About

Our Staff & Board of Directors

Our Staff

The people driving the mission

DG

President and CEO

RR

Managing Director, Leadership Initiatives

LG

Senior Vice President, Strategic Initiatives, Communications & Community Engagement

MW

Senior Director, Development

MR

Vice President, Strategic Initiatives

KE

Manager, Marketing

Our Board

Board of Directors

Chair
Of Counsel, Yetter Coleman LLP
Asia Society Texas, Chair

David Acosta

President
Acosta Forensic Accounting Group PLLC

Senior Vice President &
Chief Financial Officer
Portland General Electric

Chief Financial Officer
Marine Well Containment Company

Executive Director, Rice & Houston Methodist Digital Health Institute (DHI)

Chief Sustainability Officer, NRG Energy, Inc.

President
DeMontrond Motor Corporation

Retired
Central Houston, Inc.

Founding Director,
Kinder Institute for Urban Research

Arun Mani

Principal, Power and Utilities US Lead
KPMG

Bruce Mann

Vice President, Operations
McAlister Assets | RCR Rail Co.

Stan Marek

President and CEO
Marek Companies

Vice President,
Houston Angel Network

Senior Regional Director, Texas and Oklahoma, ADL (Anti-Defamation League)

Retired Partner, KPMG

Chief Government Relations Officer
Memorial Hermann Health System

Chairman and CEO, Beth Wolff Realtors

Chief Business Equity Officer, Port Houston

Immediate Past Chair
Retired Senior Vice President
BP America

Steve Kean

President and CEO
Greater Houston Partnership

Chair, Greater Houston Partnership
Executive Vice President
H-E-B

Eugene H. Vaughan (1933 – 2023)

Chairman and CEO
Vaughan Investments, LP
Founding Chairman