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Acton Scholars are led by successful entrepreneurs who are fully committed to preparing students for exciting, profitable, and meaningful lives in business.

Our entrepreneur-teachers are:

  • Proven in the boardroom and gifted in the classroom
  • Running successful businesses, leading venture capital firms, and coaching entrepreneurs
  • Teaching a select group of driven students, giving the Acton MBA the lowest teacher-student ratio of any graduate business school in the nation
  • Dedicated to seeing you succeed in class and in your career

Teacher Profiles

Steven Tomlinson

Steven Tomlinson

Teacher

Credentials:

  • Formerly a top ranked economics and finance professor in the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas
  • Designed and directed the McCombs Plus Program;directed the MBA Professional Development at UT
  • Ph.D.,economics, Stanford University; BA, with honors, University of Oklahoma

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Jeff Sandefer

Jeff Sandefer

Founder, Teacher

Credentials:

  • Founded or co-founded five successful companies.  Formerly managed Sandefer Capital, an energy investment firm
  • Named by BusinessWeek as one of the top Entrepreneurship professors in the United States
  • MBA Harvard Business School; BS University of Texas

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Jack Long

Jack Long

Founder, Teacher

Credentials:

  • Co-founder of Lone Star Overnight and PeopleAdmin, Inc.
  • A top-ranked Entrepreneurship professor for the Acton MBA and formerly for the University of Texas.
  • MBA Vanderbilt University; B.S. University of Richmond.

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Phil Siegel

Phil Siegel

Founder, Teacher

Credentials:

  • Founded Newgistics, BPO Newco, Salion, and ForwardVue Technologies
  • Current partner at Austin Ventures; former partner at the Boston Consulting Group
  • MBA and B.S., University of Chicago.

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Jeff Serra

Jeff Serra

Teacher

Credentials:

  • Founded ReNEW Energy and Eyes of Texas Partners
  • Former chairman, president and CEO of Phibro Energy
  • MS industrial management, Purdue University; B.S. civil engineering, University of Virginia

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Ed Perry

Ed Perry

Teacher

Credentials:

  • Founder, CEO, or Managing Director of ten successful companies in the industries of oil & gas, electronics, software, consulting and venture capital
  • General Partner, Murphree Venture Partners
  • Bachelor's and Master's degrees, Rice University

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Jeff Connally

Jeff Connally

Teacher

Credentials:

  • President & CEO, CMIT Solutions, Inc
  • Founder of Uplink Corporation;  co-founded Gener8Biz
  • Worked for twenty years as a top sales and marketing executive in software, hardware and information service companies, including Stratfor/Infraworks, ReCompute, Globalsoft, and IBM
  • MBA from the University of Texas; B.A., business and humanities, St Michael’s College (Vermont)

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Jamie Matthews

Jamie Matthews

Teacher

Credentials:

  • Co-founder and Mentor for Explore Austin, a non-profit dedicated to mentoring and building leadership skills in young boys through outdoor adventures
  • Owner and Principal in real estate transactions totaling over $29 million in Texas, Colorado, and California
  • Co-founder of The Tecumseh Foundation, a Texas based foundation that supports a wide variety of charities, scholarship programs, and non-profits
  • MBA, Acton; MBA, National University (California); B.A., psychology, Vanderbilt University

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Joe Fulwiler

Joe Fulwiler

Teacher

Credentials:

  • Founder, Fulwiler Law
  • Executive at Coremetrics, Spinner.com, and Booz Allen & Hamilton
  • MBA, Stanford University; JD, Columbia University; BA, Economics, Yale

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Kimberly Watson-Hemphill

Kimberly Watson-Hemphill

Teacher

Credentials:

  • Founder of Firefly Consulting
  • Previously, a Partner with Accenture Management Consulting and a Vice President with George Group Consulting
  • Author of Fast Innovation
  • Masters of Engineering Mechanics from The University of Texas; BSE in Aerospace Engineering and BA in French from The University of Michigan

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Ted W. Beasley

Ted W. Beasley

Teacher

Credentials:

  • Co-Founder Gateway Church
  • Start-up Entrepreneur in the United States, Eastern Europe and Australia
  • Strategic and Financial Consultant for emerging and senior leaders in corporate America
  • MBA from The University of Texas

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Benjamin W. Allen

Benjamin W. Allen

Practitioner

Credentials:

  • CEO of Acton Publishing
  • Held positions as the National Sales Director of RWA Financial Services, Inc. and CEO of NAF Ventures, Inc.
  • 2007 Acton School of Business alumnus

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Bill Jones

Bill Jones

Practitioner

Credentials:

  • Co-founded and managed Queensland Energy Resources and Shale Tech International
  • Former Vice President of Energy Development with Ziff Brothers Investments; Principal with Sandefer Capital Partners; Venture Consultant at Austin Ventures
  • MBA from The University of Texas; B.S. Geosciences, University of Arizona

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Ellen L. Fleming

Ellen L. Fleming

Teacher

Credentials:

  • Launching a software start-up
  • Former Executive with Dell Inc.
  • General Motors Fellow
  • MBA from Harvard Business School; B.Sc., GMI Engineering Management Institute; B.A. Economics, University of Toronto

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