E-Teachers
Watch VideoActon 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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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