E-TEACHERS

Acton 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, president or managing director of nine successful companies in the areas of engineering, consulting, enterprise software and venture capital Entrepreneur-in-residence for STARTech Early Ventures and BCM Technologies M.A., engineering and a B.A.,engineering and religious studies, 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
	Greg Fitzgerald - Teacher CREDENTIALS: Vice President of Marketing for TippingPoint, a division of 3Com Former marketing executive for BMC Software and Traq Wireless Lead two start-ups to acquisition and executed multiple venture capital/angel investor financing rounds Master's in International Management, Thunderbird (Arizona);MBA, University of Colorado; B.A., business, Emory 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