Colin Kelly, MBA ’11

Colin Kelly, MBA ’11, is the president and co-founder of a start-up, mobile technology company called VueQue.  VueQue provides a service that allows customers to opt in to watch video advertisements on their terms. Customers then earn cash back rewards for the time they spend watching video ads.  Ultimately, the service will call up video ads that are most relevant to customers’ interests to create a more enjoyable shopping experience.

Customers can use the service on either desktop or mobile phone. An app for the service can be installed directly from the company website at www.vueque.com.

Colin developed the technology as part of a team of five over the past year. The site just launched and is welcoming new customers to sign up. Colin attributes the success of this launch to the education he received from the tremendous faculty and staff from the McCombs School of Business.

Weaver Continues Expansion of Health Care Practice with the Addition of Elliott Jeter, Managing Director

Weaver, the 35th largest public accounting and advisory firm in the United States, announced that Elliott Jeter has joined the firm to expand its fast-growing national health care valuation practice. With nearly two decades of experience in health care valuation and transaction advisory services, Elliott will serve as managing director leading the health care valuation group.

Strengthening Weaver’s commitment to the health care sector, Elliott focuses on cultivating client relationships by providing valuation, transaction advisory, and operational consulting to the health care services industry. His experience includes working directly with tax-exempt health systems, ambulatory surgery centers, urgent care centers, physician group practices, imaging centers, post-acute providers and other ancillary health care providers. Elliott will also lead Weaver’s health care research department, which will provide clients with key insights and industry intelligence.

“With our health care practice growing rapidly, Elliott’s background and understanding of this industry is increasingly valuable to our clients,” said CEO and Managing Partner, John Mackel. “His familiarity working with a wide variety of health care organizations, along with his experience in valuation, appraisal and advisory, are a tremendous benefit and we are delighted to have him on our team.”

“Bringing Elliott on board reflects Weaver’s commitment to building a best-in-class health care valuation and advisory team,” said Partner-in-Charge of Valuation Services, Curt Germany. “Health care is approaching one fifth of U.S. GDP and we expect the next decade to be a wild ride marked by heavy transaction volumes, shifting political and public policy landscapes, and increased competition for resources. Elliott’s experience will be a valuable resource for Weaver’s health care clients as they navigate this complex and challenging environment.”

Elliott is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation. A member of the Healthcare Financial Management Association and the Health Law Section of the American Bar Association, he is a frequent writer and speaker for various professional and industry organizations. Elliott earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Texas A&M University and a Master of Business Administration from The University of Texas at Austin.

About Weaver
Weaver has built a nationwide presence on an unwavering commitment to its clients’ success, acting with integrity and always striving to transcend expectations. The Houston-based firm has grown to be the 35th largest public accounting firm in the United States, according to INSIDE Public Accounting; it is also ranked the largest independent accounting firm based in the Southwest by Accounting Today magazine.

From Fortune 500 multinational companies to start-ups, Weaver’s clients include commercial, government and not-for-profit organizations. The firm is particularly well-known in financial services, energy, manufacturing and distribution, construction, technology, real estate, health care and government. Weaver’s services go beyond traditional assurance and tax services to include risk advisory, IT advisory, energy compliance and consulting, forensics and litigation services, transaction advisory, valuation, and specialty tax services such as international tax, state and local tax and private client services. Learn more at www.weaver.com.

Scot Burton, BBA ’74, MBA ’76, received the 2020 American Marketing Association Lifetime Achievement Award in Marketing & Society.  This award is given to faculty who exemplify outstanding scholarship in the fields of Marketing and Society, Public Policy, and/or Marketing Ethics for contributions over their career. Burton is a distinguished professor and Tyson Research Chair at the Sam M. Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas.

Read more here.

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

Vijay Kalvakuntla, BBA’10, co-founded Code Galaxy, which provides coding classes and camps to take a child through computer science from ages 7-18. Due to COVID-19 in person classes in Austin is paused. However, online classes and summer camps are currently open for enrollment.

“Coding has become an essential skill that will continue to grow in importance as technology advances — that’s why we’ve developed the highest quality computer science education for kids and teens.”

Learn more about Code Galaxy on their website here.