Advisors
David Minor
Faculty Advisor
David Minor is the William M. Dickey Entrepreneur in Residence and the founding Director of the Neeley Entrepreneurship Program at Texas Christian University. Prior to joining TCU, Minor was the President and CEO of Minor's Landscape Services, a company he founded in 1980, which became an INC 500 award winning enterprise and one of the largest and most respected of its kind in the United States. In 1998, David sold his business and teamed with ServiceMaster, Inc. to consolidate the industry nationwide. As a Vice President of this newly formed division, David helped lead the acquisitions and integration efforts of over $550 million in division revenues.
David joined TCU in 2000 as the founding Director of the Neeley Entrepreneurship Program. By the summer of 2004, this program had been recognized by both US News and World Report and Entrepreneur Magazine as one of the top 20 entrepreneurship programs in the country, and given the prestigious NASDAQ Center of Entrepreneurial Excellence Award. David was also named one of the top ten program directors in the country by Entrepreneur Magazine in 2004.
In addition to overseeing all of the activities of the Neeley Entrepreneurship Program, David teaches a course to TCU students titled "Managing the Emerging Venture" and another to existing business owners titled "Growing Your Business". He continues to invest in businesses through his company Minor and Associates, Inc. and frequently speaks at conferences and seminars across the country. David is a former member of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO), serves as Chairman of the Board for The Landscape Partners Ltd, and is an Advisory Board Member for Diamond H Recognition, LP. He is also the past President of Boys and Girls Club of Fort Worth.
Sheryl Doll
Program Director
Sheryl Doll is the Program Director of the TCU Texas Youth Entrepreneur of the Year Awards, a program she developed since its beginning in 2003.
Prior to that, in 2000, Sheryl was one of two Founding Directors of the TCU Executive MBA program for the Neeley School of Business. She created the marketing program and recruited the first two classes of TCU Executive MBA students.
Starting in 1992, Sheryl was the Assistant Director of the Charles Tandy American Enterprise Center. She developed executive education classes and successfully marketed them to mid- to upper-level executives in businesses located in Fort Worth and Dallas.
Sheryl had a twenty-five year career with IBM in technical sales, marketing, and marketing management.
She is currently a Principal of Doll Consulting Group, Inc., a results-oriented project management business.
Ash Ryan Huzenlaub
Alumni Advisor
Ash R. Huzenlaub is currently the Managing Director of Ashco Group, LLC, a firm that participates in the development of new enterprises, the turnaround of distressed business organizations, and investigates acquisitive investment opportunities. From 2002-2006, Mr. Huzenlaub was installed by investors as the turnaround Chairman and CEO of Emergisoft Corporation, an emergency room software company he initiated taking private. During his tenure, both the revenues and client base of the business more than tripled while operating costs were reduced by 40%. By 2006, the company was contracted to process the electronic emergency room medical records of over 800,000 patients a year in hospital systems from California to New York. Prior to Emergisoft, Mr. Huzenlaub was employed by Berlwood Five Ltd, a Texas based private equity investment partnership.
Mr. Huzenlaub holds a bachelors of business administration degree in Finance & Marketing with an emphasis in Entrepreneurship from Texas Christian University. While at TCU, Huzenlaub devised "The Independent Study of Entrepreneurship", served as President of The Financial Management Association, was a 4 year Track & Field Letterman, a recipient of the Chancellor's Leadership Award, and initiated the discussions which led to the development of the Neeley Entrepreneurship Program. Today, Mr. Huzenlaub is a member of the Board of Advisors for the Neeley Entrepreneurship Program and is actively involved with the Texas Youth Entrepreneurship of the Year Awards Program. He lives in Seattle, Washington.
