Join the Rice and Rice Business community on Wednesday, August 26 at 11:30am - 12:30pm CT for a meaningful discussion on how to be a leader during economic downturns by alumni panelists Kim Cotner David EMBA '04, Jennifer Kneale BA '02 and Rod Larson EMBA '07. The panel will be moderated by Dean Peter Rodriguez.
Kim Cotner David EMBA '04 is the Senior Vice President and Chief Business Officer of Baylor College of Medicine (BCM). BCM is recognized as a premier academic health science center known for excellence in education, research and patient care. Since joining BCM, Kim has served as the Assistant Vice President of Finance and Vice President of Finance. In 2008, she became the Vice President and CFO of the College, and in 2012 became the Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. In 2014, Kim was promoted to her new role as Senior Vice President and Chief Business Officer. Prior to joining BCM, Kim worked in a number of accounting and management positions for Arthur Andersen for 10 years.
Jennifer Kneale BA '02 is the CFO at Targa Resources Corp., a leading integrated midstream company, where she is responsible for the key financial, accounting, risk management, information technology and aspects of human resources functions. At Targa, she has worked on a number of M&A and capital markets transactions, including both the acquisition of and divestiture of assets, the formation of capital raising joint ventures with private equity and strategic partners and the issuance of public debt equity. Prior to joining Targa, she spent 10 years in the financial services industry.
Rod Larson EMBA '07 serves as President and CEO of Oceaneering International, Inc., a global provider of engineered services and products, primarily to the offshore energy industry. Through the use of its applied technology expertise, Oceaneering also serves the defense, aerospace and commercial theme park industries. Oceaneering is traded on the NYSE and had revenues of $2.0 billion for the year ended December 2019. Rod Larson joined Oceaneering in May 2012 after 22 years with Baker Hughes, Inc., mostly recently as President, Latin America.
Peter Rodriguez is the Dean of the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University. He is also an economist and professor of strategic management and teaches classes on global macroeconomics and economic growth and development. He comes to Rice from the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business where he was a professor, senior associate dean for MBA Programs and chief diversity officer.
This event is hosted by Rice Business Alumni Relations in partnership with Rice Business Partners and is open to all Jones School students, Jones School alumni, Rice University alumni and Rice Business Partner members.
There will not be an in-person option for this event. Once you register, you will receive the call in information for the Zoom call, sent to the email address you used to register.