Adivsory Boards

Bauer College Board

Paul A. Pavlou, Ph.D., Dean and Cullen Distinguished Chair, C. T. Bauer College of Business

Paul Peacock (BBA ’81), Chair, Retired Partner, Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP (PwC)

Elaine Willits Finger (BBA ’92), Vice-Chair, Real-Estate Consultant, The Finger Companies

Susannah Abbott, Audit Partner, EY-Houston

Nick Allen, General Manager, Global Crude Oil and NGL, ConocoPhillips

Chris Angelides (BS ’88, MBA ’94), Managing Director for Sustainability and Energy Transition, Ernst & Young

Christian Avalos (BBA '24), Undergraduate Student Representative

Mark Bakker, Executive Vice President and General Manager, HPE Operations

Dan Bellow, President – Houston, Jones Lang LaSalle

Bill Bobbora, Head of Corporate Banking, Third Coast Bank

Michael J. Cemo (BS ’68), President, Michael J. Cemo Interests

Dilip Choudhuri, President & CEO, Walter P. Moore

Susan Coulter, Retired President & CEO, Houston Methodist Hospital Foundation

Asif Dakri, CEO, Wallis Bank

Misael De Paz, Partner, PwC

S. David Deanda, Jr., President, Lone Star National Bank

Mohammed Ali Dhanani, Director, Dhanani Group Inc.; President/CEO, HAZA Group.

Kayoor Gajarawala, Chief Digital & Information Technology Officer, LyondellBasell

Carl Garrison, CEO & Founder, Superior IS

Rick Gornto, President, First Financial Benefits

Steven R. Goodman, CFA, CFP®, Founder and President, Goodman Financial Corporation

Kenny Grace (BBA ’85), Houston Office Managing Partner, Moss Adams

Kenneth J. Guidry, CPA (BBA ’77), Past President and Retired Director, PKF Texas

Devin Hall, Tax Partner, Crowe LLP

C. Gregory (Greg) Harper (MBA ’97), President & CEO, Blue Mountain Midstream, LLC

Mimi Healy, CEO, Stimulus Bio

Scooter Hicks (MBA ’11), CIO, MetroNational

Ryan Hodge (MBA ’14), Director of Finance, Apache Corporation

William R. Hurt (MBA ’86), Senior Managing Director & Head of Investment Banking, U.S. Capital Advisors LLC

Aanchal Jaggi (MBA '24), Graduate Student Representative

Qiana James (BBA '03), Founder and CEO, Friendly Faces Senior Care

Pradeep Kumar, SVP Services and Customer Success, UiPath

Ali Lakhany (BBA ’07), CEO, CSM Group

Aylwin B. Lewis (MBA ’90), Former President & CEO, Potbelly Sandwich Works

Imran Malik (BBA '06, MS ACCY '09), Operating Partner, Arcline Investment Management

Jeanette Marx, CEO, Airswift

W. Benjamin “Ben” Moreland, Retired President and CEO, Crown Castle International Corporation

Karen Pitts, Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Link Staffing

Erich Ploog (BBA '93), Managing Partner, Benjamin Johnston Design LLC

Richard G. Rawson (BBA ’72), Retired President & Board of Directors Member, Insperity, Inc.

S. Glynn Roberts (MBA ’91), President, SGR Oil and Gas Interests, LLC

M. Russ Robinson, Director, Robinson Brown Investments

Sam Schreiber (BBA ’74), Senior Advisor, Trustar Bank

Bob Simpson (BBA '94), Managing Director, Deloitte Consulting, LLP

Zin Smati, President & CEO (retired), Engie NA

Steve Stagner, Managing Partner, Fireside Holdings; Executive Chairman, Alliance Animal Health

Steve D. Stephens, President, Amegy Bank

Zafar “Zaf” Tahir, J.D. (BSSE ’84, MBA ’99, JD ’12), Ciba Geigy, Phillips Petroleum, SABIC

Jason Wells, Executive Vice President & CFO, CenterPoint Energy

Trey Wilkinson (BBA ’92, MBA ’02), President & CEO, Trinity Legacy Partners, LLC

Bruce A. Williamson (MBA ’95), Chairman, President & CEO, Southcross Energy Holdings

Cyvia Wolff, Founder, Cyvia & Melvyn Wolff Charitable Foundation

Emeriti

Natara Branch (BBA ’98), CEO, Houston Exponential

J. Downey Bridgwater (BBA ’84), President - Houston Market, Comerica

Joel Cowley, CEO, Calgary Stampede

Samuel DiPiazza Jr. (MS ACCY '73), Retired, CEO, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Milton Frankfort (BBA ’67), Co-Chairman, Frankfort Lipp Capital Advisors, LLC

Bob Gray, Partner, Mayer Brown LLP

Joe Gutierrez (MBA ’14), CEO, Novi Ventures

Fran Keeth (’77, MS ACCY ’80, JD ’88), Retired CEO, Shell Chemicals Inc.

Elizabeth Killinger (BBA ’91), President - NRG Retail & Reliant, NRG Energy

John L. King (BBA ’92), Partner, Ernst & Young, LLP

Duy-Loan T. Le (MBA ’89), Retired, Senior Fellow, Texas Instruments (TXN), Board of Directors: National Instruments, eSilicon, Axcelis, Medigram

Scott McClelland, President - H-E-B Houston (retired), H-E-B

Jack B. Moore (BBA ’77), Former CEO and Chairman, Cameron International Corporation

Sandra Oliver, Assurance Managing Partner, West Region, EY

Patrick Schneidau, CEO, Truss App, Inc.

Former Student Representatives

Louise Goldberg (2021-2022, MBA '22), MBA Candidate, Graduate Student Representative

Andre Hal (2020-2021, MBA '21), MBA Candidate, Graduate Student Representative

Veronica Herrera (2020-2021, BBA'21), BBA Student, Undergraduate Student Representative

Cesar Macedo (2021-2022, BBA '22), BBA Student, Undergraduate Student Representative

Eustina Mupa (2022-2023, MBA '23), Graduate Student Representative

Vivek Patel (2022-2023, BBA '23), Undergraduate Student Representative

Legacy

Melvyn Wolff, Founder, Cyvia & Melvyn Wolff Charitable Foundation

Accounting Advisory Board

Starlet Agrella, Exxon Mobil Corporation, Controller’s Global Development Manager

Mark Allen, Houston CPA Society, Executive Director

Amanda Beabout, Whitley Penn, Audit Senior Manager

Michael Bennett, Grant Thornton, Former Managing Partner

Sonny Brandtner, Briggs & Veselka Co., Advisory Partner

Homer Carrillo, WeinsteinSpira, Shareholder

Hilary Clark, PwC, Partner

Norman Comstock, UHY Consulting, Inc., Managing Director

Dan Crumrine, Fayez Sarofim & Co., Vice President, Chief Financial Officer

Steve Diamond, Ernst & Young LLP, Tax Partner

Lisa Diemert, IRS -- Criminal Investigation, Special Agent

Gordon Dobner, BKD, LLP, Partner

Carlos Fernandez, KPMG, LLP, Audit Partner

Milton Frankfort, Frankfort Lipp Capital Advisors, LLC, Founding Partner

Ray Gonzalez, Deloitte & Touche, Advisory Partner

Kenny Grace, Moss Adams, Managing Partner

Kenneth Guidry, PKF Texas, President

Mike Hainkel, Lionsgate, EVP & Chief Tax Officer

Kevin Horton, Pipe Distributors, Inc., CFO

Keith Kahl, LyondellBasell, General Auditor

Eric Khan, BBVA Compass Bank, Senior Vice President

Raza Khan, Ernst & Young, Partner, Assurance & Advisory Business Services

Mark Mize, Founder, Falconer Oil & Gas

Sean Muller, Weaver, Managing Partner

Carla Murphy, Enterprise Products, Accounting, Director

Greg Neely, SYSCO Corporation, VP, Internal Audit

William Newman, Formerly Uretek USA and Weaver, Formerly Vice President of Finance and Partner (respectively)

Steven Noteboom, BDO, Tax Partner

Amanda Oakley, Grant Thornton, Central Region Tax Practice Leader

RoDona Oliver, Deloitte & Touche, Tax Director

David Phelps, Briggs & Veselka Co., Shareholder -- BAS Group

Jay Qatato, Calpine, Sr. Director, Internal Audit

Dan Ramey, Houston Financial Forensics, LLC, President

Ron Rand, Rand Group, President & CEO

Clark Sackschewsky, BDO, Global Managing Partner, Oil & Gas

Sid Shaver, BV Capital Advisors, Senior Managing Director

David Shieves, Summit Valuation Advisors, Partner

Wayne Snelson, Carr, Riggs & Ingram, Managing Partner

Billy Tilotta, Moss Adams, Partner

Michael Veuleman, PKF Texas, Partner

Carol Warley, RSM, Tax Shareholder

Emeritus Members

Steve Goepfert, United Airlines, Former Staff Vice President, Internal Audit

Chelsea Hendrickson, PwC , Partner

Conrad Johnson, BDO, Partner

John L. King, Ernst & Young, EY Americas Vice Chair – Assurance

Paul Peacock, Retired Partner, Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP (PwC)

Michael Peppers, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Vice President & CAO

John Podraza, XTO Energy, Inc., Former Business Services Manager

Joe Richardson, Harper & Pearson, President & CEO

Tracy Sulivan, Invesco, Former Director Fund Tax

Johnny Veselka, Briggs & Veselka Co., Former Shareholder

Valerie Williams, Ernst & Young LLP, Former Audit Managing Partner

College of Business Foundation Board

Leonard Roth, Chairman & President

Lisa Airhart, Vice-President

Cyril Theccanat, Secretary/Treasurer

Judy Bozeman

Edgar Colon

John King

Chad Kuriger

Jim Coppedge

Sherry Menger

Carolyn Stone

Cyvia Wolff

Commercial Banking Certificate Program Advisory Board

Patrick Blossom, Independent Bank

Bill Bobbora, Regions Bank

Daryl Bohls, Allegiance Bank of Texas

Jorge Borrego, PlainsCapital Bank

Downey Bridgwater, Comerica Bank

Al Coleman, FDIC, DVP

Christian Corts, BB&T

Bobby Davenport, Texas Department of Banking

Kilton Douglas, Wells Fargo Bank

Bob Dowdell, Prosperity Bank

Jeff Dunn, IberiaBank

Eric Ensmann, BBVA Compass

Vanessa Fellers, C. T. Bauer College of Business

Geoff Greenwade, Green Bank

Ryan Hightower, Amegy Bank

Terry Hill, JP Morgan-Chase

Hank Holmes, Cadence Bank

Clay Hoster, Independent Bank

Paula Jachimiec, Community Bank of Texas

Rich Jochetz, Texas Gulf Bank

Kathy Kim, Post Oak Bank

Praveen Kumar, C. T. Bauer College of BusinessLandis Joel, Texas Capital Bank

Alexander Lara, C. T. Bauer College of Business

Cynthia Lara, C. T. Bauer College of Business

David Lepori, Frost Bank

Patrick Mikkelsen, Capital One

Keith Morton, Capital One

Mack Neff, Integrity Bank

Tony Ross, Wood Forest

Hayley Scott, Office of the Comptroller of Currency

Jim Sturgeon, Community Bank of Texas

Dan Summerford, Green Bank

Alan Villanueva, Hancock Whitney Bank

Amanda Ware, C. T. Bauer College of Business

Paul Wheeler, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Roland Williams, Post Oak Bank

Cougar Investment Fund Board of Managers

Margarita Barcenas, Senior Wealth Advisor, Investec Wealth Strategies

Jim Coppedge, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer, Crossmark Global Investments

Mike Davis, Former Managing Director, Tudor, Pickering, Holt, & Co.

Erik Gomez, Strategy & Corporate Development, RigNet

Praveen Kumar, Senior Associate Dean, Faculty Affairs; Professor and Chair of Finance, C. T. Bauer College of Business

Chris Matlock, Director-Portfolio Management, Goodman Financial Corporation

Paul A. Pavlou, Dean and Cullen Distinguished Chair, C. T. Bauer College of Business

Whitney Randolph, Senior VP and Senior Portfolio Manager, UBS Financial Services

Trey Wilkinson, President and Chief Executive Officer, Trinity Legacy Partners

Cougar Venture Fund

Ed Blair, Chair, Department of Marketing & Entrepreneurship, C. T. Bauer College of Business

Heath Butler, Partner, Mercury Fund

Craig Ceccanti, COO, Softeq Development Corporation

Kemal Farid, Founder, Farid Ventures

Angela Holmes, COO, Mercury Data Science

Keith Kreuer, Principal, RedHouse Associates, LLC

J. Benton Mayberry, Owner, Winston Sage Partners

Nicole Moss, General Counsel, Geophysical Technology, Inc.

John Reale, Co-Founder, Station Houston

Executive Development
Advisory Board

Keith Kahl, LyondellBassel (Retired), University of Houston, Chair

Starlet Agrella, Exxon Mobil

Virginia Alemanni, Accenture

Caroline Atherton, HPE Pointnext

Jeanne-Marie Bowman, LyondellBassel

Alejandro Fernandez, University of Houston

Fleurette Fernando, University of Houston

Cherish Isaac, Insperity

Chris Mann, Insperity

Michelle Perry, Walter P. Moore

Maggie Rios, Atlas Copco

Thomas Vernon, Houston Methodist

Gutierrez Energy Management Institute

Greg Bean, Executive Director, Gutierrez Energy Management Institute, C. T. Bauer College of Business

David Black, CEO, Shell Energy Solutions

Tatiana Chavanelle, Manager, Emerging Energy Program and Strategy, Phillips 66

Amy Gasca, Senior Director, S& P Global Commodity Insights

Tom Goudie, President and Co-founder, NOVAE Energy, LLC

Jay Hellums, Partner, Braemar Capital Partners

Jamie Imhoff, Director of Engineering, Baker Hughes

Angela John, Independent Director, Parkland Corporation

Burhan Koc, Senior Director of Business Development, ENGIE North America

Praveen Kumar, Senior Associate Dean, Faculty Affairs; Professor and Chair of Finance, C. T. Bauer College of Business

C. Kay McCall, Executive Director, Real Houston

Paul A. Pavlou, Dean and Cullen Distinguished Chair, C. T. Bauer College of Business

Jennifer (Jen) Pipkin, TES Business Engineering Leader, Dow

David Silva, Business Development Executive, Novi Midstream

Andrew Slaughter, Adjunct Faculty, C. T. Bauer College of Business

Andy Steinhubl, Chairman, Center for Houston’s Future

Jason Sweeney, Vice President of Sales, Oberon Fuels

Shree Vikas, Manager, Commercial and Procurement, ConocoPhillips

Real Estate Advisory Board

Drew Alexander, Retired, Weingarten Realty Investors Chairman and President

Lannya Batiste, Regional Manager, CAMDEN

Andy Bruce, Chief Operating Officer/CFO, Lionstone Investments

Jim Casey, Sr Managing Director, Trammell Crow

Glenn Clements, Vice Chairman, American Bank

Douglas Dillard, Managing Director/CFO, DC Partners

Mike Dishberger, President/CEO, Sandcastle Homes

Lane Enderby, Director, Altus Group

John Fenoglio, Executive VP/Debt & Structured Finance, CBRE

Edwin Friedrichs, Senior Principal, Walter P. Moore

John Hammond, President & CEO, Riverway Title

Samantha Harris, AVP Facilities Mgmt Business Services, UT MD Anderson Cancer Ctr

Chuck Jacobus, Attorney, Jacobus Law

Alex Jessett, Exec VP & CFO, CAMDEN

George Kaleh, Principal, The Cornerbrook Companies

Mary Lawler, Executive Director, Avenue CDC

Paul Layne, Principal, Layne Property Partners

Chris Lewis, Managing Principal, Lee & Associates

Gary Longbotham, Exec VP/Co-Founder, J. Tyler

Irma Lozano, Managing Director/Credit Risk, JP Morgan Chase

Edna Meyer-Nelson, Founder, President/CEO, The Richland Companies

John Mooz, Senior Managing Director, HINES

Ed Nwokedi, CEO, RedSwan

Lisa Pape, A&D Marketing Manager, Teknion (CORENET Rep)

Kevin Roberts, President, Transwestern

Blake Royal, Shareholder, BoyarMiller

Bruce Rutherford, President, Rutherford Real Estate

Harsh Shah, Sr Tax Manager, RSM US, LLP

Tenel Tayar, Managing Partner, Fifth Corner

Margaret Wallace Brown, Director/Planning & Development, City of Houston

John Walsh, Retired

Rockwell Career Center Advisory Board

Academy

BDO

Beacon

BP

Cheniere

Chevron

ChevronPhillips

ConocoPhillips

Enbridge

Enterprise Holdings

Geico

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

KPMG

LyondellBasell

Motiva

Phillips66

Ryan, LLC

RSM

Shell

TDECU

Wells Fargo

Williams Companies, Inc.

Stimulating Urban Renewal Through Entrepreneurship (SURE^SM) Board

Pradeep Anand, Founder, President, Seeta Resources

Charles Becker, Professor of Practice and Managing Director, SURE℠ Program, C. T. Bauer College of Business

Talib Dhanji, Partner, ERNST & YOUNG, LLP

Ogadi Fields, Relationship Banking Officer at Frost Bank

Timothy Jeffcoat, District Director U.S. SBA, U.S. Small Business Administration

Frank Kelley, Associate Dean, Undergraduate Business Programs, C. T. Bauer College of Business

Basheer Khumawala, Professor of Supply Chain Management, C. T. Bauer College of Business

Saleha Khumawala, Professor of Accounting & Founding Director, SURE℠ Program, C. T. Bauer College of Business

Ramanan Krishnamoorty, Chief Energy Officer, University of Houston

Elwyn Lee, Vice President of Neighborhood and Strategic Initiatives, University of Houston

Paula Mendoza, President and CEO, Possible Missions, Chair SURE Advisory Board, Past Secretary, UH System Board of Regents

Ralph Miller, Senior Vice President, PNC

Kaye Newberry, Retired Chair, Department of Accountancy & Taxation, C. T. Bauer College of Business

Vanessa Patrick-Ralhan, Associate Dean of Research, Professor of Marketing, C. T. Bauer College of Business

Vikram Rao, Executive Director, Research Triangle Energy Consortium

Beth Robertson, President and CEO, COCKSPUR, INC. Past Chair, UH System Board of Regents

Richard Scamell, Professor of Management Information Systems, C. T. Bauer College of Business

Riaz Siddiqi, Chairman, Clovis Point Capital

Aamir Shah, Executive Director, JP Morgan Chase

Dennis Silva, Senior Business Engagement Officer at TDECU

Tyler Smith, Community Relations, Senior Manager, Wells Fargo Bank

Peter Taaffe, Partner, Buzzbee Law Firm. Past Vice Chair, UH System Board of Regents

Paul Watson, Managing Director, Hermes Investment Group

Supply Chain Management Industry Advisory Board

Ameesh Arora, Managing Director Houston Office, Accenture

Amit Bansal, Vice President, Global Operations, Dell Technologies

Mike Bell, Leader of Supply Chain, Energy and Chemicals, Deloitte Consulting LLP

Danny Berry, VP Supply Chain, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Lynn Hodde Blue, Deputy Chief Procurement Officer, Department Information Resources

Marisa Brown, Senior Principal Research Lead, Supply Chain Management, APQC

Scott Campbell, Vice President Supply Chain Americas, LyondellBasell

Mike Dusak, Director of Supply Chain Management, Southwest Airlines

Rob Howell, Chief Supply Chain Strategy Officer, Sysco

Telyn Joseph, Director Global Procurement, Oceaneering

Wei Lin, Director of Supply Chain Management, Foxconn

Alberto Palazzi, Vice President, Global Supply Chain, Baker Hughes - Oilfield Services and Equipment

Jorge Reyes, Sr. Global Procurement Manager, ChampionX

Walter E. Sanchez, General Manager Global Supply Chain, Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP

Faraz Shahid, Director of Procurement, Cheniere

Shree Vikas, Manager, Market Intelligence & Business Analysis, Commercial & Procurement, ConocoPhillips