| 词条 | Jim Engebretsen |
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James R. Engebretsen is a retired Finance Professor and the Assistant Dean for Corporate Relations at the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University (BYU). At the Marriott School Engebretsen's work was recognized the school by receiving the Marriott Award for outstanding contributions to the students and faculty. His teaching received some of the highest valuations for undergraduate and MBA students over ten years placed him among the highest rated professors in the school of business. He was also the main founder of the More Good Foundation and served on its board for twelve years until 2017. He currently serves on the boards or advisory boards of Farmer Mac, a GSE in Washington DC, Soltis Advisors, Divvypay, Emmersion Learning, Freshlime, Zift, and XIO Group, a PE fund in London. He served as the Chairman of the board of advisors for the SRS/PEF for the LDS Church from 2014 to 2017. He is involved in numerous technology startups and is an active mentor and investor. Engebretsen is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). The motivation for the More Good Foundation came from Engebretsen's experiences while serving as president of the LDS Church's Oklahoma Oklahoma City Mission from 1998 to 2001. During this time he had several missionaries who had investigators turn against the LDS Church because of questionable things they had read about the church on the Internet. He realized there was a need for more positive information about the church on the Internet. Before serving as a mission president, Engebretsen was president of Associates Capital Management and a Vice President for Goldman Sachs & Co in the NYC and Philadelphia. He also worked as an analysis in mergers and acquisitions for Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb in NYC and National Westminster Bank in London, England. At that point of his assignment to preside over the OOCM, he was living in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Engebretsen was born in Idaho Falls, Idaho, in 1955. He served as a Mormon missionary in the California Sacramento Mission and has bachelor's and master's degrees in business with an emphasis in Finance from BYU. Engebretsen is married to Tamera Jones, and they are the parents of six children and ten grandchildren. In the LDS Church, Engebretsen has been a bishop, a member of a stake high council and a Branch President in the MTC. Engebretsen currently serves as the stake president of a BYU YSA 18th stake. ReferencesExternal links
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