The following are alumni who were highlighted on page 10 of BYU Marriott's 2025 Annual Report.
As a technology assurance director at KPMG, Hilary Fletcher helps ensure that companies’ IT systems are reliable and transparent. “I audit IT systems at public companies and attest to their financial statements to give investors confidence in their investments,” she explains. Fletcher, a 2015 MISM alum, began as a KPMG intern. “The Big Four recruited heavily from the MISM program,” she recalls. “I started full-time after graduation and am still here 10 years later.” During her time with the company, she has advanced from associate to director. BYU Marriott not only prepared Fletcher professionally but also sparked her commitment to service. While at BYU, she taught teenagers about cybersecurity; she also spent five years mentoring with Big Brothers Big Sisters of America. As the Involve coordinator at KPMG, she oversaw community service efforts with partners such as United Way and Orange County Food Bank. Now Fletcher serves on the BYU Marriott Information Systems Board, where she pays it forward by strengthening the program that shaped her path. Fletcher lives in Sandy, Utah, with her husband, Jordan, and their two young children. She enjoys traveling, baking (especially sourdough bread), and chasing after her kids. In fact, Fletcher says she’s most proud of “becoming a mom—making two tiny humans!”
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“A business is born because there is a light in someone’s mind and spirit,” says Mirgen Hoxha, reflecting on a career shaped by a constant drive to create something new. That ambition started when Hoxha was growing up in the small town of Gramsh, Albania, where he built toy cars and trucks out of mud bricks. He joined the Church at 15 and later served a mission in Kentucky, where he first learned about LDS Business College (now Ensign College). BYU Marriott was Hoxha’s next stop after Ensign, and his 2014 finance degree launched his career as a Goldman Sachs analyst. Hoxha later returned to Albania to work as a financial consultant for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, using his off-hours to explore new ventures. Between 2016 and 2020, he launched four businesses, two of which flourished. One traded consumer goods internationally and another produced healthy breakfast foods. After selling both companies, Hoxha joined a technology company, rising from project manager to VP of operations in just two years. That experience illuminated his next step: founding the tech firm Motomtech, which offers software development services to startups and to small and midsize companies. Through it all, he says, “my BYU Marriott education has been incredibly helpful in shaping my understanding and mindset of business logic and practices.” Hoxha serves as Motomtech’s CEO and lives in Salt Lake City with his wife, Juliana, and their four children. In addition to serving in church callings, Hoxha is on the Albanian Faith in Every Footstep Foundation board.
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Executing stunts and flips on Utah’s slopes set David McCallister on a remarkable course that led to a career that spanned the globe. An invitation to represent Miller Ski Company as an aerobatic skier brought McCallister from rural Colorado to Provo, where he ended up attending BYU as a nonmember and joining the Church. His high school sweetheart, Linda, also joined the Church, and the two married in 1970. McCallister earned a BS in youth leadership in 1972 and an MA in outdoor recreation in 1973, both from BYU. He then taught outdoor studies at Colorado Mountain College and helped lead a river-rafting company in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. The needs of his growing family prompted McCallister to pivot into health and safety roles, and he attended night school to earn an MS in occupational safety from the University of Idaho. He worked with Oil Shale Constructors, Summit Construction, John Brown Engineering, the Naval Petroleum Reserves, and Amoco, and then spent many years in leadership positions for bp (formerly British Petroleum) in Alaska, Egypt, and Angola. McCallister later joined bp’s Iraq development team. He finished his career as a senior safety advisor for Maersk Oil in Qatar. “Work across so many settings broadened my family’s view that good people are found everywhere, regardless of cultures and faiths,” he says. Now retired, McCallister and his wife live in Anchorage, Alaska, and enjoy writing legacy books to preserve family stories. “Our story isn’t really about career accomplishments,” says McCallister, the father of seven. “It’s about a BYU foundation that opened the world to us, encouraged continual learning, and helped us build a legacy.”
