Month: September 2020 (page 1 of 2)

Recap: McCombs Alumni Virtual Town Hall Supporting and Engaging Our Alumni of Color

Earlier in the Summer, Interim President Jay Hartzell released a statement outlining actions that the university will take to make the 40 Acres a more diverse and welcoming campus. The McCombs School hosted this town hall as an opportunity to listen to and engage with all McCombs alumni, especially alumni of color. Listen to the recording!

Listeners learned what the McCombs School of Business is doing on issues related to diversity, equity, and inclusion for the McCombs community of students, faculty, and staff. The event featured a live Q&A session and a panel discussion with McCombs leaders from various programs, including:

  • Professor Lillian Mills, Interim Dean McCombs School of Business, Lois and Richard Folger Dean’s Leadership Chair, The Beverly H. and William P. O’Hara Endowed Chair in Business
  • Professor Raji Srinivasan (she/her/hers), Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion, Sam Barshop Centennial Professor of Marketing Administration
  • Catenya McHenry, Communications Director
  • Charles Enriquez, Director, Student Affairs, Texas BBA
  • Jaden Felix, Senior MBA Recruiting and Admissions Officer
  • Dr. Kristie Loescher, Senior Lecturer

Class Note: Sam Acho, BBA ’10

In a featured interview with Texas Sports, Sam Acho, BBA ’10, reflects back on his time playing Longhorn football, and shares an update about his career journey and humanitarian work after leaving McCombs.

Read more here.

Class Note: Michelle McKinney Frymire, MBA ’91

In a recent announcement, Michelle McKinney Frymire, MBA ’91, was appointed to the role of president of Strategy & Transformation and chief financial officer of CWT, the Business-to-Business-for-Employees (B2B4E) travel management platform.

Congratulations to Michelle on this achievement! Read more here.

Class Note: Tracy Norris, MBA ’15

Earlier this month, Governor Greg Abbott appointed eleven members to the Task Force on Infectious Disease Preparedness and Response to provide expert, evidence-based assessments, protocols, and recommendations related to state responses to infectious diseases.  Included in this task force was Major General Tracy Norris, MBA ’15.

Congratulation to Major General Norris on this prestigious appointment! Read more here.

Class Note: Ruthie Lyle, MSTC ’18

View the link below for a podcast with McCombs Alumna Dr. Ruthie D. Lyle, MSTC ’18. She has earned over 176 issued patents and is believed to have the most inventions of any Black woman in the world.

High-Tech Sunday Season 1 Episode 9 feat. Dr. Ruthie D. Lyle

Recap: Wealth Management Webinar

In this webinar, three expert panelists discuss the future of wealth management and provide listeners with key takeaways for how to apply these insights in your own work. Their conversation explores new challenges the industry faces and how the McCombs Wealth Management Center plans to address those challenges, industry insights from leaders in the field, and planning for human capital, personal legacy, and educated philanthropy. Watch the recording!

PANELISTS

  • Dr. Ramesh K. S. Rao – UT Austin McCombs School of Business
  • Russell W. Norwood, CIMA, CFP – Venturi Private Wealth
  • Rhonda H. Brink, JD – Brink & Bennett

Supplemental Materials:

Please note: Alumni Network webinars must be viewed live to receive CPE credit. Watching the recording does not qualify for CPE credit.

Class Note: Suzanne Brown, BBA ’96, MBA ’04

Texas McCombs Alumna Suzanne Brown was recently published in the Harvard Business Review. In the article, she explains how to think through what you want from an employer as a working parent and then actually go find this as you’re looking for a new role. Read the full article: https://bit.ly/mphbrfamfriendly

Recap: KTG Webinar with Sandy Leeds

In this webinar, Sandy brings listeners up-to-speed on current events in the markets. He covers the economy, the stock market, interest rates, the labor market, the Fed, and fiscal policy. Watch the recording!

Sandy Leeds is a distinguished senior lecturer in the Finance Department at McCombs and recently finished a thirteen year term as president of The MBA Investment Fund, L.L.C. He teaches both graduate and undergraduate level courses, including Corporate Finance, Advanced Corporate Finance, Public Policy (Long-Term Issues in the Markets), Investments, Portfolio Management / Security Analysis, Money and Capital Markets, and Macroeconomics.

Please note: Alumni Network webinars must be viewed live to receive CPE credit. Watching the recording does not qualify for CPE credit.

Class Note: Stephen Maeker, BBA ’90

Stephen Maeker, BBA ’90, recently co-authored the book “Franchising Freedom!” with 14 of his industry peers. Stephen is a nationally published Franchise Consultant with FranChoice, the premier group of Franchise Consultants in the country. He assists candidates all over the country & world who are interested in learning more about franchising by taking an education-based approach and his service is free. He represents over 150 of the approximate 3,000 domestic franchisors and provides a huge savings in time. His former corporate roles include Vice President of Franchise Sales and International Financial Manager for industry leaders Papa Murphy’s Take N Bake Pizza and TGI Fridays. He and his wife (Christy) are also proud & top performing/award-winning multi-unit franchisees of 1 of the concepts he represents.

Stephen has presented with our Career Webinar Series.  Watch his most recent webinar with us where he discuses the advantages and disadvantages of franchising and how to investigate whether or not buying a franchise is a good potential fit for you at this link!

View the book on Amazon

Class Note: Adam Kost, MBA ’20

Adam Kost, MBA ’20, has been named one of the 2020 Best and Brightest EMBAs by Poets and Guants for Executives.  Congratulations to Adam for this important recognition!

Read more about his achievement here.

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