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2019 NAC Fall Conference
Speakers
We are pleased to announce the following speakers for the 2019 NAC Fall Conference:
Kim B. Clark received a bachelor of arts, a master of arts, and a PhD, all in economics, from Harvard University. He became a faculty member at the Harvard Business School in 1978 and was named dean of that school in 1995. He served in that capacity until summer 2005, when he was named the president of Brigham Young University–Idaho.
Clark has served in a number of church callings, including full-time missionary in the South German Mission, elders quorum president, ward executive secretary, counselor in a bishopric, bishop, high councilor, counselor in a stake mission presidency, and General Authority Seventy.
Kim was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, on March 20, 1949. He married Sue Lorraine Hunt in June 1971. They are the parents of seven children.
Sheri Dew is the executive vice president of Deseret Management Company, which owns and operates the for-profit companies owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Dew's responsibility includes oversight for the church's for-profit media entities, including Deseret Book, Deseret News, Bonneville International, Bonneville Communications, and Deseret Digital Media.
She formerly served as president and CEO of Deseret Book Company. In 2002 she was named a White House delegate to the Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations. She served from 1997–2002 as a member of the Relief Society General Presidency. Dew joined the NAC in 2000.
Jeff Dyer (PhD UCLA), is the Horace Beesley Professor of Strategy. He was recently ranked No.1 on a list of most impactful management scholars in the world, based upon citations and Google searches, among those who received PhDs after 1991. He was also ranked as the fourth most-cited management scholar from 1996–2006 and his “Relational View” article in Academy of Management Review was the second-most cited article in business from 1998-2008. Dyer is the only strategy scholar to have published at least five times in both the Strategic Management Journal and Harvard Business Review. His Harvard Press book, The Innovator’s DNA, has been published in twelve languages and is a business bestseller, and his research has been featured in publications such as Forbes, Economist, Fortune, BusinessWeek, and The Wall Street Journal.
Randal Keith Quarles is an American private equity investor and government official who has served as a member and vice chair for the supervision of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors since October 2017. Previously he was the founder and head of the Cynosure Group, a private investment firm, and a former partner of the Carlyle Group, one of the world's largest private equity firms. From August 2001 until October 2006, he held several financial policy posts in the George W. Bush administration, ultimately serving as under secretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance.
In July 2017, Quarles was nominated by President Donald Trump to be a board member and vice chair for the supervision of the Federal Reserve. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on October 5, 2017, by a 65–32 vote on the board seat and by voice vote on the vice chair position. The bank supervision position had been created under the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial law but had never been filled before 2017. In 2012, Quarles was widely mentioned as a possible treasury secretary or senior White House advisor in future Republican administrations.
Eva M. Witesman (PhD) is an expert in strategic planning and evidence-based innovation, including a full range of quantitative and qualitative program-evaluation tools, techniques and practices. Witesman focuses her work on the public and nonprofit sectors, seeking to improve public outcomes through data-informed management.
Through her faculty appointment in the BYU MPA program, Witesman provides pro-bono evaluation and analysis services to select community partners.