Marriot School of
Management of the Brigham Young University in Provo, UT.

Prior to retiring as an executive, he served as CEO of Abril Education, an K-
12 Education company he took public in 2012, as CEO of Globex, a large
consumer electronics and appliances retailer, as Executive Chairman of the
Board of Vivo, the largest cell phone company in Latin America, as
Managing Director of the Telefonica Residential Business Unit for Latin
America, out of Madrid, as CEO of Telefonica São Paulo, as President of
America Online Brazil and as General Manager of Procter & Gamble Latin
America’s Baby Care division and as a member of the Global Leadership
Team of P&G Baby Care Global GBU.

He graduated as an Engineer from the Instituto Militar de Engenharia in Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil, and holds an MBA from Harvard University.
Manoel is a convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of LDS. He was baptized
in Rio de Janeiro in 1972, at the age of 14, with the rest of his family. He
served a full-time mission in the Brazil São Paulo South Mission, from 1979
- 81 and as a Mission President in the Portugal Porto Mission, from 2015-
18. He is married to Marcia, and the couple has 3 children and 10
grandchildren.

Jeremy & Kristin Andrus May 05, 2021

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https://www.youtube.com/c/KristinAndrus

Jeremy's Bio:

Jeremy Andrus is President; CEO of Traeger Grills, the original wood pellet grill brand that has
taken the outdoor cooking world by storm. He and a financial partner acquired the company in
2014, transforming it from a small, regional, 26-year-old business into a multi-hundred-million-
dollar brand that owns over 50% of the global wood pellet grill market. This was largely
achieved by Jeremy leading an overhaul that would result in moving the company’s
headquarters from Oregon to Utah and rebuilding its team with an emphasis on the people and
culture behind the company.

While Traeger has become Jeremy’s most successful growth story, it isn’t his first. He joined
start-up Skullcandy in 2005 with 4 employees and less than $1m in sales. Under his leadership,
Skullcandy disrupted the headphone and wearable electronic space, growing into a $300m
public company. Jeremy was named EY Entrepreneur of the Year in 2016, MountainWest
Capital Network Utah Entrepreneur of the Year in 2017, and was inducted into the Utah
Technology Council Hall of Fame in 2018. Jeremy received his M.B.A. from Harvard Business
School and B.A. from Brigham Young University. He lives in Salt Lake City with his wife Kristin
and their six children. After years of experimenting and working with professional pitmasters
and chefs, Jeremy now makes the perfect steak.

Kristin's Bio:
Kristin Andrus is a community champion who advocates for women, children, and refugees within and beyond Utah. She is also Chief Culture Officer to her husband and six children.

Kristin serves as a board member for the Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area and for UnDEfeated, an organization serving underprivileged youth and single mothers in Uganda. In addition, she holds advisory roles with the First Lady of Utah, Neighborhood House, The Younique Foundation, Utah Valley University, and Women Who Succeed. Nonprofits count on Kristin for her social media and marketing savvy as well as her supernatural ability to get stuff done.

With over 100,000 combined followers on Instagram and YouTube, and live cooking segments on Utah’s Studio 5, Kristin has built a platform for awareness and impact. Her musings on marriage and motherhood and her collection of 250 free home workouts offer love, light, and laughter for her social media community.

In November 2020, Kristin launched #SisterGoods, an Instagram campaign that raised $30,000 in its first week to supply menstrual care products to schools, shelters, and foster care facilities throughout Utah. #SisterGoods has since spread to more than 60 communities across the U.S.

Carine Strom Clark Apr 24, 2021

Carine Clark is the President and CEO of Banyan, and a three-time president and CEO of high-growth tech companies, specializing in helping companies scale from $10 million to $100 million and more. Her reputation as a data-driven marketing executive at Novell, Altiris and Symantec opened doors to lead Allegiance, MartizCX, and Banyan as president and CEO. She attributes her success to building an abundant team culture, demonstrating that companies accelerate their growth when they multiply their people.

As a cancer survivor, Clark channels her deep appreciation for life and relationships into advocating that tech professionals pay it forward by mentoring young people. In addition, Clark serves on the Board of Directors of Domo (NASDAQ: DOMO), the Executive Boards of GOED (The Utah Governor’s Office of Economic Development), and Silicon Slopes, a non-profit helping Utah’s tech community thrive. She has received numerous awards including the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year® Award in the Utah Region and Utah Business Magazine’s CEO of the Year.

Clark earned a bachelor’s degree in organizational communications and an MBA from Brigham Young University and enjoys traveling, exploring, and doing hard things with her family.

Elder Kim B. Clark Apr 24, 2021

Elder Kim B. Clark was sustained as a General Authority Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on April 4, 2015. He was released on October 5, 2019. At the time of his call he had been serving as the president of Brigham Young University–Idaho since 2005. He served as a member of the Fifth Quorum of the Seventy, Idaho Area, from 2007 to 2014. He also served as the Commissioner of the Church Educational System.

Elder Clark received a bachelor of arts, a master of arts, and a PhD, all in economics, from Harvard University. He became a faculty member at the Harvard Business School in 1978 and was named dean of that school in 1995. He served in that capacity until the summer of 2005, when he was named the president of Brigham Young University–Idaho.

Elder Clark has served in a number of Church callings, including full-time missionary in the South German Mission, elders quorum president, ward executive secretary, counselor in a bishopric, bishop, high councilor, and counselor in a stake mission presidency.

Kim Bryce Clark was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, on March 20, 1949. He married Sue Lorraine Hunt in June 1971. They are the parents of seven children.

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