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This week's Longhorn Business Network member highlight is two-time Longhorn 100 winner Potts Blacklock Senterfitt, PLLC. 🤘 Potts Blacklock Senterfitt, PLLC is a boutique law firm based in Austin that specializes in business, technology, and real estate law. Thank you for your membership. Learn how you can join the #LonghornBusinessNetwork today → txex.us/JoinLBN

Are you a Longhorn-owned business that wants to host a coffee, happy hour, or lunch this fall for the Longhorn Business Network? Please comment below so that we can reach out to you! Shout out to Memorial Trail Ice House in Houston for being the first to claim a #LonghornBusinessNetwork happy hour in Houston! Save the date for October 3! #LonghornBusinessNetwork #TexasExes #FindALonghorn John Shaeffer

Find a Longhorn ... architect. 🤘 Need an architect? Why not look for a Longhorn architect in our Business Directory. Extra big shout-outs to Page, Thomas McCarthy, and Robert Burke for making the Longhorn 100 list this year. 🤘B2 Architecture + Design and B Allison Brooks 🤘Conyers Studio - Architecture and Deborah Summers Conyers 🤘Michael Hsu Office of Architecture 🤘Page Our Business Directory makes it easy for you to find a Longhorn business. No matter what you are looking for, you can find a Longhorn to help. Visit the Directory or list your business today! txex.us/BusinessDirectory 🤘

Meet this year's Texas 10—a group of professors nominated by students and alumni representing the best of UT's world-class faculty. Read more about each winner in the Alcalde. 

Welcome two-time Longhorn 100 winner Jack Macdowell, Jr., CFA of Palisades Group to the Longhorn Business Network! Palisades Group is an alternative asset manager in the global residential credit markets. They have managed in excess of $22B of loans, real estate, and fixed income securities since 2012. They employ a top-down asset allocation approach and provide clients with a control-oriented management style anchored in asset level risk management, loss mitigation, and value-add strategies.     Jack is a graduate of Texas McCombs School of Business.    Learn how you can join the #LonghornBusinessNetwork today → txex.us/JoinLBN 🤘 

Reminder!!! Our last Austin Longhorn Coffee of the spring is next Tuesday, 5/14. We also have our Houston and Dallas Longhorn Coffees coming up! 🤘 5/14, Austin: Fast Friends Beer Company Register: https://lnkd.in/gVYmxeuf 🤘 6/4, Houston: Slowpokes Spring Branch Register: https://lnkd.in/gQP3tcrH 🤘6/6, Dallas: Toasted Coffee + Kitchen downtown Register: https://lnkd.in/gDrWvTea This is a casual, come-and-go coffee for Longhorn business owners, leaders, and entrepreneurs to connect from 8:30–10 a.m. #LonghornBusinessNetwork #TexasExes

Congratulations again to the amazing Longhorn business leaders who make up our 2024 Longhorn 100. We honored their entrepreneurial spirit and success last week with a special gala. Learn more at longhorn100.com. 🤘 | Presented by Everyware®, Gala sponsored by Justworks

A big welcome to our newest Longhorn Business Members and thank you to those who have renewed!    🤘Amanda Matthews - Professional EOS Implementer 🤘CloudServus and Steve Painter 🤘Desert Door Distillery and Brent Looby 🤘Elixirr and Brandon Bichler and Eric Rich 🤘Giant Noise and Elaine Garza 🤘IronBridge Private Wealth and Jim Denholm 🤘IRSProb.com and Randell "Randy" Martin, CPA, EA, CTRS, MBA 🤘iTalent Digital and Renee La Londe 🤘Micklethwait Craft Meats and Krissi Micklethwait 🤘OMNI Manufacturing Services, Inc and Keith Housholder 🤘Organized Life Design and Meggie Mangione 🤘Osborn Morano CPAs and Chris Wilbratte 🤘PreciseCheck, LLC and Marc Feinberg 🤘Rise Commercial Partners Real Estate and Daren Nix 🤘ScriptCo Pharmacy and Zach Zeller 🤘Sendero Wealth Management and Edward A. Hart 🤘Tacodeli and Roberto Espinosa and Eric Wilkerson 🤘The Rational Middle and Gregory Kallenberg 🤘WOOF Pet Services and Robert Hamilton Our goal at the Texas Exes is to amplify and connect Longhorn Businesses. Join today: txex.us/JoinLBN

In 2019, Ryan McCulloch, BArch ’14, Life Member, crept into the attic of the house he had just bought in Houston—and found himself surrounded by someone else's memories. As he sorted through the photographs, resumé copies, and UT student athletics tickets, he began to piece together the life of a stranger, tenuously connected to his own. Eventually, Ryan's aunt, Kathy Cummings, MEd ’87, Life Member, got involved in the search, which would led to two Longhorn families connecting and bringing eight new friends together. Read more about Ryan, Kathy, and their search for Elka Haubold Hortoland in the Alcalde.

Jerritt Elliott’s reigning (and repeat!) NCAA Women’s Volleyball champions are not the only team on campus anymore. With the addition of women’s beach volleyball as the University’s 21st Division I sport, Texas is a volleyball school two times over. Beach Volleyball had what you might call a soft open in 2023, with assistant coaches and players from the indoor team playing outdoors on a shortened schedule. This year, things got real, with a roster of mostly beach-specific transfers under new head coach Stein Metzger. Read more about the beach volleyball team and coach Stein Metzger in the Alcalde.