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Stephen W. Gibson has created or funded more than a dozen entrepreneurial businesses, including being the first investor in 1-800-Contacts, Omniture, and Ancestry.com. He also co-founded the Utah Angels, the first Angel investment group in Utah. In 1999, he and Bette moved to the Philippines on their own for 19 months and created a non-profit educational system, The Academy for Creating Enterprise, for Filipino returned missionaries. The Academy now has more than 671 alumni chapters in the Philippines, Mexico, Peru and expanded to Brazil in 2019. The chapters are led by more than 1,900 volunteers who are learning leadership skills that they apply in business, church, family and their communities. Gibson also taught as Entrepreneur in Residence and later as full-time faculty for the Marriott school for a total of 15 years having retired in 2011. He continues to enjoy writing, investing and mentoring and traveling with his wife, Bette. They have been married for 56 years.

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Stephen W. Gibson has created or funded more than a dozen entrepreneurial businesses, including being the first investor in 1-800-Contacts, Omniture, and Ancestry.com. He also co-founded the Utah Angels, the first Angel investment group in Utah. In 1999, he and Bette moved to the Philippines on their own for 19 months and created a non-profit educational system, The Academy for Creating Enterprise, for Filipino returned missionaries. The Academy now has more than 671 alumni chapters in the Philippines, Mexico, Peru and expanded to Brazil in 2019. The chapters are led by more than 1,900 volunteers who are learning leadership skills that they apply in business, church, family and their communities. Gibson also taught as Entrepreneur in Residence and later as full-time faculty for the Marriott school for a total of 15 years having retired in 2011. He continues to enjoy writing, investing and mentoring and traveling with his wife, Bette. They have been married for 56 years.

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