Chamber Inspiration Luncheon featuring Jeffrey D. Stewart

For our next Chamber Inspiration Luncheon meet Jeffrey D. Stewart,
Semi-retired business owner and entrepreneur living in Washington UT. Jeff and his wife Julie of 40 years have four children and five grandchildren.
Jeff started his career in the air conditioning and heating business in 1977 in Las Vegas. He eventually sold his main A/C business in 2004 and found his way to St. George in 2006.
During his time in Las Vegas, Jeff taught air conditioning at both the community college and at UNLV. 
In 1999 Jeff was elected to serve as the president of the Southern Nevada Air Conditioning Refrigeration Service Contractors Association” (SNARSCA) for two terms.
Jeff started a training school in 1993 a post-secondary education facility with an emphasis on air conditioning and refrigeration training.
Jeff is also part owner of three other businesses in Las Vegas, a roofing company, drywall painting company and another small A/C business.
Since moving here Jeff enjoys partnering with his eldest son in several real estate projects around the St. George area.
With an entrepreneurial spirit Jeff partnered up with his friend Dr. Wayne Provost to pursue several patent ideas in the construction and medical fields.  When Dr. Provost moved to St. George and joined Dixie State University in the fall of 2016, Jeff was asked to help with the mentoring program and he now donates his time to help students and community members who are working on various patents and business start-ups. His semi-retirement then ended.  
More recently Jeff and Dr. Provost donated one of their patents, the funnel jet turbine, to DSU. They, along with several local business mentors now teach a class to a select group of students. These students are building a business around that patented device. This is the first for DSU and possibly the first for any university in the country to have a class where students are owners of a patent and are building a real business around that patent.  So, Jeff keeps himself quite busy on campus. Which he certainly enjoys.