Mr. Dustin Olson ’06 LyondellBasell Industries Mr. Pierce Owens ’98 CB Richard Ellis Ms. Priscilla Plumb ’01 Ms. Kim-Kay Randt ’07 ConocoPhillips
M. A. Wright Fund Board of Overseers Dr. Bill Glick Jones Graduate School of Business Ms. Leah Bennett, CFA, CIC King Investment Advisors Mr. Pearce Hammond, CFA ’00 Simmons & Company International Mr. Ed Larsen, CFA AIM Capital Management Mr. Robert ‘Rocky’ McAshan, CFA Rice BA ’68 Frost Investment Advisors Mr. Connelly McGreevy ’99 Goldman Sachs
Mr. Mark McMeans, CFA, CPA ’92 Brasada Capital Management Mr. John Olson, CFA Houston Energy Partners Mr. Lee Partridge, CFA ’92 Salient Partners Mr. Larry Perez Rice Management Group Mr. Rob Royall, CFA, CPA Rice BA ’82, Rice MBA ’84 Ernst & Young Mr. Steve Russo ’93 Eagle Global Advisors Allison Kendrick Thacker Rice BA ’96 Rice Management Group Dr. Dan Watson Rice PhD ’77 Capstone Financial Services Dr. Liz Williams, CFA, CPA, PhD Rice MBA ’79, MAcc ’80, PhD ’82 Legacy Trust Company
Mr. Scott Wise Rice BA ’71 Covariance Capital Management
Jones Partners Board Members President Mr. Larry Stuart Stuart & Associates P.C.
Treasurer
Mr. Bob Potter FMC Technologies, Inc.
Corporate Membership Chair Mr. Jay Adkins ’01 Chevron Corporation
Individual Membership Chair Mr. Pierce Owens ’98 CBRE
Marketing Chair
Mr. Rauli Garcia ’07 Houston Grand Opera
Program Chair
Ms. Katherine Warren Boxley Group, LLC
Mr. Sandy Aron Huntington Properties, Inc. Mr. Steve Bradshaw Oceaneering International, Inc. Ms. Kim Cotner David ’04 Baylor College of Medicine Mr. Jim Davis AccuFleet International Ms. Kim Denney ’01 Newport Board Group, LLC Dr. Bill Glick Jones Graduate School of Business Mr. Rick Jones Bluware, Inc. Dr. Sue Lehrer Newport Board Group, LLC Mr. Diego Molina ’09 Shell Energy North America Mr. Michael Novelli ’80 Cypressbrook Company Mr. Dale Phillips ’95 Microsoft Services
July 2010
September 2010
October 2010
January 2011
February 2011
April 2011
The inaugural Next Cool Idea Weekend – Idea Lab was launched at the Jones School with Executive MBAs and JGSEO members.
The Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship hosted its eighth Annual Energy & Clean Technology Venture Forum with 55 companies from across the U.S.
Keynote speakers at the second annual Rice Energy Finance Summit discussed challenges for the future and debated regulatory change.
For the first time, the Jones School entered into top ranked positions in all four of the primary publications that rank business graduate programs: Businessweek, the Economist, Financial Times and US News & World Report.
Wright Fund students won the CFA Institute’s Investment Research Challenge — Texas at the 2011 Texas Investment Portfolio Symposium.
The Rice Business Plan Competition awarded over $1.3 million in prize money. Rice Executive Education partnered with Fulbright and Jaworski to host the fourth annual Energy Industry Board Conference.
Mr. Paul Pryzant Burleson Cooke LLP Dr. Mary Ann Reynolds Stewart Title Ms. Cris Rogacheski ’10 Duke Energy International Ms. Doreen Stoller ’91 Hermann Park Conservancy Mr. Hoyt Thomas ’04 OpenAlgae, LLC Ms. Robin Tooms ’04 Savage Design Group Mr. Philip Tuttle Tuttle & Company Mr. Ken Williams TVM Capital
May 2011 Investiture awards for teaching excellence went to: Al Napier, alumni; Margaret Cording, executives; Brian Rountree, full time; Richard Price, professionals evening; Prashant Kale, professionals weekend.
June 2011 The Jones School Marketing Group, led by professors Randy Batsell, Amit Pazgal, Sharad Borle and Ajay Kalra, hosted the INFORMS Marketing Science Conference.
11