VITAL STATISTICS
Age: 43.Where born: Salt Lake City.
Family: Wife, Gayle; children, Rhett, Seth, Coby, Ashley and Aaron.
Education: Weber State College, Bachelor of Science in Economics, 1970; University of Utah, MBA, 1972.
Primary products: Broad range of financial services.
Primary markets: Wasatch Front plus fast-growing, economically sound areas of the West including Portland, Las Vegas and Idaho Falls. Headquarters in Ogden.
Number of employees: 400.
Annual sales: $137 million in core deposits (excluding negotiated-rate jumbo certificates).
PERSONALITY PROFILE
First "real" job: Self employed: bought and sold fresh eggs in the neighborhood.
Management style: Participate, delegate and report.
Strategy for success: Consistent effort. Never take myself too seriously. Find humor wherever I can. Enjoy life and encourage others.
A memorable failure: In college I was nominated by a sorority as "most preferred man." I was never asked to the dance and had to be lined up with friends. The irony - I won.
Heroes: Abraham Lincoln, David Henry Thoreau and Gandhi.
Leisure time and hobbies: Coaching little league basketball, golf, reading, collecting thoughts, poems, stories, etc., memorizing poetry.
Favorite book and movie: Movie: It's a Wonderful Life; Books: The Road Less Traveled and Freedom at Midnight.