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Randy W. Shumway(born November 24, 1971) is the founder and CEO of the Cicero Group, which is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. The Cicero Group was founded in 2001.

Biography
Randy Shumway grew-up in College Station, Texas. He held multiple jobs as a teen-ager that defined his desire to later pursue a business career. At the age of 8, he started delivering the Bryan/College Station Eagle newspaper and did so every morning for the next ten years. As a teen-ager, he also waited tables at Bombay Bicycle Club and was a sales representative for Fred Brown Mazda BMW.

He served a volunteer Christian mission to Taichung, Taiwan from 1991 – 1993, then returned to Brigham Young University to complete a B.S. in Business Management and in International Relations. At BYU, Randy worked as an American Heritage teaching assistant and served as student body vice-president.

Randy worked for Dow Chemical and then Bain & Company prior to attending Harvard University. He obtained an MBA with highest academic honors (Baker Scholar) while simultaneously working full-time for Answerthink. When he left Answerthink a few years later in order to start the Cicero Group, he was the Managing Partner of Answerthink’s San Francisco office.

In 2001, Randy started the Cicero Group, a data-driven strategy firm. By 2013, Cicero had grown to employ over 200 professionals, conducting research and strategy in 47 countries and 14 unique languages.

Randy serves on a host of corporate boards as well as such state-appointed boards as the Utah Economic Council and the Governor’s Education Commission. He is a frequent guest on television and radio news shows and has been a guest columnist for Deseret News on multiple occasions. He also serves as the economic advisor for Zions Bank.

Randy is married to the former Maureen Ryder. They are the parents of five. Their oldest son, Ian, joined their family as a foster son in 2000 when he was 14-years old, and they subsequently adopted him.