Teachers
Acton's teachers are all proven and successful entrepreneurs and have collectively grown their businesses up to $4.5 billion in assets and counting.
Jeff Sandefer
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; B.S., University of Texas
Steven Tomlinson
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; B.A., with honors, University of Oklahoma
Jack Long
Chairman & Co-Founder of SchoolAdmin
Co-founder of Lone Star Overnight and PeopleAdmin, Inc.
A top-ranked entrepreneurship teacher for the Acton MBA and formerly for the University of Texas
MBA, Vanderbilt University; B.S. University of Richmond
Jeff Serra
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
Phil Siegel
Founded Newgistics and three other companies
Current managing general partner at Austin Ventures; former partner at the Boston Consulting Group
MBA and B.S., University of Chicago.
Ed Perry
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
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)
Bill Jones
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
Joe Fulwiler
Founder, Fulwiler Law
Executive at Coremetrics, Spinner.com, and Booz Allen & Hamilton
MBA, Stanford University; J.D., Columbia University; B.A., Economics, Yale
Kimberly Watson-Hemphill
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 B.A. in French from The University of Michigan
Ted Beasley
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
Jamie Matthews
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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