26 JAN 2024

26 JAN 2024

2 NOV 2021 · Travis Penfield, Founder and CEO of 49 Financial, is an industry visionary and is making waves in the financial planning space. Travis founded 49 Financial in 2015 under the umbrella of a captive insurance company, and in 2019, at the age of 30, Travis took the brand and company fully independent. 49 Financial has offices in Austin, Dallas, Houston, Northwest Arkansas, and Atlanta with plans to expand to 10 new cities in the next 3 years. In the first 18 months of independence, Travis has led 49 Financial to $155mm in AUM and it’s only continued to grow. Travis is a visionary—moving people to action for their betterment. He does this for a 300+ team comprised of 150 advisors, 150 individuals in the testing program, and a scaling central headquarters team all focused on 49’s clients and the communities we inhabit. His vision is to see the financial services industry change for the better—to serve clients with excellence and integrity, to give clients a vision of how to be generous with their money and what life can look like after retirement, and to teach the young advisors he is leading how to give back to their communities. Travis lives in Austin with his wife Jaclyn, their daughters Charlotte, Olivia, and Madison, and their golden doodle Duncan. In his spare time you can find Travis hanging with his girls, playing golf, catching a Peloton ride, or enjoying wine and good food.

2 NOV 2021 · Katie Fang is the founder & CEO of SchooLinks; a college and career readiness platform that helps students plan their post-secondary paths and districts improve their college and career readiness program outcome. She founded the company in 2016 shortly after graduating from college with a degree in finance and discovering that her own postsecondary planning journey had not been reflective of her own career goals. She has been featured in Forbes, named to its 30 under 30 list, and has mentored young entrepreneurs in her community as a part of her work with the University of Texas' Longhorn Lab. SchooLinks is the most modern, robust college and career readiness solution on the market. Supporting 80+ interactive experiences from interest discovery to academic and post-secondary planning - SchooLinks offers internship matching, career mentorship, industry partner management and other features that help districts broaden the definition of college and career readiness. Our platform is powered by modern technologies such as machine learning, virtual reality, and mobile-enabled experiences.

2 NOV 2021 · Cage Free Care is a fixed-cost healthcare membership program that is being offered as an alternative to the growing cost and inconvenience of the existing insurance-based healthcare system. This innovative direct care program gives patients the key to quality and affordable healthcare in emergency medicine, direct primary care and telemedicine. Cage Free Care members no longer have to worry about the cost or access to care. Our program gives members the key to break free from the "Cage"​ of co-pays, deductibles, filing claims, surprise bills, making appointments, or waiting for their care. Healthcare the way it should be. Developed in Austin, Texas Cage Free Care is both the best of the past and future of our healthcare system. By restoring the patient/doctor relationship of the past and uniting it with the innovation of memberships to standalone healthcare facilities, Cage Free Care is giving members the key to the way healthcare should be.