Board of Directors

CJ Morton, Chairman of the Board

CJ Morton has a degree in Economics from Hobart William Smith in Geneva, New York and an MBA from the American Graduate School of Business in La Tour de Peilz Switzerland.  Mr. Morton has more than two decades of business development experience in fast-growth markets, with an emphasis on forming strategic partnerships and other revenue-generating collaborations. Currently Mr. Morton has been serving as vice president of business development for family owned company, Des Moines Cold Storage.  Within a 4-year period he executed the sale of four older facilities and spearheaded the construction of a new $17,000,000 plant, securing the future of this 110-year-old organization.

Previously, Mr. Morton Mr. Morton founded and served as president of Home Care Assistance of Arizona, funding and managing all aspects of a successful agency specializing in quality in-home assisted care for seniors. Prior to the Home Care Assistance, he was acting vice president of operations for software development provider ProSource. Mr. Morton came to ProSource from PatchLink Corporation, where he was vice president of business development for the EMEA and APAC regions. He has also held senior-level roles with Vcommerce Corporation and AutoDesk. Mr. Morton started his career as director of operations and investor relations for Denver, Colo.-based TrueBlood Resources.

Mr. Morton is the grandson of the late Guardian Scholars Foundation founder Craig Sandahl.  Mr. Morton had worked with his Grandfather over the past few years to support and formalize the program for expansion within Iowa.  He, like his late Grandfather, is a strong proponent of higher education and its benefits and hopes to award individuals, who otherwise would have been unlikely to have been able to attend college, with the chance to earn their 4-year degree without the financial burden and stresses that typically accompany one.  CJ looks forward to the future success of the program and the ability to send ever more young adults from the foster care system to college.