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Houston to Wall Street, and Back Again: How Texas Finance Talent Got a Two-Way Bridge
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Source: Houston Press
For a generation, the traffic ran one way: Texas trained ambitious finance students, and New York hired them. In 2026, Apollo gave that traffic a second direction. Apollo Global Management Partner Holly Goodrich, who earned her MBA at UT Austin’s McCombs School of Business, was part of the alumni group that paved the first lane. Her employer is now helping to build the second. Not long ago, a Houston student majoring in finance in Austin needed some luck and a well-placed contact to get a serious hearing from Wall Street. Texas graduates working in Manhattan set out to change that. The New York lane Rebuilding that pipeline is why the New York for McCombs Council came together in 2013. Goodrich was one of its founding members and chaired the council in 2018-2019. In 2016, finance professor Xavier Sztejnberg co-founded Wall Street for McCombs.
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