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Acerson, Karen karen.acerson@uvu.edu |
Karen L. Acerson previously served on the UVU Board of Trustees from 2005-2007. Her time on the board was interrupted when her husband was asked to serve as the mission president of the Italy Rome Mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 2007-2010. She has accepted a second appointment to the UVU Board of Trustees beginning January 2012. After being raised in Moab, Utah, Karen attended Brigham Young University where she also worked during her schooling as an immigration specialist and secretary. In 1983, she accepted a position at WordPerfect Corporation and became their Director of Customer Support. She helped rewrite their user manual, taught classes, and appeared in training videos. She continued to consult for the company after starting a family with her husband, Jeff, and then began writing books for Osborne/McGraw-Hill and Ziff-Davis Press. Her book, “WordPerfect: The Complete Reference” became a New York Times bestseller. Karen and Jeff are the parents of six children and she continues to be very involved in the community. She has served as PTA President at Pleasant Grove High School and currently serves as the Executive Director of the Timpanogos Storytelling Festival. |
Andrews, Jono jandrews@uvu.edu |
Bradley Jonothon Andrews, or as most people know him as Jono, was appointed as a Trustee on May 1, 2013. He was born in South Salt Lake and was raised in Maryland, Georgia, and Utah where he attended Davis High School his senior year in 2006. He came to UVSC in 2007 to play lacrosse. After playing for a season he left for two years for a church service in Zurich, Switzerland. He returned to UVU and played lacrosse for one more season until he joined UVUSA in the Clubs office. Jono currently serves as Student Body President. He and his team want to build better collaboration, passion, opportunity, simplicity, and efficiency on campus while in office. He plans to graduate in 2014 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing and Business Management with plans of obtaining an MBA. He has a passion and love for this university and is excited to represent UVU students on the Board of Trustees, Presidents Council, and other leadership councils during the 2013-14 academic year. |
Bingham, Deborah deborah.bingham@uvu.edu |
Debbie Bingham was appointed a member of the UVU Board of Trustees in November 2010. She retired from First Security Bank after many years of employment and started as Vice President of Sales and Business Development for PDC, a phone directory company she and her husband owned for 37 years prior to selling the company in July of 2007. She is currently Vice President of Blue Diamond Capital LLC, with 25 companies under its management. She currently serves as Chair of the Utah Valley University Foundation Board. Debbie is involved with various wildlife groups that promote responsible hunting and wildlife conservation in the Western States, and both she and her husband enjoy hunting and the outdoors. Debbie was the first women in Utah to achieve the Grand Slam, which is the four species of the North American Wild Sheep, and she was the 42nd women in the world to complete this incredible challenge. She and her husband reside in Orem. |
Blair, Curtis curtis.blair@uvu.edu |
Finding a way to couple golf and business, Curtis Blair is the co-founder and general manager of a Provo-based marketing firm which provides golf products in the corporate merchandising and international retail marketplace. While not a “scratch” golfer, he does satisfy his “itch” for entrepreneurism by enabling small teams with big ideas to generate modest revenues. At his most recent venture – Froghair – Curtis delights in growing talented people who exhibit a great work ethic, unbridled creativity and a can-do attitudes. Based on these values, Froghair has recently hired two UVU students – a bookkeeper and an account manager – who beat out over 200 candidates from neighboring higher ed schools. Curtis, raised in Denver, CO and his wife Lisa, raised in Concord, CA now call their home Spanish Fork and are the parents of 5 children. He is honored to carry on the tradition of UVU Alumni Board Presidents who make a difference in the community and lives of UVU citizens. He was appointed to the Board of Trustees May 2013. |
Butterfield, Greg greg.butterfield@uvu.edu |
Chair Greg Butterfield was appointed a member of the UVU Board of Trustees in November 2008 and is currently serving as the Chairman. Mr. Butterfield is the Managing Partner of SageCreek Partners. Before founding SageCreek, he was the Group President of the Altiris and Server and Storage business units for Symantec. He joined Symantec through the company's acquisition of Altiris in April 2007. At Altiris, he most recently served as chairman of the board, president and CEO. After joining Altiris in February 2000, he guided the company to eight consecutive years of revenue growth and profitability overseeing growth in revenue from $3M to over $250M. Butterfield was the driving force behind eleven acquisitions and he successfully completed an IPO in 2002 in the face of a notable economic downturn. The IPO was followed in August of 2003 with a successful secondary offering. Prior to joining Altiris, Butterfield served as executive vice president of worldwide sales at Vinca Corporation where he increased revenue from $1.7 million to $24 million in less than three years and positioned the company to be sold to Legato Systems for $92 million in 1999. He also held executive level positions at Legato, Novell and WordPerfect Corporation. Butterfield was invited to the 2006 World Economic Forum as a Technology Pioneer. Butterfield has many years of executive-level experience in the software industry. He is the recipient of the 2002 Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year award and served as the chairman of the board of the Utah Information Technology Association from 2003 to 2005. Butterfield has a Bachelors of Science degree in Business Administration and Finance from Brigham Young University. He is married to Shelly and they live in Alpine, Utah. |
Champion, Rebecca Marriott rebecca.champion@uvu.edu |
Rebecca Marriott Champion was appointed a member of the UVU Board of Trustees in July 2009. Rebecca has spent 20 years in advertising and marketing, including doing freelance work on media campaigns, marketing, direct mail advertising, and public relations. She has written, produced, and hosted live television programs and authored a biography of her father, Paul M. Marriott, one of the early executives in Hot Shoppes Inc., which later became the Marriott Corporation. She received her master's degree in Literature from American University in Washington, D.C. Also, she has held a Utah Secondary Education Teaching Certificate.
Rebecca served on the advisory boards for the National Ability Center in Park City and the Intermountain Therapy Animals in Salt Lake City. She is a supporter of Ballet West and the Deer Valley Music Festival and a devoted advocate to charities for the homeless and the disabled. An avid gardener, Rebecca has lectured to groups on perennial gardening and has been a member of two garden clubs. Rebecca and her husband, John, are residents of Salt Lake County. |
Hawkins, Ron ron.hawkins@uvu.edu |
2nd Vice Chair & Audit Committee Chair Ronald K. Hawkins, CPA, ABV, was appointed to the Utah Valley University Board of Trustees November 2010. Mr. Hawkins is a senior advisor in the accounting firm of Hawkins, Cloward & Simister, LC. The Orem accounting firm of nearly sixty partners and staff has twice been named the #1 local accounting firm in Utah. He graduated from Brigham Young University in 1970 and began his accounting career in the Los Angeles office of Arthur Andersen & Co. After joining HCS in 1973, his career was focused in individual, business, and estate taxation. He was a senior partner at HCS until 2004, when he accepted an assignment to serve as the mission president for the LDS Church in Hawaii. He has re-joined the firm as a senior advisor since returning from Hawaii in 2007. Professionally, Mr. Hawkins is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and is a member of both the Tax Division and Business Valuation Section therein. He is also a member of the Utah Association of CPA’s, having previously served as Chairman of its Board of Directors. Mr. Hawkins has been involved in numerous community activities for many years. Among those community activities, Ron has served on the Boards of Directors for the UVU Foundation, the Utah Transit Authority, the Utah County Housing Authority, the Provo-Orem Chamber of Commerce, the Board of Trustees of CEDO, the Board of Advisors for the BYU School of Accountancy, and most recently, on the Governor’s Advisory Commission to Optimize Utah State Government. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Polynesian Cultural Center in Hawaii and on the Board of the Children with Cancer Christmas Foundation. Together with his wife, Anne, they are the parents of six children and seventeen grandchildren |
Lund, Steven steven.lund@uvu.edu |
Steven J. Lund was appointed a member of UVU Board of Trustees in July 2007. Mr. Lund serves as the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors for Nu Skin Enterprises. Previously, Mr. Lund served as President and Chief Executive officer from 1998 to 2003 and before that as President and Chief Executive Officer of Nu Skin Asia Pacific (NSAP) from November 1996 to May 1998. Mr. Lund also served as Executive Vice President of Nu Skin International (NSI) since its inception in 1984.
Before joining Nu Skin Enterprises, Mr. Lund was an attorney with a private law firm specializing in litigation and products liability law. He holds a Juris Doctorate degree from Brigham Young University’s J. Reuben Clark Law School (1983). He is a member of the Utah, Arizona, and American Bar Associations and has served on the board of directors for the Direct Selling Association. |
Merrill, Carolyn carolyn.merrill@uvu.edu |
Carolyn H. Merrill, principal of East Shore Online High School and former principal of American Fork High School, is also a graduate of American Fork High School. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Utah in math education and taught advanced mathematics for fourteen years at Olympus High School. She also taught math remediation classes for four years at Salt Lake Community College.
She earned her masters degree at Brigham Young University in educational leadership and was then hired in Alpine School District as an assistant principal at American Fork High School before becoming Principal. Married to Randall James Merrill, they live in Orem and have two children currently attending Utah Valley University. |
Mortimer, Doyle doyle.mortimer@uvu.edu |
Vice Chair
Doyle is Vice President of Operations at Alexander’s Print Advantage. He is a former software development manager, restaurant manager and owner of a book publishing company. He has served a term in the Utah House of Representatives, as President of the Orem Rotary Club, and on the Board of Directors for the Provo-Orem Chamber of Commerce, and the UVU Foundation Board. He is married to Kitty and is the father of seven children. |
Shoemaker, Terry terry.shoemaker@uvu.edu |
Terry Eugene Shoemaker, Superintendent of Wasatch County School District, was appointed a member of UVU Board of Trustees July 2007. He has been a public educator since 1979, serving students in three school districts, Jordan, Provo, and Wasatch County. He has been a classroom teacher, principal, curriculum specialist, personnel director, and has been the Superintendent of Wasatch County School District since 2001.
Mr. Shoemaker has served on a variety of the boards of professional education associations and is a member of the Heber Valley Rotary Club. He currently serves as a member of the Board for the Wasatch Economic Development Committee and as a member of the Board for the Wasatch Community Foundation. He and his wife, Elizabeth, are the parents of 4 children, all four of which have been or are currently enrolled at UVSC. |