Entrepreneurs                                                                                                   

Bruce Barshop is a lawyer, entrepreneur and businessman, who has been able to bring other people's passions to fulfillment.  His wife wanted to bring big name comedy to San Antonio, so they started the River City Comedy Club, and now have three comedy clubs around the country. The comedy clubs led them to Jeff Valdez, and the formation of an Hispanic oriented, English language television network, SiTV.  

Tito Beveridge distills and synthesizes. Literally. He learned about making liquor from an uncle and about machinery while working in the oil fields of Argentina. He came back to Texas to produce Tito’s Handmade Vodka, which has been given four stars by spirit journal.  

Ted Flato,  one of the principals in the award winning architectural firm, Lake/Flato architects, discusses his development as an architect, and some of the projects that he worked on.  

Bruce Heafitz knows how to combine businesses and technologies to launch ambitious undertakings. His first venture applied what he learned from his father’s junk business to the recycling of new materials and metals. His synthesis of oil technology and archeological inquiry lead to the discovery of Ramses II tomb. Recently back from three years enforced residence in Peru, he had to fight, he also has tales to tell about fighting a powerful network out to dislodge him from some profitable business ventures. 

Mary Pat Moyer, Ph.D. received the regional  Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in "Life Science-Emerging Companies for developing INCELL, and was inducted into the national Entrepreneurs Hall of Fame. Dr. Moyer founded TEKSA Innovations Corp., a for-profit, mixed use technology business incubator for growing biosciences, biomedical, engineering, information technology and telecommunications companies. She also founded a biomedical/biotechnology company, INCELL Corporation (1993) and serves as its President, CEO and Chief Science Officer. The two companies are an outgrowth of  her scientific interests and the necessity to fund those interests. Her sense of humor, appreciation of life, and her true nurturing of  young scientists, add to her success.

Irvin J. Borowsky, businessman, founder of the North American Publishing Company, writer, glass collector, philanthropist, was taught by his parents to give back to the community, and that he has done with the National Liberty Museum in Philadelphia which opened in the year 2000.