Shon Whitney, Vice President of Marketing

Born and raised on the sunny beaches of Orange County, California, Shon could never have imagined that one day he would live on the opposite side of the Pacific Ocean. Even his days completing Asian Studies at Brigham Young University (BYU) couldn’t have prepared him for the life he would lead in the very countries he was learning of. Nevertheless, this California native would travel from the land where the sun sets, to the land where the sun rises.

After receiving an MBA from the BYU Marriott School of Management, Shon Whitney went to work for BellSouth in Washington, D.C.; Dayna Communications, a Macintosh networking company that was eventually purchased by Intel; and as VP of Operations for Focus Enhancements in Boston. It was while he was there that a former classmate from BYU, Kelly Olsen, approached him about a little company called Morinda (now known as Tahitian Noni International). When Kelly asked him to open Taiwan, TNI’s first Asian market, Shon jumped at the opportunity. Taiwan had record growth under his leadership and TNI quickly became one of the top companies in this market.

Eighteen months later, Shon was asked to open Hong Kong and Macau for business. Four years passed and Shon was once again approached with the opportunity to open yet another Asian market, this time in Korea. After six years of experience in the Asian market, Shon returned to the U.S. to become the Regional General Manager of TNI’s North America market. Shon has now been asked to take on a new challenge as Vice President of Marketing Communications.

“It is a great blessing to be part of such an amazing company with a phenomenally dynamic future,” Shon says. “I love this company, I love Tahitian Noni products, and I love our future.” That excitement is hard to miss when you talk with Shon—and it’s incredibly infectious.

Shon and his wife Shelly live in Provo, Utah and are the proud parents of six children.