The Canfield BHP Alumni Advisory Board is pleased to welcome new board members Sarina Richard, Henry Howard, and Arienne Brent!
Every year the CBHP Alumni Advisory Board meets to guide the direction and accomplish the mission of the business honors program. It is comprised of Canfield BHP alumni who share the goal of supporting and improving one of UT’s finest undergraduate programs. In particular, the Advisory Board assists in fundraising, student recruitment, student mentorship, alumni engagement and helps to increase the overall awareness of Canfield BHP.
Check out the alumni advisory board page to see the complete list of members.
Sarina Richard
Sarina Richard is the Chief Operating Officer at Give Legacy, Inc., a Series B startup building a digital fertility clinic for men, changing the outdated view that fertility is a “women’s issue.” Legacy was incubated at the Harvard Innovation Labs, joined Y Combinator’s accelerator program. Sarina and the team have built partnerships with the military, including the Navy SEALs, the Green Berets, and the Veterans Health Administration, with major national insurers, including UnitedHealthcare, Aetna, and Cigna, and with leading healthcare providers, including Memorial Sloan Kettering, Boston IVF, and Progyny.
Previously Sarina was an investment banker, management consultant, private equity associate, and innovation and design consultant, all focused in the healthcare space. Her most significant work experience comes from being a four-time startup founder with three successful exits. Her latest venture was a women’s health business based in India, providing access to sexual health information and resources to underserved populations. This company was acquired in less than a year from the largest women’s organization in India, serving over 20 million women. In addition to her career work, Sarina has been heavily involved in various women-lead initiatives and organizations, including starting a school in South Texas for migrant girls, building a microfinance program for female farmers in Peru, and rescuing and rehabilitating victims of human trafficking on the borders of India and Nepal.
Sarina graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2007 with Business Honors, Finance, and Spanish Honors degrees. While at UT, she was awarded the prestigious Texas Exes President’s Leadership Award as well as the Cactus Outstanding Student and BHP Outstanding Senior Awards. Sarina also holds an MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School.
Originally from Singapore and Texas, Sarina now lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband and two-year-old daughter. She enjoys traveling, swimming, bourbon tasting, and Texas football.
Henry Howard
Henry Howard graduated from UT Austin in 2021 with Business Honors and Finance majors. Henry is a Business Transformation Consultant at FlexPoint Consulting, where he strives to help clients understand their business needs and overcome roadblocks of all shapes and sizes. In addition to the CBHP Alumni Advisory Board, Henry serves as the Co-Chair of the Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Committee on the BBA Alumni Advisory Board.
As a student, Henry was involved in CBHP through several roles, including Co-Lead Peer Mentor, Student Recruiter, Make-A-Mark Co-Chair, Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Council Member, and Lead of the LGBTQ+ Affinity Group. Henry also co-founded the student consulting org 180 Degrees Consulting to serve local non-profits and create an accessible opportunity for students to gain consulting experience. Additionally, Henry loved volunteering with the Texas Blazers and as a photojournalist for the Daily Texan.
Since graduating, Henry has stayed in Austin and enjoys taking portraits of friends, paddleboarding on Lady Bird Lake, and serving breakfast downtown with Feed My People. He hopes to finish seeing all 50 states in the next few years and aspires to start an experimental high school to support students with various learning styles.
Arienne Brint
Arienne Brint is currently the VP of Global Government Relations at LyondellBasell. Prior to joining LyondellBasell, she spent thirteen years at Solvay in several roles, including her last role as Chief Compliance Officer. Before that, she practiced law as a litigator at several law firms, including Jones Day.
Arienne holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the Canfield Business Honors Program at The University of Texas in Austin, Texas, and a Doctor of Jurisprudence from Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In addition to recently joining the UT Business Honors Program Alumni Advisory Board, Arienne also serves as President of the Harvard Law School Association of Houston Board.
In her free time, Arienne enjoys being a “momager for her daughter, Maddie. She also enjoys shopping, traveling, singing karaoke, and improving her “black thumb” gardening skills.