Courtesy of BYU Idaho Student Media

As many of you know, Jeff Sandefer founder of Acton MBA and Sandefer Capital was on campus this past week! We at CEO would like to express our gratitude for his willingness to come and impart some of his wisdom on the students of BYU-Idaho.

We could write a long write up on what Jeff spoke about but Leslie Gallardo from the BYU-Idaho Student Media did a great job for us! Click here to learn more about what Jeff spoke to the students about. Also, if you missed his speech, it should be available via a video in the library soon. We would highly recommend that you take the time to think about and apply what Jeff taught us about "Creating a Life of Meaning". His insight was fantastic and his advise was very meaningful. Additionally, we will be having a number of other speakers this semester, so come to our weekly meetings on Thursdays at 2pm in Smith 265.

Jeff Sandefer lives a dual life as an entrepreneur and a teacher. Named by Business Week as one of the top Entrepreneurship professors in the United States, he has accomplished much. Please join CEO on Thursday January 20, 2011 @ 2pm in the Kirkham Auditorium on the BYU-Idaho campus. 

As an entrepreneur, Jeff founded his first successful business at age 16.  His third business, Sandefer Offshore, started at age 27, returned $500 million in profits on a million dollar investment -- in less than four years. Recently he sold Sandefer Capital Partners, an oil and gas investment firm that held several billion dollars in assets.

Business may be his day job, but Jeff’s passion is teaching. While at the University of Texas, students awarded Jeff with the school’s Outstanding Teacher five times and he was selected  by BusinessWeek as one the top Entrepreneurship professors in the United States.

Eight years ago Jeff and a group of successful entrepreneur-teachers started the Acton School of Business, named after Lord Acton, the Victorian scholar of freedom. 

The school’s grueling 100-hour a week, one year MBA program has won numerous awards, including having the Princeton Review – the gold standard for business school rankings – name Acton’s students as the “most competitive” MBA’s in the nation and rank its faculty in the top three in the country – above Harvard, Stanford and Wharton.

Jeff is a graduate of the Harvard Business School, where he has served for over a decade on the school’s governing committees; and serves on a number of boards, most targeted in defense of America’s freedoms. 

Welcome to a new semester! We hope you are settling in and gearing up for what we have in store for you this semester. We have a number of service projects, guest speakers, and other great opportunities for you to get involved. Please join us this semester in SMITH room 265 Every Thursday at 2pm!!