Global Call Tuesday Dec. 1--Kevin McMurray

Kevin S. McMurray is the Executive Director of International Development and the Deputy General Counsel, International for USANA Health Sciences, Inc. in Salt Lake City, Utah. As Executive Director of International Development, Kevin is responsible for overseeing all aspects of opening new international markets. His duties include conducting market research to determine the company's best opportunties for international expansion, finding and selecting suitable office space and setting up a local business entity in new markets, assisting in the selection of new country managers, and generally supervising all other tasks essential to starting the USANA business in new international markets.


As Deputy General Counsel, International, Kevin advises Executive Management of the company on a wide variety of issues, including international business transactions and market expansion, food and drug law, advertising law, direct selling laws, intellectual property law, government relations and employment law, and he negotiates and drafts contracts for a variety of commercial transactions.

Prior to joining USANA he worked as in-house legal counsel for Unicity International, Inc. (Orem, Utah), Shaklee Corporation (Pleasanton, California), and Metabolife International, Inc. (San Diego, California). Kevin was also an Assistant Staff Judge Advocate in the United States Air Force and a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney, and he worked as an Associate on the financial derivatives litigation team with the law firm of Dinsmore & Shohl (Cincinnati, Ohio).

Kevin graduated from Brigham Young University in 1987 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications (Human Resource Development) with a minor in Spanish. He received his Juris Doctor degree from Creighton University School of Law in 1990 and his LL.M. degree in International Business Transactions from the McGeorge School of Law (University of the Pacific) in 1991. While pursuing his LL.M. degree, Kevin completed a legal clerkship in Madrid, Spain, working with the international law group of Cuatrecasas, one of the leading law firms in Spain.

Kevin is admitted to practice law in Nebraska (1990), Ohio (1995) and Utah (2008). He is active in the Lawyer’s Council (2006 – 2007 Chair) and Government Relations Committee of the U.S. Direct Selling Association (DSA), and he is the current President of the Mountain West Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC). He is proficient in Spanish.