Cortland Kelly Grynwald excels in legal, risk and compliance search for public, private and municipal enterprises. As an attorney herself, she understands the nuances of how legal and quasi-legal leadership succeeds in corporate environments. She leverages this insight in serving her clients and has been doing so nationally for over a decade, building a broad national network of contacts. What was your first job, and what was it like? My […]
Custis Hoge, Pearson Partners advisory board member, is a senior managing director with Toppan Merrill LLC, a leader in financial printing and communication solutions. He serves on the board of TeXchange Dallas and is an advisory director of the National Association of Corporate Directors TriCities Chapter in Austin. What was your first job, and what was it like? I had three first jobs. I worked in the bag room at […]
What was your first job, and what was it like? My first job was a busboy as a pre-teen at a local restaurant owned by family friends in a small town in Nebraska, where I was born and raised, closely followed by being a newspaper carrier for many years. Both jobs were a lot of fun, giving me the opportunity to learn how to interact with a variety of people, […]
Partner, Wilkins Finston Friedman Law Group LLP, and Pearson Partners’ Advisory Board Member What was your first job, and what was it like? I worked at our local public library on nights and weekends in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. I learned to work with all types of individuals, particularly the disabled because our head librarian hired a lot from the disabled community. I also spent some time with a homeless man […]
President, R. J. Potter Company, and member of Pearson Partners’ Advisory Board What was your first job, and what was it like? When I was 12 years old, I learned how to develop roll film and make contact prints for friends and neighbors, for which I charged 50 cents a roll. So my first job was really the launch of a photography business that grew over the next nine […]
Former Chief Executive Officer, Wingstop Restaurants, and member of Pearson Partners’ Board of Advisors. What is your business background? For the past nine years I have been CEO of Wingstop Restaurants, Inc., the largest, fastest-growing chicken wing company, with 500 stores. We have been voted as the “best wings in the United States” a number of times. I also had three years in the restaurant industry as President of […]
Estrada Hinojosa and Co., Inc. and member of Pearson Partners’ Board of Advisors What was your first job, and what was it like? I delivered newspapers in the morning in my neighborhood. It taught me at a young age about responsibility and the value of hard work to make money. But I hated getting up so early! What are some highlights of your career so far? I reached my […]
Chief Financial Officer, Rasa Floors, and Pearson Partners’ Board Member What was your first job and what was it like? After getting my M.B.A., I joined the credit training program at First National Bank in Dallas. I had the opportunity to be a banker to some of the larger-than-life Dallas business legends in the 1960s and 1970s, including H.L. Hunt and his family, Jimmy Ling and his LTV companies, […]
Director Emeritus, McKinsey & Company Pearson Partners Director and Advisory Board Member What is your business background? In my first career, I worked for Exxon in the coal, synthetic fuels and oil & gas industries. I then got an MBA from Wharton in finance and strategic planning, and joined McKinsey & Company. With McKinsey, I have worked with companies in virtually all industries all around the world. Much of […]
Managing Principal, ZS Associates Pearson Partners Director and Advisory Board Member What is your business background? My background has been in the business of technology. I started out as a supercomputer engineer hacking operating systems. Post business school, I spent time with McKinsey building its technology practice. More recently, I was fortunate to run global consulting, technology, marketing, and BPO business for two large, fast-growing, publicly listed IT services firms—Wipro […]
