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O. Ross Sanders is retired from American Express, where he worked as financial advisor. Before employment with American Express, Sanders was a rancher and the proprietor of three Western Auto dealerships. He also developed Sanders Real Estate & Development Company and is still active in its endeavors. He and his wife, Maurine, have five children, thirty-seven grandchildren, and seventeen great-grandchildren. They reside in Clearfield, Utah, and enjoy traveling around the world. Sanders received his BS in accountancy from BYU in 1939.
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1966
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N. Robison has been elected chairman of the Canadian
Trucking Alliance for a two-year term. This organization
represents about three thousand trucking companies
across Canada and is the equivalent to the American
Trucking Association in the United States.
Robison is president and CEO of Reimer Express Lines,
Ltd., of Canada, a company owned by Roadway Express
that serves the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
It is the largest less-than-truckload carrier in North
America. Robison is married to Yvonne Jones, has seven
children, ten grandchildren, and resides in Winnipeg,
Manitoba, Canada. He earned a BS in accountancy from
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1969
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 James Moeller is an attorney with Bury, Moeller, O'Meara & Gage, a litigation defense firm based in Tucson, Arizona. After earning his BS in accountancy from BYU in 1969, he earned his JD from the University of Arizona in 1969. He and his wife, Marina, are the proud parents of six children. |
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1971
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Joseph W. Roberts is retired and is a full-time volunteer with CASI Foundation for Children, where he manages the adoptions of Chinese orphans. He graduated in 1971 with a BS in accountancy from BYU and resides in Boise, Idaho.
Harold D. Young is area leader for an insurance company that handles long-term care needs of seniors. He always wanted to live in the mountains, so he recently moved to Liberty, Utah. Young graduated in 1971 with a BS in accountancy from BYU.
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1974
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Raymond M. Brown recently joined Crown Equipment Corp. as a tax manager. He resides in Sidney, Ohio. He graduated in 1974 with a MAcc from BYU.
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 Christian M. Feinauer is the sales manager in charge of U.S. Bank's Northwest Region. His responsibilities include leading three sales teams that cover Oregon, Washington, Utah, and Idaho. Before joining U.S. Bank, Feinauer was a vice president and sales officer with First Security Bank of Utah.
He serves as president-elect of the Salt Lake City Management Society Chapter and previously served as finance director and membership chairman. He earned his BS with an emphasis in finance from BYU in 1980. He is married to Jacquelyn Gunnell. They have five children and reside in South Jordan, Utah. |
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1981
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Bernhardt has been named vice president and client
manager in the North Valley Commercial Banking's Sacramento
office. He is responsible for working with middle-market
banking clients, providing depository, lending, cash
management, and business service products and developing
new client relationships.
Bernhardt has more than fifteen years of banking experience
working as client manager in both commercial and real
estate lending units. Bernhardt earned his bachelor's
degree from Stanford University in 1979 and his MBA
from BYU in 1981.
Russ Gubler is senior vice president and chief
operating officer (COO) of worldwide studios with
Activision, Inc., www.Activision.com, in Santa Monica,
California. Activision is a developer and publisher
of interactive games for the Playstation 2, X-box,
Playstation, Dreamcast, N64, Game Boy Color, Game
Boy Advanced, and PC.
Before his employment with Activision, Gubler held
positions as COO of Tiburon Entertainment, COO of
Electronic Arts, Inc., vice president of finance of
Morgan Creek Productions, vice president/controller
of Samuel Goldwyn Company, and auditor with Pricewaterhouse.
Gubler is married to Theresa Wojcik, vice president
and director of client services for Spelling Communications.
They reside in Topanga, California. He earned his
BS in accountancy from BYU in 1981.
 Lindsay
K. Mann has been promoted to CEO of Kaweah Delta
Health Care District General Acute Care Hospital and
Health Care System. He has been with the company for
twenty years. He received his BS in international
affairs from BYU in 1979 and his MPA from BYU in 1981.
He and his wife, Lesa, are the parents of five children
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 Stephen Q. Spencer is senior portfolio manager and head of equity funds for WM Advisors,WM Group of Funds. His responsibilities include managing the WM Mid Cap Fund and comanaging the WM Growth & Income Fund. Before joining WM Advisors, Spencer was a partner with Smoot, Miller, Cheney & Co. He earned his BS with an emphasis in finance in 1983 and his MBA in 1985 from BYU. He resides in Sammamish, Washington.
Mark Wiest is general sales manager for KSL Television in Salt Lake City. His wife, Dana Cutler, works for Intermountain Health Care in new employee and manager training and orientation. Mark earned a BA in public relations from BYU in 1982 and an MBA from BYU in 1985. Dana earned her MPA from the Marriott School in 1987. They have four children. |
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1986
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 For the last ten months, Anek Nuntapreda has been working in Thailand for Health Food, Co. LTD, a multilevel marketing business that specializes in processing food from chicken. "We make more than 130 kinds of products from chicken, including sausage, chicken balls, ham, bolona, cake, and cookies," Nuntapreda says.
Health Food, Co. LTD is a subsidiary of Sahafarms, Co. LTD. With thirty-two years of experience, Sahafarms exports frozen chicken to fifty-two countries and has been the champion for exported frozen chicken from Thailand for six consecutive years. "I expect that our company will double its exports in the next couple of years," Nuntapreda reports. "We are already focusing on expanding business in Malaysia, Cambodia, HongKong, Taiwan, and England."
Nuntapreda earned his MBA with a marketing emphasis at the Marriott School in 1986. He and his wife, Khemaphan, reside in Banlamung, Thailand. |
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Michelle Hughes was recently promoted to financial analyst at San Jose Water Company after spending nine years as the internal auditor and utility plant accountant. She and her husband, David, have a two-year-old son and live in San Jose, California. Hughe's hobbies include photography and scrapbooking. She graduated from BYU with a BS in accountancy in 1987.
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 Garth Reed is a senior auditor for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was awarded the William S. Smith Certificate for Excellence for his performance on the November 2000 Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) Examination. Reed earned the prestigious award for receiving one of the top five scores on the four-part exam.
Reed has completed all of the CIA's program requirements and is now a certified internal auditor. In addition to this designation, Reed is a certified public accountant. He earned a BS in accountancy from the Marriott School with university honors cum laude and a MAcc from the Marriott School in 1989. |
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 Matthew Scott Hunter embarked on a new adventure less than a year ago when he moved with his wife, Susan Marie, and his four children to Santiago, Chile. Using the Spanish he learned on his mission in Argentina, he works as a partner at KPMG Tax and Legal Services in Santiago.
Before moving to South America, Hunter worked at Itron, Inc., in several positions, including vice president of international operations, international controller, and tax director. He also worked at Beckman Instruments as international tax manager. Hunter earned a BA in Spanish translation and a BS in accountancy from BYU in 1987 and a MAcc from the Marriott School in 1990.
Roger P. Evans is vice president and general manager of Salt Lake City operations for Cephalon, Inc., a pharmaceutical company. He resides in West Jordan with his wife, Kristi, and three children. Evans earned both his BS in information systems and his MAcc from the Marriott School in 1990. |
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Dan Law is in the dissertation stage of a PhD in business administration. He has three children and resides in Pullman, Washington. His interests include outdoor activities such as paintball, hiking, and camping. Law earned a BS in accountancy from the Marriott School in 1991.
Darin Orr joined the Utah practice of Deloitte & Touche last year as a tax senior manager specializing in international tax. Before moving to Salt Lake City, he worked in the New York, San Francisco, and San Diego offices of Deloitte & Touche. Orr earned his MAcc from the Marriott School in 1991.
Tom Robinson is a partner in the firm of Butler, Robinson, and Associates. He has four children and lives on ten acres in Mica, Washington, with horses, rabbits, and wildlife. He graduated from BYU with a BS in accountancy in 1991.
David Sheen is a master's student in Arizona State University's educational technology program. After receiving his BS in information management from the Marriott School in 1991, he went on to earn his MBA from the University of Arizona in 1995. Sheen enjoys spending time with his two children and teaching ballroom dance in his local single adult program. He resides in Mesa, Arizona.
Scott Taylor was recently promoted to partner in Piercy, Bowler, Taylor, and Kern, a large accounting firm. He specializes in tax consulting with an emphasis in partnerships and real estate ventures. He and his wife have four children and another on the way. They reside in Las Vegas, Nevada. Taylor graduated with a BS in accountancy from the Marriott School in 1991.
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 Brian T. Kofford, CPA, has started a new public accounting and tax firm, Kofford and Associates, Inc., located in Provo. Kofford and Associates, Inc., provides tax preparation, tax planning, accounting, and business consulting services. Kofford has more than eight years experience in public accounting. He earned his MAcc from the Marriott School in 1992. |
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 A. Lance Grundvig is assistant controller at AchieveGlobal, a company that specializes in leadership, management, and customer-service training. Before joining AchieveGlobal, Grundvig worked as an internal auditor at ZCMI. He and his wife, Julianne, are the parents of four children and reside in Highland, Utah. He earned his MAcc from the Marriott School in 1993. |
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Darin "Dru" R. Underwood is performance audit supervisor for the Utah office of the legislative auditor general—the "watchdog" arm of the Utah State Legislature. He earned a BS in family, home, and social sciences from BYU in 1992, and his MPA from the Marriott School in 1994. While at BYU, Underwood performed with the Young Ambassadors and toured in Russia and Germany. He and his wife, Kim, have four children, twins included, and reside in West Jordan, Utah.
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 Bryan T. Pocock of Salt Lake City is working as manager of strategic development for Embratel—Empresa Brasileira de Telecomunicações, S.A—in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Embratel, a subsidiary of Worldcom, is one of the top twenty-five publicly traded companies in Latin America and is the main long distance and data carrier in Brazil. Pocock's duties include international mergers and acquisitions work as well as strategic corporate planning.
Pocock moved to Embratel after working as a Latin American analyst for Pyramid Research, the telecommunications and technology consultancy of The Economist Group. Pocock earned a BS in management from the Marriott School in 1995 and a JD/MBA in 1999 from Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. He is a member of the Utah State Bar Association. |
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Kevin Kohler is an FBI special agent stationed in Des Moines, Iowa. A large number of his cases involve white-collar crimes, bank robberies, drugs, and other federal crimes. He earned his MAcc from the Marriott School in 1996.
Ritchie W. Taylor and his wife, Bethie, reside in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he is an attorney with the law firm of Manning, Fulton & Skinner P.A. He concentrates his practice on corporate and partnership law, mergers and acquisitions, taxation, and franchise law. He graduated with a BS in finance from the Marriott School in 1996 and a JD from BYU in 1999.
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B. Nelson has been promoted to financial and analytical
consulting manager at Andersen, formerly called Arthur
Andersen. His responsibilities include planning and
supervising engagements in the telecommunications,
technology, automotive safety, waste, and construction
industries. He is also involved in intellectual property
issues including complex litigation and intellectual
asset management. Nelson earned his BS in accountancy
from the Marriott School in 1997. He is married, has
two children, and resides in Salt Lake City, Utah.
 Scott
Snow has been appointed executive director of
the Utah Commission on Volunteers by the Lieutenant
Governor of Utah. Since 1997, Snow has served as vice
president and director of community and volunteer
services for the United Way of Utah County. He is
also chair of the Utah Volunteer Centers Association.
Snow is active in many community outreach efforts,
including the IHC Provo Community Outreach Council,
the Family Partnership of Utah County Advisory Council,
the Utah Alliance of Information and Referral Services,
the Connections Council, the Service Council of Utah
County, and the Youth Service Council. He is also
an administrator of the Utah County Success by Six
and Sub for Santa programs.
On a national level, Snow is a member of the Points
of Light Foundation and Volunteer Center National
Network. He has helped develop national standards
of excellence for volunteer centers. Snow received
a BS in geography from BYU in1994 and an MPA from
the Marriott School in 1997. |
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