Brigham received an MS in Computer Science and a BS in Mathematics and Economics from BYU. He was supported by the Department of Defense SMART Program, and the following scholarships: Robert K. Thomas, National Merit, Coca-Cola and Toyota Community. Brigham’s Master’s Thesis was titled “Infinitesimal Perturbation Analysis for the Capacitated Finite-Horizon Multi-period Multiproduct Newsvendor Problem.” His Honors Thesis was titled “Forecasting Political Instability: Control-theoretic Modeling of International Conflict.” He has worked for Infosys Tech. in Bangalore India, the Computation Institute at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Lab, and as a high school math teacher at Meridian School in Orem, UT. After graduating, Brigham continued on to pursue an MBA at the MIT Sloan School of Management.