J. Kimo Esplin
J. Kimo Esplin was sustained as a General Authority Seventy on April 1, 2023 at the 193rd Annual General Conference of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was assigned to serve as Second Counselor in the Asia North Area Presidency, effective August 1, 2023.
Esplin has served in the Twelfth Quorum of the Seventy in the Utah Area since 2021. His previous Church service includes full-time missionary in the Japan Kobe Mission, high councilor, bishop, stake president, and president of the Japan Tokyo South and North Missions (2018–2021).
He has worked for nearly three decades as executive vice president and chief financial officer at Huntsman Corporation. He has also been a board member for Savage Companies.
Esplin was born in Kahuku, Hawaii, on August 18, 1962. He received a bachelor's degree in accounting from Brigham Young University and earned a Master of Business Administration from Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management while working in investment banking.
A few months after returning home from his mission, Elder Esplin was in a car accident that killed his father. Just a few months later, with his mother sitting beside him, his car was struck from behind, the car rolled, and his mother and niece were killed. As the youngest, and only son, of Ross S. and Olive Ora Moody Esplin's eight children, his older sisters all chipped in and sent him on study abroad to the BYU Jerusalem Center. There he met Kaye Davis and they married in December 1985. They are the parents of eight children.[1]
