Syberry, the Austin-based software development company Timour founded in 2014, is gaining significant traction in Austin and beyond. The company has recently been recognized as a top developer by both Clutch and Design Rush, and Timour was accepted last month into the Forbes Technology Council.

Syberry provides full-scale custom software development for clients in any industry. The company’s mission is offering unparalleled service for custom software engineering, including web and mobile application development, building custom ERP solutions, and empowering businesses with cutting-edge cloud and IoT technologies.

VITAS^® Healthcare, the nation’s leading provider of end-of-life care, appointed Jeffrey M. Kreger as executive vice president (EVP) and chief financial officer (CFO). Kreger succeeds President and CFO David Wester who announced his retirement in early 2019 after a 22-year career at VITAS.

The emergency room — often the first stop for parents when their children are sick — can be more than an hour away for residents in rural Texas. Additionally, these emergency rooms often aren’t staffed with pediatric providers.

UT alumni Kevin Pearce and Brian White, who both graduated from the McCombs School of Business in 2004, founded Urgent Care for Kids in 2011 to solve these problems and plan to expand their business this year. “So here you are. You’ve got a kid, your most prized possession, who is sick,” Pearce said. “You don’t know why, but you have no real pediatric resources with which to use to make them better. We saw this missing void and said, ‘We could do this better.’” Urgent Care for Kids is currently adding to their pediatric clinics across Texas and improving their virtual platform, Pearce said. “Our whole role was to make a customer-focused, pediatric-specialized program that would help these children and families at the time when it mattered most to them,” Pearce said. “As a part of that, we felt there were opportunities in the virtual care space to send the top-notch pediatric care in our clinics to the state of Texas.”

Last July, Urgent Care for Kids started offering a service called Virtual Care for Kids, which allows a parent to video chat with a pediatrician,
Pearce said. Read more here. 

Aceable, the leader in digital high-stakes education, today announced the hiring of Justin Kvasnicka as Chief Financial Officer and Nancy Spencer as Vice President of Finance. Mr. Kvasnicka and Ms. Spencer, who are both proven financial leaders with accomplished backgrounds, will work together to oversee the company’s aggressive growth plan to further expand its driving and real estate products nationwide. In addition, the company is also exploring new industry verticals.

Nancy Spencer spent nearly three years at Google, serving as an Operational Controller and a Google Fiber Regional Finance Lead. Prior to her time there, she spent over 10 years at Ernst & Young, where she was a Senior Manager, Assurance Services. An experienced accounting and finance leader, Spencer has a demonstrated history of working in multiple industries with a focus in tech and real estate. She received both her BBA and MPA from the University of Texas at Austin’s Red McCombs School of Business. Read more here. 

Today, Hallenbeck remains at the Houston-based company as manager of corporate venturing. His primary responsibility is to understand and assess underlying technologies, market potential and fit within WM. Being able to push the envelope to develop and implement these new ideas that help improve the industry’s environmental footprint is what has keeps him motivated.

“Rob is a lifelong learner. He is always willing and able to assess all facets of a waste process, be it technical, financial, operational or policy-related aspects,” says Pat Ramm, Hallenbeck’s supervisor. “He is a terrific team player and wants to include others in the brainstorming because he enjoys hearing other ideas. He is very inquisitive around what makes things work and has a very natural and positive way of challenging paradigms, technologies or the status quo.” Read more here.