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.
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.
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.
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.
Kevin Rollins served as CEO of Dell, Inc from 2004-2007. He was responsible for worldwide sales, marketing, and service and for overseeing Dell's Worldwide Home and Small Business Group, European operations, and the Personal Systems Group. Prior to being elected to his current position in December 1997, Mr. Rollins served as president, Dell Americas. In this position, he was responsible for the company's operations in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Latin America.
Formerly a partner and director at Bain & Co., Mr. Rollins specialized in strategies and management for high technology and consumer product clients. While with Bain, he helped develop strategies that propelled Dell into a leadership position in the direct selling of computer systems in the United States. Mr. Rollins earned his master's of business administration and bachelor's degrees from Brigham Young University.
Kevin served as bishop ('92-'95) and stake president of the Boston Massachusetts stake from 2012 to 2020. He and his wife Debra have 4 children and 9 grandchildren.
Bruce Larson is currently a partner and the global head of Human Resources at The Carlyle Group, a global alternative asset manager. He joined Carlyle in 2019 after 32 at Goldman Sachs. At Goldman Bruce was an M&A banker, global head of HR, and filled several other managerial roles. At Goldman Bruce was based in New York, Tokyo, and Hong Kong. He left Goldman as a partner. Bruce graduated with a BA from the University of Utah with a degree in Finance and Japanese. Following his undergraduate degree, Bruce received his MBA from the University of Chicago. Bruce and his wife Gayle have been married for 38 years and have five children and six grandchildren.
Randy Shumway founded Cicero Group (www.cicerogroup.com) in 2001. It began humbly, with four
people working out of Randy’s house. Today, Cicero has grown to a highly respected, global management
consulting firm, rated one of the globe’s top 50 overall consulting firms, and one of the five best
consulting firms in the world to work for, with offices located across the United States.
In 2016, Randy was awarded Utah’s CEO of the Year and in 2017, Randy was recognized with Utah’s
Lifetime Accomplishment award.
Randy’s vision in founding the company was for Cicero to reside at the crossroads of data, strategy, and
transformation, with Cicero helping organizations – both traditional for-profit operations as well as non-
profit and educational institutions – make and implement better, evidence-based decisions.
During his 21 years at Cicero, Randy has led multiple strategy, transformation and operational excellence
engagements for Fortune 1000 clients as well as non-profits and government entities. His experience
spans such sectors as High Tech, Telecommunications, Life Sciences, Manufacturing, Financial Services,
Non-Profit, Government, and Education.
Prior to starting Cicero, Randy was an Executive Vice President and Managing Director at Answerthink
(Nasdaq: ANSR), a 2,500-person global consulting firm. Before completing graduate school, Randy
worked for Bain & Company and Dow Chemical.
From 2010 - 2019, Randy served as Economic Advisor to Zions Bank and as an Adjunct Professor of
Strategy at the University of Utah David Eccles School of Business.
Today, Randy serves on the University of Utah Board of Trustees and on the State of Utah Homeless
Board. He serves on two corporate boards, a publicly traded software company and a privately held
hospitality company, and multiple state and community volunteer, service-oriented boards. He is a
prolific author in the Deseret News and in Forbes regarding effective education and economic public
policy.
Randy obtained his MBA from Harvard Business School, graduating with highest academic honors
(Baker Scholar). He earned bachelor’s degrees in Business Management and in Political Science from
Brigham Young University. He speaks Mandarin Chinese, having lived in Taiwan for two years as a
volunteer Christian missionary.
Randy is married to Maureen Shumway and is the father of five. Maureen has a Bachelor of Science in
Nursing and a Master of Science in Early Childhood Development. She is a pediatric nurse at Primary
Children’s Hospital and is currently completing her Doctor of Nurse Practitioner, Pediatrics at the
University of Utah. The Shumways live in Salt Lake City, Utah.