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The Rice Energy Finance Summit (REFS) is an annual student-led conference promoting forward-looking discussions on the most relevant energy finance, investment and strategy topics affecting the global energy industry. And founders Jan Goetgeluk and Jes\\xfas Pati\\xf1o say it\'s just another example of what you can do with the support and resources found within the Rice community & network.\\xa0
Jan is originally from Belgium, where he earned a bachelor\\u2019s and master\\u2019s in mechanical engineering from Ghent University, and came to Houston in 2007 as a project engineer for Katoen Natie, a Belgian petrochemical logistics conglomerate. Jan is the founder and CEO of Virtuix and the developer of the Virtuix Omni, the first virtual reality interface to move freely and naturally in video games and virtual worlds.\\xa0
Jes\\xfas has over 15 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. He began his career in the oil field with M-I SWACO in his home country of Mexico before expanding into deepwater drilling assignments in the US Gulf of Mexico, Equatorial Guinea, and Ghana. Jes\\xfas is a strategy and business development consultant at AerMill Solutions. He previously worked at Oceaneering International as a commercial manager for intervention services.\\xa0
They join host Scott Gale \\u201819 to discuss how they first met at Rice international student orientation many years ago, how Hurricane Ike affected the first year of the conference (as well as their friendship), and the importance of swinging big.
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A reflection on rich experiences during and after Rice
Ideas are like buses\\xa0
The Rice Business School advantage
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