Professor Elam

Weekend July 6, 2019

Texas A & M University San Antonio will sponsor the symposium  Entrepreneurial Spirit: South Texas Women in Business.  The inaugural event will occur

Friday November 1, 2019. It will be held in the Vista Room  with its spectacular view of the drive  from South Loop 410 into Campus.  The Vista Room (402)  is located on the Fourth Floor of the Central Academic Building.  Women are in the news more than ever which makes this an ideal topic for our new annual event.  The event is open to both men and women.

 

Register at

 

http://bit.ly/ESConference2019

 

The fee is modest at $30 per attendee or $240 for a table of eight.   That includes morning coffee and a light lunch.

The proposed agenda is as follows.

AM

10: 30    Registration and Coffee, Fourth Floor, Academic Building

11:00    Opening Remarks Office of the President Cynthia Matson

11:10     Alyssa Hayden, CEO Socionomics Institute , Why Women Now?

11:35      Dr. Amy Porter,  The Female Experience: South Texas 1800-1850

PM

12:00    Lunch

12:20     Corinna Holt Richter, CEO Holt Caterpillar, The Values of HOLT Make us Who We Are

12:50    Reset for Town Hall Presentation

1:00     Patricia Stout. CEO / President, The Alamo Travel Group

1:15    Cecilia Garcia, The Priority Group, Commercial Real Estate

1:30     Town Hall Meeting with All Speakers Available to the Audience

Networking to follow in the afternoon.

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Alyssa Hayden

Alyssa Hayden is CEO of he Socionomics Institute.  The Institute promotes the study of Socionomics which explains that changes in endogenous social mood activate social change.   She studied education and culture while teaching at  at the University of Oregon where she received her Masters Degree.

Dr. Amy Porter

Dr. Amy Porter was be inducted into the Texas A&M University System annual Chancellor's Academy of Teacher Educators in  2015. Dr. Porter, an author and avid researcher of colonial America and women’s history.  She authored Heir Lives, Their Wills: Women in the Borderlands, 1750 – 1846.

Corinna Holt Richter

Siblings Peter Holt and Corinna Richter have owned and managed HOLT CAT since 2017. Now the largest Caterpillar dealer in the country, with over 2,700 employees and more than 50 locations throughout Texas, HOLT CAT is a fifth-generation family-owned business headquartered in Southeast San Antonio. Peter Holt serves as CEO and General Manager of HOLT CAT, while Richter is the company’s President and Chief Administrative Officer.

 

Pat is the Founder/CEO/President of The Alamo Travel Group, LP. Established in 1990 in San Antonio, Texas, Alamo Travel has expanded to become a nationwide provider of corporate, leisure, federal and state travel services. Alamo Travel is a certified travel service provider for federal and state employees by the State of Texas, the General Services Administration and the Department of Defense.

The Priority Group was founded and is personally managed by Cecilia G. Garcia. Ms. Garcia is a proven specialist and has over 21 years experience in leasing, sales, management, accounting, construction and marketing  of commercial properties (Industrial, Office, Retail).

For more information contact

 

Dennis Elam PhD CPA

dennis.elam@tamusa.edu

210 784 2322