BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY - Key Persons
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- CEO, Mizu, Inc. Skedit, LLC
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- Marketing Assistant & Student Advisor
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- Founder and Managing Partner, REES Capital
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- Owner & CEO, Taylor 's Boats, Inc.
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- Retired Chairman and CEO, Magellan Health Services
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- Co - Founder, Co - Chairman of the Board, Bamboo HR
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- Managing Partner, Pelion Venture Partners
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- President / CEO, SecurityMetrics
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- Founder, CEO, the Midway Companies
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- Professor of Finance / Carlos, Chad
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- Senior Advisor, FS Investments
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- Associate Director Operations
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- Owner, Board of Directors, Namify, Axomo
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- Managing Member, Canyon Solutions LP
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- Co - Founder, ThePageCompany.Com & Angel Investor
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- Founder & CEO, Salacia Farms
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- Founder, Wizard Language Schools
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- Finance, Managing Director Peery Institute
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- Founder / Chairman, Circus Trix
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- Managing Director, Pelion Venture Partners
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- Adjunct Faculty in Entrepreneurship
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- Adjunct Faculty in Entrepreneurship
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- Owner, Church Properties / Ensemble Holdings LLC
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- Adjunct Professor, Marriott School of Management
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- Adjunct Faculty in Entrepreneurship
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- Founder / CEO, Wasatch Energy Management
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- Managing Partner, Metrics and Applied Science for Core Search and AI, Microsoft
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- Founder / Managing Partner, Caliber Wealth Management
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- Founder and VP Marketing, More Than Healthy, LLC
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- Founder & Chairman, Aptive Environmental
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- Co - Owner, FiberFix USA LLC & Spark Innovation
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- Chief Executive Officer, RevRoad
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- President, Gooseberry Marketing
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- Chairman and CEO, Health and Benefit Systems
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- Professor of Entrepreneurship
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- Adjunct Faculty in Entrepreneurship
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- Founder / CEO, FiberFix, Spark Innovation
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- Partner / Owner / Emeritus CEO, Peterbilt of Utah
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- CEO, EnterBridge Technologies, Inc.
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- Adjunct Faculty in Entrepreneurship
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- CEO and Co - Founder, ForeUP
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- Affiliate Faculty in Entrepreneurship
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- Partner, Sorenson Capital
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- Managing Partner, Chief Inspiration Officer, Pharos Luz Advisors, Inc.
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- Assistant Instructor Award for Teaching Excellence, University of Texas at Austin, 2006
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- Owner and Chairman, Larry H. Miller Group of Companies
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- Owner / Partner, Western States Lodging
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- Information Technology Leader, Mentor, Northwestern University and University of Utah
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- Associate Teaching Professor of Entrepreneurship
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- Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship, Director Crocker Fellows Program
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- Program Advisor
- Admitted Students in Finance, Experience Design and Management ( Global and Community Impact Minor and Global Business and Literacy Minor )
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- Associate Teaching Professor of Entrepreneurship
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- Professor of Industrial Design
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- Chairman of the Board, Lansing Building Projects
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- Managing Director, Serento Ventures
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- CEO / Managing Partner, Clarke Capital
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- General Partner, Sheffield Family LLLP
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- Founder, the Ritchie Group
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- Founding Partner, Peery Partners
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- Founder & Former CEO ( 2000 - 2019 ), NorthStar Alarm
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- Associate Director Operations at the Rollins Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology
Jeff Brown is the associate director operations at the Rollins Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology in the Marriott School of Business. He earned an Executive MPA from the Romney Institute of Public Service and Ethics in the Marriott School and a bachelor's degree in human resources training and development with a minor in business administration from Idaho State University. Jeff enjoys working with students and helping them realize their dreams. His true passion lies in higher education administration. Jeff loves the buzz of a university campus and all of the extracurricular offerings made available to help individuals realize their full potential and develop their whole selves. Jeff is a huge fan of all sports but especially enjoys basketball. He and his wife, Shelley, have two children.
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- Founder & CIO, Peak Capital Partners
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- Co - Founder, Mission Belt
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- CEO, Benefit Communication Insourcing
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- Co - Founder & Managing Partner, Peak Capital Partners & Peak Ventures
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- CEO, Traeger Wood Pellet Grills
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- President, Startup Ignition, LLC
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- CEO, Americas Housing Alliance
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- Chairman / Founder, Halosight
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- Affiliate Faculty in Entrepreneurship
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- Owner, Pinebrook Holding Company
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- Founder / CEO / "Chief Smarty Pants", Smarty
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- CEO, McColee Partners LLC
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- CEO, Woodgrain Millwork Incorporated
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- COO & General Counsel, McColee Partners LLC
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- President, Wasatch Energy Management, LLC
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- CEO and Co - Founder, Owlet Baby Care
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- Adjunct Faculty in Entrepreneurship
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- Professor of Information Systems
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- Adjunct Faculty in Entrepreneurship
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- Founder & CEO, Utah Inventions, LLC
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- Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
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- President, Tompkins Street, Inc.
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- Associate Teaching Professor of Entrepreneurship
- Director of the Rollins Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology
- Strategy Professor
Michael Hendron is an entrepreneurship and strategy professor in the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University. His areas of interest include innovation and growth strategies, management of new ventures, and strategy implementation. He is extensively involved in the support of undergraduate and graduate entrepreneurship programs. Prior to his academic career Mike worked full-time as a strategy consultant serving technology firms (hardware, software, and online services) with Alliance Consulting Group and in his own independent practice, Arcwise Consulting. His clients ranged from venture-backed startups and small-cap publicly traded firms to global Fortune 500 brands. Mike also worked in the Silicon Valley operations of the global trading firm Kanematsu, where he helped US technology companies expand to markets in Asia. Mike holds a Ph.D. in Strategic Management from the University of Texas at Austin, an M.B.A. with honors from the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia, and a B.A. in Political Science from Brigham Young University.
Education
PhD, Strategic Management, University of Texas at Austin, 2008
MBA, Darden Graduate School of Business, University of Virginia, 2000
BA, Political Science, Brigham Young University, 1996
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- Managing Partner, Levinthal Capital
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- President, Morgan Family Foundation
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- Chief Product Officer, Commercetools
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- Managing Partner, the Builders Fund
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- Department Chair, Professor of Finance, and Goldman Sachs Distinguished Faculty Fellow
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- CEO, Sawgrass Technologies, Inc
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- Associate Teaching Professor of Entrepreneurship
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- Co - Founder & Managing Partner, P & M Solutions, LLC
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- Adjunct Faculty in Entrepreneurship
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- President / CEO, Texas Armoring Corporation
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- Principal Advisor, AlignOrg Solutions
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- Founder, Spark Innovation
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- Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship
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- Program Advisor
- Advisement Center Director
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- Founder / Owner, the Storm Group
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- Partner, Rock Creek Capital, LLC
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- Affiliate Faculty in Entrepreneurship
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- Co - Founder / Managing Partner, Sorenson Capital
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- Founder / Owner / CEO, Meridian Healthcare Partners, Inc.
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- Founder & CEO, Motivosity Inc.
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- Chief Academic Officer and Partner, Rev Road
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- Founder & Chairman, Internet Truckstop Group
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- Adjunct Faculty in Entrepreneurship
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- Founder & General Partner, Album VC
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- Co - Founder, Optimize Play & ParrotScript
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- Attorney and Shareholder, Workman Nydegger
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- Entrepreneur / Currently in Non - Profit Startups and Leadership, Academy for Creating Enterprise Upward Bound Business School
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- Chairman & CEO, Houghton Capital
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- CEO, Founder, Freshly Picked
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- Master
- Associate Teaching Professor of Entrepreneurship
Taylor Halverson is a master learner and a professor of entrepreneurship in the BYU Marriott School of Business. He has discovered his life purpose is to help people find and act on the best ideas and tools in order to experience enduring joy.
Taylor lives in Springville, Utah, with his wife, Lisa, and their two kids. He loves to spend time with his family on all sorts of adventures, including exploring the nooks and crannies of the American West and Southwest, participating with geology and archaeology teams on location, creating and mixing electronic music, watching and discussing edifying shows, reading good books, playing games, learning, and laughing.
Education
PhD, Instructional Systems Technology, Indiana University, 2006
PhD, Judaism & Christianity in Antiquity, Indiana University, 2006
MS, Instructional Systems Technology, Indiana University, 2004
MA, Biblical Studies, Yale University, 2001
BA, Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Brigham Young University, 1997
Languages
Spanish
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- Department Chair, Professor of Finance, and Goldman Sachs Distinguished Faculty Fellow
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- Associate Professor of Information Technology
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- Principal, Pennbridge Capital
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- President, Colorado Surgical Arts
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- CEO / Founder, MyComputerCareer
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- CEO / Founder, Appigo Todo
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- President, Horne 's Lodging Properties
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- Assistant Professor of Instructional Psychology and Technology
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- Teaching Professor of Entrepreneurship