James Page Jr., MBA ’07, has been named Vanderbilt University’s vice chancellor for equity, diversity, and inclusion and chief diversity officer.
Month: August 2018 (page 2 of 2)
Andrew Vo
Andrew Vo, BBA ’95, was promoted to Managing Director, Head of Human Resources Asia, Africa, Middle East, and Turkey at Accenture in Singapore.
He is responsible for talent strategy and leadership development for 294,000 professionals. He is a member Accenture’s Human Resources Executive Committee and AAPAC Management Committee.
In this role, Andrew combines his 22-year management consulting career, working alongside senior Fortune Global 500 clients, with his proven track record as a talent transformation champion to fuel Accenture’s differentiation as a growth and innovation market leader.
Prior to assuming his current role, Andrew served as Accenture’s lead for three energy and utilities clients where he 1) led the break-in at two accounts resulting in large multi-year programs and 2) directed the strategy, consulting, and digital expansion supporting a third client’s $1 billion business transformation. Andrew previously led an $80m commodity trading & risk management practice, as well as a $175m finance practice focused on finance process, real estate, tax, trading, and treasury solutions.
As a visible talent and I&D advocate, Andrew has led Accenture’s Consulting Development Program (CDP) for North America, as well as the Southwest region, responsible for the professional development of 2400+ analysts and senior analysts. Andrew has also served as the sponsor for MBA and undergraduate recruiting across 25 North America campuses, including the University of Texas at Austin where he’s recruited 500+ new joiners as Accenture’s senior executive lead.
In the community, Andrew is a Special Olympics and Red Cross volunteer. He serves on the McCombs School of Business Advisory Council and University of Texas Chancellors Council Executive Committee. Andrew is actively involved in the Forty Acres Scholars Program, UT Austin’s premier merit-based scholarship, as former president of the Texas Exes 1883 Council and Forty Acres Society.
Jason McMinn, BBA ’01, his brother Justin, and their wives, Heather and Kendall, have made a $1M donation to the Longhorn baseball program for an indoor training facility. Read or watch the KVUE story. Read the Texas Sports story.
The McCombs School of Business is proud to announce Lisa Seacat DeLuca, MSTC ’10, David R. Druley, BBA ’88, MBA ’03, and Jeffrey M. Duchin, BBA ’98, as the 2018 Alumni Rising Stars. The Rising Star Award, established in 2004-05, recognizes young alumni who have experienced professional success and have shown exemplary service to the Texas McCombs Alumni Network.
Lisa Seacat 
DeLuca, MSTC ’10
Distinguished Engineer
IBM Watson Internet of Things (IoT)
Lisa Seacat DeLuca is a distinguished engineer for IBM Watson Internet of Things where she leads a team called the App Factory, focused on bringing IoT use cases to market. Lisa holds a Masters of Science in Technology Commercialization from The University of Texas McCombs School of Business, and a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University with minors in Business Administration and Multimedia Productions. This year, LinkedIn named Lisa one of their Top 15 Female Voices to Follow. In 2017, Lisa was inducted into the Women in Technology International (WITI) Hall of Fame, was named #2 in LinkedIn’s Top Voices in Technology List, named as a Top Women in Tech IoT Influencer by Onalytica, and received an honorary PhD from Claremont Graduate University. In 2016, Lisa was named one of the Most Influential Women in IoT. She was named one of MIT’s 35 Innovators Under 35 in 2015, as well as, LinkedIn’s NextWave of 10 Enterprise Technologists Under 35, one of Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business, and IBM’s Working Mother of the Year for Working Mother Magazine. In 2014, she was named one of Network World’s 50 Most Fascinating People in the World of Technology. She is a TED speaker, a self-published author of two children’s books titled, “A Robot Story” and “The Internet of Mysterious Things,” and the most prolific female inventor in IBM history and the only one to ever reach the 100th Invention Plateau Award (an IBM internal patent award system). Her innovation portfolio includes over 600 patent applications filed within the United States and abroad, of which, 300 have been granted, to date. The subject of her patent ideas range from areas such as cloud, mobile, IoT, social, security, cognitive, commerce and everything in between. Lisa is an AAAS-Lemelson Inventor Ambassador where she increases visibility to the importance of innovation. Lisa has spoken at numerous tech conferences and written articles to share her technology and innovation passion with others.
For recent articles and information about Lisa, visit LisaSeacat.com or follow Lisa on Twitter (@LisaSeacat).
David R. Druley, BBA ’88, MBA ’03
Chairman and CEO
Cambridge Associates
As chief executive officer, David is responsible for leading Cambridge Associates. He also oversees the collective efforts of our dedicated practice areas and our research team. He and more than 200 investment directors are responsible for implementing portfolios and partnering with endowments, foundations, private clients, and Pensions to meet or exceed each client’s investment objectives. Prior to David’s current role, he was president of the firm as well as the founding leader of our pension practice, creating and implementing innovative portfolio management frameworks that have transformed our pension clients’ approach to investing.
David has over 25 years of investment experience, including founding his own investment management firm. Prior to joining Cambridge Associates in 2003, he operated Druley Investments Management for nine years. While attending business school, David interned as an investment analyst at the Teacher Retirement System of Texas.
David is a CFA Charterholder and earned both his BBA and MBA degrees at The University of Texas at Austin.
Jeffrey M. Duchin, BBA ’98
Senior Vice President
UMB Bank
Jeff Duchin joined UMB in 2016 as a senior vice president and a sales manager within the Investment Banking Division. Along with actively working to expand UMB’s fixed income presence nationally, he will continue to service institutional accounts in a sales capacity.
Jeff previously worked as a director in the institutional fixed income division of Hilltop Securities (formerly Southwest Securities, Inc.). He concentrated his efforts on providing the best execution and bringing new investment ideas to institutional clients with a focus on both tax-exempt and taxable fixed income products, including agency and non-agency mortgage-backed securities, asset-backed securities, commercial mortgage-backed securities, and U.S. corporate bonds.
Jeff is an active and engaging alumnus for The University of Texas at Austin. His past service includes president of the Texas Exes Dallas Chapter, chair of the McCombs BBA/MPA Alumni Network Advisory Board, chair of the Chapter Advisory Board, board member of the Texas Exes, and council member on the Red McCombs School of Business Advisory Council. Currently he is the scholarship chair of the Steve Hicks School of Social Work Dean’s Advisory Council, as well as a council member of The University of Texas 1883 Council, a Texas Exes-sponsored leadership development volunteer organization.
Jeff earned his Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Finance from The University of Texas at Austin in 1998. He also holds the FINRA Series 7, 53, 24 and 63.
The McCombs School will recognize the Rising Stars at the Hall of Fame ceremony in November. The event will also recognize the 2018 Hall of Fame Inductees.
Each year, a committee of two MBA alumni, two MBA students, and two MBA staff representatives come together to review funding proposals for student projects. The funds come from an endowment established by MBA alumni in 2005—the MBA Alumni Endowed Excellence Fund (MAEEF). This fund is the most direct way that alumni invest in students and the legacy of the MBA program.
This year the committee awarded $23,000 to support a wide variety of projects:
Mexican Graduate Association’s MBA Mexico Conference: This conference brings top Mexican leaders, including CEOs, entrepreneurs, and former presidents, to discuss important issues affecting Mexico in a given year. It is attended by most Mexican MBA students in top programs around the country. The conference rotates each year to a different city and MAEEF funds allowed Texas McCombs to host the event in March 2018.
McCombs Minute-by-Minute Video Project: This is a unique video project with the goal of capturing how students’ goals and ambitions change as they advance through the MBA program. The final film will feature 30 one-minute videos that students submitted during their application process, followed by the same 30 students remaking the same admissions video from their perspective shortly before graduation. MAEEF funds will support the film that will be part of the class of 2019 disorganization week.
The McCombs Diversity Conference is a one-day student-led conference in collaboration with business leaders that aims to educate attendees on the impact, challenges, and future of diversity and inclusion in the business world. The McCombs Diversity Conference will be an engaging experience for business leaders, future and prospective McCombs students, and the greater-Austin community because it will create a unique opportunity to connect, network, and share in others’ experiences, and also explore potential solutions and action plans. Made possible in part by MAEEF support, the Diversity Conference will showcase McCombs as a top institution for diverse applicants and create a gateway for more job opportunities for diverse talent in Austin.
GBC Inter-Faith Holiday Party: This dinner is one of a series of events planned by the Graduate Business Council (GBC) to highlight diversity and inclusion initiatives at the McCombs School. With MAEEF support, the GBC intends for the dinner to provide a platform for the McCombs community to learn from the different perspectives of others.
PitchTexas is an annual MBA pitch competition hosted by the Entrepreneur Society. The most recent event received 24 first round applications and 16 teams were invited to compete at McCombs. Participating schools included UVA, Vanderbilt, University of Arkansas, University of Delaware, Georgia State, TCU, UT Dallas, UT San Antonio, and UT Austin. Thirteen local entrepreneurs and venture capitalists judged the semifinals and the top four teams advanced to the final round held at SXSWi’s Startup Village (Roger Stewart, MBA ’19, with PitchTexas pictured above). Nearly 100 people attended the final round. This event strengthens the Texas McCombs brand and emphasizes its entrepreneurial reputation. MAEEF support will help the Entrepreneur Society to continue to grow this event and expand its reach.
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