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Opening Session Presenters
Kevin Rollins | Mark H. Willes | Von Orgill | Steven Wheelwright
Business Presenters
Gary Crocker | Charlie Davis | Jill Davis | Jason Galloway
Gary Hawkins |
Clayton Hubner | Ross Jardine | Peter Johnson | Greg Link | Murray Low
Joe Morton | Frank Peck | Larry Spackman | Rob Tearnan | Ralph Yarro | Dal Zemp
China Presenters
Paul Hickey | Fred Lyons | David Martino | Cortney Smith | Kevin Smith
Warren Osborn | Randy Pierson | Reed Quinn | Kent Watson
Religion Presenters
Larry Dahl | Sheri Dew | Ardeth Kapp | Lynn Rosenvall | Andrew Skinner
Kimball Taylor | Wendy Watson Nelson | Merrilee Webb
Athletic & Non-Profit Presenters
LaVell Edwards | Greg Gibson | Chad Lewis
Performing Group
Reunion
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Opening Session Presenters (listed in alphabetical order)
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Kevin Rollins
Former CEO of Dell Inc.
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Kevin
Rollins served as the Chief Operating Officer of Dell since 2001. Prior
to becoming Chief Executive Officer in July 2004, Mr. Rollins served as
President and Chief Operating Officer, Vice Chairman, and President of
Dell Americas. For 12 years prior to joining the Company, Mr. Rollins
was employed by Bain & Company, an international strategy
consulting firm, most recently serving as a director and partner.
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Mark H. Willes
Former Chairman, President, & CEO, Times Mirror
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Mark
Willes has recently returned from serving as president of the Hawaii
Honolulu Mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
He serves on the Executive Committee of the President's Leadership
Council at Brigham Young University and Brigham Young University
Hawaii. He is a member of the Marriott School's National Advisory
Council, serves on the Board of Directors at Black & Decker and The
Polynesian Cultural Center. He is the retired chairman, president and
CEO of Times Mirror, vice-chairman of General Mills, Inc., and the
first vice-president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.
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Von Orgill
President of the Polynesian Cultural Center
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Von
G. Orgill has been President of the Polynesian Cultural Center since
2000. He received Bachelor's Degree in Accounting and Master's Degree
in Organizational Behavior from Brigham Young University and spent nine
years working for IBM. He operated his own consulting firm for three
years and has been the Senior Vice President for Covey Leadership
Center in Provo, Utah and as Executive Vice President in charge of
Franklin Covey's Professional Services Group.
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Steven Wheelwright
President of BYU Hawaii
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After
graduating from the University of Utah where he majored in Mathematics
President Wheelwright received an MBA and a PhD from The Stanford
University Graduate School of Business. He first taught at INSEAD, (an
international business school in Fountainebleau, France) and then
taught at both the Harvard Business School and the Stanford Graduate
School of Business. President Wheelwright retired from HBS in August
2006, after serving as a Senior Associate Dean for 8 years with
responsibility for the MBA Program, Faculty Hiring and Planning, and
Publications (as Chairman of HBS Publishing.) President and Sister
Wheelwright presided over the London England Mission from 2000-2003,
and were missionaries at BYU-Idaho when called to serve as President of
BYU-Hawaii.
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Business Presenters (listed in alphabetical order)
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Gary Crocker
Chairman of Merrimack Pharmaceuticals
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Gary
L. Crocker initially invested in Merrimack and joined the Board in
2004, and was elected as Chairman in the spring of 2005. Mr. Crocker is
President of Crocker Ventures, LLC, a life science private investment
firm. He is in the midst of his second term on the Board of Directors
of the Federal Reserve Branch of San Francisco and also serves as a
member of the Advisory Board of Sorenson Capital, an LBO private equity
fund. He has held senior executive or director level positions in
several successful life science firms including service from 1998 to
2003 as Chairman of ARUP Laboratories, as a director of Interleuken
Genetics, Inc, and LineaGen Genetics, LLC., and as a co-founder and
director of Theratech, Inc. which was acquired in 1999 by Waton
Pharmaceuticals.
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Charlie Davis
Lawyer, Davis | Miles, PLLC
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Charlie
Davis heads the law firm of Davis | Miles, PLLC, with offices in
Phoenix, Albuquerque and Tucson. His firm, rated AV by
Martindale-Hubble, employs approximately 60 lawyers. Mr. Davis
represents businesses and individuals in real estate, estate planning,
asset protection, corporate, partnership, mergers, acquisitions and
other business-related matters. Mr. Davis often speaks on estate
planning and asset protection and is the author of numerous
business/legal articles. He has also published many stories, a novel
and a children's book. Mr. Davis, with his wife, Jill, have founded
several successful business. Mr. Davis was co-founder of Law.com (later
sold to the investment bank, Wasserstein Perella ), and he and his wife
founded the popular Web site, Scrapbook.com.
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Jill Davis
Founder & Creative
Director of Scrap-
book.com, LLC
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Jill
Davis developed several small businesses as her family was growing up.
But, her love of scrapbooking, working as an instructor, and a
contributing author for a leading scrapbook magazine, led her to
acquire the domain name Scrapbook.com. Scrapbook.com has become the
premier scrapbook destination of the Web for education, social
networking and product purchases. She will be speaking on managing a
successful start-up company.
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Jason Galloway
Co-Founder of Hawkins Capital
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Jason
Galloway is a co-founder of Hawkins Capital, which is a private real
estate fund that provides short-term debt financing for commercial and
residential real estate projects in the Western U.S. from $500K to $5
Million. He oversees principal investing, portfolio management,
underwriting and investor relations. Prior to Hawkins, Jason worked in
land development and finance in Utah and Colorado. He also spent
several years in New York doing real estate consulting, commercial loan
underwriting and finance.
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Gary Hawkins
CEO of Hawkins & Associates
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After
graduating from Brigham Young University in Business, Gary Hawkins
worked in real estate, primarily in the brokerage field. He founded
Hawkins & Associates, which included both commercial real estate
and project development. He has been and continues to be an active
Senior Instructor in the Commercial Investment Division of the National
Association of Realtors and has taught seminars on market and financial
feasibility throughout the United States for the past twenty years.
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Clayton Hubner
Dean, School of Busiiness, BYU Hawaii
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Clayton
Hubner has nearly 25 years of academic, management consulting, and
executive leadership experience. He is currently the Dean of the School
of Business at Brigham Young University Hawaii. Prior to assuming this
role, he taught courses in operations management, strategy, leadership,
and international management. His previous academic experience includes
a stint doing executive education for the University of the
Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, nearly five years on the
Operations and Information Technology faculty at the College of William
and Mary, and graduate research and instructional appointments at the
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Besides his academic
contributions, Clayton has spent many years in industry, often in the
technology sector.
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Ross Jardine
Co-Founder of True North Academy
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The
Stock Market investing sessions are being conducted by Ross Jardine,
Co-Founder of True North Academy, a personal training company in Utah.
He is also the founder of iMall and INVESTools. Ross has successfully
trained hundreds of thousands of individual investors in over 20
countries around the world. He has recently launched a new series of
courses for stockinvestor.com. He is also the spokesman for
mypayoff.com a provider of debt-elimination software and mortgages. He
is the author of numerous popular courses on investing and
entrepreneurship and has written a best-selling book on investing, "The
Bear Market Game Plan."
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Peter Johnson
Filmmaker
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Peter
Johnson is a writer, producer and director who has worked on a variety
of well-known projects, some Church-related, some mainstream. Johnson
"was recruited from Hollywood in 1983 to revamp the academic film
program at BYU and later to upgrade the BYU Motion Picture Studio." He
was once an executive producer with the Audiovisual Department of The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Johnson was one of the
screenwriters of "Thanksgiving Promise," the 1986 Disney television
movie based on a novel by Blaine and Brent Yorgason. Fellow BYU faculty
member Glenn L. Anderson (author of The Millennium File and The Doomsday Factor )
was another screenwriter for that project. Johnson also worked on "The
Witching of Ben Wagner", a 1987 Disney television movie directed by
Paul Annett, and written by Malcolm Marmorstein.
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Greg Link
Co-founder, President & CDO (Chief Deal-making Officer) of CoveyLink
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As
President of CoveyLink (a fast growing boutique consultancy), Greg Link
draws upon his trusted reputation among business leaders throughout the
world to attract alliances, talent, and select clients. A recognized
authority on leadership, sales, and marketing, Link is a sought-after
advisor and speaker. He is currently a trusted leadership and business
confidant and advisor to leading authors, senior executives, and other
high performers in both the private and public sectors.
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Murray Low
International Trainer & Leadership Consultant
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Murray
Low is an international trainer and leadership consultant based in
Calgary, Canada. He helps improve organizations, teams and their
leaders on the human side of change by helping them surface and
effectively address sensitive issues –" Crucial Conversations". His
career has spanned 3 distinct types or organizations: (1) Large
multinational companies, Arthur Anderson and Eli Lilly, (2)
Medium-sized companies including Geneva Steels and Novations, and (3)
his private business ventures including an internet startup, venture
capital enterprise in Utah and his own leadership and organizational
development company.
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Joseph Morton
President Of International and Distributor Services for Xango
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Before
becoming executive vice president of XanGo in 2002, Morton received a
bachelor's degree in International Business and began work for Enrich
International opening offices around the world. He incorporates this
global experience to aid XanGo's international expansion and speaks
fluent French. In Nov, 2006, Joe was named President of International
and Distributor Services at XanGo. Morton was absolutely fundamental in
XanGo's beginnings. While working in South East Asia, he discovered a
delicious new fruit smaller than a peach called the mangosteen.
Trusting his instinct, he recognized this fruit as unique and valuable,
so he formed an independent team and began researching the mangosteen's
medicinal properties. Driven by their research, Morton and his team
developed a proprietary formula to create a xanthone-based dietary
supplement that became XanGo™ Juice.
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Frank Peck
CEO and Founder American Money Group Inc.
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As
CEO and Founder of one of the nation's fastest growing consumer
education companies in the financial services industry, Franklin R.
Peck, Sr. is a successful financial strategist, lecturer and
consultant. He has counseled thousands of individuals and families on
tax-free investments, asset optimization, wealth development and
strategic equity planning. Frequently recognized as the top producer,
recruiter and trainer by the nation's largest financial services firm,
Peck has mentored, guided and been affiliated with some of the most
powerful influencers in the nation and has successfully trained and
developed numerous management teams. Specializing in helping clients
become debt free and preparing for financial independence, Peck is
recognized and sought after as one of the nation's most powerful
seminar presenters, leaving people feeling empowered and confident
about their futures. Some of Peck's powerful, strategic alliances
include his affiliation with Douglas R. Andrew, founder of the "Missed
Fortune Movement" and author of two nationally best selling personal
finance books: "Missed Fortune 101" and "Last Chance Millionaire." Peck
is also affiliated with Bill Zimmerman, President, founder and CEO of
Lifepro, one of the nation's largest and most prestigious insurance
marketing organizations.
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Larry Spackman
Former President of Trans Canada Energy, LTD
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Larry
Spackman has spent his working career in the energy business. Prior to
his retirement from business to serve a mission for his church in 2000,
he was president of one of the world's largest energy trading
companies, TransCanada Energy Ltd., with annual revenues over $6
billion. The company bought and sold energy com-modities primarily in
North America, but also around the world with offices in North America,
London and Singapore. He has also been an entrepreneur in building
companies in the areas of telecommunica-tions, finance, electrical
generation, and commercial real estate. Since returning from serving a
three-year mission in New York City, Mr. Spackman has returned to the
energy sector to again advise and build various companies. He is
currently serving as Chairman of the Board of Bronco Energy.
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Rob Tearnan
Oliver Wight Principal Consultant
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Robert
Tearnan, Oliver Wight Principal Consultant, has extensive experience in
designing and implementing business systems to increase effectiveness,
reduce costs, and streamline processes. Since joining Oliver Wight, he
has participated in over 60 Sales & Operations Planning
implementations at manufacturing organizations serving as coach,
mentor, and trainer, among many other roles. The companies range in
size from $12 million to over $22 billion in annual revenue in the
construction products, telecommunication, pharmaceutical, industrial
products, and consumer products industries.
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Ralph Yarro
CEO of ThinkAtomic
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Ralph
James Yarro III is Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of
ThinkAtomic, Inc. a high tech incubator, think tank and venture
accelerator. ThinkAtomic is developing technologies and concepts that
serve mankind as in the CP80 Internet Channel Initiative. Mr. Yarro is
Founder and Chairman of The CP80 Foundation, a 501(c) (4) organization.
CP80, www.cp80.org,
is a leader in protecting families and businesses from unwanted
violations of Internet pornography. Mr. Yarro is President and Chief
Executive Officer of Venture Quest, LLC., a venture lending company.
Leveraging years of experience support high tech venture opportunities
with alternative funding options. Mr. Yarro serves and has served as
Chairman and/or Director of a variety of public and private technology
companies including: Altiris, AtomicTracker, Caldera, The Canopy Group,
Center 7, Helius, Iarchives, JumpSeed, Keylabs, Lineo, Maxstream, MTI,
Power Innovations, SCO, SmartBomb, SurfRecon, TrollTech, Vinca,
Vintela, ViaWest, and Voonami.
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Dal Zemp
Entrepreneur & IBC Chairperson
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The
conference Chairman of the International Business Conference held
annually at BYU Hawaii. Dal has started over 14 companies in the US,
Canada and Europe. His most recent ventures include the founding of
Whisper Creek Log Homes, Kodiak Mountain Stone, and Paradise Canyon
Golf Resort and Land Corporation. Before entering business, Dal spent
10 years with the Special Olympic Organization in Canada and Utah. He
was also the Director of Competition for the 1991 World Special
Olympics Games in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He returned to business in
1992 as a means to raise capital for his charitable efforts.
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China Presenters (listed in alphabetical order)
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Paul Hickey
Managing Founder of Hickey Freihofner Capital
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Managing
Founder of Hickey Freihofner Capital, a NYC based investment banking
company focused on raising capital for Chinese and other Asian
companies and taking them public in the United States. In his 16 years
as a CEO of three different companies, one of which was a Chinese
company based in Shanghai, he has lead and managed acquisitions,
turnarounds, corporate strategies, budgets, marketing, seminars,
licensing and international trade. He has also raised both private and
public capital, interfaced with board members, investors and
shareholders.
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Fred Lyons
Owner & Principal of Lyons Real Estate & Development
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Fred
Lyons is the owner and principal in Lyons Real Estate & Development
based in Mesa, Arizona. Mr. Lyons specializes in land brokerage and
real estate investment in Arizona and Idaho. Mr. Lyons also works with
US-based groups to establish business relationships in Taiwan and
China. A native of Boise, Idaho, Mr. Lyons served a mission in Taiwan
and graduated from BYU with a degree in Business Management Finance
co-concentration International Business. Mr. Lyons worked in Taipei for
two years managing a real estate investment company. He returned to the
US and worked with Taiwanese businessmen investing in US real estate
and imported several items from Asia.
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David Martino
President and CEO of Russell-Newman Inc.
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As
president and CEO of Russell-Newman Inc., David's current role
encompasses the operation of an international company, Russell-Newman
Inc. The company currently produces ladies', men's, and children's
sleepwear, loungewear, and robes under labels such as; Tommy Hilfiger,
Cypress, and Laura Ashley. Production takes place in 13+ countries and
55+ factories. From 1939 to the mid 80's all products were produced
domestically, conversely today all products are produced off shore. He
has served as President/CEO since 2000 and has worked for the family
company for 33 years.
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Cortney Smith
President/China Solutions
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Kevin Smith
Co-founder and President of SansegalChina
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Kevin
Smith is the co-founder and president of SansegalChina, a product
design, manufacturing and training company headquartered in China.
SansegalChina has been in business in China for 15 years. Kevin's
background includes an industrial design education at BYU, he served an
LDS mission in Hong Kong, has lived and worked in South China for
nearly 20 years, road as a member of the US Junior Cycling Team and
lived at the US Olympic Training Center, was a promotional boat driver
for Mastercraft Waterski boats and still tries to be a competitive
waterskier. He's a husband and father of 3. Empowering individuals
through faith, opportunity and education are dear to Kevin's heart and
are at the core of SansegalChina's reasons for existence.
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Warren Osborn
CEO of Seastone & Entrepreneur
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Warren
Osborn is a passionate entrepreneur and China guru. His companies do
large volumes of business with China. One of his companies was recently
ranked as the second fastest growing company in Utah; another invented
the new HD-DVD and Blu-ray case. Seeing great humanitarian need through
his work in China over the past 20 years, Warren established the
Seastone Foundation which provides philanthropic aid to orphans and
disadvantaged children. Warren helped establish two Sister City
relationships between US cities and capital cities in China.
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Randy Pierson
Executive VP of Certiport, Inc.and Chairman of Certiport China
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Mr.
Pierson joined Certiport in April 2000 as its President & CEO. In
March 2005, became the Chairman of Certiport China and Executive Vice
President of Certiport, Inc. He has been instrumental in directing the
company's growth and development, including Certiport's evolution as
the leading provider of global, performance-based certification
programs and services and driving Certiport's entry into the China
market in 2004. Mr. Pierson has served as Vice President of the global
field/channel marketing for Novell, Inc. He also has experience working
as vice president of check products for International Verifact Inc.;
vice president of sales and marketing, and vice president of
engineering and development for Soricon Corporation; senior vice
president of sales and marketing, director of OEM sales, subsidiary
president, and regional sales manager for Key Tronic Corporation;
general manager for Pacific Cabinet Corporation; and as a marketing
executive for IBM.
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Reed Quinn
Seastone Executive & China Production Manager
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Reed
M. Quinn began his career in China as a project manager for a joint
venture between a US research and development firm and a Chinese
composite manufacture. He has lived in and worked with China for the
last eight years. Reed speaks Mandarin fluently and has a deep
understanding of and respect for Chinese culture. Working with hundreds
of Chinese manufactures, Reed has developed custom products in China
for more than half of the top 100 largest US retailers. He is currently
pursing his Masters in Business Administration through Brigham Young
University 's Executive MBA program. Reed specializes in development of
China-US products and logistics.
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Kent Watson
Former Chairman, CEO & Managing Partner of Price Waterhouse Coopers, China
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Kent Watson is former Chairman and CEO of Price Waterhouse Coopers,
China, and, Managing Partner of Price Waterhouse Coopers, China. He
has a 35-year career in publics accounting in U.S., Canada, Taiwan,
and China. He has a BS and Masters of Accountancy from Brigham Young
University. Kent is currently serving as a volunteer and Instructor of
Accounting for the School of Business at Brigham Young University
Hawaii. He and his wife have 5 children and 12 grandchildren. His
interests include reading, running, travel, church, family, and Chinese.
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Religion Presenters (listed in alphabetical order)
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Larry Dahl
Associate Dean of Religious Education BYU
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Larry
Dahl is the former Department Chair of Church History and Doctrine and
Associate Dean of Religious Education for Brigham Young University. He
spent 12 years working in the LDS Church Education System including
four years as Administrator of Seminaries and Institutes in the
Hawaiian Islands. Bro. Dahl has worked at Church Headquarters in the
Curriculum and Melchizedek Priesthood Departments. After retiring from
BYU, he directed the BYU Semester at Nauvoo program in Nauvoo, Illinois
for four years.
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Sheri Dew
Author and CEO of Deseret Book
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As an Author and CEO of Deseret Book, Sheri Dew is
the first woman to head Deseret Book Company, which is owned by Deseret
Management Corp., the for profit holding company of the LDS Church. She
served as second counselor in the LDS General Relief Society
Presidency, and is a veteran of the LDS publishing industry. As an
author, she has written, among other things, the biographies of
President Gordan B. Hinckley and President Ezra Taft Benson. She will
be speaking in the "Women in Business" sessions.
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Ardeth Kapp
Board of Directors member for Deseret Book Company, Southern Virginia University, and Utah Youth Village
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Ardeth
Kapp was born and raised in Alberta, Canada. She graduated from the
University of Utah and received a master's degree from BYU and became a
member of the BYU faculty. She served as a member of the Board of
Trustees for BYU and the Church Education System (CES) and as General
Young Women president from 1984-1992 prior to accompanying her husband
who presided over the Canada Vancouver Mission. She was later called as
the Gospel Doctrine teacher in her ward and Institute Teacher at the
University of Utah. She served as matron of the Cardston Alberta
Temple. She currently serves on the board of directors for Deseret
Book Company, Southern Virginia University and Utah Youth Village.
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Lynn Rosenvall
Former President of Cardston Alberta Temple
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Dr.
Rosenvall studied at the University of Utah, earning his bachelor's and
master's degrees. He attended the University of California at Berkeley
and was awarded a PhD in geography and history in 1972. He was a
professor at the University of Calgary, and a university administrator
for some eighteen years, until his retirement in 2003. He is a
published author and has produced seven nationally televised
documentaries on the news gathering process. Since 1986 he has been a
pioneer in the field of interactive and Internet-based computer
applications. He has served in numerous callings for the LDS Church
including two missions in New Zealand, stake president of both the
Calgary Alberta North and West stakes, Regional Representative, Area
Seventy, and most recently as Temple President of the Cardston Alberta
Temple. He is married to Beth A. Kurtz. They are the parents of five
children and reside in Cardston, Alberta, Canada.
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Andrew Skinner
Executive Director of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at BYU
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Andrew
Skinner, former Dean of Religious Education at Brigham Young
University, now serves as Executive Director of the Neal A. Maxwell
Institute for Religious Scholarship at BYU. He received his bachelor's
degree in history from the University of Colorado in 1975. He earned a
master of arts in Hebrew Bible--Judaic Studies from the Iliff School of
Theology in 1978 and a master of theology in Biblical Hebrew f rom
Harvard University in 1980. Skinner received his doctorate (PhD) in
European and Near Eastern history from the University of Denver in
1986. He is professor of Ancient Scripture at BYU.
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Kimball Taylor
Chief of Staff at the Children of Israel Foundation
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On
April 6, 1998, Dr. Taylor established The Children of Israel
Foundation, a nonprofit organization with the mandate to help the
Jewish people wherever they may be in need. His efforts recently led
the City of Jerusalem to dedicate a new city park in the name of Kim
and Marianne Taylor. Dr. Taylor has become good friends with Prime
Minister Ehud Olmert and many other prominent Jews within Israel and in
America. Dr. Taylor has also been actively involved the past few years
as a member of the Jewish Agency- the organization originally organized
by Theodore Herzl that addresses concerns of Jews within Israel and
throughout the world. He is the only person among the 300 voting
members that is not Jewish. He has also recently been invited by the
Government of the State of Israel to become a member of the Christian
Alliance Caucus to the Israeli Parliament.
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Wendy Watson Nelson
Institute Teacher
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Wendy
L. Watson Nelson holds a Ph.D. in family therapy and gerontology.
Prior to her marriage to Elder Russell M. Nelson on April 6, 2006,
Sister Nelson was a Professor of Marriage and Family Therapy for 25
years. She taught for 12 years at the University of Calgary in Calgary,
Alberta, Canada and the last 13 years at Brigham Young University-
teaching doctoral students and masters students. In 1999 and 2000, she
chaired the BYU Women's Conference. She is the author of several books
including Rock Solid Relationships; and several talks on CD including Things are not always as they appear.
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Merrilee Webb
Music Educator
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Merrilee
Webb received her Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Brigham Young
University Provo and was named BYU's "Most Outstanding Musician" in
1983. Miss Webb just returned from teaching at Brigham Young University
Hawaii where she served as the director for the Men's and Women's
choirs, taught theory, music education courses, piano and voice. She
taught choral music for twelve years in both junior and senior high
schools in Sandy, Kearns and Bountiful, Utah. While teaching at
Bountiful High School, Miss Webb maintained an average of 700 students
in her choral program. Merrilee currently directs "We Also Sing!" a
women’s choir of 360 voices. Merrilee has worked in several theatres in
Utah including Robert Redford's Sundance Summer and Winter Theatres,
Opera West, The Triad and Rodgers Memorial Theatre. She also directed
theatre while at Brigham Young University Hawaii. Merrilee directed two
shows for the opening season of Playmill Theatre in Jackson Hole,
Wyoming and served as a Director in Training for the LDS Nauvoo Pageant
in the summer of 2007
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Athletic & Non-Profit Presenters (listed in alphabetical order)
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LaVell Edwards
Former BYU Head Football Coach
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LaVell
Edwards was BYU's head football coach from 1972 to 2000. His offensive
scheme was passing-dominated. He started coaching in an era when
College football offenses were dominated by strong running attacks. His
quarterbacks threw over 11,000 passes for more than 100,000 yards and
635 touchdowns. Edwards coached prominent quarterbacks such as Gary
Sheide, Gifford Nielsen, Marc Wilson, Jim McMahon, Steve Young, Robbie
Bosco, Ty Detmer, Steve Sarkisian, and Brandon Doman. In 1984, he was
named National Coach of the Year after BYU finished the season 13-0 and
won the National Champimonship. Edwards retired after the 2000 season
with a 258-101-3 record, a .722 winning percentage.
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Greg Gibson
Director, Center for International Entrepreneurship at BYU Hawaii
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After
a successful career as a lawyer and entrepreneur, Greg is currently the
director of the Center for International Entrepreneurship at Brigham
Young University Hawaii. He earned his law degree from Pepperdine
University School of Law in 1978. His entrepreneurial activities
included ownership of a securities broker dealership and several
startup public ventures. He was the vice president – legal Penneco
Energy Inc. which was acquired by Marathon Oil. He joined the Brigham
Young University faculty in 2002.
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Chad Lewis
Philadelphia Eagles Tight End
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Chad
Lewis of the Philadelphia Eagles and the point man for the NFL in China
will bring a unique perspective on the emerging NFL in China. He will
also be speaking about his experiences as an 11 year professional
athlete and his membership in the church.
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Performing Group
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Reunion
Ric de Azevedo, Jim Pike & Gary Pike
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Reunion,
formerly known as "The Lettermen", will perform a private concert. Jim
Pike, the founder of the original Lettermen group, and Gary Pike, Jim's
brother, had an unprecedented (46) forty-six consecutive hit record
ALBUMS on Billboard Magazine's national charts, twenty (20) hit
singles, two gold singles, NINE GOLD RECORD ALBUMS, five Grammy
nominations, and have sold to date over $100 MILLION worth of records,
tapes and CD's worldwide. In October 2001 Jim and Gary as "The
Lettermen", were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame. Billboard
Magazine, referred to Jim and Gary Pike as "The Greatest Romantic Vocal
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