Thursday Speakers
Our Thursday speakers are successful entrepreneurs and coaches who provide advice and guidance to students.
Rob Adams
Speaker
Credentials:
- Director of the McCombs School of Business’s Moot Corp at the University of Texas
- Founder of Business Matters, AV Labs, Tejas Ventures
- Formerly an executive at Lotus and Pervasive Software
- MBA, Babson College; B.S., Purdue University
Clayton Christopher
Speaker
Credentials:
- Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Sweet Leaf Tea
- Winner of the 2006 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year
- BA, St. Edward’s University
Betty Sue Flowers
Speaker
Credentials:
- Director of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library & Museum
- Business consultant, author, editor, and scholar
- Former Joan Negley Kelleher Centennial Professor in the English department at The University of Texas at Austin
- BA, University of Texas; PhD, University of London
Linda Ford
Speaker
Credentials:
- Founder of Ford Business Consulting
- Assistant Professor of Management at St. Edward’s University
- BA, Mathematics, Texas A&I University; MA, Organization Development, The Fielding Graduate University; PhD, Human Organization Systems
Bijoy Goswami
Speaker
Credentials:
- Co-founder and CEO of Aviri, a company that helps organizations adopt people-centric strategies
- Founded the Bootstrap Network, an organization for entrepreneurs bootstrapping a business
- B.A., economics, history, computer science, Stanford University; Oxford Scholar
Dan Markim
Speaker
Credentials:
- President and CEO of Markim Media, Inc.
- Former Executive Vice President of Schlessinger Media/Library Video Company
- Former Vice President of Time Life Inc
- BA, economics with distrinction, University of Virginia; MBA, University of Houston
Betty Otter-Nickerson
Speaker
Credentials:
- COO of the Lance Armstrong Foundation
- Former CEO of GalleryWatch.com
- BA, psychology, University of South Florida; BS, information management, Washington University; MBA, University of Texas
Joel Trammell
Speaker
Credentials:
- Co-founder and CEO of NetQoS
- 2006 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year
- Former instructor at the U.S. Navy’s Naval Nuclear Power School
- BS, electrical engineering, Magna Cum Laude, Louisana Tech University
Larry Warnock
Speaker
Credentials:
- CEO of Phurnace Software, Inc., (early stage start-up)
- Formerly Chief Marketing Officer of Vignette
- Former EIR and venture partner at Austin Ventures. Vice president product marketing for Siebel Systems. Vice president marketing for OnLink Technologies (start-up acquired by Siebel). Vice president of corporate marketing for Documentum.
- B.B.A., marketing, Texas A&M University
Erika Gregory
Speaker
Credentials:
- President and Founder of Collective Invention, a multi-disciplinary consultancy that is dedicated to innovation that serves the common good.
- Co-Founder of the Idea Factory, an international innovation consultancy.
- Juilliard School graduate who has written, directed and produced a variety of media.
Vikki Loving
Speaker
Credentials:
- Chief Navigator of Wayfinder Career Engine, assisting college bound and those lost in their career in finding their way to fun and fulfillment.
- Founder of InterSource Companies, assisting individuals, groups, teams, families in identifying strengths and needs and understanding how they operate to gain peak performance.
- Consultant to The Acton School of Business