Robert Gay Ph.D

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Dr. Robert Gay is a Co-Founder and serves as Executive Director at HGGC. He serves as an Executive Advisor & Investment Committee Member at KSV Global Innovations. He also serves as Vice Chairman at IFIT Health & Fitness. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Executive Director at HGGC. He is a Co-Founder and serves as a Board Member at Unitus Labs. He served as an Advisor at Sandbox Industries. He served as an Investor at Patamar Capital. Much of his professional career has been spent in the private equity industry. For sixteen years he helped build Bain Capital, one of the world's leading private equity firms. At Bain, he served as CEO of Bain Capital Europe, Managing Director, and Chairman of the Management Committee for Bain Capital worldwide. Recently, he founded and served as CEO of Huntsman Gay Global Capital. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Executive Director of HGGC. Before his private equity career, he taught economics at Harvard University, served as the Executive Vice President of the Capital Markets Group of General Electric Credit Corporation, and as an Engagement Manager at the international consulting firm, McKinsey & Company. He also started Kensington Capital Holdings and helped found Sorenson Capital and seed what is now the largest student-run venture fund in the country, University Venture Fund. He has served on numerous public and private company Boards including most recently Gymboree and ICON Health and Fitness. Outside of private equity, he has been actively involved, for years, in poverty and humanitarian relief. He is a co-founder of the Ballard Center for Economic Self-Reliance at BYU and a co-founder and board member of Unitus Labs which established what is now India's premier investment bank and seed capital fund. He also is a co-founder of Engage Now Africa. For many years he also played an active role on the the advisory boards of the Forever Young Foundation, Right to Play, and the Martin Luther King Center. Collectively these organizations have helped lift and assist over 50 million impoverished and at-risk people in over 40 countries around the world. He and his wife are currently building a graduate school of public health in Ghana in partnership with the University of Utah Medical School. In 2004 he resigned from Bain Capital to accept a three-year volunteer assignment from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to serve as their Mission President in Ghana, West Africa. Upon his return, in April 2012, he was called to the Church's worldwide leadership as a member of the Seventy. At the Church, he has the global responsibility for helping members rise from poverty to self-reliance. He holds a PhD in Business Economics from Harvard University where he was also awarded the Harvard Business School Division of Research Scholarship. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa with an AB from the University of Utah. He is married to the former Lynette Nielsen. They reside in Florida and are the parents of seven children and fifteen grandchildren. He is a past recipient of honorary doctorates from Southern Virginia University and Utah Valley University, the Anasazi Turn for Peace Award, the BYU President's Award, and the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Utah, and the Martin Luther King Center for Non-Violent Social Change Special Recognition Award.