VITAL STATISTICS
Age: 49.Where born: Logan.
Family: Wife, MerLynn Harris; children, Jeffrey S. (wife Jessie), Holly, Corie, Candice and grandson Scott Stapley Pitcher.
Education: Bachelor's degree in business administration from Utah State University; graduate work at USU.
Primary products: Employee benefit programs.
Primary markets: Utah.
Number of employees: 625.
Annual sales: $246 million.
PERSONALITY PROFILE
First "real" job: Management trainee for First Security Bank.
Management style: Hands off but watchful; management by committees; surround yourself with brilliant and loyal people.
Strategy for success: Make sure everyone knows and does his job and also understands where he fits with everyone else. Then promote 100 percent teamwork.
A memorable failure: A joint venture with a local provider that failed miserably.
Heroes: O.C. Madsen, retired Kennecott Copper executive; Robert H. Bischoff, chairman, Key Bank of Utah; John F. Kennedy; Winston Churchill and Abraham Lincoln.
Leisure time and hobbies: Golf, baseball (Chicago Cubs), basketball (Utah Jazz).
Favorite book and movie: Books: In Search of Excellence; Iacocca, An Autobiography; Lincoln, the Unknown. Movies: Anything starring John Wayne.