Michael Beindorff Scholarship Endowment

Mr. Muichael Beindorff 78MBA, former Member of the California Education Financing Foundation Board, established this scholarship endowment in 2006 to assist students in their pursuit of higher education, specifically an MBA with a potential interest in Marketing.

He spent his early career at both Coca-Cola during the 1980s “cola wars” and then Visa as the head of U.S. Marketing. He currently serves as Director or LifeVantage, and COO of Exclusive Resorts.

“It wasn’t so much the details taught in the classes,” Beindorff told Emory Business Magazine about his MBA degree, “but learning how to approach issues and problems and how to think through the process of business.” He believes that Emory and the GBS faculty broadened his capacity for inquiry. He continued, “I realize today that my education wasn’t so much learning the answers, but understanding the questions to be asked, and how to apply what I learned to a variety of situations. It made my experience at Emory much more valuable because the environment allowed me to explore the possibilities, not just digest facts.”