What is your role in the Club and how long have you been involved in the Club?
Club President, having previously served as Club Secretary for 3 years.

What is your present job/career?
I am Executive Director of USTAR, the Utah Science Technology and Research Initiative, focused on ensuring that Utah remains a leader in the 21st C Knowledge Economy by commercializing and growing innovations from our State higher education institutions, see http://www.innovationutah.com/

What is your most memorable Club experience so far?
Two years ago we got a visit from Prof Clay Christenson and we had our best event turnout ever as he talked about how to apply his disruptive technology models to education.

Why do you volunteer your time as a Club officer?
I believe that HBS graduates need to count their blessings and share their leadership skills with their communities.  I hope the HBS Club of Utah will take a more active role in helping Utah with strategies for Energy Security, Healthcare Reform and Education Reform. While many would say this is just political rhetoric at the national level, I disagree and we have made these the themes of this year's club activities.  I want to get the HBS grads in Utah to understand that real solutions exist in Utah for these national issues and the Utah solutions can flourish and be examples for the rest of the country if we can rally additional leadership from Utah HBS grads and other like-minded individuals who have been schooled in strategy, leadership and marketing.

How have the alumni in Utah benefited from the Club?
You get out of the club what you put into the club and in Utah we need to do a better job of rallying support for club activities. We re-launched a website in January 2009 which should help promote the Club and we hope to get some increased dialogue through social media outlets. We also hope to partner on event planning with other organizations such as the Utah Technology Council, Salt Lake Chamber and Mountain West Capitol Network (just to name a few).

What do you miss most about HBS?
I miss some of the culture and activities of Boston because it is my favorite big city, but, I love living in the Mountains, where I can walk outside my house in Park City and see moose or elk on the local mountain biking and snow shoeing trails and still be in downtown Salt Lake City in 25 minutes when I am ready to go to work.