Tom is an Assistant Dean of the Woodbury School of Business at Utah Valley University.
Tom has over 25 years experience in senior management including international, CEO and board positions.
As Utah CEO for Colliers International, Lew Cramer is part of the fastest-growing publicly listed commercial real estate company in the world. Colliers commercial real estate network of 12,000 professionals in 69 countries providing the full range of commercial services. In 2016, Governor Gary R. Herbert appointed Lew to the Utah Transportation Commission, where he currently serves as a Commissioner-at-Large. Lew serves on various boards through the private and public sectors, including the National Advisory Board at UVU.
Previously Lew served as the founding CEO of the World Trade Center Utah, a public-private partnership assisting Utah companies to succeed internationally. In this capacity, Lew dramatically helped grow international trade and investment in America's fastest-growing state economy. During the Reagan and first Bush Administrations he served as the Director-General of the U.S. Commercial Service and Assistant U.S. Commerce Secretary of International Trade, leading the U.S. Government’s global team of 1,400 commercial officers at embassies worldwide. Lew also helped lead US WEST's creation of the first cellular phone systems in 20+ countries. He spent many years helping develop the first cellular and cable telephony projects in Asia, Europe and the former USSR.
* Hyrum Smith was unable to make it.
Brent just might be the least likely computer programmer you've ever met.
While growing up in Escalante, Utah, he didn't spend a lot of time on a computer or
playing video games—instead, he enjoyed playing sports, and "making stuff." Brent
spent some time as an electrical engineer major at BYU where he discovered his interest
in computer coding at age 21. While in his Jr. year at BYU Brent started his first
company, fueling his passion for Business Management. It only took him 9 years, but
he graduated from BYU with computer science major, and business management minor.
In past lives, Brent has been a dishwasher, firefighter, landscaper, short-order cook,
shooting instructor, missionary, author, DJ, system administrator, investor, and software
engineer.
Brent started a software development company in 1999. After selling that company,
he founded Jive Communications in 2006 and served as CEO for the next five years.
After leaving Jive, traveling, and playing for a few years, Brent and the Co-founder
launched Blip in 2016.
Today he serves as the CEO of Blip and finds passion around building something that
solves a specific problem for many small- and medium-sized businesses. Brent is a
husband, father, an avid mountain biker, and still enjoys "making stuff."
As Workfront's SVP of People and Culture, Laura is responsible for creating and reinforcing a contagious culture that thrives on getting work done and doing it right.
Prior to his current appointment, he served as president of global sales and operations, president of Nu Skin's North Asia region and president of Nu Skin Japan. He received two master's degrees - one in Business Administration from Duke University and another in International Business from Goethe Universität in Germany. Ryan currently serves on the UVU Foundation Board, is the Chairman of the U.S. Direct Selling Association and was the treasurer of both the Direct Selling Association Board of Directors and Direct Selling Education Foundation. In his free time, Ryan loves to spend time with his family, including his three kids. He also loves traveling, skiing, and surfing.
John R. Curtis proudly represents Utah's 3rd Congressional District in the United States Congress. A district that includes Salt Lake, Utah, Emery, Carbon, San Juan, Grand, and Wasatch Counties. He and his wife Sue have six children and seven grandchildren.
Throughout his career, John has distinguished himself in both business and public service as a problem solver who can bring people together. As a partner and Chief Operating Officer of Action Target, he rapidly expanded business operations. Under his leadership, Action Target built some of the world's largest shooting ranges, including facilities for the FBI and United States Secret Service. John left Action Target in 2010 to serve two terms as the 44th Mayor of Provo, winning the office on a platform of safety, prosperity, and unity. As mayor, John averaged an approval rating of 93. He was re-elected for a second four-year term in 2013 with 86.49% of the vote, making him one of the most popular mayors in Provo's history.
Congressman Curtis is known for his personal approach to government and has been named the #1 top Elected Official on Social Media by the Government Social Media Group and recognized by Forbes for his commitment to citizen engagement. Since being elected to Congress in November 2017, his bill has become law, he's held over 100 town halls and is reforming Congress one pair of crazy socks at a time.
Kim Scott is the author of Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity, published by St. Martin's Press.
David Stirling is a founding executive and the CEO and chairman of dōTERRA.
Dr. Astrid S. Tuminez was appointed the seventh president of Utah Valley University in 2018, and is the institution's first female president. Tuminez brings to UVU a broad and rich experience in academia, philanthropy, technology, and business. Born in a farming village in the Philippine province of Iloilo, Tuminez moved with her parents and six siblings to the slums of Iloilo City when she was two years old, her parents seeking better educational opportunities for their children.
Her pursuit of education eventually took her to the United States, to Brigham Young University where she graduated summa cum laude in 1986 with a bachelor's degree in international relations and Russian literature. She 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 assuming her current position, President Tuminez was a world leader in the fields of technology and political science, most recently serving as an executive at Microsoft, where she led corporate, external and legal affairs in Southeast Asia. Tuminez is also the former vice dean of Research and assistant dean of Executive Education at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, the premier school of public policy in Asia. She and her husband, Jeffrey S. Tolk, have three children. In her spare time, she enjoys running, dancing, and martial arts.
Alex Bean is the Co-Founder and Chief Business Officer at Divvy, the expense management platform that is changing how businesses spend money.
Writer, speaker, leadership coach and consultant, Dr. Ed Brenegar believes that all leadership begins with personal initiative to create impact that makes a difference that matters. Dr. Brenegar has spent the past 35 years seeking to understanding the dramatic transitions that are affecting leaders, their organizations, and communities. As a result, he has become a trusted mentor for leaders serving in places in transition. Dr. Brenegar's Circle of Impact model of leadership is a simple, practical guide for personal leadership that anyone can practice. His book "Circle of Impact: Taking Personal Initiative to Ignite Change" provides an overview of one of the first, truly 21st century, understanding of leadership. He lives in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
Ray Pickup is President and Chief Executive Officer of WCF Insurance. WCF is Utah's premier workers' compensation insurance carrier, providing insurance to more than 20,000 Utah companies. WCF was established in 1917 and is owned by its policyholders. WCF offers its customers a variety of services including safety and loss control, claims administration, medical case management, vocational rehabilitation, and fraud investigations. Beginning in 2016, WCF began to offer insurance to businesses in Idaho, Nevada, Arizona and California. WCF is rated A (Excellent) by the A.M. Best Company.
Ray currently serves as a member of the Salt Lake Chamber Board of Governors, as a member of the Executive Board and as chair of the finance committee; as a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Economic Development Corporation of Utah (EDCUtah) and as chair of the audit committee; as a member of the Advisory Board of the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute at the University of Utah; and, as past-President of the American Association of State Compensation Insurance Funds.
Ray graduated from Brigham Young University with a B.S. degree in Accounting and with a Masters of Accountancy. He is a Certified Public Accountant.
Ray is a life-long resident of Utah. Ray and his wife, Janet, are the parents of five children and six grandchildren. His hobbies include golf, fly fishing, hiking and spending time with his family.
Ronald A. Smart is CEO and Chairman of the Board of the Won-Door Corporation, the largest seller of accordion doors in the world. Mr. Smart began his career at the Won-Door Corporation while attending the University of Utah as a marketing major, eventually taking over as President of the company at the age of 24. In 1986 Won-Door became a subsidiary of TS Industries, a public company out of Huntington Beach California with six manufacturing plants across the country and approximately 2000 employees. In 1992 Mr. Smart was named President of TS Industries and served in that position until its sale to Firestone Tire & Rubber, at which time he returned to his full-time duties as President of Won-Door Corporation. In 2007 he was a recipient of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Regional Award.
Mr. Smart served as a mission president for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in the Oregon Eugene Mission from July 1999 to July 2002. He and his wife, Jodie, reside in Sandy, Utah. They are the parents of two children, Stephanie and Scott, and seven very precious grandchildren. In 2013, Mr. Smart received a Father of the Year award from the American Diabetes Association. Mr. Smart has served on numerous corporate and philanthropic boards, such as Chairman of the Board of Hale Centre Theatre, and Chairman of fund-raising Committees for the Huntsman Cancer Institute. He is currently serving on the Athletic Leadership Council at Brigham Young University, and the Utah Sports Commission. He enjoys reading, golf, fishing, and most other sports.
