McCombs Alumni Network News

Melissa Evers-Hood, MBA ’03, lives in Portland and works at Intel, specializing in financial strategic management and people development. She says having a child shortly after earning her MBA shifted her career ambitions and has given her a strong perspective on career and personal life balance.
Evers-Hood is president of the McCombs alumni chapter in Portland. [...]

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Gus García, BBA ’59 and a practicing CPA for 30 years, was mayor of Austin from 2001 to 2003, after serving on the Austin City Council for 9 years. The City Council named a park and recreation center in his honor, the Austin Independent School District name a Middle School in his honor and the [...]

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César Guerra de León
MPA ’06, Bachelor in Finance and Accounting
Tecnológico de Monterrey, ’07 (joint academic program)
Property, Plant and Equipment Senior Financial Analyst General Motors
As a member of the McCombs Alumni Advisory Board and mentor to students in the Texas MPA/Tecnológico de Monterrey joint academic program, César Guerra de León is a perennially enthusiastic MPA advocate. [...]

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Bill Pierce, MBA ’62, recently led an effort to honor America’s war veterans through the purchase and installation of 120 engraved brick pavers at the Veterans’ Walk of Honor at the National Museum of the Pacific War in Fredericksburg, Texas. Pierce earned a BBA from the University of Houston and received his ROTC commission in [...]

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Rad Weaver, BBA ‘98, is director of business development for Red McCombs Enterprises. On March 25, Weaver, chair of the BBA Alumni Giving Committee, is hosting Access McCombs in San Antonio, a chance for young alumni to spend an evening with Red McCombs and Dean Tom Gilligan.
What made you want to study business?
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In a career encompassing a variety of professional roles in advertising, finance and marketing, Nina Godiwalla, BBA ‘97, has repeatedly shown her ability to thrive in a number of industries and set her own path.
While a student at McCombs, Godiwalla helped organize one of the university’s first Intern Expos, was chairperson for the Undergraduate Business [...]

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When Amanda Yates, MBA ‘07, wrote her essay for admission to McCombs, she discussed the opportunity to solve the world’s health problems of malnutrition and obesity through new and better food products. Yates grew up on a pecan farm in New Mexico, loved to cook and had a habit of roaming the aisles of grocery [...]

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Statistics say one in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer during her lifetime. But at age 31, Katie Jozwicki, MBA ’07, did not expect to be one of them. And yet, in the midst of mid-terms during her second year at McCombs, she learned she had stage-two breast cancer.
“When my doctor said it [...]

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Some people balk at the size of UT’s undergraduate population, but for Kurt Leedy, BBA ‘02, it’s exactly what drew him to McCombs. After two years of attending TCU, a much smaller school, Leedy realized he longed to be part of a larger community.
“The great thing about McCombs is that there are so many incredibly [...]

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Amy (Sherrill) Wittmayer, MBA ’04, chose to pursue an MBA in order to advance her career at Dell, but she ended up choosing an entirely different path as a result of her education.
In addition to her work in finance and audit while at Dell, Wittmayer often ran women’s mentorship panels, and was active in interviewing [...]

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