Housed at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center, the Jon Brumley Texas Venture Labs (TVL) provides direct links to the entrepreneurial, business, technology and legal resources available on the campus and the Texas entrepreneurial ecosystem. TVL gives students, faculty, researchers, and local entrepreneurs full access to these resources. It provides the mentoring, team-building, market and business plan validation, technology commercialization and domain knowledge needed to start and grow innovative ventures.

Texas Venture Labs at The University of Texas at Austin is a campus-wide initiative with two missions:

• To accelerate start-ups from the UT System and Central Texas seeking to raise capital and take their innovations to market
• To transform graduate students at The University of Texas at Austin into future entrepreneurs and business leaders

Leadership

Rob Adams, Director of the Jon Brumley Texas Venture Labs, is an active investor, author, consultant and on the faculty of the Management Department at the University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business, where he teaches in the MBA program and is the Director of the Jon Brumley Texas Venture Labs. For more information please read Rob Adam's full bio.

Rob Warren, Director of the Venture Labs Investment Competition joined the TVL in January 2013. Born in Winnipeg, Canada, Rob was a long-time resident of the province of Manitoba. He received his undergraduate education at the University of Manitoba where he earned a Bachelor of Commerce (Honors) degree in 1985 and attended Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York earning his MBA in 1989. Robert also holds an honorary CMA for his service to the Society of Management Accountants. For more information read Rob Warren's full bio.