Amy Rees Anderson

From starting her first company at age twenty-three with only $23,000 to selling her last company at age forty for $377 million and becoming an angel investor, author Amy Rees Anderson knows how to succeed in the world of business and how to do it the right way.

Amy is the founder and managing partner of REES Capital, an angel investing firm. She also serves on the boards of numerous organizations. Prior to founding REES Capital, Amy was the CEO of MediConnect Global, a company she grew and sold in 2012 for over $377 million.

Amy is a published author and serves as a contributor to both Forbes and the Huffington Post. She is an in-demand public speaker, a respected mentor, and she lectures at a number of universities.

In order to give back, Amy founded the IPOP Foundation, which stands for In Pursuit of Perfection (www.ipop.org), a charity focused on helping promote, educate and perpetuate entrepreneurship as a pathway to self-reliance.

Amy has been the recipient of a number of prestigious awards which include being named CEO of the Year and receiving the prestigious Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Amy is also the first woman ever to be named BYU’s Entrepreneur of the Year. She has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Inc. magazine, USA Today, Fast Company, Bloomberg Businessweek and many other national publications as a result of her many accomplishments. In 2015, Amy received an honorary PhD.