Steve Gibson has created or funded more than a dozen entrepreneurial businesses, including being the first investor in 1-800-Contacts, Omniture and Ancestry.com. He also cofounded the Utah Angels, the first Angel investment group in Utah. In 1999, he and Bette moved on their own for 19 months and created a non-profit educational system, The Academy for Creating Enterprise, for returned missionaries living in the Philippines. It now has more than 450 alumni chapters in the Philippines, Mexico, Peru and expanded to Brazil in 2019. Gibson also taught as a senior entrepreneur in residence and later as full time faculty for the Marriott school for a total of 15 years having retired in 2011.
