In a side room at Old Parkland, entrepreneur Mark Cuban, left, and Houston philanthropist John Arnold compared notes for the Texas Business Hall of Fame's Creators 2025 speaker series. [Photo: Grant Miller Photography]
Cuban and Arnold told an audience of businesspeople at Old Parkland Wednesday that high healthcare costs have multiple causes—and that efforts to significantly reform the system are likely to take a while.
Innovation, competence, and confidence paid dividends for the Michigan native, who helped start and build M1 Support Services en route to becoming one of America’s richest self-made women.
UTA alumnus Kelcy Warren, executive chairman and chairman of the board of directors of Dallas-based Energy Transfer LP, has made a $12 million gift to help elevate UT Arlington to the forefront of the growing resource and energy engineering (REE) field. "Texas faces a critical need for highly skilled graduates who can manage energy resources," Warren says, "and this innovative REE program will help meet that demand.”
A leader in the local private equity and sports business space, Thomas O. Hicks will be inducted at a ceremony put on by the Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation in early November, joining others from Houston and Austin. The former owner of the Dallas Stars and Texas Rangers, Hicks currently serves as the founder, chairman, and partner of local family office Hicks Holdings and as a senior partner and director at Dallas' The Beneficient Company Group.
Hicks will join other local business legends like Mark Cuban and Ross Perot, Jr. in the Texas Business Hall of Fame, which has been inducting new members since 1983.
Defense tech firm Shield AI said it completed a live drone swarm exercise in Taiwan in which three Taiwanese-built drones flew a coordinated search mission under its Hivemind AI software instead of human pilots....
Dallas-based Stream Data Centers has named Nikki Kresse its chief human resources officer. She is joining an executive bench that has been evolving since Apollo funds took majority control of the hyperscale developer in August 2025....
Richardson-based Mavenir has hired a longtime Nokia executive to lead its expansion into a fast-growing corner of the cloud computing market known as neocloud. Neocloud is industry shorthand for providers that sell access to graphics processing units, or GPUs, built for AI and other high-performance workloads as a service....
Defense tech firm Shield AI said it completed a live drone swarm exercise in Taiwan in which three Taiwanese-built drones flew a coordinated search mission under its Hivemind AI software instead of human pilots....
Dallas-based Stream Data Centers has named Nikki Kresse its chief human resources officer. She is joining an executive bench that has been evolving since Apollo funds took majority control of the hyperscale developer in August 2025....
Richardson-based Mavenir has hired a longtime Nokia executive to lead its expansion into a fast-growing corner of the cloud computing market known as neocloud. Neocloud is industry shorthand for providers that sell access to graphics processing units, or GPUs, built for AI and other high-performance workloads as a service....