Dr. Jeff Gardner is a professor, and co-founder and CEO of CMI, a global, humanitarian company. He received a Ph.D. in Communication & the Arts from Regent University. But business and academics aside, Dr. Gardner is most comfortable in deep green, wild spaces. Raised in the West between the Rockies and the Wasatch, he has hiked many of the great mountain ranges of the world. Dr. Gardner now lives in Columbia, Missouri, with his wife Christine and their four children. You can track or reach him here.