Ross Buhrdorf
Co-Founder & CEO
BA 1988, College of Natural Sciences

Shanaz Hemmati
Co-Founder & COO
BS 1985, Cockrell School of Engineering

ZenBusiness is a company that provides an easy, all-in-one platform and trusted guidance for small business owners. They’ve consolidated all the tools, services, and expert support needed to start, run, and grow a successful business. Think of it as the operating system for small business success. Customers can protect their liability, manage finances, and get customers all in one place.
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Jeffrey Givens
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BS 2005, Moody College of Communication, Life Member

JDA TSG provides business process outsourcing services to companies so they can focus on delivering the very best experience to their customers. They provide the strategy, highly skilled teams, and energy it takes to make change happen quickly, even on a large scale. JDA TSG holds themselves and the outsourced business processes they deliver to a higher standard than anyone else in the outsourced industry. 

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Randell Martin
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BBA 1997, McCombs School of Business, Life Member

IRSProb.com helps good people with IRS problems. Their tax advisory services include IRS audit representation, strategic tax planning, and IRS balance settlements.

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April Willis
Director of Business Operations
BS 2008, MEd 2009, College of Education

April Willis Consulting is a full-service consulting firm serving clients nationwide. Their mission is to empower clients to maximize their potential and actualize their goals. With a team of experts, they provide the support necessary to action-plan, implement, and evaluate strategies that take big ideas and turn them into big accomplishments. Their core values allow them to serve their clients and maintain the high expectations they have set for themselves.

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Steven Hobbs
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BS 2001, College of Education, Life Member

Red River Payroll is a payroll service bureau specializing in the small business industry. They offer payroll processing, federal and state tax compliance, timekeeping, workers comp, and related services that streamline the payroll so their clients can focus on growing their business.

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Brandon Bichler
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BA 1996, College of Liberal Arts, Life Member 

Eric Rich
Partner
BBA 1992, McCombs School of Business

Elixirr is an award-winning global consulting firm working with clients across a diverse range of industries, markets, and geographies. Working openly and collaboratively with clients from start to finish, they deliver outcomes based on innovative thinking, not methodology, and treating each client's business like their own.
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Tracey Huff
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BBA 1992, McCombs School of Business

Venturity is a leading finance and accounting services firm in Dallas, Texas. Since 2001, they have provided outsourced accounting, CFO services, and managed offshore solutions to private equity-backed and privately held companies. Venturity maintains a client-focused experience that goes beyond the numbers to help business leaders, sponsors, and board members accomplish their goals. They are employee-owned and practice open book management to support the high-performing culture among its team-members both domestically and overseas.

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Cyrus Deyhimi
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BS 1992, Cockrell School of Engineering  

Paradigm was helps you access hard-to-reach audiences to support consumer and B2B market research. They provide real-time market research, giving leading companies a strong foundation to support all types of business and marketing decisions.  
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Meredith Edmonds
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BS 2006, Cockrell School of Engineering

Game 7 Staffing provides contingent staffing and design solutions for software, electrical, hardware, and mechanical engineering.

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Brandon Bichler
Partner
BA 1996, Life Member, College of Liberal Arts

Eric Rich
Partner
BBA 1992, McCombs School of Business

Elixirr is an award-winning global consulting firm working with clients across a diverse range of industries, markets, and geographies. Working openly and collaboratively with clients from start to finish, they deliver outcomes based on innovative thinking, not methodology, and treating each client’s business like their own.

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