Latter-day Saint MBA Podcast

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Latter-day Saint MBA Podcast

We seek, by way of business, the betterment of individuals, organizations, and societies through principles-based leadership, mentoring, and service.

  1. Elder Robert Gay

    11/22/2022

    Elder Robert Gay

    Elder Robert C. Gay is an emeritus General Authority Seventy of the Church ofJesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. As a General Authority he helped develop and implement theChurch’s global self-reliance initiative and served as the Chairman of Self-Reliance Services andthe Perpetual Education Fund Committee. He also served as a member of the Presideny of theSeventy, as the President of the Asia North Area and as a member of the worldwide MissionaryExecutive Council and the Board of Trustees for The Church Education System. Additionally, hehas served as a full-time missionary in Spain and as mission president for the countries ofGhana, Sierra Leone, and Liberia. Professionally, Elder Gay has dedicated most of his service to private equity management. He iscurrently Chairman of Kensington Capital Holdings which has investments throughout Asia,Europe, and the United States. He is the co-founder and past CEO of Huntsman Gay GlobalCapital, past CEO of Bain Capital Europe and Chairman of the Management Committee for BainCapital Worldwide. Previously Elder Gay also worked in investment banking and as aninternational management consultant for McKinsey & Company in the United States and theUK. Elder Gay along with his wife, Lynette, have co-founded and served as a director on multipleglobal humanitarian organizations which have focused on building schools, medical clinics,microenterprises, clean water boreholes, latrines, and rescuing at risk persons including thosetrapped in modern slavery and illiteracy. Lynette directs their NGO, Engage Now Africa, and theEnsign Global College in Ghana which they founded. Together they endowed the Ballard Centerfor Social Impact at Brigham Young University and recently announced a new global partnershipand Center for Business, Health and Prosperity between the University of Utah and their EnsignGlobal College. Elder Gay earned a PhD in business economics from Harvard University where he also taughteconomics and international finance. He is the recipient of the Utahan of the Year Award, theUnited States Presidential Service Award and the Martin Luther King Center Special RecognitionService Award for Non-Violent Social Change. Robert Christopher Gay was born in Los Angeles, California, on September 1, 1951. He marriedLynette Nielsen in April 1974. They are the parents of seven children and twenty-twograndchildren.

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