1. John Thomas Ahlquist III was born on January 25,1968 and is an American businessman, commercial real-estate developer, and retired physician from Idaho.
41 Facts About Tommy Ahlquist
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Tommy Ahlquist is the CEO of the development firm, Ahlquist and founder and medical director of MN Solutions.
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Tommy Ahlquist was a candidate for the Republican Party nomination for Governor of Idaho in the 2018 Idaho gubernatorial election.
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Tommy Ahlquist was born on January 25,1968, in Hunter, Utah, and grew up on a small family farm.
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At the age of thirteen, Tommy Ahlquist earned his Eagle Scout Award, and then drew national attention by becoming one of only a few Scouts in the history of the Boy Scouts of America program to earn all 121 merit badges.
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Tommy Ahlquist attended Cyprus High School in Magna, Utah where he participated in athletics and student government.
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Tommy Ahlquist earned several awards for academic excellence and leadership and graduated in 1986.
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Tommy Ahlquist graduated from the University of Utah with a BA degree in biology and a minor in chemistry in 1992.
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Tommy Ahlquist continued to study medicine at the University of Utah, graduating as a Doctor of Medicine in 1996.
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Tommy Ahlquist completed an emergency medicine residency at the University of Arizona in 1999.
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Tommy Ahlquist is board certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine.
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Tommy Ahlquist was the head of the Emergency Department at St Luke's Meridian Medical Center in Meridian, Idaho and worked the night shift there for six years.
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Tommy Ahlquist retired from full-time work as an emergency room physician in 2014.
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In 2001, Tommy Ahlquist co-founded a public access defibrillator service company called Stat Pads.
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Tommy Ahlquist sells defibrillators and offers training to medical personnel.
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Tommy Ahlquist acquired Saltzer Health through his Ball Ventures Tommy Ahlquist development company in January 2019.
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Tommy Ahlquist Sold Saltzer Health to Intermountain Health on October 1,2020.
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In 2024 Tommy Ahlquist opened Summit Hyperbarics and Wellness, a company he co-founded in partnership with Mission 43 to treat PTSD and TBI in veterans.
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In 2006, Tommy Ahlquist founded Tommy Ahlquist Development and began developing commercial real estate.
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In 2005 and 2006, Tommy Ahlquist convinced 18 residents to sell their properties on the land that would become The Portico.
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In 2010, Tommy Ahlquist Development merged with Gardner Company and the new entity retained the Gardner Company name.
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Tommy Ahlquist became COO of the company at the time of the merger.
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In 2016, Tommy Ahlquist led the formation of a new division of Gardner Company in collaboration with the Brighton Corporation focusing on a continuum of care for seniors through independent living, assisted living, and skilled nursing facilities all tied into local health systems called Veranda Senior Living.
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In June 2018, Tommy Ahlquist left his post as COO of the Gardner Company to head a new joint venture with Ball Ventures called Ball Ventures Tommy Ahlquist LLC.
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In January 2019, Tommy Ahlquist led BVA's acquisition of the Saltzer Medical Group, a Nampa-based health system.
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Tommy Ahlquist has many endeavors at different stages of completion Idaho and beyond.
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College of Western Idaho Boise Campus: In 2023, Tommy Ahlquist was picked by CWI leadership to develop a multi-building project on land it owns along the Boise River in Downtown Boise.
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Since 2018, Tommy Ahlquist has been involved in hosting and producing the podcast.
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Tommy Ahlquist was a finalist for the Idaho State Department of Education Board opening in July 2014 when Milford Terrell announced that he was stepping down early from his term.
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Tommy Ahlquist was a founder of Idaho 2020, a bipartisan think tank aimed at bringing together business leaders from around Idaho to focus on challenges facing the state.
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In January 2016, Tommy Ahlquist delivered a speech detailing the data collected at the Idaho Chamber Alliance and presented the information to the Idaho state legislature.
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Tommy Ahlquist supported Marco Rubio in the 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries and served as his financial co-chair for Idaho.
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Tommy Ahlquist did not support eventual President Donald Trump in the general election and wrote in Marco Rubio.
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However, Tommy Ahlquist noted later that he supported and agreed with Trump as president.
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On March 1,2017, Tommy Ahlquist announced his candidacy for the 2018 Idaho gubernatorial election in an event at the Zions Bank tower he helped develop.
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Tommy Ahlquist announced that he would be embarking on a 97-city campaign tour of the state, which he started later that week and finished in May 2017.
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Tommy Ahlquist later received endorsements from conservative commentators, Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens.
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Tommy Ahlquist has been involved with community, Inspire Excellence, T2T, 300 Homes, Board of directors for Idaho Youth Ranch.
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Tommy Ahlquist is on the board of the Inspire Excellence Awards non-profit, which is based in Boise, Idaho.
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Tommy Ahlquist is deeply involved in the Teens 2 Trades scholarship initiative as part of the Inspire Excellence organization.
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Tommy Ahlquist is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and served as a stake president in the Meridian Idaho North Stake of the LDS Church from October 27,2013, to February 4,2017.