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Owl Have You Know
The Rice Business Podcast
Owl Have You Know is Rice Business’ podcast created to share the experiences of alumni, faculty, students and other members of our business community – real stories of belonging, failing, rebounding and, ultimately, succeeding. During meaningful conversations, we dive deep into how each guest has built success through troubles and triumphs before, during and after they set foot in McNair Hall.
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We release new episodes every other Wednesday.
Recipient of the 2025 Communicator Award of Excellence
We're proud to announce that our podcast received the 2025 Award of Excellence (Individual Episodes - Business) from the Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts (AIVA). This honor is made possible by our dedicated hosts, Maya Pomroy '22 and Brian Jackson '21, and the generous guests who tell their stories. We're grateful to AIVA and those who were critical to the podcast's early success: Rice Business external relations team, the alumni board, and past hosts Christine Dobbyn '20, David Droogleever '12 and Scott Gale '19.
Check Out A Special Episode
Entrepreneurship Is in the Rice DNA feat. Al Danto ’00
Al Danto '00, senior lecturer in entrepreneurship, has been a trusted mentor and beloved member of the Rice Business community for more than two decades. In this live episode, Al shares his extraordinary career journey and his story of recovery after two life-threatening medical crises.
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Flight Path
Season 4, Episode 1
Rawand sits down with host Maya Pomroy ’22 to talk about his experience transitioning from engineer to entrepreneur, his company, Helix Earth Technologies, and how the Liu Idea Lab for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the Napier Rice Launch Challenge ignited a new fire within him.
October 11
Flight Path
Season 3, Episode 26
Host Maya Pomroy ’22 chats with Brad about transforming the Rice Business Plan Competition into the world's biggest and richest student startup competition, his illustrious career spanning 22 years at Rice, and some of the most memorable competition winners.
September 27
Flight Path
Season 3, Episode 25
Daniel joins host Maya Pomroy ’22 in this episode to discuss growing up in Mexico in the 80s and his current role at North American Development Bank and more.
September 13
Flight Path
Season 3, Episode 24
In another episode from our 2023 Alumni Reunion series, host Maya Pomroy ’22 and Phoebe Wang ’13 chat about her passion for fighting climate change for future generations, her work with Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund, and winning a C3E business award.
August 30
Flight Path
Season 3, Episode 23
Host Maya Pomroy ’22 turns the tables on White House correspondent Kalyn Norwood ’22 and asks her about her unconventional path. Kalyn describes a day in the life of a White House correspondent and how Rice strengthened her understanding of her craft.
August 16
Flight Path
Season 3, Episode 22
Tracy and John join host Maya Pomroy ’22 to talk about their lives together, what brought them to Houston and to Rice, post-Partio Lamaze classes, and why they continue to give back to the Rice community.
August 02
Pivot
Season 3, Episode 21
Turner Hoff ’13 pivoted from finance and real estate to food technology. He talks about creating a company to solve his frustrations with food delivery, vertical integration and how the food tech space has developed over the years and through the pandemic.
July 19
Pivot
Season 3, Episode 20
In this episode recorded at Rice Alliance in McNair Hall, Daniel chats with host Maya Pomroy ’22 about his journey, his passion for ALS research, and building community and support for others affected by this disease.
July 05
Flight Path
Season 3, Episode 19
Tune into another live recording of our podcast! Maya Pomroy ’22 (host) was joined by Hesam Panahi (director of strategic initiatives and programs at the Liu Idea Lab), Taylor Anne Adams ’23 (co-founder of a sports tech VC fund) and Delaney Berman ’22 (founder and CEO of Berman Foods).
June 21
Pivot
Season 3, Episode 18
Ben joins host Maya Pomroy to discuss their shared love of racing cars, what makes Rice different from other MBA programs, his family connection to France (he's a dual citizen), why giving back to Houston is so important to him and the work of finding and being a mentor.
June 07
Meet the Hosts
Founder, The Public Lead
Co-founder, Maven Interests
Cohost, Owl Have You Know
Executive MBA, Class of 2022
Co-founder, Maven Interests
Cohost, Owl Have You Know
Executive MBA, Class of 2022
Senior Manager, Origination, Earthrise Energy
Cohost, Owl Have You Know
Online MBA, Class of 2021
Cohost, Owl Have You Know
Online MBA, Class of 2021
Former Hosts
Founder, Dobbyn Digital Media
Executive MBA Class of 2020
Executive MBA Class of 2020
Full-Time MBA Class of 2012
Former Executive Director, Halliburton Labs
Host, Owl Have You Know
Executive MBA Class of 2019
Host, Owl Have You Know
Executive MBA Class of 2019