YPO Edge Conference for Business Leaders

A real estate investor in Salt Lake City, Utah, Spencer Plummer founded Zeus Investments, LLC, in 2003. In addition to handling the acquisition and development of raw land, he works closely with city, county, and state officials in transactions involving private properties. Spencer Plummer also spent more than a decade as a member of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO).

A prestigious leadership community of chief executives, the YPO is comprised of 29,000 members in more than 130 countries. Each year, the YPO hosts the YPO EDGE annual conference for global business leaders. Held on a different continent each year, the event brings together more than 2,500 innovators and entrepreneurs, providing opportunities to network and learn from world-renowned thought leaders.

Presenters come from a broad array of fields, ranging from business and politics to philanthropy. Past speakers include Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu, co-founder of Apple Computers Steve Wozniak, and founder of the Virgin Group Richard Branson. The 2-day conference fuels a year-round global conversation about how technology and innovation can improve life around the world.

Hall of Fame Thoroughbred Xtra Heat

A successful real estate entrepreneur, Spencer Plummer is the founder of Zeus Investments, LLC, a real estate investment, development, and property management company based in Salt Lake City, Utah. He is also a second-generation horseman and the owner and manager of Arc of Flight, LLC, a horse breeding and management firm. The horses Spence Plummer has owned include thoroughbred mare Xtra Heat.

Xtra Heat is one of a small number of female sprint horses set to be inducted into the National Museum of Racing Hall of Fame. The daughter of Dixieland Heat, she was known for her consistency, an enormous desire to win, and always giving her best. In a career stretching from 2000 to 2003, she won 26 times out of 35 starts, had five second-place finishes, and two third-place finishes.

Her total earnings are over $2.3 million, although she only won a single Grade I stakes. As of 2020, Xtra Heat has given birth to 12 foals of racing age. An impressive 11 of these have started in races, and seven have been winners. Her most notable offspring include Southwestern Heat, the 2007 Sonny Hine Stakes at Laurel winner, and Elusive Heat, who won the 2009 restricted Geyser Springs Stakes at Saratoga.

An Overview of Qualifications Required to Join the YPO

A resident of Fruit Heights, Utah, Spencer Plummer serves as the founder of Zeus Investments, LLC, a real estate investment, development, and property management firm. Spencer Plummer is also the founder and manager of Arc of Flight, LLC, a company focused on breeding and raising performance horses used for racing, cutting, and reining. Mr. Plummer maintains membership with numerous professional organizations and is a former member of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO).

Focused on building a global leadership community, the YPO consists of over 29,000 chief executives from 130 countries. Members of the organization have demonstrated their leadership responsibilities and proven their success at being leaders starting from a young age.

To qualify as a member of the YPO, individuals must possess a leadership title, such as president or CEO and hold an executive-level position within their organization that requires them to be solely responsible for managing business operations within their company or a specific division of it. Membership applications are typically accepted only from individuals who are younger than 45, and applicants must also meet specific qualifying rules related to corporate complexity.

The LDS Church - Helping Hands Program and Objectives

A graduate from the Harvard Business School, Spencer Plummer currently manages Zeus Investments, LLC, a company that purchases raw land and existing real estate assets to improve and develop rental properties. Spencer Plummer is also a supporter of missionary funds, serving for two years on a mission in Edinburgh, Scotland, for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS).

The LDS Church is a worldwide institution constituted by collections of wards or congregations called stakes. A president or bishop leads each stake. The LDS Church presents to the entire world with the same structure, independent of the country of the congregation.

The church helps people in need through humanitarian services such as charities, education funds, and more. The Helping Hands (HH) program, for example, provides priesthood leaders with service opportunities for members of the church. Among the service opportunities from HH are disaster relief and community service.

The objectives of the HH program, directed by the LDS Church, are to strengthen church members while helping the needy and sharing the gospel indirectly. HH also contributes to the improvement of the church’s reputation, mainly when local media spreads knowledge of the church.