Times are changing, and so is retirement. Rocket Dollar is keeping up with those changes. Henry Yoshida, UT alumnus and CEO of Rocket Dollar, discusses how he founded the company and his vision to free the investment limitations people face as while working toward retirement. With new alternate platforms to invest in, you can take control of your retirement savings. Watch Mr. Yoshida’s Career Webinar here.

Prior to Rocket Dollar, Yoshida was the co-founder of Honest Dollar, a robo-advisor retirement platform that was acquired by Goldman Sachs, as well as a founder of MY Group LLC, a $2.5-billion assets under management investment firm. He is a NextGen Venture and Central Texas Angel Network Partner, as well as a Techstars and Capital Factory mentor. In addition, Yoshida is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ and a former Merrill Lynch Vice President. He was a two time finalist for PLANSPONSOR’s Retirement Plan Advisor of the Year and a 401(k) Leadership finalist for the American Society of Pension Professionals and Actuaries. Yoshida graduated from The University of Texas at Austin and holds an MBA from both the Johnson School of Management at Cornell University and Queen’s University in Canada. He resides in Austin with his wife and two daughters.

Michael Laitkep, BBA ’17, is an Energy Research Analyst at Alerian, which equips investors to make informed decisions about energy infrastructure and Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs). Mr. Laitkep seeks to promote understanding of the Alerian Index Series and support broader understanding of the role that midstream assets play in North American energy markets.

In his recently published article, Mr. Laitkep writes how petrochemicals provide midstream opportunities downstream. Read the article here.

In 2014, Alejandra Rodriguez Boughton was living in Austin and homesick for her native Monterrey, Mexico. After earning her MBA from the University of Texas McCombs School of Business, she was lost. She didn’t want to return to her career in corporate banking, but she didn’t know what she wanted to do. Stressed, she started cooking in the kitchen of her South Austin apartment. “I wanted to do this mole that you find specifically in the markets of Oaxaca,” she says. But she needed the peppers of her childhood—specifically, chilhuacle pepper, which is “pretty much impossible to find outside of Oaxaca,” she says. She spent hours online searching for seed and started growing peppers in containers on her balcony. “One day it hit me in the shower: Maybe I could make a business out of this,” she says. Read more here. 

Harrison is a serial entrepreneur who has built three companies prior to starting work on C4Coin. He holds a Masters’ in Professional Accounting from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. His combination of startup experience and general business and financial training makes him an ideal leader for the C4Coin project. Read more here.