Devin D. Thorpe, author of Building Wealth for Building the Kingdom: A Financial Planning Guide for Latter-day Saint Families and other books, recently served as a business professor at South China University of Technology in Guangzhou, China for BYU’s Kennedy Center. Previously, he served as the CFO for MonaVie. Prior experience includes running the investment banking firm Thorpe Capital Group, LLC, leading the residential mortgage firm Mortgage America, LLC and serving on the U.S. Senate Banking Committee Staff. With an MBA from Cornell’s Johnson Graduate School of Management and a BS in Finance from the University of Utah, he was honored by the David Eccles School of Business as a Distinguished Alumnus in 2006. You can connect with Devin at his personal web site BuildingWealthForBuildingTheKingdom.com.
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