About

Our Staff & Board of Directors

Our Staff

The people driving the mission

Manager, Marketing

Senior Vice President, Strategic Initiatives, Communications & Community Engagement

President and CEO

Managing Director, Leadership Initiatives

Vice President, Strategic Initiatives

Senior Director, Development

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.

Ronel Golden

Founder
RSRG Consulting

Founding Director,
Kinder Institute for Urban Research

Arun Mani

Principal, Power and Utilities US Lead
KPMG

Bruce Mann

Vice President,
RCR Rail Co. & McAlister Assets

Stan Marek

President and CEO
Marek Companies

President,
Houston Angel Network

Amy Pierce

Co-Founder
The Houston 20

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

Our Board

Ex-Officio Members

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
Board Member Emeritus