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2018 BYU Strategy Professionals Conference
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Sterling Anderson is a world expert in autonomous vehicle technology. In the late 2000's, his work in shared autonomy at MIT paved the way for broad advances in cooperative control of human-machine systems. Sterling briefly advised tech, auto, and aerospace executives as an engagement manager with McKinsey & Company before leaving to lead the design, development, and launch of the award-winning Tesla Model X. In 2015, Sterling led the team that developed, shipped and evolved Tesla Autopilot from its release and evolution on the first generation platform through launch of the second. In December of 2016, he co-founded Aurora to bring the benefits of self-driving to market quickly, broadly and safely. Sterling holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Brigham Young University and an MS and PhD in robotics from MIT.
David is an Associate Professor of strategy at the Marriott School. He conducts research in the area of corporate strategy and has published in academic journals such as Management Science and Organization Science and teaches strategy to undergraduates, MBAs, and executives. He has also collaborated on a number of articles for senior executives, publishing twice in the Harvard Business Review in the last 5 years. For 20 years, David has served as consultant on strategy to executives of start-ups, mid-market companies, and major corporations, including Procter & Gamble, Microsoft, and Johnson & Johnson. David earned his Ph.D. in strategy and applied economics at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Professor Christensen holds a B.A. from Brigham Young University and an M.Phil. in applied econometrics from Oxford University where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. He received an MBA and a DBA from the Harvard Business School, where he is currently the Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration. He also is a Senior Lecturer in Radiology at the Harvard Medical School. He is regarded as one of the world’s top experts on innovation and growth.
Christensen founded a number of successful companies and organizations which use his theories in various ways. These include: Innosight, a consulting firm helping companies create new growth businesses; Rose Park Advisors, a firm that identifies and invests in disruptive companies; and The Christensen Institute, a non-profit think tank whose mission is to apply his theories to vexing societal problems such as healthcare, education, and economic growth.
Professor Christensen is the best-selling author of eleven books and several hundred articles, including the New York Times best-selling, How Will You Measure Your Life?. The Economist magazine named The Innovator’s Dilemma as one of the six most important books about business ever written. A biannual poll of thousands of executives, consultants and business school professors in 2011 and again in 2013 named Christensen as the most influential business thinker in the world. He received the 2015 Edison Achievement Award for his significant and lasting contributions to innovation.
Professor Christensen was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. He worked as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Republic of Korea from 1971 to 1973 and continues to serve in his church in as many ways as he can. He and his wife Christine live in Belmont, MA. They are the parents of five children and grandparents to eight grandchildren.
Carine Clark is a three-time president and CEO of high-growth tech companies, specializing in helping companies scale from $10 million to $100 million or more. Her reputation as a data-driven marketing executive at Novell, Altiris and Symantec opened doors to lead Allegiance, MartizCX and Banyan as president and CEO. She attributes her success to building an abundant team of teams culture, demonstrating that companies accelerate their growth when they multiply their people.
As a cancer survivor, Clark channels her deep appreciation for life and relationships into advocating that tech professionals pay it forward by mentoring young people. In addition, Clark serves on the executive boards of GOED (The Utah Governor's Office of Economic Development) and Silicon Slopes, a non-profit helping Utah’s tech community thrive. She has received numerous awards including the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year® Award in the Utah Region and Utah Business Magazine’s CEO of the Year. Clark earned a bachelor’s degree in organizational communications and an MBA from Brigham Young University and enjoys traveling, exploring and doing hard things with her family.
As president and CEO of Ivanti, Steve Daly is responsible for driving new and existing Ivanti business, as well as the creation of innovative IT management solutions. He has made 10 acquisitions over the past several years to build Ivanti into a leading provider of enterprise software. Daly served as senior vice president of corporate strategy for Avocent Corporation from 2003 through December 2006 and was responsible for driving strategic planning and business development. He previously served as president and CEO of Soronti Inc., a remote management vendor acquired by Avocent in 2003. Before Soronti, Daly managed various marketing and finance positions at Intel Corporation and was director of marketing for the Ivanti Systems Management division of Intel. Daly holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and an MBA from Brigham Young University.
Jeff Dyer (Ph.D UCLA), the Horace Beesley Distinguished Professor of Strategy, was recently ranked #1 on a list of most “influential” management scholars among those who received their Ph.D’s after 1991 (ranking was based upon academic citations, he has over 35,000, and non.edu Google searches to his name; he has over 500,000). His “Relational View” article in AMR was recognized by Science Watch as the 2nd most cited article in business from 1998-2008. Jeff is the only strategy scholar to have published at least 6 times in both Strategic Management Journal and Harvard Business Review (8 times). His Harvard Press books, The Innovator’s DNA and Innovator’s Method are bestsellers and have been published in 15 languages and his book, Collaborative Advantage won the Shingo Prize Research Award. He has written multiple Forbes cover stories; his research has been featured in Forbes, Economist, Fortune, BusinessWeek, Wall Street Journal, etc.
Matt Eyring is the Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer at Vivint Smart Home, the leading smart home services provider in North America. He oversees the Vivint Innovation Center, which includes the company's technology, product development, new business development, and strategy functions. Fast Company named Vivint one of the World's 50 Most Innovative Companies in 2017.
Before joining Vivint in 2012, Matt was the Managing Partner of Innosight, a global strategy and innovation consulting firm. He led worldwide strategy and operations, as well as the healthcare and emerging markets practices. Matt was one of the founding partners at the firm with Clayton Christensen, and helped the firm grow to its current leadership position.
Matt currently serves on the National Presidential Advisory Board of Utah Valley University. He is the co-author of several Harvard Business Review articles. Matt has a bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Utah and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
Mark is a partner in the Dallas Office, which he founded in 1990. Over the past 30 years, Mark has advised chief executives and top-level managers in a wide range of industries. He has served in a range of leadership positions within Bain, including leader of the global Performance Improvement practice and as a member of the firm’s Board of Directors.
Mark is currently the global lead of Bain’s Complexity Management and Performance Improvement Diagnosticâ„ areas, and he is also a leader in the firm’s Strategy, Industrial Goods & Services and Oil & Gas practices. Mark’s client work is primarily focused on full potential programs, revenue enhancement, cost reduction, complexity management and major change programs.
Mark is the author of The Breakthrough Imperative book, and has written extensively for publications such as the Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, Singapore Business Times, South China Morning Post, London Business School’s Business Strategy Review, World Business Review, and The Edge(Malaysia).
Mark is fluent in Japanese and has worked extensively in Japan. In 2005, Consulting Magazine named him one of the world’s top twenty-five consultants.
He graduated magna cum laude from Brigham Young University and in 1983 he received his MBA from Harvard Business School with high distinction.
Karen Harris is the Managing Director of Bain & Company's Macro Trends Group. She is based out of the firm's New York office.
The Bain Macro Trends Group (MTG) is the capability group for developing Bain's insights about global macroeconomics, macro social trends and geopolitics as they impact the results of Bain's clients. The group's proprietary research includes work on trends driving global growth in GDP and in capital markets, as well as specific geographic analyses (including China, the United States and the Eurozone), which it uses to help clients understand the potential impact of the volatile global environment on their businesses.
Karen frequently works with institutional investors to embed macro strategy into their investment strategy and due diligence.
She is regularly featured in major media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Forbes, Economic Times of India, Caijing China, CEO ForumAustralia, Bloomberg Television and Global Entrepolis Singapore.
She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the National Committee on US-China Relations and the Economics Club of New York. She also serves on the Board of Pencils of Promise, a non-profit that partners with local communities in developing countries to build schools, focusing on early education, high potential females and building young leadership at home and abroad.
Karen has an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School and a JD from Columbia Law School. She graduated with honors from Stanford University, where she received a BA in Economics and a BA in International Relations.
Josh founded Domo in 2010 to transform the way CEOs and other executives manage their business and to help drive value from the tens of billions of dollars spent on traditional business intelligence systems.
Prior to Domo, Josh served as CEO of Omniture, a SaaS-based web analytics company that he co-founded in 1996 and took public in 2006. Omniture was the number one returning venture investment out of 1,008 venture capital investments in 2004, as well as the number two performing technology IPO of 2006. For the three years that Omniture was public, Josh was the youngest CEO of a NASDAQ or NYSE-traded company. In 2009, he facilitated Omniture’s sale to Adobe for $1.8 billion.
An active member of the Utah business community, Josh is passionate about promoting the state’s economic development and he is equally devoted to entrepreneurship. He founded CEO.com, a resource to help founders and CEOs stay up to date with what’s happening at the executive level across top industries, as well as stay armed with the latest leadership strategies and best practices. He also founded Silicon Slopes, a private-sector initiative whose mission is to promote the interests of Utah’s high-tech industry. With former Governor Leavitt, Josh lead the charge for the Utah Silicon Valley Alliance for entrepreneurs, an economic development program designed to attract the best of California’s technology industry to Utah’s business-friendly environment. He has served as an advisor on the technology and startup community to the two most recent governors, Governor Jon Huntsman and Governor Gary Herbert.
Josh actively supports Brigham Young University’s (BYU) eBusiness Center, the Utah Technology Council and Utah’s Women Tech Council. He is an ardent supporter of BYU’s Young Ambassadors, a world-traveled student group that opens doors in foreign countries to American ideals through the performing arts. Josh also serves as a member of the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders, a worldwide community of individuals committed to, and recognized for, their proven leadership and potential in shaping the future.
In 2012, the Utah Technology Council inducted Josh into its Hall of Fame and Mountain West Capital Network named Josh its Entrepreneur of the Year. In 2011, Fortune Magazine recognized him as one of its “40 Under 40: Ones to Watch” and, in 2009, as one of its “40 Under 40″ top business executives. He was named the 2006 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year and Brigham Young University’s Technology Entrepreneur of the Decade.
He studied business management and entrepreneurship at Brigham Young University. Josh has six daughters.
I’m fortunate enough to have spent the last decade or so doing what I love best: invest in technology start-ups. But that’s not to say my career path has been predictable. Unless, of course, people in my profession typically move sprinkler pipe around an alfalfa field, loft hay bales, and shovel manure.
I should probably explain that I grew up on a farm in Bancroft, Idaho. My father was an old-school entrepreneur and farmer — the kind of guy who knows that if you come in from the fields with clean hands, you’re probably doing something wrong.
He may have worn overalls to work, but he had a firmer grip on wheat and grain futures than the traders on Wall Street. And not by accident, either. His father ran a furniture and carpentry startup. And his father’s father ran a fleet of fishing vessels on the Baltic Sea in East Prussia. So, needless to say, hard work is something of a family tradition.
As for me, I’ve spent my entire career in the software business doing everything from sales and marketing to M&A and, eventually, venture investing.
I also sort of enjoy running marathons with my family and a few of my partners at Pelion. And, occasionally, I enjoy an old-fashioned doughnut or three. (Which is probably why I sort of enjoy marathons.)
I managed to graduate from North Gem High in Bancroft, Idaho in the top ten of my class (the fact that there were only 21 students in my graduating class certainly helped) and I have an economics degree from Brigham Young University where, thankfully, my graduating class was much bigger.
Randy Shumway founded the Cicero Group (www.cicerogroup.com) in 2001. It began humbly, with four people working out of Randy’s house. At the beginning of 2017, when Randy stepped down as CEO, Cicero had grown to a highly-respected, global strategy consulting firm. In 2016, Randy was awarded Utah’s Lifetime Accomplishment and CEO of the Year in recognition of his professional accomplishments. In addition, since 2010, Cicero has repeatedly been recognized as one of the Best Companies to Work, Fastest Growing Companies, and Best of State.
Randy’s vision in founding the company was for Cicero to reside at the crossroads of data, strategy, and change management, with Cicero helping organizations make and implement better decisions by harnessing the massive amounts of information increasingly available.
During his more than 17 years at Cicero, Randy has led multiple strategy, transformation and operational excellence engagements for Fortune 1000 clients as well as non-profits and government entities. His experience spans such sectors as High Tech, Telecommunications, Life Sciences, Manufacturing, Financial Services, Non-Profit, Government and Education. Today, having stepped down as CEO, Randy leads the Transformation and Operational Excellence practice at Cicero along with leading the firm’s private equity subsidiary.
Prior to starting the Cicero Group in 2001, Randy was an Executive Vice President and Managing Director at Answerthink (Nasdaq: ANSR), a 2,500-person global consulting firm. Before completing graduate school, Randy worked for Bain & Company as well as Dow Chemical.
Randy is the Economic Advisor to Zions Bank. And he is an Adjunct Professor of Strategy at the University of Utah David Eccles School of Business.
Randy is on the corporate board of Snowhite and of Angoss Software (TSX: ANC). He serves on two state appointed boards – Utah Economic Council and the Education Excellence Commission – and serves on such volunteer boards as the Governor’s Taskforce for Utah’s Workforce (Dignity of Work), EducationFirst, Southern Utah University, Pioneer Park Coalition, and the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce. He is a prolific author in the Deseret News and in Forbes regarding effective education and economic public policy.
Randy obtained his MBA from Harvard Business School, graduating with highest academic honors (Baker Scholar). He earned a bachelor’s degrees in International Business from Brigham Young University. He speaks Mandarin Chinese, having lived in Taiwan for two years as a volunteer Christian missionary.
Randy is married to Maureen Shumway and is the father of five. Maureen has a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and a Master’s degree in Early Childhood Development. She is an oncology nurse at Huntsman Cancer Institute. The Shumways live in Salt Lake City, Utah.
I am a technology entrepreneur and executive focused on building customer experience, innovating transformative technologies and creating communities. Over the last year I have been working with a Fortune 20 company to implement digital experience solutions. Prior to that I built a venture-backed 3D printing that was aquired in 2015. I also worked at Disney creating customer experiences using technology from leading-edge research, built a social app with more than 80 million users and was CMO at a ventured-backed distributed document management company. My background as a computer scientist and MBA lets me bridge the technical and business worlds to create customer-driven products.
I have had the opportunity to create partnerships with the world's largest brands, including Disney, Star Wars, MLB, MLS, NFL, Warner Brothers, Marvel, Halo and Ubisoft and channel relationships with Target, Walmart, Sam's Club and Toys 'R' Us to deliver personalized, customer experience solutions to their consumers and guests.
I co-founded the Women Tech Council and have built a strong community focused on the economic impact of women in technology. Our SheTech program for high school girls has been recognized by the White House and has had over 6000 young women participate.