Latter-day Saint MBA Podcast Latter-day Saint MBA Society

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. Hewas also a CPA.

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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. 

Principles to discuss:

Supporting each other while both pursuing our careers and goals

Our Business School Application Experience

Following and sticking to promptings

Dr. Astrid S. Tuminez (pronounced too-MEE-nez) was appointed the seventh president of UtahValley University in 2018. Born in a farming village in the Philippine province of Iloilo, shemoved with her parents and siblings to the slums of Iloilo City when she was 2 years old, herparents seeking better educational opportunities for their children.
Her pursuit of education eventually took her to the United States, where she graduated summacum laude with a bachelor's degree in international relations and Russian literature fromBrigham Young University (1986). She later earned a master's degree from Harvard University inSoviet Studies (1988) and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in politicalscience (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 LeeKuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. She has worked inphilanthropy and venture capital in New York City and is a permanent member of the Councilon Foreign Relations. She is the author of Russian Nationalism Since 1856: Ideology and theMaking 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.

Principles discussed in this interview:

“Nothing in” is the best way to guarantee “nothing out.” It doesn’t really matter what it is you’re hoping for output from—relationships, business, exercise, etc. Something in, almost always means something out—even if it’s less—but you can work with that 😊.
Keystone Habits are a Key to unlocking your potential. Repeated Patterns and habits are the fundamental building blocks of life.
You are by nature, anti-fragile. Wind extinguishes a candle and energizes a fire. Find and feed the anti-fragile in your life.
(if there’s time) No one does it alone—so be aware and celebrate and parry that for good!

Elder Robert C. Gay is an emeritus General Authority Seventy of the Church ofJesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. As a General Authority he helped develop and implement theChurch’s global self-reliance initiative and served as the Chairman of Self-Reliance Services andthe Perpetual Education Fund Committee. He also served as a member of the Presideny of theSeventy, as the President of the Asia North Area and as a member of the worldwide MissionaryExecutive Council and the Board of Trustees for The Church Education System. Additionally, hehas served as a full-time missionary in Spain and as mission president for the countries ofGhana, Sierra Leone, and Liberia.
Professionally, Elder Gay has dedicated most of his service to private equity management. He iscurrently 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 GlobalCapital, past CEO of Bain Capital Europe and Chairman of the Management Committee for BainCapital Worldwide. Previously Elder Gay also worked in investment banking and as aninternational management consultant for McKinsey & Company in the United States and theUK.
Elder Gay along with his wife, Lynette, have co-founded and served as a director on multipleglobal humanitarian organizations which have focused on building schools, medical clinics,microenterprises, clean water boreholes, latrines, and rescuing at risk persons including thosetrapped in modern slavery and illiteracy. Lynette directs their NGO, Engage Now Africa, and theEnsign Global College in Ghana which they founded. Together they endowed the Ballard Centerfor Social Impact at Brigham Young University and recently announced a new global partnershipand Center for Business, Health and Prosperity between the University of Utah and their EnsignGlobal College.
Elder Gay earned a PhD in business economics from Harvard University where he also taughteconomics and international finance. He is the recipient of the Utahan of the Year Award, theUnited States Presidential Service Award and the Martin Luther King Center Special RecognitionService Award for Non-Violent Social Change.
Robert Christopher Gay was born in Los Angeles, California, on September 1, 1951. He marriedLynette Nielsen in April 1974. They are the parents of seven children and twenty-twograndchildren.