• 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.

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    52 mins
  • Matt Dicou
    Mar 20 2023

    See details and register for the upcoming Latter-day Saint MBA Society conference at https://latterdaysaintmba.com/registration-2023

    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.

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    48 mins
  • 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.

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    56 mins
  • Astrid Tuminez
    Dec 7 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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    59 mins
  • 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.

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    51 mins