UTAH SYMPHONY - Key Persons
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- Assistant General Counsel / Dominion Energy
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- Chairman of the Governance Committee
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Shareholder
- Board Secretary / Governance Committee Chair
- Board Secretary / Governance Committee Chair Boards on Fire Task Force Chair
- Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy
Annette W. Jarvis is a Shareholder at Greenberg Traurig, LLP. Prior to joining Greenberg Traurig, she was a Partner with Dorsey & Whitney where she was a member of the firm-wide Management Committee and the Partner-in-Charge of Transactions. She has practiced business bankruptcy and restructuring law for over 35 years, and has extensive experience in representing financial institutions, debtors, trustees, examiners, creditors' committees, creditors, indenture trustees, equity holders, public bond holders, chapter 11 trustees and examiners, and purchasers of assets in Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases throughout the country. Annette also has substantial, successful experience in receivership cases, insurance rehabilitations and liquidations, out-of-court workouts and cross-border insolvency cases. She has been appointed as a state-court receiver, and has been retained and testified as an expert witness in a high profile international arbitration case.
Annette is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and serves on the Executive Committee of the College. She has been a member of the Executive Committee of the Turnaround Management Association, and was a founding member of the Mountain/Desert IWIRC Network. She received recognition by the M&A Advisor in its 2015 Awards, 2016 Turnaround Awards, 2016 International M&A Awards, and 2019 Turnaround Awards for her work with the Chapter 15 (cross border) restructuring of the Jerritt Canyon Mine and for the restructuring of the Cranberry Growers Cooperative. She was selected as the 2016 Lawyer of the Year by the Utah State Bar Association and as the 2013 Distinguished Lawyer of the Year by the Utah Chapter of the Federal Bar Association. In 2007, she received the Large Transaction of the Year Award from the Turnaround Management Association. She has been ranked AV Preeminent by Martindale Hubbell for fifteen years, has been named a Top 10 Mountain States Super Lawyer, is ranked by Chambers, has been honored as one of Utah's "Legal Elite" (Utah Business Magazine), and was selected as the 2012 and 2018 Best Lawyers' Lawyer of the Year in Litigation-Bankruptcy in Salt Lake City. She is a frequent lecturer and writer on bankruptcy and insolvency law topics, and is a co-author of "How Secure Are You? Secured Creditors in Commercial and Consumer Bankruptcies," published by the American Bankruptcy Institute. She is also involved in many community and mentoring efforts and in recognition of this work, received the Third Annual Christine M. Durham Public Service Award, the 2014 Women Lawyers of Utah Mentoring Award, and the 2005 Dorothy Merrill Brothers Award for the Advancement of Women in the Legal Profession from the Utah State Bar.
Annette joined the Utah Symphony | Utah Opera Board of Trustees in September 2010 and has served as Secretary of the Board and Chair of the Governance Committee since November 2010. She also chairs a special Boards on Fire Task Force formed in 2019 to energize the board as the organization's most-enthusiastic advocates.
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- Founder and President Unicorn Revenue Operations
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- Chairman of the Strategic Planning Committee
- Member of the Executive Committee
- CEO Search Committee Chair / Strategic Planning Committee Chair / Managing Director, Operations
- Head of Latin America
- Vice Chair / Strategic Planning Committee Chair
Brian is head of Latin America Operations and Salt Lake City Securities Division Operations at Goldman Sachs. Previously, he was head of Bengaluru Securities Division Operations in India, with additional oversight responsibility for Bengaluru Regulatory Operations, Bengaluru Business Architecture and Change Management, Bengaluru Operations Risk Management and Bengaluru Banking, Investing and Lending Operations. He was a member of the Bengaluru Firmwide Operating Committee and sponsored the Bengaluru Operations People Development Committee. Previously, Brian was global head of Listed Derivatives Operations. Earlier in his career, Brian managed various teams in Securities Operations in New York, London and Bengaluru. He joined Goldman Sachs in 1999 as an analyst and was named managing director in 2012.
Brian joined the Utah Symphony | Utah Opera Board of Trustees in September 2017 and was appointed chair of the Strategic Planning Committee in September 2019 and chair of the CEO Search Committee in October 2019. He additionally serves on the Boards on Fire Task Force and the Financial Plan Task Force. He trained as a dramatic tenor as a young adult and now he is a passionate fan of the opera and symphony. He has dedicated a significant portion of his time attending the opera around the world-in London, Paris, Genoa, Modena, Madrid, Stockholm, Rome, and is a long-time patron at The Metropolitan Opera in New York. Brian earned a BA in Economics from Washington and Lee University in 1997. He lives with his wife, two daughters and their dog in Holladay Utah.
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- Member of the Honorary Board
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- Member of the Honorary Board
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- Chairman of the Development Committee
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Development Committee Chair / President, David Dee Fine Arts, LLC
- Development Committee Chair / President, David Dee Fine Arts, LLC / Co - Chair, Lawrence T. Dee & Janet T. Dee Foundation
Passionate about connecting collectors with great art, David L. Dee launched David Dee Fine Arts in 2014. The gallery acquires and sells primarily art of the American West, with an emphasis on early Utah artists; itinerant painters of the Rocky Mountains and the Southwest; and Regional Modernism. Formerly the director of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, David saw an opportunity to bring curatorial knowledge to both first time buyers as well as experienced collectors.
Dee joined the Utah Symphony | Utah Opera Board of Trustees in September 2010 and became Chairman of USUO's Development Committee in September 2011. He also serves on the Executive and Strategic Planning committees. David and his brother, Tim co-chair the Lawrence T. and Janet T. Dee Foundation, a Millennium Level donor to Utah Symphony | Utah Opera. In 2017, the foundation established the Elizabeth Brown Dee Fund for Music in the Schools through a $1 million gift that will continue to build and showcase USUO's education outreach programs throughout the entire state.
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- CEO / US Translation Company
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- Member of the Honorary Board
- Music Festival Advisory Council
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- Member of the Honorary Board
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- Chairman of the Audit Committee
- Chairman of the Executive Committee
- Chairman of the Investment Committee
- Vice Chair / Audit Committee Chair
Prior to his retirement in 2015, Doyle L. Arnold was the vice chairman and chief financial officer for Zions Bancorporation, a bank holding company with approximately $51 billion of assets that operates approximately 500 full-service banking offices throughout the western United States. Arnold joined Zions as CFO in December 2001. Prior to joining Zions, he served in a variety of executive management positions with BankAmerica Corporation in San Francisco over a 10-year period, including group executive vice president for Corporate Strategy and Development. Prior to Bank of America, Arnold held various senior management positions at Wells Fargo & Company, including senior vice president of Corporate Strategy, general auditor and senior vice president of Strategy and Systems. Arnold also served as Senior Deputy Comptroller of the Currency and executive assistant to the Deputy Secretary of the Treasury during the Reagan Administration. He has also served as chief financial and administrative officer of Bankserv, Inc., a leading electronic payments company. Mr. Arnold received a bachelor's degree in Economics and Mathematics from Rice University in Houston in 1970. In 1976, he obtained a Master's of Business Administration (MBA) degree from Stanford University.
Mr. Arnold joined the Utah Symphony | Utah Opera Board of Trustees in January 2015. He was elected to serve as one of three Vice Chairs beginning in September 2019 and is Chair of the Audit Committee as well as the Investment Committee, on which he has served since 2012. He also serves on the Executive and Finance committees. In addition to serving on the USUO Board, Mr. Arnold is a Trustee Emeritus of Rice University, and currently serves on the Board of the Rice Management Company and chairs the Dean of Social Science's Advisory Board.
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- Member of the Honorary Board
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- President, Dixie State University
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- Leadership Advisory Consultant
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- Member of the Honorary Board
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- Senior Vice President, Deseret Management Corporation
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- President, Crocker Ventures, LLC / Chairman, Merrimack Pharmaceuticals
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- Co - Founder and CEO, Edison House
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- Member of the Honorary Board
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- Financial Consultant / Ex - Officio Representatives
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- President, Continental Bank
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- Member of the Honorary Board
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- Member of the Honorary Board
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- Vice Chair
- Vice Chair of the Executive Committee
- Chairman ( Utah )
Joanne Shiebler founded Asset Communications, Inc. and was President until 2009. Prior to that, Joanne was the Vice President of Sales/Marketing and Associate Publisher of Registered Representative and Personal Investor magazines at Plaza Communications in New York. Joanne also founded Current newspapers, a chain of suburban weekly newspapers in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, which grew to a multi-million dollar enterprise. After selling the newspapers to a national media company, Joanne worked as a business and marketing consultant for McGraw-Hill Book Company.
Joanne was elected to the Utah Opera Board of Trustees in 1999 and has continued to serve on the Utah Symphony | Utah Opera Board of Trustees since the 2002 merger of the organization. She was elected to serve as one of three Vice Chairs beginning in 2019, chairs the President's Roundtable, and is a member of the Executive Committee. She co-chaired the 2015-16 USUO CEO Selection Committee that identified Paul Meecham to lead the organization and also co-chaired the 2017 Evening with Renée Fleming fundraising gala in celebration of Utah Opera's 40 th Anniversary Season that netted more than $360,000 to support USUO's extensive education and outreach programs. She and her husband, Bill Shiebler, both serve on the Deer Valley® Music Festival Executive Council and, through their philanthropy as members of the DVMF Founders Trust, were instrumental in the creation of the festival which celebrated its 15 th Season in 2018. They were also Co-Chairs of USUO's Campaign for Perpetual Motion, along with Jesselie and Scott Anderson, Kem and Carolyn Gardner, and Gail Miller and Kim Wilson, which raised substantial funds to celebrate the orchestra's 75 th Anniversary and to propel the organization into future success.
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- National Advisory Council
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- Chairman of the Finance Committee
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Board Member of the Nature Conservancy
- Treasurer / Finance Committee Chair
John D'Arcy was Executive Vice President and Senior Lending Officer at Zions Bank until his retirement in 2014. As Senior Lending Officer, he was chair of the Senior Loan Committee and worked closely with the Zions Bank's commercial lenders, helping them negotiate, structure, and obtain approval for a wide variety of larger credits. Prior to joining Zion's Bank in 1989, D'Arcy worked 22 years for The First national Bank of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois and in Dallas, Texas. A native of Akron, Ohio and Chicago, D'Arcy received a master's of business administration degree from the University of Chicago and holds a bachelor's degree in political science from Hamilton College.
Active in the community, D'Arcy is a board member of The Nature Conservancy, Utah Youth Village, and Utah Symphony | Utah Opera. He is Chair of USUO's Finance Committee and serves on the Executive and Audit Committees. He and his wife, Flora, have three daughters and seven grandchildren.
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- Member of the Honorary Board
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Musician Representative / Associate Concertmaster
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- Region President / Zions Bank
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- Lifetime Trustee
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Chairman of Gardner Company
- Chairman of the Days
- Chairman of the Salt Lake Chamber
- Immediate past Chair / Chairman, Gardner Company
- Trustee of Intermountain Health Care
Kem C. Gardner has served since 2005 as Chairman of Gardner Company, a private commercial real estate company operating in the Intermountain West. During his 43 years in the real estate business, he has been involved in the development of some 3000 residential lots and more than 35 million square feet of corporate office and medical buildings, retail shopping centers, life-style centers, hotels, and industrial/ manufacturing facilities.
Kem, also, has been active in community volunteer service and philanthropy. As a young business leader, he was a member of the Utah Symphony Board of Directors from 1978 to 1984, serving on multiple committees. He rejoined the Board of Trustees of the merged Utah Symphony | Utah Opera in 2011, and served as Chairman of the Board 2017-2019, following the very successful fundraising campaign to celebrate the orchestra's 75 th Anniversary that he and his wife Carolyn Co-Chaired along with Scott and Jesselie Anderson, Gail Miller and Kim Wilson, and Bill and Joanne Shiebler.
Kem has been a Trustee of Intermountain Health Care since 1982 and chaired the Board from 2007 -2013. He chairs the Intermountain Heathcare Foundation. He chaired the successful fundraising campaign for the new Intermountain Medical Center and he established The Kem C. Gardner Transformation Center, designed to be a base for Intermountain's efforts to transform healthcare in ways that are patient-focused and that consistently provide the best clinical outcomes at sustainable costs.
Kem has served as Chairman of the Salt Lake Chamber. He has been involved in transportation initiatives co-chairing the 2015 Transportation Alliance. He has chaired the Salt Lake Airport Authority and been a member of the Utah Air Travel Commission. He also, has been involved in higher education, serving as Chairman of the Utah State Board of Regents and currently serving on the National Advisory Committees of the University of Utah.
Kem served two terms as Chairman of United Way of Salt Lake and on the Executive Committee from 1998 to the present. He is Co-Chair of the Changing the Odds Campaign.
Kem was an original incorporator and Finance Chair of the Salt Lake Olympic Bid Committee. During the highly successful 2002 Olympic Winter Games, he served as Chairman of the 2002 Olympic Ambassadors responsible for fundraising.
Kem is the Chairman of The Days of 47 Rodeo. He has served on the Board of Pioneer Theater Company Board.
Kem has set up with the University of Utah, The Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute as part of the Thomas S. Monson Center.
Kem received his Bachelor of Arts (1967) and Juris Doctorate (1970) Degrees from the University of Utah. He and his wife Carolyn are the parents of seven children and 30 grandchildren.
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- Member of the Honorary Board
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- Member of the Honorary Board
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- Member of the Honorary Board
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- Director Community and Business Relations
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- Arts Advocate and Philanthropist
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- Member of the Honorary Board
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- Lifetime Trustee
- Music Director Search Committee Chair
Ms. Richards is a Lifetime Trustee of the USUO Board of Trustees, Chair of the Music Director Search Committee, and a member of the Executive Committee. She served as Chair of the Utah Symphony | Utah Opera Board of Trustees from 2005 to 2014 and additionally served as USUO Interim President & CEO from July 2015 to July 2016 and September 2019 to August 2020. Her further community service has included Chair of the Board of Governors of the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce, Chair of the Board of United Way of Salt Lake, President of the Salt Lake Rotary Foundation, National Advisory Board of the David Eccles School of Business, Westminster College Board of Trustees, and Governor's Economic Council.
Ms. Richards served as Chair of the League of American Orchestras Board of Directors from 2014 to 2017 and has served as a panelist at several national conferences. In 2013 she received the National Opera Trustee Recognition Award from Opera America and the Governor's Leadership in the Arts Award from the State of Utah. She received the Governor's Lifetime Achievement Award at Utah Philanthropy Day 2014.
Ms. Richards holds a B.A. in Economics from Northwestern University and did graduate work in Business Administration at Northwestern University and the University of Utah. She received the Athena Award from the Salt Lake Chamber in 2000 and The Distinguished Banker Award from The Utah Bankers Association in 2007.
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- Member of the Honorary Board
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- Member of the Honorary Board
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- General Manager / Promontory Club
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- Executive Director of the Governor 's Office of Economic Development
- Government Relations Committee Chair / Executive Director, Governor 's Office of Economic Development
- Government Relations Committee Chair / Executive Director, Utah Governor 's Office of Economic Development Owner, Red Hanger Cleaners
Dan Hemmert is executive director of the Governor's Office of Economic Development (GOED). Prior to his appointment, Hemmert owned and operated Red Hanger Cleaners, a multi-store retail dry cleaning operation and a disaster recovery/fabric restoration business. He also was a partner in five restaurants. In addition to dry cleaning, Hemmert served part-time in the Utah State Senate, where he was the Republican Majority Whip. Prior to dry cleaning and politics, Hemmert was a managing director of a private equity fund, the CFO of a family office/asset management firm, the CFO of a venture-backed technology company (successfully sold), and he also spent a year as an associate at a large international law firm.
Dan has an undergraduate degree in economics, a master's degree in business administration, and a law degree, all from Brigham Young University. He lives in Orem, Utah, is married with 6 wonderful kids and he likes to read, ski, run, bike, climb mountains, and cook. He was elected to join the Utah Symphony | Utah Opera Board of Trustees beginning September 2019 and is Chair of the Government Relations Committee.
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- Arts Advocate and Philanthropist
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- Member of the Honorary Board
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- Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer Altabank
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- Member of the Honorary Board
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- USUO President & CEO
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- Chairman of the Executive Committee
- Chairman of the Nominating Committee
- Chairman / Nominating Committee Chair / President and Founding Partner
- Chairman / President, Love Communications
- President of Love Communications
Thomas M. Love, President of Love Communications, is definitely ‘hands on' when it comes to nearly every major Love Communications account, Tom is particularly involved with developing long-term strategies and promotional partnerships for clients as well as growing new business for the agency overall. In 2002, the Utah Advertising Federation selected Tom as Professional of the Year and in 2015, the American Advertising Federation of Utah (AAF-Utah) honored Tom with its highest recognition, the 2015 Silver Medal Award.
Prior to founding Love Communications in 1999, Tom was General Sales Manager of KTVX-Channel 4 in Utah for more than a decade. He also has prior experience in sales for AT&T, KUTV-Channel 2, and TCI Cablevision.
As the primary ‘face' of Love Communications, Tom remains highly visible and involved in the community. He is a three-time former chairman of the Board of Directors for United Way of Salt Lake and is chair of the Public Policy Committee and serves on the Executive Committee. He's also currently serving as an adjunct instructor for the Department of Communication at the University of Utah.
Tom joined the USUO Board of Trustees in September 2014 and has served as Chair of the Nominating Committee and a member of the Strategic Planning, Government Relations, and Executive committees. Tom's ideas have led to several of the organization's most-successful attention garnering initiatives, including tours with concerts in the state of Utah's renowned natural spaces. He was unanimously elected to serve as Chair of the Board beginning September 2019.
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- Attorney / Private Practice
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- Chief Executive Officer / Intuitive Funding, LLC
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- Chairman of the Nominating Committee
- Nominating Committee Chair / President and Principal Broker
- President and Principal Broker of Summit Sotheby 's International Realty
Thomas Wright owns and serves as President and Principal Broker of Summit Sotheby's International Realty. Since stepping in as the managing partner in 2008, the company has become the top brokerage in the prestigious Park City resort community and the leading residential real estate brokerage in the state of Utah. Together, with his business partner, Thomas also owns and operates Sierra Sotheby's International Realty in Lake Tahoe and Reno, Nevada; Las Vegas Sotheby's International Realty; Sun Valley Sotheby's International Realty; Desert SIR in Palm Springs; and LIV Sotheby's International Realty in Colorado. The combined companies represent the largest Sotheby's International Realty affiliate in the world, by dollar volume. In 2021, the combined companies closed $15 billion in transaction volume.
To achieve this market position, Thomas has brought his relentless work ethic, creative thinking, vision, and an invaluable understanding of the real estate brokerage industry. Thomas is inspired by those he works with and consistently credits the company's success to his talented team of approximately 1,000 sales associates and incomparable administrative staff of over 250 dedicated individuals, backed by the support of the remarkable Sotheby's International Realty brand.
Thomas remains incredibly dedicated to his loyal clients who he continues to represent in and around the Salt Lake Valley. Thomas has extensive experience in many of the valley's most prestigious golf communities, St. Mary's and Salt Lake's East Bench, Holladay and along the Wasatch back. Thomas is fueled by his belief that luxury is not a price point, but an exceptional customer experience. Despite his many responsibilities, Thomas makes a point to prioritize his clients and continues to be a top-performing sales agent in Salt Lake County.
Thomas' impressive success story has caught the attention of the Sotheby's International Realty network. As a result, Thomas has become a nationally recognized speaker and advisor. His most notable topics include improving individual agents and brokerage profitability, sales associate recruiting, new development marketing, and brokerage management.
A civically-minded person, Thomas has become a vocal advocate for solving the affordable housing crisis in Utah and is proud to serve in a number of different capacities with several key organizations - Utah State Board of Regents, Dixie State University Board of Trustees, United Way of Utah, Co-chair of the Utah Debate Commission, World Trade Center of Utah, Chairman of the Utah Republican Party and Republican National Committee where he served as vice chair. He joined the Utah Symphony | Utah Opera Board of Trustees in September 2015 and was appointed chair of the Nominating Committee in September 2019.
With all his commitments, Thomas considers the most important to be his family. He currently resides in Salt Lake City with his wife, Caroline, and their four children. Thomas also enjoys golfing, fishing, volunteering in his local community, and the more recent adventure of running for Governor in the State of Utah in 2020 during a global pandemic.
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- Chairman
- Managing Director / Vectra Management