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Visiting ETA Advisors

Visiting ETA Advisors

Winter 2025 Visiting ETA Advisors

Alex Hodgkin, MBA ’14

Alex Hodgkin, MBA ’14

Senior Advisor for ETA; Polsky Center Entrepreneur-in-Residence

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Alex Hodgkin, MBA ’14

Senior Advisor for ETA; Polsky Center Entrepreneur-in-Residence

Alex Hodgkin has spent his career in the shoes of the entrepreneur, strategist, and capital markets specialist, having developed his finance acumen as an investment banker serving companies large and small, and his entrepreneurial skills as the cofounder of a multi-service financial advisory firm.

During the first part of his career as an investment banker with Salomon Smith Barney and later Headwaters MB, he completed engagements involving strategic alternative reviews for multinational corporations, liquidity strategies for middle market entrepreneurs, sell side advisory assignments, equity and subordinated debt offerings in the public and private capital markets, and fairness opinions.

As an entrepreneur, Hodgkin cofounded Intrinsic, a financial advisory firm that he has helped grow from a kitchen table concept to one of the largest firms of its kind in the Rocky Mountains, servicing some of the most well-known and well-respected institutional investment firms and privately-held companies in the region.

As a steadfast supporter of entrepreneurship through acquisition, he has been instrumental in the creation of Chicago Booth’s ETA program, where he currently serves as entrepreneur-in-residence and senior advisor for ETA.

Hodgkin earned undergraduate degrees in economics and electrical engineering from Claremont McKenna College and the University of Colorado, respectively, and an MBA from Chicago Booth. He is also a CFA charterholder.

Catherine Littel, MBA ’08

Catherine Littel, MBA ’08

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship, Chicago Booth

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Catherine Littel, MBA ’08

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship, Chicago Booth

Catherine Littell is Vice President of Operations at Halstatt Legacy Partners. Halstatt is an alternative investment house with initiatives spanning real estate, private equity, sponsored buyouts, venture capital, and specialty lending.

Prior to Halstatt, Littell worked extensively with start-ups and small businesses to support funding, scaling, and growth. Additionally, she has held a variety of leadership roles at Redbox Automated Retail and Starwood Hotels International.

Littell holds an MBA from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago with a focus in entrepreneurship and a BS in Hospitality Administration from Cornell University.

Darrin Shillair, MBA ’16

Darrin Shillair, MBA ’16

President, Specialty Sales LLC

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Darrin Shillair, MBA ’16

President, Specialty Sales LLC

Darrin Shillair is President at Specialty Sales, acquired through a self-funded search in 2018. Specialty Sales is a stocking distributor of hoses, tubing, fittings and other components serving the water treatment, agriculture, food & beverage & car wash industries.  Darrin has an MBA from Chicago-Booth and a BSE from University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.

Anthony Walker, MBA ’14

Anthony Walker, MBA ’14

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship, Chicago Booth

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Anthony Walker, MBA ’14

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship, Chicago Booth

Anthony Walker is General Partner at Next Coast Legacy and sits on the Investment Committee. Next Coast participates in the small/medium sized buyout market by making minority investments in later stage companies acquired through the Search model. Anthony has been in the investment management industry for nearly 20 years.

Prior to joining Next Coast, Walker was a Vice President in the Global Investment Research Division at Goldman Sachs. While at Goldman, Anthony was responsible for idea generation, client engagement, financial modeling, and marketing the views and opinions of Goldman Sachs related to investments in the Chemicals industry. Prior to Goldman, Walker spent five years managing long/short equities portfolios for Millennium Management and Citadel LLC, trading stocks and managing portfolios across a number subsectors within the Industrial industry.

While at Citadel, he produced the second highest Sharpe Ratio (a measure of risk-adjusted returns) within the firm’s flagship Global Equities business unit. Throughout his career Walker has held several other senior level investment professional positions, including Vice President and Research and Investment Committee Member at Ariel Investments, and Assistant Vice President at Barclays Capital.

Walker received his MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business (Finance and Entrepreneurship) and a BA in Economics and Political Science from Columbia University. He currently a Board of Directors member for eight businesses. Anthony is a resident of Austin where he lives with his wife and two daughters.

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