The McCombs School of Business is pleased to announce the 2022 Hall of Fame inductees, John Harkey Jr., Ben Moreland, Kelly Steckelberg, and Andrew Phong Vo and the 2022 Alumni Rising Stars, Adam Blum, Nick Dell’Osso, Philip Krim, and April Underwood. We look forward to honoring them at the Hall of Fame celebration on Nov. 10, 2022.

The Hall of Fame award is the highest honor given by the McCombs School of Business. It recognizes individuals for their exemplary work in many areas including civic, educational, and philanthropic activities, as well as making outstanding professional contributions to the business and educational community. The school thanks all of the members of the Hall of Fame selection committee for their efforts in choosing this year’s recipients.

Rising Star awards recognize young alumni who have been successful professionally and have helped strengthen the McCombs Alumni Network. These are graduates who have presented themselves as consummate professionals and dedicated business people.

Highlights about this year’s honorees follow.

HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES:

JOHN HARKEY JR., BBA ’83, JD ’86
John Harkey Jr. is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of JDH Investment Management, LLC in Dallas, TX. He has over 25 years’ experience as a private investor, chief executive, and director in both public and private companies. He has merged, acquired, operated and/or served on the board ofdirectors of nine public companies in biotech, energy, technology, aerospace, telecom, and restaurants, and private companies in healthcare, real estate, farm and ranch products, and software development. Read more.

BEN MORELAND, BBA ’84
Ben Moreland is Principal of Moreland Interests and retired CEO of Crown Castle, where he remains a member of the Board of Directors. Crown Castle (NYSE: CCI), an S&P 500 Company based in Houston, is a leading provider of wireless infrastructure in the U.S., owning and operating over 40,000 towers and 115,000 Small Cell facilities, supported by over 80,000 route miles of fiber in key U.S. markets. He also serves/served on a number ofpublic and private company boards, as well as Houston Methodist Hospital. Read more.

KELLY STECKELBERG, BBA ’91, MPA ’91
Kelly Steckelberg has been the CFO of Zoom Video Communications since 2017 where she led the company through its successful IPO in 2019 and explosive growth in recent years. Previously she held various roles at technology companies including  CEO of Zoosk, and various roles in finance at Cisco, Webex, Epiphany, PeopleSoft, and KPMG. Kelly is a board member and Audit Committee Chair for Qualtrics. She has an MPA in accounting from The University of Texas at Austin. Read more.

ANDREW PHONG VO, BBA ’95
Andrew Phong Vo is Chief Human Resources Officer of Accenture Growth Markets responsible for talent and leadership in Asia-Pacific, Latin America, the Middle East, and South Africa. A member of the company’s Global Leadership Council, Andrew has built a 27-year career at Accenture (NYSE: ACN) advising Fortune 500 clients, building business practices, and developing people. Committed to empowering the next generation, he is a Forty Acres Scholars Program advocate and founder of the Texas Iron Spikes service organization. Andrew is a past recipient of UT’s Outstanding Young Texas Ex award. Read more.

ALUMNI RISING STARS:

ADAM BLUM, BBA MPA ’06
Adam Blum has over a decade of leadership experience in the institutional investment sector. He founded Old Hickory Partners in 2018 and Old Hickory’s predecessor entities in 2011. Previously, Mr. Blum managed a portfolio of entrepreneurially focused investments in real estate, oil and gas, public securities, private loans, and interests in private companies. Mr. Blum began his principal investing career in 2008 as a private equity investor at Austin Ventures, a $4 billion private investment firm, where he worked through 2011. Prior to Austin Ventures, he worked from 2006 to 2008 in New York City as an investment banker at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in the Technology, Media, and Telecommunications Group. Read more.

NICK DELL’OSSO, MBA ’03
Domenic J. Dell’Osso, Jr. was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of Chesapeake in October 2021. He previously served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since November 2010. Prior to that time, he served as Vice President – Finance and Chief Financial Officer ofChesapeake’s wholly owned midstream subsidiary Chesapeake Midstream Development, L.P. from August 2008 to November 2010. Before joining Chesapeake, Mr. Dell’Osso was an energy investment banker with Jefferies & Co. from 2006 to 2008 and Banc of America Securities from 2004 to 2006. Mr. Dell’Osso serves on the Board of Directors of Cristo Rey Catholic High School of Oklahoma City, Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City, and the United Way of Central Oklahoma. He graduated from Boston College in 1998 and earned his MBA from The University of Texas at Austin in 2003. Read more.

PHILIP KRIM, BBA ’06
Currently, Philip serves as the Founder and Managing Partner at Montauk Ventures, an early stage investment firm focused on investing in and helping founders navigate the complexities of hyperscale. Before Montauk Ventures, Philip served as the Cofounder, Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman at Casper and led the comprehensive business strategy, expansion, and vision for the company. Casper continues to reimagine the sleep industry from the ground up. A serial entrepreneur, Philip has founded two previous startups, where he focused on evolving consumer and e-commerce trends. Read more.

APRIL D. UNDERWOOD, BBA ’01
April D. Underwood is co-founder of the angel investing collective #ANGELS and a member of the boards of directors for Zillow Group (since 2017) and Eventbrite (since 2022). #ANGELS has backed over 150 early-stage technology companies since 2015 and initiated the first-ever study on gender equality in equity compensation, The Gap Table. April’s investments include Vanta, Clubhouse, Winnie, Nurx, Color, and Cue Health and many more. Until 2019, April was the Chief Product Officer at Slack. Prior to joining Slack, April was director of product at Twitter from 2010 to 2015. Previously, April has held product, partnerships, and engineering roles at Google, Travelocity, and Intel. April holds a BBA (2001) in management information systems and Business Honors from The University of Texas at Austin and an MBA (2007) from the University of California at Berkeley. Read more.

Congratulations to our honorees. We thank you for giving so much of yourselves to higher education and the efforts of the McCombs School and the university.