Latter-day Saint MBA Podcast

Latter-day Saint MBA Society
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We seek, by way of business, the betterment of individuals, organizations, and societies through principles-based leadership, mentoring, and service.

  1. Glenn Bingham

    04/11/2023

    Glenn Bingham

    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.

    52 min
  2. Matt Dicou

    03/20/2023

    Matt Dicou

    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.

    48 min
  3. Scott & Kassidy Sorensen

    12/13/2022

    Scott & Kassidy Sorensen

    Scott Sorensen is an MBA Candidate at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Prior to the GSB, he led the finance, data, and technology endeavors of Twin Bridges Hospitality, a hospitality-focused asset management firm with $1.2B AUM. He was the first employee who helped expand the portfolio from one hotel with 31 rooms to fourteen hotels with more than 2,000 rooms. Within this role, Scott wore many different hats to drive business initiatives forward, including business intelligence system implementations, operational due diligence, cost structure evaluation, website development, and property renovation oversight. Prior to joining Twin Bridges, Scott worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in their Capital Markets Accounting Advisory Services (CMAAS) practice in the Dallas and Washington, D.C. offices. While there, he worked with many Fortune 500 Clients to identify, strategize, and implement technical accounting solutions. Scott received his B.S. in Accounting from the Marriott School of Business at Brigham Young University. He is originally from Salt Lake City and enjoys swimming, surfing, and playing pickleball in his spare time. Kassidy is a first year MBA candidate at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Prior to the GSB, Kassidy was a product manager at Capital One where she led product strategy for the Capital One credit card application. She hopes to continue on the path of leveraging technology to provide more inclusive financial resources. She grew up in Las Vegas, NV, but was most recently living in Dana Point, CA. She graduated with a degree in Finance from Brigham Young University. She loves pickleball, volleyball, yoga, and sushi – she served a mission in the Japan Fukuoka Mission.

    56 min
  4. Astrid Tuminez

    12/07/2022

    Astrid Tuminez

    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.

    53 min
  5. John Keller

    11/29/2022

    John Keller

    John is the 4th of 13 children born to an engineer father and a farmer mother. He grew up as a fairly free-range child in Rose Park, a suburb of Salt Lake City, Utah. After serving his mission in Bangkok, Thailand, John knew he wanted to pursue entrepreneurship and somehow impact the world for good through scalable, impact-based businesses.   As an entrepreneur, turned consultant, turned serial entrepreneur, John has been involved in numerous start-ups and high growth businesses; including companies in the E-commerce, and B2C and B2B services and retail spaces. John is obsessed with the possibilities of scalable businesses with a purpose. He loves the challenge and excitement of his current role as President of Redlist, LLC a B2B SaaS company in the heavy-equipment related industries’ space--where his teams provide maintenance, safety and operational software solutions to medium and large enterprise customers that are involved in building fundamental building blocks of civilization.--Customers like Georgia Pacific, ExxonMobil, Kinross, Dart, etc.   John currently lives a wannabe farmer’s life in Wallsburg Utah, with his wife and their seven children.

    1h 2m
  6. Elder Robert Gay

    11/22/2022

    Elder Robert Gay

    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.

    1h 3m
  7. Jacob Jones

    11/15/2022

    Jacob Jones

    Jacob Jones’ journey to a business management career was unexpected (at least to him) and involved leaps of faith, major disappointments, and several miracles.  Jacob is now mid-career, middle management, having recently joined Eastman Chemical as the Corporate Director of Product and Pricing.  His previous decade was spent at 3M in a variety of strategy and business roles.  Originally a Chemical Engineer, Jacob holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.S. from Brigham Young University where he co-founded what is now the Global Engineering Outreach program. He served as a full-time missionary in the Australia Sydney South mission. Jacob and his wife Summer recently moved from Minnesota to Eastern Tennessee, where they are attempting to conscript their four children into a family bluegrass band.

    59 min
  8. Richard Flores

    09/20/2022

    Richard Flores

    Richard Flores is a current MBA student at Harvard Business School, expected to graduate in 2023. He hails from American Fork, UT and attended BYU for his undergraduate education in economics and business strategy. Richard began his career consulting with Bain & Company in Dallas, TX before transitioning to a product strategy role at Capital One in McLean, VA. He served his mission in London, England where he gained a love for all things fashion (and a stronger testimony of the Gospel too). He is married to Kelsey, who is currently a clinical instructor at Harvard Law School. Richard and Kelsey have two sons, Baer (3) and Jack (1). Richard enjoys basketball, European soccer, and Star Wars, and has recently started giving fashion consultations for his friends and classmates.

    51 min
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    Latter-day Saint MBA Society
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2023
  • Episodes
    44
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