45 Notable alumni of
University of Phoenix - Arizona
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The University of Phoenix - Arizona is 1363rd in the world, 478th in North America, and 448th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 45 notable alumni from the University of Phoenix - Arizona sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Shaquille O'Neal
- Enrolled in the University of Phoenix - Arizona
- In 2005 graduated with Master of Business Administration
- Occupations
- sports commentatortelevision producerpodcasterrapperreal estate entrepreneur
- Biography
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Shaquille Rashaun O'Neal, commonly known as Shaq, is an American former professional basketball player and sports analyst on the television program Inside the NBA. He is a 7-foot-1-inch (2.16 m) and 325-pound (147 kg) center who played for six teams over his 19-year career in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and is a four-time NBA champion. O'Neal is widely regarded as one of the greatest basketball players and centers of all time.
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Lil Wayne
- Occupations
- entrepreneurrapperfilm actorsongwriterchief executive officer
- Biography
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Dwayne Michael Carter Jr., known professionally as Lil Wayne, is an American rapper. He is often regarded as one of the most influential hip-hop artists of his generation, as well as one of the greatest rappers of all time. Born and raised in New Orleans, he was discovered by hometown rapper Birdman in 1993 and signed with his record label, Cash Money Records, at age eleven. He emerged as the label's flagship artist until his departure in 2018.
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Lisa Leslie
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Lisa Deshaun Leslie is an American former professional basketball player. She is formerly the head coach for Triplets in the BIG3 professional basketball league, as well as a studio analyst for Orlando Magic broadcasts on FanDuel Sports Network Florida. In 2002, Leslie made history as the first player to dunk during a Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) game. Leslie was ranked 5th on ESPN.com's 2021 list of the WNBA's greatest players of all time.
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Paul Goldschmidt
- Enrolled in the University of Phoenix - Arizona
- In 2013 graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Paul Edward Goldschmidt is an American professional baseball first baseman for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Arizona Diamondbacks and St. Louis Cardinals, and has represented the United States in international competition.
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Lisa Franchetti
- Enrolled in the University of Phoenix - Arizona
- Graduated with master's degree in administration
- Occupations
- naval officer
- Biography
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Lisa Marie Franchetti is a retired United States Navy admiral who served as the 33rd chief of naval operations from 2 November 2023 to 21 February 2025, after being relieved by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. She was the first woman to be chief of naval operations, and the first woman to serve on the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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Kate Voegele
- Occupations
- television actorpianistactorguitaristfilm actor
- Biography
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Kate Elizabeth Voegele is an American singer-songwriter and actress. She made her musical debut in 2003, with the release of her extended play The Other Side. She performed numerous local live shows to promote the album, and toured with artists such as John Mayer. In 2005, she released her second extended play, Louder Than Words. Both had local success, and helped raise awareness of Voegele as an artist. During this time period, Voegele performed at events such as Farm Aid to promote her music, and began posting her music on popular social media network MySpace. She also won numerous awards and honors for her songwriting abilities.
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Don Bacon
- Enrolled in the University of Phoenix - Arizona
- In 1996 graduated with Master of Business Administration
- Occupations
- assistant professorpolitician
- Biography
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Donald John Bacon is an American politician and retired military officer who has served as the U.S. representative for Nebraska's 2nd congressional district since 2017. During his 29 years in the United States Air Force, he commanded wings at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, and Offutt Air Force Base south of Omaha, Nebraska, before retiring as a brigadier general in 2014. A member of the Republican Party, his district includes all of Omaha and the areas surrounding the Offutt base.
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Neal E. Boyd
- Occupations
- opera singer
- Biography
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Neal Evans Boyd was an American singer who developed an interest in opera after listening to the performances of the Three Tenors. Despite being raised in conditions of poverty within the U.S. state of Missouri, he achieved a degree in music and eventually entered the third season of America's Got Talent, winning that year's competition. In addition to music, he also became involved in politics and conducted performances at many state-wide events across Missouri.
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Kaleth O. Wright
- Born in
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United States - Enrolled in the University of Phoenix - Arizona
- Graduated with Master of Business Administration
- Biography
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Kaleth O. Wright is a retired senior noncommissioned officer in the United States Air Force who served as the 18th Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force from February 17, 2017, to August 14, 2020. In this post he served as the personal adviser to the Chief of Staff and the Secretary of the Air Force on all issues regarding the welfare, readiness, morale, and proper utilization and progress of the enlisted force. Wright is the second African American to serve in this position. Wright is often referred to by the nickname “Enlisted Jesus” by airmen due to his successful advocacy and reforms on behalf of enlisted personnel.
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Hala Ayala
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Hala Sophia Ayala is an American politician who served as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates for the 51st district from 2018 to 2022. She was the Democratic nominee in the 2021 Virginia lieutenant gubernatorial election, losing to Republican nominee Winsome Earle-Sears. Ayala was also a candidate for Virginia State Senate in the 33rd district, losing the Democratic primary to Jennifer Carroll Foy on June 20, 2023.
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Michael Russell
- Occupations
- tennis player
- Biography
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Michael Craig Russell is an American former professional tennis player, and tennis coach. He reached a career-high singles ranking of World No. 60 in August 2007. His 23 United States Tennis Association (USTA) Pro Circuit singles titles were the all-time record, as of November 2013. That month he became the American No. 3.
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Melissa Melendez
- Enrolled in the University of Phoenix - Arizona
- In 2008 graduated with Master of Business Administration
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Melissa Ann Melendez is an American politician who served in the California State Senate. A Republican, she represented the 28th District from 2012 to 2022, which encompassed large portions of Riverside County. She previously served in the California State Assembly and on the Lake Elsinore City Council.
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Daryl Caudle
- Enrolled in the University of Phoenix - Arizona
- Graduated with Doctor of Management in organizational leadership
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Daryl Lane Caudle is an admiral in the United States Navy who has served as the 34th chief of naval operations since 2025.
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Patrick Madrid
- Enrolled in the University of Phoenix - Arizona
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science in business administration
- Occupations
- writerradio personality
- Biography
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Patrick Madrid is an American Catholic, author, and radio host. His many books include Why Be Catholic? (Penguin Random House), Life Lessons: 50 Things I Learned in My First 50 Years (Ignatius Press), and How to Do Apologetics (Our Sunday Visitor). His books have sold over one million copies, including foreign-language editions.
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Mary Peters
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Mary Elizabeth Peters is an American government official who served as the 15th United States secretary of transportation from 2006 to 2009, under President George W. Bush. She was the second woman to hold that position after Elizabeth Dole.
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Kevin Lincoln
- Enrolled in the University of Phoenix - Arizona
- Graduated with Associate of Arts
- Occupations
- politicianpastor
- Biography
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Kevin Jeffery Lincoln II is an American politician and pastor who served as the mayor of Stockton, California from 2021 to 2025. A member of the Republican Party, Lincoln defeated Democratic incumbent Michael Tubbs in the 2020 election.
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Michael S. Harrison
- Occupations
- police officer
- Biography
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Michael S. Harrison is an American former police officer who served as commissioner of the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) from 2019 to 2023. He was also the superintendent of the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) from 2014 to 2019.
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Russell Pearce
- Enrolled in the University of Phoenix - Arizona
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in management
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Russell Keith Pearce was an American politician who was a Republican (GOP) member of the Arizona State Senate. He rose to national prominence as the primary sponsor of Arizona SB1070, a controversial anti-illegal immigrant measure that was signed into law in 2010. He was elected President of the Arizona Senate when the Senate began its January 2011 term but then suffered a dramatic reversal of fortune when he was ousted in a November 2011 recall election, the first legislator in Arizona history to be so removed from office. He served as Vice-Chair of the Arizona GOP, but he resigned the position in September 2014 after controversy over a eugenicist comment about forced sterilization of poor women on Medicaid. His politics were widely described as far-right.
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Kirkland H. Donald
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Kirkland Hogue "Kirk" Donald is a retired Admiral in the United States Navy, who in his last assignment served as the dual-hatted position of Director of Naval Nuclear Propulsion and Deputy Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration. Donald previously served as Commander, Submarine Force, U.S. Atlantic Fleet, and Commander, Submarine Allied Command, Atlantic. He retired from active duty on November 2, 2012.
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Greg Minor
- Occupations
- basketball playerbasketball coach
- Biography
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Greg Magado Minor is an American basketball coach and a former National Basketball Association (NBA) player who spent five seasons with the Boston Celtics. Born in Sandersville, Georgia he played basketball for Washington County High School before enrolling at the University of Louisville to play for the Cardinals. He has been an assistant coach with the NBA Development League's Tulsa 66ers, Bakersfield Jam, and Idaho Stampede.
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Derrick Hall
- Occupations
- business executive
- Biography
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Derrick Martin Hall is an American sports executive currently serving as the president and chief executive officer (CEO) of the Arizona Diamondbacks.
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Isadore Hall, III
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Isadore Hall III is an American politician and a former member of the California State Senate. He is a Democrat who represented the 35th district, encompassing parts of the South Bay. Prior to being elected to the state senate, he was the Assemblymember for the 64th district and a Compton city councilman.
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Mike Gipson
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Mike Anthony Gipson is an American politician currently serving in the California State Assembly. He is a Democrat representing the 65th Assembly District, which encompasses portions of the South Bay region of Los Angeles County, including Compton, Carson, Willowbrook, and the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles.
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J. D. Mesnard
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Javan Daniel "J. D." Mesnard is an American politician and a Republican member of the Arizona Senate representing District 13 since 2023. He previously represented District 17 from 2019 to 2023.
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Guy Gentile
- Enrolled in the University of Phoenix - Arizona
- 2010-2013 studied criminal justice
- Biography
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Guy Gentile is an American business executive, entrepreneur, and high-frequency trading expert. He is best known for founding two high-frequency trading firms. In 2012 he was arrested by the FBI for an alleged pump and dump scheme but the charges were dropped 3 days later after he agreed to work as an undercover operative for the FBI.
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Howard Schmidt
- Occupations
- computer security specialistadviser
- Biography
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Howard Anthony Schmidt was a partner with Tom Ridge in Ridge Schmidt Cyber LLC, a consultancy company in the field of cybersecurity. He was the Cyber-Security Coordinator of the Obama Administration, operating in the Executive Office of the President of the United States. He announced his retirement from that position on May 17, 2012, effective at the end of the month.
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Kirk Adams
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kirk Adams is an American politician who served as the 50th Speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives from 2008 to 2011. A member of the Republican Party, he was the Arizona State Representative for the 19th district from 2006 to 2011. Adams also served as Chief of Staff to Governor Doug Ducey from 2015 until 2018.
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Alan Greg Rogers
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Alan Greg Rogers was an ordained pastor, a U.S. Army major and intelligence officer, a civil rights activist in the gay, lesbian and bisexual military community and the first-known gay combat fatality of Operation Iraqi Freedom. The subsequent coverage of his death in the media sparked a debate over the effect of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" (DADT) policy and what information should be included in the biography of a gay military person killed in action.
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Dan Huberty
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Daniel G. Huberty is an American businessman and politician who was a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives for District 127 in Harris County from 2011 to 2023.
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David Bradley
- Enrolled in the University of Phoenix - Arizona
- Graduated with Master of Business Administration
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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David T. Bradley was an American politician and a Democratic member of the Arizona Senate representing District 10 from January 14, 2013, to 2021. Bradley served non-consecutively in the Arizona State Legislature from January 2003 until January 10, 2011, in the Arizona House of Representatives District 28 seat. He was a State Senator representing District 10 starting in 2012 after defeating incumbent Frank Antenori (R).
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Daniel W. Dwyer
- Enrolled in the University of Phoenix - Arizona
- Graduated with Master of Science in computer information science
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Daniel William Dwyer is a retired United States Navy vice admiral who has served as the deputy chief of naval operations for operations, plans, strategy, and warfighting development of the United States Navy from 2 August 2024 to 15 August 2025, and briefly as the deputy chief of naval operations for warfighting development in early 2024. He most recently served as the commander of United States Second Fleet and Joint Force Command Norfolk from 2021 to 2024. He served as director of plans and policy of the United States Cyber Command from 2020 to 2021, and as Vice Commander of the Naval Air Systems Command from 2015 to 2016. Born and raised in Alameda, California, Dwyer graduated from the California Maritime Academy with a Bachelor of Science degree in marine transportation in 1988. He later earned a Master of Science degree in computer information science from the University of Phoenix and a Master of Arts degree in foreign affairs and strategic studies from the Naval War College.
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Jon Hill
- Occupations
- chef
- Biography
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Jon Hill is an American chef who was White House Executive Chef from October 1, 1987, to January 7, 1988. He was the first American-born chef to serve in the capacity.
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Randy Watt
- Years
- 1957-.. (age 69)
- Occupations
- soldier
- Biography
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Steven "Randy" Watt is a retired colonel in the Utah Army National Guard, and a former commanding officer of the 19th Special Forces Group.
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Tiffany Jana
- Occupations
- adviserbusinesspersonentrepreneur
- Biography
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Tiffany Jana is the founder of TMI Consulting Incorporated, a diversity and inclusion management consulting firm founded in 2003 and headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. TMI Consulting is a benefit corporation as well as a certified B Corporation and earned the 2016 Best for the World honor from the nonprofit B Lab that certifies B Corps worldwide.
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Aaron Osmond
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Aaron Virl Osmond is a former Republican member of the Utah Senate, representing the 10th district. He resigned from office December 5, 2015.
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Jennifer Storm
- Years
- 1975-.. (age 51)
- Occupations
- academic administratorwriter
- Biography
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Jennifer Storm is a victims' rights expert and author who has written about alcohol and drug addiction and recovery. She is the former victim advocate of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, who served after being appointed by Governor Tom Corbett in 2013. She was unanimously confirmed by the Pennsylvania State Senate and sworn in for a six-year term on December 20, 2013.
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Jude Hofschneider
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jude Untalan Hofschneider is a Northern Marianan politician and member of the Northern Mariana Islands from the 2nd district. He has served as that body's President on two occasions and as the 9th Lieutenant Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands from February 20, 2013 to January 12, 2015. He was automatically elevated to this position on February 20, 2013, when the former lieutenant governor, Eloy S. Inos, assumed the governorship.
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Chuck McIlhinney
- Years
- 1967-.. (age 59)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Charles T. McIlhinney Jr. is a Republican former member of the Pennsylvania State Senate, representing the 10th District from 2007 to 2019. Previously, he was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1998 through 2006.
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Hazelle P. Rogers
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Hazelle P. Rogers is a Democratic member of the Broward County Commission. She was a Democratic member of the Florida House of Representatives and was the Mayor of Lauderdale Lakes. She formerly represented the 95th District, which includes North Lauderdale, Lauderdale Lakes, and Lauderhill in northern Broward County, from 2012 to 2016, previously representing the 94th District from 2008 to 2012, before redistricting took place. She won an election to the Broward County Commission on August 23, 2022. She was sworn into this position in November 2022.
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Lucy Surhyel Newman
- Occupations
- business executive
- Biography
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Lucy Surhyel Newman is an international consultant, policy advisor and author.
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Rob Cabitto
- Years
- 1965-.. (age 61)
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Rob Cabitto is an American author, business owner, and public speaker. His book The Fractured Life of 3743 (2011) is a memoir about his struggles with identity and addiction.
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Gervin Miyamoto
- Biography
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Gervin Miyamoto was the 19th United States Marshal for the District of Hawaii, retiring in November 2017. As the United States Marshal, he led an office of Deputy US Marshals charged with enforcing laws and protecting the United States Federal District Court of Hawaii.
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Shawn M. Galloway
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Shawn M. Galloway is an American author, workplace safety consultant and professional speaker. He is the chief executive officer of ProAct Safety, a safety consulting firm. He is best known for his books STEPS to Safety Culture Excellence, Inside Strategy: Value Creation from Within Your Organization and Bridge to Excellence: Building Capacity for Sustainable Performance.
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Benjamin P. Ablao, Jr
- Occupations
- film director
- Biography
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Benjamin James Perez Ablao Jr. is an independent (indie film) filmmaker and actor from the United States. He is the founder of B.P.A. Productions Group, Inc., a registered corporation with the State of Delaware. Not limited to any one particular genre, he has produced award-winning films ranging from comedy to drama to artistic to horror.
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Heri Martinez de Dios
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Heri Martínez de Dios is an educator, civic leader, visual communicator, executive producer, entrepreneur, strategist, author of several publications in Puerto Rico, Vice-President and Dean of Technology and Marketing at Atlantic University College – a university specializing in sciences and digital arts in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean-, and CEO & Founder at Gladius LLC.
