Kyle Treece ’12

While attending Dixie State College, Kyle Treece leaned into having knowledgeable and skilled professors, who were ready and eager to help him explore his career options, surrounding him daily.

Raised in St. George, Treece graduated with a bachelor’s degree in business administration with an emphasis in finance. Treece entered undergrad knowing he wanted to earn a degree in business but was uncertain of which professional field he wanted to pursue.

Treece said the guidance he received at Dixie State College allowed him to explore potential career paths and even landed him his first job out of college.

Utah Tech University Dean Kyle Wells was instrumental in Treece’s quality college experience. Dean Wells connected Treece with people from his professional life and at the University who could answer Treece’s questions and allow him to explore various career paths.

“Kyle cared. He knew I wanted to find a career, and I didn’t know what my career would be so he would always give me his time to hear my ideas,” Treece shared. “He would connect me with people who could answer my questions or who were experienced in a certain field.”

Treece also utilized the close-knit community of St. George and reached out to local businesses for internship opportunities and as a point of networking.

All of his networking allowed Treece to build his career and résumé leading him to his current position as vice president of product management at Overstock. Treece is responsible for Overstock’s website and mobile app design, which receives a million visitors each day.

Treece’s career path is not originally what he expected, but he feels lucky to be in his current position at Overstock and work with the talented individuals on his team every day.

Cameron Gunter’s education took him down many different paths, ultimately leading him to start his own commercial real estate investment company 20 years ago.

Now a successful businessman as founder and CEO of PEG Companies, Gunter initially attended Dixie State College on a football scholarship. His time at Dixie was a quality first step in his college journey, and he eventually graduated with an accounting degree from Idaho State University.

“I always wanted to be an accountant, but I always wanted to play football too. Dixie allowed me to start down the path of both those endeavors,” Gunter said.

For Gunter, life is all about giving back and providing people with opportunities to discover their own paths. Through PEG, Gunter and his team continue to invest heavily in Southern Utah through the development of best-in-class real estate projects. Some of PEG’s most popular St. George developments include 605 Place Apartments, which provide premium student housing for Utah Tech students; The Advenire, the first full-service luxury hotel in the region; City View St. George Apartments in the heart of downtown; and most recently, high-end multifamily housing in the new master-planned Desert Color community.

“The most rewarding part of our work is seeing end users enjoy our properties,” Gunter said. “I love to see buildings go up from nothing. I grew up as a farm kid in Idaho, and it was always fun to see the crops that we planted in the spring grow and get harvested in the fall after cultivating them through the seasons, and it is the same concept with buildings.”