FALL 2015 with two Telly Awards for videos they created for Communities Foundation of Texas. Bart Reynolds, MBA ’01,
was appointed president of Seaspan Marine. In this position, he is responsible for short- and long-term success of the business and for developing strategies and providing leadership around customer relations. Kristin White, MBA ’01,
published a book entitled It’s the Student, Not the College: The Secrets of Succeeding at Any School — Without Going Broke or Crazy to help families with the college application process. White is the founder and director of Darien Academic Advisors, an education consulting business. Chris Carter, BBA ’02, MPA ’02, was promoted
to managing partner at Natural Gas Partners. In this role, Carter oversees NGP’s investments in addition to evaluating new investment opportunities.
Cara Whitehill, MBA ’02,
launched Traxo for Business, a business-to-business version of Traxo’s itinerary management and data aggregation technology. Traxo, an electronic travel organizer, was founded by two other McCombs alumni, Andres Fabris, BBA ’95, and Andy Chen, MBA ’03.
Katie Gray, BBA ’03,
was honored by the Texas Exes with the Texas 10 award for teaching. Gray is a senior lecturer in the Information, Risk and Operations Management Department at the McCombs School of Business.
ate. Rogers, who teaches math at Meridian School in Round Rock, Texas, plans to use the grant to buy a DJI Phantom 3 UAV drone so his students can use it to model trigonometric functions.
of Pauls Valley General Hospital in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma. Staggs comes to this position with a history of turning around fortunes for struggling hospitals.
Alissa Bayer, MBA ’04,
the founder and owner of the spa milk + honey, opened the company’s fifth and largest spa in Houston. Bayer opened the first location of the spa in 2004 in central Austin. Aron Susman, BBA ’06, MPA ’06, raised $2 million
this past year in seed funding for TheSquareFoot. Susman is the CFO and co-founder of the company, which offers an online search engine for commercial real estate.
Rob Wu, BBA ’06, MBA ’06, the CEO of CauseVox,
had an infographic about how to launch a crowdfunding campaign featured in Mashable. CauseVox is an online crowdfunding tool for nonprofits. Mark Rogers, BBA ’07,
received an innovative teaching grant from Texas International Baccalaure-
named to the steering committee of UTHealth Luminaries, a volunteer group of young leaders that identifies and champions fundraising
Karen Cheng, BBA ’09, Nathan Staggs, MBA ’03, was named CEO
Lex Hochner, MBA ’12, was
made a YouTube video about “donut selfies,” which Beats By Dre chose for its global campaign #SoloSelfie. Cheng now works as a viral video consultant. Michael Westgate, MBA ’09, was appointed vice
president of marketing at RealMassive, a commercial real estate data provider. Previously, he worked as head of marketing at W20 Group, where he oversaw marketing strategy, audience analytics, and digital communication.
initiatives on behalf of UT Health Science Center at Houston. Hochner, an associate with Haddington Ventures in Houston, is an energy investment expert who focused on energy finance at McCombs. He and his wife, Kitty, recently hosted an event at their Houston home to celebrate the Luminaries’ fundraising efforts on behalf of the Texas School Ready! project.
Zach Watkins, MBA ’09,
was promoted to director of data operations at RealMassive. He came to this role from his job as launch manager at the company.
2010s Tania Rodriguez, MBA ’11, spoke at TEDxTulum
about sustainable business models. She is the founder of Green Habitat Co., which creates energy efficient, sustainable learning facilities for rural communities.
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