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Taylor Randall is the Dean of The University of Utah David Eccles School of Business. Under Randall’s care the school, it has become ranked in the Top 25 entrepreneurship rankings for both undergraduate and graduate programs. Randall has received many awards: Executive MBA Teaching Award,Distinguished Teaching Award from Brady Alumni, Best MBA Professor from the Utah Graduate Business Students, and David Eccles Emerging School from the University of Utah, just to name a few. Randall also serves as an Advisor of EPIC Ventures and has worked on research and consulting projects for many different companies. Randall received his Bachelors...

Brad Pelo is an entrepreneur and movie producer. His story was first chronicled in the New York Times as a “Teen Entrepreneur” long before it was acceptable to drop out of school and start a business at a young age. His first business, started at age fifteen, brought real estate listings to the computer age. After his LDS mission to Michigan he attended BYU and joined four fellow students to cofound Folio, the creator of one of the earliest search engines and predecessor to companies like Google. Folio was successful enough to garner the attention of the market incumbent...

Mike Murray currently serves as the vice chairman of the Self-Reliance Services / PEF department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (see srs.lds.org). This organization provides training, tools, processes and support to help members throughout the world become spiritually and temporally self-reliant, and includes the historic Perpetual Education Fund. In 2015, nearly 250,000 members took part in training programs sponsored by Self-Reliance Services. Since 2000 Mike has been deeply involved in poverty alleviation and self-reliance related work throughout the developing world. He served as mission president from 2007-2010 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and is currently serving as...

Mala Grewal is the Executive Facilitator at General Assembly and the founder of The Talent Catalyst, a program that helps people, including students, discover their passion and to reach their highest potential. She is a talented author and speaker currently working with both FranklinCovey and InsideOut Development. She earned her BA in Marketing from BYU (2003) and her MA from the University of San Diego (2010). She currently lives in New York...

Jason Hewlett has over 2,000 events and performances in his 15 year career, for Fortune 500 companies, and clients such as American Express, Delta Airlines, 2002 Salt Lake Olympics, Coca~Cola, Wells Fargo, Experian, NuSkin, Younique and many more. Jason’s One-Man Show of Music, Comedy, Parody & Impressions has received Best of State honors in the Arts & Entertainment category numerous times in his home state of Utah, and is received by standing ovations...