Biography
Elder Meidell comes to Brigham Young University-Hawaii as a full-time missionary working with the Faculty of Business & Government. He will be overseeing internships for Business Management, Accounting, Hospitality & Tourism Management, and Entrepreneurship. Elder Meidell’s career spans a wide variety of experience including 30 years in the finance industry with brokerage firms in NYC, Scottsdale, Az, and Beverly Hills, CA. He also owned multiple insurance agencies in SLC, UT. Elder Meidell holds degrees from the University of Utah.
After retiring from business 15 years ago he found retirement boring, but loved to ski and golf, so he returned to the workforce to golf and ski. For the past 15 years he has been working in management with Deer Valley Ski Resort in Park City, UT, putting in well over a 100+ days a year on skis. When the snow melted, he spent 200+ days a year on golf courses working as a rules official for the USGA, PGA and NCAA.
He hopes to bring a diverse background to the students of BYU-H. Elder & Sister Meidell have 7 children, 15 grandchildren and a black labradoodle. They have a home in Draper, Utah.