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Status: SUSTAINING PLATINUM
Member Year: 1994
Education:
- BS, Communications, 1966, BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY
Expertise:
-Not For Profit/NGO - Operations Manager - Owner - President - Angel Investor
Biography:
Gibson has created more than a dozen entrepreneurial businesses, including Barclays Oxygen Homecare, which was named as one of the 500 Fastest Growing Companies in the U.S. by Inc. magazine. Gibson co-founded the Utah Angels, an investor group, which has provided well over $20 million in financing to Utah entrepreneurs. Gibson has authored 150 articles on entrepreneurial topics for the Deseret News, Salt Lake City's leading daily newspaper. He received the Small Business Administration Award for Utah Media of the Year. Gibson is also heavily involved with microenterprise for the poor. He and his wife, Bette, founded the Academy for Creating Enterprise in the Philippines. The Academy is a school designed to teach microenterprise development among Filipino returned missionaries. Nearly 1,500 returned missionaries have been trained in the 8-week residential training facility.
Networking Interests:
Alleviation of Family Poverty
Management Philosophy:
You don't have to beat up the rich to lift up the poor. To be what you are not, you must do what you do not. First with the head, then with the heart, you'll be ahead right from the start.
Personal Philosophy:
"It's not the dollars we stack up, but the lives we lift up that give us the greatest joy in this life and the life to come."
Family Profile:
Four adult children--no more expected. Thirteen grandchildren--many more expected.
Hobbies and Interests:
Travel, cruising, writing, teaching, and mentoring.
Favorite Book:
Christ's Ideals for Living by O.C. Tanner
Favorite Movie:
Dead Poet's Society
Favorite Quote:
'Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.' by Henry David Thoreau.
Favorite Scripture:
Mosiah 2:24--And ye are still indebted unto him, and are, and will be forever and ever; therefore of what have ye to boast.
Favorite Food:
ice cold Dr Pepper
Favorite Vacation Spot:
The back end of any cruise ship heading for Alaska, Norway, or New Zealand.
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