ROBERT C. GAY

Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director,
Huntsman-Gay Capital Partners

A co-founder of Unitus, Robert C. “Bob” Gay is the co-founder and CEO of Huntsman-Gay Capital Partners, a billion dollar plus private equity firm located in Palo Alto, California. Bob recently served for three years as a mission president in West Africa for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Before going to Africa, Bob was a managing director for 16 years at Bain Capital, one of the world’s leading private equity firms with more than $70 billion under management. Prior to Bain Capital, Bob was an executive vice president of General Electric Credit Corporation Capital Markets Group, a vice president in the Merchant Banking Group at Kidder Peabody, and an engagement manager at the international consulting firm McKinsey & Company.

Bob is actively involved in poverty relief and humanitarian aid in developing countries, serving as a co-founder of the BYU Center for Economic Self Reliance and as an advisory board member of Ascend Alliance, and is the founder of the Komart Foundation in Ghana. Bob taught economics at Harvard University, where he also received a Ph.D. in business economics, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with an AB from the University of Utah.