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Thirty profiles, from a 1927 root beer stand to a 2019 Turing Award
Some of these people you know by the company: Marriott, Huntsman, JetBlue, Pixar, Novell, WordPerfect, Dell, Black & Decker. Others ran the money, like Gary Crittenden, CFO of American Express from 2000 to 2007 and of Citigroup from 2007 to 2009. Two are entertainers with businesses attached, Gladys Knight and Marie Osmond. Each profile covers what the person built, the decisions and the numbers, and where their faith visibly shaped the work, and only where a source says so.
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The list is not a ranking and it is not a roll of honor. It is the thirty people I could document from Wikipedia plus at least one primary source, and it leans toward Utah and toward the second half of the twentieth century because that is where the record is thickest. Ray Noorda ran Novell from 1982 to 1994. Nolan Archibald ran Black & Decker and stayed on as executive chairman after the merger into Stanley Black & Decker. Kevin Rollins was named the ninth most influential person in enterprise IT by CBR in 2006. David Weidman ran Celanese from December 2004 to April 2012. Those are the sort of dates you will find here, with the sources under each one.
Two things are missing on purpose. Net-worth guesses, unless a fetched source gives a figure with a date, as Forbes did for Frank VanderSloot at $2.7 billion in 2017. And any verdict on the politics of Mitt Romney, Jon Huntsman Jr. or VanderSloot beyond the dates of what they did. If a profile feels short, it is because the record was short.
Someone missing?
The 2012 register listed 49 names. Nineteen were dropped in this edition because no independent source describes their business record. Additions need a public record the editor can check.
What gets an entryQuestions people ask
- Is Marriott a Mormon company
- Marriott International is a public company owned by its shareholders, not by the Church. Its founder J. Willard Marriott and his son Bill Marriott, the current executive chairman with an 11.28 percent stake, are both members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and the family name sits on BYU's business school after a $15 million gift in 1988. The company itself reported $26.2 billion in revenue for 2025 across 9,361 properties in 144 countries and territories.
- Who is the richest Mormon businessman
- This site does not keep a wealth table, because most published net-worth figures are estimates that go stale within a year. The one figure with a source and a date on file: Forbes put Frank VanderSloot, founder of Melaleuca, at $2.7 billion in 2017, ranking him the richest person in Idaho and the 302nd wealthiest American. Bill Marriott holds 11.28 percent of Marriott International. The profiles give the numbers for what each person built rather than what they kept.
- Which famous CEOs are Mormon
- Among the profiles: Kevin Rollins, president and CEO of Dell; Nolan Archibald, chairman, president and CEO of Black & Decker and later executive chairman of Stanley Black & Decker; David Weidman, CEO of Celanese from December 2004 to April 2012; Ray Noorda, CEO of Novell from 1982 to 1994; David Neeleman, founder of JetBlue, Azul and Breeze; Josh James, founder of Omniture and Domo; and Sheri Dew, CEO of Deseret Book. The list is limited to people whose membership a source states.
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