After careers in Accounting, education and real estate, Dan Bachus decided to go back to school for good ... But this time he's helping to run the place.

• Author: Ladd, Scott
• Position: BALANCE SHEET

TITLE Chief Financial Officer

COMPANY Grand Canyon University

BORN Wichita, Kan., June 1970

SPOUSE Tiffani; married 16 years

CHILDREN Dylan, 12, Emily, 9, and Riley, 4

EDUCATION SUMMARY Bachelor of Science in Accounting, University of Arizona; MBA, University of Phoenix

CAREER SUMMARY 1992 to 2000, Deloitte & Touche LLP, most recently, Audit Senior Manager; 2000-06, Chief Accounting Officer and Controller, Apollo Group Inc.; 2006-08, real estate developer Loreto Bay Co., most recently as Chief Financial Officer; June 2008-present, CFO, Grand Canyon University, Phoenix.

BOARDS OF DIRECTORS Serve on the board of directors of the Valley of the Sun Jewish Community Center, for approximately five years.

FEI Chapter Phoenix Chapter

LEISURE Spending quality time with my family attending my kids' activities--sports and theatre productions. Playing basketball, golf and tennis and seeing movies with my wife.

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TIME MANAGEMENT Juggling a very busy professional life and a young family is a struggle, so I am not sure I have any great time-management techniques. I do the absolute best I can to ensure that I am present when I'm home. Earlier in my career, I felt like I was not giving my family the quality time they deserved.

STRESS MANAGEMENT Frequent exercise.

RECENTLY READ BOOK Return of the Gold: The Journey of jerry Colangelo and the Redeem Team. Jerry is on our board and I have always had a great deal of respect for him. It was amazing how he set out to change the strained international image of U.S. basketball.

FAVORITE MOVIE My wife and I see many movies and I don't have a favorite. At the top of my list over the past year are The Town, The Fighter and The King's Speech.

MY HEROES My parents. My father took over a small business that his father founded and grew it into a very successful company. My mother started her career as a CPA in a Big Four accounting firm and then became a university professor. They both balanced successful professional careers while actively raising me and three siblings.

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