Utah. In 2001, Gay co-founded Unitus (renamed to Unitus Labs in 2011), a global micro-credit company. Unitus received the Fast Company/Monitor Group Social Capitalist award naming three times, which recognizes the top 45 social capital companies in the United States. LDS Church service In the late 1970s, Gay served on the high council of the Boston Stake, while Richard L. Bushman was stake president. This is where he first met Mitt Romney. From 2004 to 2007, Gay was president of the church's Ghana Accra Mission, with responsibilities including the oversight of missionary work in all parts of Ghana, Sierra Leone, and Liberia. Gay was appointed an area seventy in April 2008. Gay also served previously as a counselor in a bishopric. On March 31, 2012, he was called as a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy. In September 2012, Gay was named as chairman of the Perpetual Education Fund. During the church's April 2018 general conference, Gay was appointed to the Presidency of the Seventy. This assignment, along with that of Carl B. Cook, was the result of Gerrit W. Gong and Ulisses Soares being called to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles In 2019, he toured India as part of an LDS Church delegation led by M. Russell Ballard. References External links General Authorities and General Officers: Elder Robert C. Gay Huntsman Gay Global Capital (company website) Living people 1951 births Harvard University faculty American Mormon missionaries in Spain Mission presidents (LDS Church) Area seventies (LDS Church) American general authorities (LDS Church) Members of the First Quorum of the Seventy (LDS Church) Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni University of Utah alumni American Mormon missionaries in Ghana 20th-century Mormon missionaries 21st-century Mormon missionaries American chief executives of financial services companies People from Palo Alto, California Mormon missionaries in Sierra Leone Mormon missionaries in Liberia Bain Capital people American expatriates in Sierra Leone American expatriates in Liberia American financial company founders General Electric people McKinsey & Company people Religious leaders from California Latter Day Saints from Massachusetts Latter Day Saints from California