Jeff Brunken:  

After HS, I spent two years in Germany on a church mission. I then attended BYU from 1980-84, attending year-round with a year of work in Germany. Upon graduation and until around 1989, I worked in Phoenix for St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Company (doesn't exist anymore) underwriting medical-malpractice insurance. Then, I came back to the Bay Area to work my Dad's company, an insurance agency. We had grand plans to expand that business into a multi-line insurance firm serving the healthcare industry. To a large degree, we have succeeded. Knock on wood, the business is doing well. I met my wife, Sara, when I returned to the Bay Area to work. We were married in 1988 and lived in a small house in downtown San Jose. We turned that fixer-upper around and then were able to buy a home in downtown Los Gatos, right after the Loma Prieta earthquake. (In fact, my wife was "enjoying" a nine-week stay in the hospital when that earthquake hit!) We really loved living in Los Gatos and enjoyed raising our 1st three kids (boys) there until we relocated our business to Salt Lake City in 1997. We now have three sons and one daughter. Our oldest is 18 yrs old and the senioritis has kicked in completely! (Good thing he's already been accepted to college for next fall.) Our next is 17...Expand for more