Bill Stewart was Chairman of the Board, President, and Chief Executive Officer of BJ Services Company from 1990, when Baker Hughes Incorporated sold BJ Services to the public, until 2010, when Baker Hughes re-purchased BJ Services. He served on the Board of Baker Hughes from 2010 until 2017.

Mark Papermaster, CTO and Executive Vice President at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), has been instrumental in AMD’s revival over the past 15 years. He spearheaded the overhaul of AMD’s engineering processes and the creation of the award-winning “Zen” high-performance x86 CPU family, high-performance GPUs, and AMD’s modular design approach, Infinity Architecture.

Howard Moore has made a career of applying his technical and business expertise to improve operations for some of the largest companies in the world. In 2004, he co-founded Keste and led the company as Chief Executive Officer, managing business development and global operations. Keste became the leading enterprise solution provider for automating the process of selling and ordering complex custom products.  Keste was acquired in 2020 as the founding platform for Argano, LLC. Argano has become a top tier Digital Consulting and Solution company through stategic growth and acquisitions.

TJ Chung is a Senior Founding Partner at Core Industrial Partners, LLC, a Chicago-based private equity firm with over $1.58 billion in capital commitments. The firm focuses on North American lower middle-market manufacturing, industrial technology, and industrial services businesses.

Marvin Bloomquist was born and raised in Austin. Obtaining an amateur radio license at the age of 13 led him to pursue an electrical engineering degree at UT. Despite coming from a family of modest means, he managed to pay his way through the first two years of college by saving from summer jobs while living at home. When his savings were about to run out, he approached H. W. Smith, the professor of his first EE class, about a job. Despite having no knowledge of computer programming, Prof. Smith gave him a “Fortran Primer,” and he ended up programming for him for the next two years.