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Spencer Fox Eccles
Convocation wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww FEATURING
RICHARD M. KOVACEVICH Chairman Emeritus, Wells Fargo & Company
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WELCOME DR. DAVID W. PERSHING President The University of Utah INTRODUCTION OF
SPENCER F. ECCLES TAYLOR RANDALL
Dean David Eccles School of Business INTRODUCTION OF
RICHARD M. KOVACEVICH SPENCER F. ECCLES
Chairman Emeritus Wells Fargo Intermountain Banking Region
KEYNOTE ADDRESS RICHARD M. KOVACEVICH
Chairman Emeritus, Wells Fargo & Company
CLOSING REMARKS TAYLOR RANDALL
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ick Kovacevich, Chairman Emeritus, Wells Fargo & Company, is the 2016 Spencer Fox Eccles Convocation speaker. Mr. Kovacevich was named President and Chief Executive Officer of Wells Fargo & Company in November 1998, after Wells Fargo merged with Norwest Corporation. He added the title of Chairman of Wells Fargo in April 2001 and retired in December 2009. Prior to the merger, he was named CEO of Norwest Corporation in 1993 and Chairman in 1995 after serving as President and COO since 1989. He joined Norwest in March, 1986, as Vice Chairman, COO and head of the Banking Group.
Before joining Norwest, he was a group executive and member of the Policy Committee at Citicorp and a division general manager at General Mills. Mr. Kovacevich is a member of the Board of Directors of Theranos, Inc., the Board of Governors of the San Francisco Symphony, the Board of Trustees of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Board of Overseers of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He graduated from Stanford University where he earned his M.B.A., and his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in industrial engineering.
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DAVID ECCLES he annual Spencer Fox Eccles Convocation, now in its 26th year, launches the academic year at the David Eccles School of Business. It salutes Mr. Eccles (BS ‘56 Banking & Finance) for his decades of unparalleled commitment to his alma mater and his vital role in working with his aunt Emma Eccles Jones to establish a $15 million endowment to benefit the University’s business school. The last surviving child of David Eccles, Mrs. Jones’ landmark 1991 gift was recognized through the naming of the school in honor of her father — one of Utah’s most notable pioneering industrialists and a leading figure in the economic growth of Utah and the Pacific Northwest in the late 1800s.
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SPENCER FOX ECCLES pencer F. Eccles, chairman emeritus of the Intermountain Banking Region of Wells Fargo, holds a bachelor’s degree in Banking & Finance from the University of Utah and a master’s degree from Columbia’s Graduate School of Business. For nearly two decades as chairman & CEO of First Security Corp. (1982-2000), he carried on the Eccles’ leadership of the nation’s oldest operating multistate bank holding company, a distinction it still held at the time of its 2000 merger with Wells Fargo. As chairman & CEO of the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation and a board member of five other Eccles family foundations, he is also a leader in Utah’s philanthropic community.
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He is the Honorary Chair of the David Eccles School of Business capital campaign, and serves on the school’s Eccles Advisory Board as well as many other state and national banking and civic boards. For the past 24 years, earnings from the Emma Eccles Jones Endowment have enabled the David Eccles School of Business to enrich the quality and quantity of its scholarships, professorships, faculty awards and several key programs. This year the endowment funded 35 scholarships and 32 faculty scholars.
Emma Eccles Jones Endowment
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ince it was established in 1991, the endowment fund has generated the following vital support for the David Eccles School of Business:
$5.6 million
in scholarship support
$8.3 million
in faculty support
$1.6 million
in program support
PAST CONVOCATION SPEAKERS wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww 2015
NORM WESLEY Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Fortune Brands Inc.
2014 BILLY CAMPBELL Television Executive and Producer 2013 GOVERNOR MITT ROMNEY 70th Governor of Massachusetts 2012 Republican Nominee for President 2012 NOLAN D. ARCHIBALD Executive Chairman of the Board, Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. 2011 ROBERT A. MCDONALD Chairman of the Board, CEO, & President, Procter & Gamble 2010 JOHN A. MORAN Retired Chairman Dyson-Kissner-Moran Corp. 2009 RANDAL QUARLES Managing Director The Carlyle Group
2003 DAVID NEELEMAN Founder, JetBlue Airlines 2002 DR. JOHN E. WARNOCK Founder and Chairman Adobe Systems 2001 IAN M. CUMMING Founder and Chairman Leucadia National Corporation 2000 WILLIAM H. CHILD Chair, R.C. Willey 1999 JON M. HUNTSMAN Founder and Chairman Huntsman Corporation 1998 SCOTT S. PARKER President Emeritus Intermountain Health Care 1997 SPENCER F. ECCLES Chairman and CEO First Security Corporation 1996 BRENDA C. BARNES CEO, PepsiCo
1995 2008 GEORGE L. STRIKE Chairman, Martin Franchises, Inc. 1994 2007 DR. SAMUEL STEWART Founder, Chairman & CEO Wasatch Advisors 1993 2006 PIERRE LASSONDE Director and Chairman Franco-Nevada 1992 2005 KENNETH “HAP” KLOPP Founder, The North Face 1991 2004 DICK KOVACEVICH Chairman Wells Fargo & Company
J. WILLARD MARRIOTT, JR. Chairman and CEO Marriott International M. ANTHONY BURNS Chairman Emeritus Ryder Systems, Inc. RAYMOND NOORDA Founder, Novell DENNIS WEATHERSTONE Former Chairman and CEO J.P. Morgan & Company RICHARD K. DAVIDSON Chairman Emeritus Union Pacific Railroad