A Few Famous Mormon

Business Leaders

•Gary Crittenden, Chairman of mid-market

private equity investment firm HGGC, LLC, is a

highly successful businessman with a history of

service to corporations at multiple levels,

including as chief financial officer of Citigroup.

He is additionally a committed member of the

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,

and he has served as an area seventy and in

several other leadership roles. Crittenden is

just one among a number of well-known

Mormons to rise to the top of their professions

in the sphere of business and finance.

•Among other memorable Mormon business

leaders is the founder of the Marriott hotel

chain. The business founded by John Willard

Marriott now comprises thousands of individual

lodging locations throughout the United States

and in dozens of other countries. Marriott got

his start operating a root beer stand in the

nation’s capital while serving there as a

Mormon missionary.

•Other well-known Mormon businesspeople

include JetBlue Airways founder and Chief

Executive Officer David Neeleman and the

widely respected author Stephen R. Covey.

Covey’s best-selling books, including The 7

Habits of Highly Effective People, have

assisted numerous readers, Mormons and non-

Mormons alike, in making positive changes in

their personal and professional lives.