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France Hoang: “Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Service: Perspectives from a Veteran Entrepreneur”
April 18, 2018
France Hoang and his family left Saigon ten days before the city fell to Communist forces. He grew up in Tumwater, Washington and attended the United States Military Academy, graduating in the top one percent of his class. After serving as a peacekeeper in Bosnia, France returned to the United States, attended Georgetown Law, and passed the bar exam and CPA exam on back-to-back days. After practicing at Williams & Connolly LLP, he served on the Office of Counsel to the President, and he worked in the White House for two years. France then served as the Executive Officer for a detachment of Green Berets in Afghanistan. He considers leading soldiers in combat to be one of the most fulfilling experiences of his life. After returning to the United States again, France helped found MAG Aerospace, a leading contractor in the field of Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance. France encouraged people to not be afraid of failure, surround yourself with hard-working, intelligent individuals, and never pass on an opportunity that you could regret when looking back on your life decades down the road. France ended his lecture with a quote from President Theodore Roosevelt: “Comparison is the thief of joy.”

Charles Brandes: “Entrepreneurship and Investment Management”
April 16, 2018
Charles Brandes is a successful value investor who resides in San Diego, California. If you are unfamiliar with the term “value investing,” think of Warren Buffet and his work with Berkshire Hathaway. In his speech, Charles talked about the importance of having a mentor, but luckily for him, his mentor just happened to be the father of value investing – Benjamin Graham. Charles highlighted the importance of seeking new opportunities when looking into investments. He began working with foreign value investing when there was only outdated information available to the public, and he had to take a leap of faith. He noted that people will become too scared to take action based on the advice they are given, will preventing them from making sound decisions. His example was the stock market, and how the market fluctuations will keep individuals away even when the price is absurdly low. Overall, the content of the lecture emphasized the importance of doing your own research and trusting your results.

Andy Wilson
April 11, 2018
Lectures by Dr. Andy Wilson on innovation in healthcare and emergency medicine on Wednesday, April 11. Dr. Wilson will deliver a lecture in each of Professor Korok Ray’s ACCT 620 classes in Wehner 187. Dr. Wilson is an MD-Managing Partner and is Board Certified in Emergency Medicine. Outside of the ER, Dr. Wilson serves as the Associate Medical Director for the Bryan SWAT Team and the Associate Medical Director for the TEEX Paramedic Academy. Dr. Wilson also serves as an Assistant Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine in the Texas A&M College of Medicine. Dr. Wilson’s greatest joy is spending time with his family. Dr. Wilson has been married to his wife Heidi for nearly 20 years, and they have been richly blessed with three beautiful daughters. The Wilson’s enjoy doing just about anything outside including camping, hiking, and the shooting sports

Autonomous Driving Demonstration
March 30, 2018
The Mays Innovation Research Center is tentatively scheduled to host a demonstration of autonomous driving by the Connected Autonomous Safety Technology Center (CAST) from the Department of Mechanical Engineering. The CAST’s faculty and staff, who are leading the university’s research on autonomous driving, will provide a full demonstration of automobile and truck platooning at the RELLIS Campus of Texas A&M.
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