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Jeff Sharpton
Jeffrey Andrew Sharpton was born in Conway, Arkansas in 1960, to Francis and Wanda Sharpton. Throughout his childhood, he lived in Norman, Oklahoma; Kankakee, Illinois; Tacoma, Washington, Pleasanton, California and Nampa, Idaho. He attended West Junior High and Nampa High School and College Church of the Nazarene. Jeff attended Northwest Nazarene College his Freshman year, University of Arkansas his Sophomore year and back to NNC for his Jr and Sr years. Upon graduating from college with a BA in Commercial Art and a minor in Business Communications, he started a business that provided interesting reading material on the tables of 45 Canyon County restaurants and was paid for by advertisers. It was called "Table Talk" He sold this business and moved to Kansas City, where he worked for the Nazarene Publishing House for a couple years, before moving to Queens, NY, to design and manage construction of a $1 million church building. With contributions and volunteer labor he was able to finish this building for $150,000. After that project was finished, he moved to Salem, Oregon, where he worked for various ad agencies before starting his own, DesignPoint, Inc. www.designpointinc.com After 10 years of growing this business at an average rate of 22% per year, he sold it to his employees, and moved to Grand Cayman. After 6 months of walking on the beach and drinking fruity drinks with little umbrellas, he moved back to Nampa, Idaho. He spent the first year helping a small local magazine publisher start an ad agency, and another magazine before becoming the web administrator at NNU. www.nnu.edu He is still in this role today.

Jeff enjoys most outdoor activities, with focuses on snow skiing, wakeboarding, hiking and backpacking, and cycling.