Miki Agrawal combines creative vision and an entrepreneurial spirit with an unflinching desire to disrupt the status quo within multiple industries. Her decidedly irreverent approach has manifested itself in two successful businesses and books, all of which focused on society’s “taboo” subjects. This resourceful Canadian innovator revels in every opportunity…
Kip Lewis has been interested in business and real estate investing for most of his adult life. After graduating from McCoy College of Business at Texas State University in the late 1980s, Lewis completed his first real estate transaction just a few years later. With $2,000 of personal savings, Kip…
Ben Johnson is the Founder & CEO of Spruce, the leading provider of home services to apartment residents. Residents living in a Spruce-powered building can easily book more than 40 different chore-like services, ranging from full housekeeping to just washing the dishes to a dog walk. After launching in April…
Daniel Nicholson graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2007 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. Soon after, Daniel left for Madrid, Spain, as he was accepted into the Fundacion Consejo Espana-Estados Unidos program. The program landed him with a 9-month job with Iberdrola Renovables, where he enjoyed…
After spending five plus years working for successful energy start ups in the solar industry in his twenties, one of which went on to be acquired by a Fortune 200 US company, Brad Pilgrim turned his attention to tackling climate change in the urban settings where he spent most of…
Greg Price co-founded Shipwell in 2016 with Jason Traff to apply his engineering and machine learning background to the shipping and transportation market and bring automation, visibility, and artificial intelligence to the supply chain space. While a consultant at McKinsey & Co, Greg leveraged advanced analytics and machine learning to…
After enlisting in the US Navy 2 weeks after 9/11, Jud went on to become a surface warfare qualified intelligence analyst, a search and rescue swimmer, and finally a Navy SEAL. He deployed three times in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom earning multiple combat distinctions. After his military career, Jud…
Marjory Wildcraft is the founder of The Grow Network, an online community of 450,000 people who are stopping the destruction of the Earth via home grown food. National Geographic featured Marjory as an expert in off-grid living, she hosted Mother Earth News Online Homesteading Summit, and she is listed in…
Dr. Alina Sholar, known for true connection with her patients, grew up in Orange, TX. After receiving a full-tuition merit scholarship from the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation in Orange, she received her BS degree in Biomedical Science with Magna Cum Laude honors at Texas A&M University in…
Char Hu, PhD, completed his doctorate at Baylor College of Medicine and translated his biomedical research experience into Alzheimer’s and dementia care. As a founder and director of Georgetown Living, a certified dementia community, he is actively involved in supporting the needs of Central Texas’ older adult community. Today, Char…