Tom Macdonald is an Assistant Dean of the Woodbury School of Business. Mr. Macdonald has over 25 years’ experience in senior management including international, CEO and Board positions. He received the 2007 Businessman of the Year Award from the Provo/Orem Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Macdonald has served as a member of the Orem City Council since 2014 for the 2014-2018 term. He is a partner in several real estate projects; a former President / CEO of two Utah businesses; former VP International operations for a technology company and a personal care company; and a former Manager / CPA of Grant Thornton, an international CPA firm.
Mr. Macdonald is married to the former Kaye Mangum of Orem with 4 married children and 16 grand children.
Matt Packard served as the President & CEO for Central Bank and now serves as the Chairman.
acque Millard is Vice President and Chief Investment Officer for Intermountain Healthcare. Ms. Millard received her B.S. in Finance from Weber State University and her MBA from Westminster College. She earned her Certified Cash Manager certification in 1994 and the Chartered Financial Analyst designation in 1999.
Ms. Millard joined Intermountain in 1993 and is currently responsible for investment portfolio management, oversight of external investment managers, all employee savings and pension investments as well as cash management for all Intermountain entities. In this role, she reports regularly to the Investment Committee of the Board. Prior to joining Intermountain Healthcare, Ms. Millard worked for Workers Compensation Fund and Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Utah where she was responsible for budgeting, treasury and investment management functions. Ms. Millard has served on a variety of boards, including; Dignity Investment Committee, Westminster College Endowment Committee, Virginia Piper Foundation, FJM Mgmt., Healthcare Credit Union Board, and US Bank and Key Bank Advisory Committees.
Husband. Father. Co-founder of Harmon Brothers, VidAngel. Loves Jesus. Provo, UT.
A world-renowned entrepreneur, business leader and societal innovator, James Lee Sorenson serves as chairman of the Sorenson Impact Foundation, which funds sustainable, scalable endeavors that maximize positive impact on the lives and societies they touch. Jim is also a founding partner of Catalyst Opportunity Funds, a double bottom-line private equity firm focused on transformative investments in high-potential but historically underserved US markets. Sorenson endowed the Sorenson Impact Center at the University of Utah and is a member of the US Impact Investing Presidents Council and a member of the US National Advisory Board.
As an entrepreneur, Sorenson was instrumental in developing several new industry categories, including digital compression software that helped usher in the online multi-media revolution at Sorenson Media, and Video Relay Services that transformed the capabilities and opportunities for millions of deaf and hard of hearing individuals through Sorenson Communications.
Margo Georgiadis is the President and CEO of Ancestry and also serves on the company’s
Board of Directors. Bringing together content, science and technology, Ancestry is
a human centered company with a mission to empower journeys of personal discovery
to enrich lives. For
more than 30 years, Ancestry's global market-leading family history and consumer genomics
products have enabled customers to discover their family story and actionable health
insights. Margo is dedicated to building and innovating meaningful personal discovery
experiences that connect the world and empower customers to live better lives.
Prior to Ancestry, Margo served as CEO of Mattel, the global leader in play, learning and development. Previously, she spent eight years as the President of Americas at Google, overseeing commercial operations and advertising sales, and as the Vice President of Global Sales Operations. She has also held leadership roles as COO of Groupon, EVP of US Card Services and CMO of Discover Financial Services, and was a partner at McKinsey in London and Chicago.
Margo is a champion of organizations that inspire girls to pursue education and careers in STEM and advancing the next generation of women leaders. She has received multiple awards including the Forbes “Excellence Award in Innovation,” Chicago Innovation’s “Visionary Award”, the Eastman Medal from the University of Rochester, Executive of the Year in Utah, Trailblazer Award from Utah’s Women Tech Council, and was named to Crain’s “Most Powerful Women in Business” and Fortune’s “50 Most Powerful Women in Business” lists. Margo serves on the Board of Directors of McDonald’s Corporation, Handshake, Workboard, Rodan and Fields, Catalyst, and the Committee of 200. She earned a BA in Economics and an MBA from Harvard.
Graham Allison is the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at Harvard University where he has taught for five decades. Allison is a leading analyst of national security with special interests in nuclear weapons, Russia, China, and decision-making. Allison was the “Founding Dean” of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and until 2017, served as Director of its Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs which is ranked the “#1 University Affiliated Think Tank” in the world. As Assistant Secretary of Defense in the first Clinton Administration, Dr. Allison received the Defense Department's highest civilian award, the Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service, for "reshaping relations with Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan to reduce the former Soviet nuclear arsenal." This resulted in the safe return of more than 12,000 tactical nuclear weapons from the former Soviet republics and the complete elimination of more than 4,000 strategic nuclear warheads previously targeted at the United States and left in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Belarus when the Soviet Union disappeared.
As "Founding Dean" of the modern Kennedy School, under his leadership, from 1977 to 1989, a small, undefined program grew twenty-fold to become a major professional school of public policy and government.
As Assistant Secretary of Defense under President Clinton and Special Advisor to the Secretary of Defense under President Reagan, he has been a member of the Secretary of Defense’s Advisory Board for every Secretary from Weinberger to Mattis. He has the sole distinction of having twice been awarded the Distinguished Public Service Medal, first by Secretary Cap Weinberger and second by Secretary Bill Perry. He has served on the Advisory Boards of the Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, and the Director of the CIA.
Dr. Allison’s latest book, Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap? (2017), is a national and international bestseller. His 2013 book, Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master’s Insights on China, the United States and the World, has been a bestseller in the U.S. and abroad. Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe, now in its third printing, was selected by the New York Times as one of the "100 most notable books of 2004." Dr. Allison's first book, Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis (1971), ranks among the all-time bestsellers with more than 500,000 copies in print.
Mr. Wright considers himself to be an ordinary guy that focuses his efforts on his written life plan.
Co-founder and CEO of Awardco the fastest-growing company in Utah and a former UVU Grad.
Richard Hanks is the managing director of Duff Capital. He is an investor and advisor to both start-ups and established businesses. He has served as a board director of numerous profit and non-profit companies and organizations. Rich was a senior executive at several of the largest multi-national companies in the world and also a successful serial entrepreneur, being named Entrepreneur of the Year, raising $250 million in capital, personally building and selling two companies, and watching a third go down in flames. His investing history includes numerous successful outcomes and exits, along with several spectacular “crash-and-burns.”
Rich is an in-demand public speaker, best-selling author, and well-regarded lecturer at many universities. He is a committed Christian, family man, and loves woodworking. He adores his wife, loves his terrific children, and spoils his 11 grandchildren.
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Barbara Feeley is a born and raised Utahn who grew up in Salt Lake City. She chose to further her education at West Virginia University where she majored in Chemistry and met her husband Clint. Barbara was a captain for the women’s rugby club at West Virginia University. After college, she went on to win a Div-II Women’s Rugby National Championship with the Pittsburgh Angels.
In 2011, Barbara moved home to start a family and joined the Woodbury Corporation team. She is currently the Director of Operations for Woodbury Corporation’s out-of-home advertising business Compass Outdoor. Compass is the leading digital billboard operator in Utah. Barbara has two amazing kids, loves the outdoors, and is a die-hard sports fan.
Tim Layton is a co-founder and partner of Sorenson Capital a leading private equity firm in Utah, which has invented on over 60 technology, healthcare, and other growth companies. Tim’s focus has been primarily on supporting and improving the performance of the companies in Sorenson Capital’s portfolio. Tim recently returned from a three-year sabbatical during which he served as a mission president for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Tim’s has extensive experience in a wide range of businesses, including technology, healthcare, manufacturing, energy, aerospace, consumer products, business services, and franchising. He formed and led the firm’s Performance Group, a team of seasoned operating partners who have assisted management teams in improving performance. Prior to Sorenson, Tim was co-founder of Alpine Consolidated, an industry consolidation firm. Earlier, he served as CEO of Medeco Security Locks, the leading provider of ultra-high-security products to government and industry, and as vice president of strategic planning in a Fortune 500 Industrial company.
Tim holds an MBA from Brigham Young University and a Bachelor of Science in statistics with a minor in economics also from BYU, where he graduated top of his class.
Len Williams brings over 40 years of commercial banking experience to his role as President and Chief Executive Officer of Altabank, the largest community bank in Utah, with over $3 Billion in assets.
