Elder Robert Gay

<p>Elder Robert C. Gay is an emeritus General Authority Seventy of the Church of<br>Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. As a General Authority he helped develop and implement the<br>Church’s global self-reliance initiative and served as the Chairman of Self-Reliance Services and<br>the Perpetual Education Fund Committee. He also served as a member of the Presideny of the<br>Seventy, as the President of the Asia North Area and as a member of the worldwide Missionary<br>Executive Council and the Board of Trustees for The Church Education System. Additionally, he<br>has served as a full-time missionary in Spain and as mission president for the countries of<br>Ghana, Sierra Leone, and Liberia.</p><p>Professionally, Elder Gay has dedicated most of his service to private equity management. He is<br>currently Chairman of Kensington Capital Holdings which has investments throughout Asia,<br>Europe, and the United States. He is the co-founder and past CEO of Huntsman Gay Global<br>Capital, past CEO of Bain Capital Europe and Chairman of the Management Committee for Bain<br>Capital Worldwide. Previously Elder Gay also worked in investment banking and as an<br>international management consultant for McKinsey &amp;amp; Company in the United States and the<br>UK.</p><p>Elder Gay along with his wife, Lynette, have co-founded and served as a director on multiple<br>global humanitarian organizations which have focused on building schools, medical clinics,<br>microenterprises, clean water boreholes, latrines, and rescuing at risk persons including those<br>trapped in modern slavery and illiteracy. Lynette directs their NGO, Engage Now Africa, and the<br>Ensign Global College in Ghana which they founded. Together they endowed the Ballard Center<br>for Social Impact at Brigham Young University and recently announced a new global partnership<br>and Center for Business, Health and Prosperity between the University of Utah and their Ensign<br>Global College.</p><p>Elder Gay earned a PhD in business economics from Harvard Unive