Scaling Meta ads for sponsors raising under Regulation D 506(c).

At AWF Labs he advises leaders and founders on AI strategy, data foundations and context engineering: separating the AI use cases with real economics from the ones that only demo well, and building the data underneath them so they hold up in production.

At Canoo, the electric vehicle maker, he built the Data Management Office from the ground up. He hired its engineers, scientists and analysts, selected the platform, and shipped an MVP with more than 100 data assets in four months, along with the governance, quality and privacy controls behind it.

At USAA he recruited the first AI/ML team in its life insurance company and put models into production for algorithmic underwriting. He co-led a $10 million platform modernization across life insurance, actuarial and financial advice, led the data team for the sale of USAA’s mutual fund, ETF and brokerage businesses, a transaction of more than $2 billion, and led the creation of the Data Engineering profession and career paths for more than 300 data and ML engineers.

Before that he built healthcare data products at NantHealth for the Cancer Moonshot, after two decades of enterprise architecture across financial services, logistics, energy and retail. He studied at Harvard University and is based in Dallas–Fort Worth.

He joined the McCombs School of Business as a professor of marketing and became its dean in 1983. Two years later he was named president of The University of Texas at Austin, which he led from 1985 to 1992, and from 1992 to 2000 he served as chancellor of the University of Texas System and its fifteen campuses.

He was named to the board of Southwest Airlines in 2000, under founder Herb Kelleher, and served for 24 years, most recently as lead independent director.

He holds the James L. Bayless Chair for Free Enterprise at McCombs, where he teaches marketing, and earned his MBA and Ph.D. in marketing from Michigan State University.

He represents sponsors, entrepreneurs and business owners in the purchase, sale, refinance and construction of real estate nationwide, and advises on corporate and securities matters, venture capital, and mergers and acquisitions.

For a decade he was also a partner and escrow officer in fee offices of Fidelity National Title and Providence Title, closing commercial and residential transactions nationwide.

He holds an LL.M. in International Law from Emory University School of Law, a J.D. from Baylor Law School, an LL.M. in International Business Law from Central European University, and a BBA from Southern Methodist University.

At HER Advisory she works with emerging and small to mid-sized fund managers on fund terms, investor readiness, building the IR team, and capital raising across RIAs, family offices and accredited investors.

Before founding it she was Managing Director and Head of Investor Relations at Stratus Financial, where she led relationships with more than 100 high-net-worth individuals, family offices and institutional investors, designed a capital raising plan of more than $20 million, and grew the pipeline to more than 500 qualified investors.

Earlier she spent eight years in private banking at Citi, as Vice President and HNW Private Banker, and at JPMorgan Chase. She holds an MBA from Wagner College.