Employer Relations Contacts

Raji Aiyer is the Director of Employer Relations at the Rockwell Career Center of the C.T. Bauer College of Business, University of Houston (UH). Before joining this position, Raji managed national sales and marketing teams at Paramount Pictures, CBS Television, Showtime Networks, and WEA (a division of the Warner Music Group). She has also provided marketing and operations consulting services to non-profit organizations and start-ups.

Raji, an alumna of Bauer’s Executive MBA program, holds an M.A. in Spiritual Psychology from the University of Santa Monica and a B.B.A. in Marketing from the University of Texas at Austin. She is currently the advisor for the New Millennial/GenZ Community organization. Raji is passionate about connecting employers with students and faculty for experiential learning opportunities.

Oliver Blanco is the Assistant Director of Employer Relations at the Rockwell Career Center (RCC) with the C.T. Bauer College of Business, University of Houston (UH). Before joining the Employer Relations team, Oliver was with the RCC Graduate Career Counseling team between 2013 – 2020 and the RCC Undergraduate Career Counseling team between 2007 – 2013. Before RCC, he worked in human resources with the Houston Independent School District.

Employers collaborate with Oliver to develop strategic campus recruitment plans and connect with Bauer BBA, MBA, and MS talent. A proud UH alum, he firmly believes in strong community engagement with the Houston Food Bank, H.E.A.R.T. Program, Houston Hispanic Forum, OUT for Education, Trees for Houston, TrashBash, Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, and Houston L.U.L.A.C. National Educational Service Centers, Inc. He is a Cougar Ally, trained to increase the safety and comfort level of LGBTQIA+ students at UH.

Ryan joined the team in January 2025 as the Events and Recruiting Manager.

Before joining the team he spent the last 10 years in the recruiting field and got his start with Mattress Firm. He joined them in 2012 and spent his first 2 years selling mattresses in their stores in the Houston area. He would then transition in 2014 into the Talent Acquisition Department where he would recruit people to work in stores all around the state of Texas and Louisiana. While doing that, he would also be responsible for doing collegiate recruiting of students looking for full/part time work or internships for the summer in their stores.

This is where he fell in love with collegiate recruiting and for 4 years recruited students from the University of Houston to intern with the company and/or work after graduation. He would partner with Bauer and PES and attend multiple career fairs, do mock interviews, info sessions, speak to organizations, resume reviews, and host an event called Bed Races on campus. He also ran the summer internship programs for the Houston area for the summers of 2017, 2018, and 2019.

After leaving Mattress Firm in 2020, he would take a year off before joining the Talent Acquisition Team with Tailored Brands in the Summer of 2021. That company owned and operated Men’s Wearhouse, Jos. A Bank, K&G Fashion Superstore, and Moore’s Clothing (Canada). He would recruit people to work in their store locations around the Houston area and then primarily for Moore’s Clothing. He would then transition to be the company’s first Collegiate Recruiter where he would find students from across the country to intern for the corporate offices in Houston, Dublin, CA, Atlanta, and NYC.

Ryan loves his sports and you can always find him rooting for his Rockets, Texans, and especially his Astros. Baseball is his favorite sport so being the talker he is, he can talk baseball all day long. When he’s not watching sports, you can find him spending time with his wife and also being a girl dad with his 2 daughters.