The McCombs School of Business is pleased to announce the 2015 Hall of Fame inductees, who are recognized for their exemplary civic, educational, and philanthropic activities, and have made outstanding professional contributions to the business community and to education.

The following alumni will be honored for their outstanding lifetime achievements at the Hall of Fame event Friday, September 25, 2015:

William P. O’Hara, BBA ’68, turned his leadership in the corporate world into an opportunity to serve future generations as both an educator and a philanthropist. O’Hara began his career with Sears, Roebuck & Co., eventually joining Dean Witter, then a division of Sears, staying with the firm through its merger with Morgan Stanley. He retired in 2000 as Managing Director of Card Services, Morgan Stanley Europe, and decided to give back by teaching at McCombs. As an accounting lecturer for ten years, he earned the McCombs Undergraduate Honor Roll Award, the Texas Blazers’ Outstanding Teaching Award (twice), and the Eyes of Texas Excellence Award. He and his wife, Beverly, have generously supported research fellowships, student scholarships and other worthy goals. Now in his “second retirement,” O’Hara serves on boards of directors and audit committees in the financial industry.

Bob Zlotnik, BBA ’75, MBA ’80, and Marcie Zlotnik, BBA ’83, founders of Houston energy company StarTex Power, have a long history of supporting business education and the university.

Marcie Zlotnik served as COO and chairman of StarTex Power, and prior to that was COO for Coastal Telephone Company, president and principal accounting officer of Gexa Corp., and president of TotalNet Communications, Inc. She is the recipient of professional and community awards including: Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist (2008-10), Texas Women’s Chamber of Commerce, 1996 Texas Business Woman of the Year, and 1995 Houston Area Women’s Center Volunteer of the Year.  She is president and executive board member of Gulf Coast Power Assoc., and is a board member of Girls Inc., and Sugerland Skeeters Foundation. She is a new member of the McCombs School of Business Advisory Council.

Bob Zlotnik serves as CEO and president of StarTex Power and CFO of Incom Roofing Services Inc. He has over 25 years of executive and senior management roles in finance and accounting with PACE Entertainment (Clear Channel), Lifeco Travel Services/American Express, and Ernst and Young. He has been a guest speaker before the Texas Legislator’s House Regulated Industries Committee, Gulf Coast Power Association, and the Deutsche Bank Private Equity Conference. In 2008, he was named an Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist for the Gulf Coast region. Zlotnik currently serves on The University of Texas at Austin Development Board, and is the chair of the McCombs School of Business Advisory Council.

Please join us in thanking these accomplished and deserving individuals for their unwavering support of McCombs School of Business and our mission to transform lives for the benefit of society.

They provide worthy role models for others to emulate, including future generations of our students.