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Alan E. Hall
Alan E. Hall (born March 22, 1945) is an expert on business and leadership skills. He is an investor, a speaker, a 'Forbes.com columnist  and Harvard Business Review'' columnist  and author. Alan Hall's ebooks including The 7 C's of Hiringare available at Amazon.com and from his personal website, www.AlanEHall.com. He is a consummate businessman and entrepreneur.

Education
Weber State University BA, Psychology, 1963-1969

Brigham Young University MBA, 1970-1972. Served as class president.

Businesses and Positions
Grow America, Inc. Founder, 2012, Ogden, Utah. Grow America is a national company emerging from Utah with a mission to create jobs and lift local economies. Grow America aligns the partners, mentors and capital that entrepreneurs need to create and grow tomorrow’s successful companies. As an organization, Grow America has five components: competitions, e-commerce tools, curriculum and educational tools, community support, and charitable giving. Grow America is home to Grow America Springboard, Grow America's regional business competitions to reward and support Utah's best entrepreneurs. Grow America Springboard events allow entrepreneurs to compete for cash awards and business services to help them create new jobs and lift local economies. The Springboard program's first community program is in Utah, launching in 2012. The organization ultimately hopes to expand the program to communities in all 50 states.

MarketStar Founder and CEO, 1988-2005 (17 years), Ogden, Utah. From 2005 to present, he continues to serve as Chairman. MarketStar Corporation, a global outsourced marketing and sales company with a focus on assisting high technology companies increase sales through the small to medium business sectors.After selling MarketStar to Omnicom in 1998, Mr. Hall assisted Omnicom management in acquiring channel sales businesses nationwide. The company employs several thousand employees and generates billions of dollars in sales for its marquee clientele, including Hewlett-Packard, Cisco, Sony, Intel, Verizon and Research In Motion (RIM). MarketStar is owned by Omnicom Group (OMC.

Mercato Partners Co-Founder, Cottonwood Heights, Salt Lake City, Utah, Mercato Partners, a top performing growth equity venture capital fund. Its focus is to invest in high growth technology companies that need additional funding and expertise in marketing and sales. Current portfolio companies include: Skullcandy, Fusion-io, Control4, Cymphonix, Mediconnect, CradlePoint and Stance.

Island Park Investments Angel Investment fund that invests in early stage Utah technology companies, Ogden, Utah

Weber State University President, Board of Trustees, August, 2007 to Present, Ogden, Utah

Utah Technology Council Chairman of the board, 2008 to present, Salt Lake City, Utah

Alan Hall is the Founder Grow Utah and Co-Founder of Junto Partners. He is a member of Wells Fargo’s community advisory board, a Director of MediConnect Global, Inc., and a founding board member of World Trade Center Utah. He also sits on the Board of the Intermountain Health Care Foundation and serves as a board advisor to Control4 and Fusion-io. He was the Utah Co-Chairman of Romney for President.

Philanthropy
Hall Foundation The Alan and Jeanne Hall Foundation, a private charitable organization, was incorporated in the fall of 1999. He and his wife Jeanne are the chairman and president of the Hall Foundation. The mission of the foundation is that “there be no poor among us.” Since its inception, the Foundation has made numerous grants to charitable entities in the state of Utah and to non-profit organizations in Latin America. In 2004, the Foundation was honored during Utah Philanthropy Day as the recipient of the Next Generation of Giving Award. Mrs. Hall is a former high school counselor and currently serves as the president of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Weber-Davis. She also serves on several non-profit boards of directors.

Awards and Life Information
Alan Hall is a recipient of the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year award and was the 2009 Mountain West Capital Network Entrepreneur of the Year recipient. In 2011, Utah Business Magazine named Alan Hall one of the state's 25 Most Influential People. Alan and Jeanne Hall are the parents of six married children and fifteen grandchildren.