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2024 CEOs of the Year | Photographed by MANICPROJECT

2024 CEOs of the Year

This story appears in the March issue of Utah Business. Subscribe

Each year, we celebrate Utah’s most accomplished professionals—the CEOs who have led their organizations with strength, courage and endurance and have made it their mission to change the way we do business in Utah. Congratulations to this year’s honorees.

2024 CEO of the Year awards photographed by MANICPROJECT for Utah Business

2024 CEOs of the Year

Curtis Anderson | Founder & CEO | Nursa | 

Edson Barton | Co-Founder & CEO | YouScience |

Kathleen Bodenlos | CEO | Discovery Gateway Children’s Museum |

Darren Bolingbroke | CEO & President | X3 |

Alix Lewis Burrows & Kelly Dearth | Co-Founders & Co-CEOs | LitJoy Crate | |

Randy Christensen | CEO & President | NOW CFO |

Sumner Douglas | Founder & CEO | Stack Homes |

Janida Emerson | CEO | Fourth Street Clinic |

Trevor Farnes | Co-Founder & CEO | MTN OPS |

Reyes Florez | Founder & CEO | Platform Accounting Group |

Jay K. Francis | CEO & President | South Valley Chamber |

Jenny Groberg | Founder & CEO | BookSmarts Accounting & Bookkeeping |

Cameron Gunter | Founder & CEO | PEG Companies |

Rob Hitchcock | CEO & President | Select Health |

Allyse Jackson | Founder & CEO | Beehive Meals |

Steve Keyser | CEO | Utah Paperbox |

Nikki MacKay | CEO | Utah Foster Care |

Alan Matheson Jr. | Executive Director | Point of the Mountain State Land Authority |

Donna Matturro McAleer | Executive Director | Bicycle Collective |

Sterling W. Nielsen | CEO & President | Mountain America Credit Union |

Melanie Robinson | CEO | WEBB |

Melva C. Sine | CEO & President | Utah Restaurant Association

Weston W. Swenson | CEO | Novva Data Centers |

Beth Waldron | CEO & President | LÉVO |

Judges | 2024 

2024 CEOs of the Year

Julie Castle

CEO | Best Friends Animal Society
2024 CEOs of the Year

Monte Deere

CEO | Kizik and HandsFree Labs
2024 CEOs of the Year

Dirk Jeffs

CEO | Ultradent Products, Inc.
2024 CEOs of the Year

Nate Randle

CEO | Gabb
2024 CEOs of the Year

Sidni Shorter

CEO | Utah Black Chamber
2024 CEOs of the Year

Shauna Smith

CEO | Savory Restaurant Fund

To learn more about our 2024 CEOs of the Year, check out the YouTube playlist below. Access honoree photos from the event here

2024 CEO of the Year videos

Savannah Beth Withers Taylor is the assistant editor of Utah Business and a graduate of the editing and publishing program at Brigham Young University. Beth has written content about travel, academics, and mental health for Stowaway magazine, BYU College of Humanities and the United Way of Utah County.