HTC Advisory Board

 

Chairman (HTC) Umesh Verma, President & CEO, BLUE LANCE, Inc. 


Bill Arend Regional Manager, Oracle Corporation
John Beddow Publisher, Houston Business Journal
Alan Bickerstaff Partner, Andrews Kurth LLP
Brad Burke Managing Director, Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship
Laura Capper Founder & CEO, CAP Resources
Lee Cook CEO, Phonoscope Communications, Inc.
James Eloi Doyle Partner, Doyle Restrepo Harvin & Robbins LLP
Darryl K. Drenon Regional Manager, Cisco Systems, Inc.
Kemal Farid President & CEO, Merrick Systems, Inc.
Tony Essalih Vice President, Cornerstone Government Affairs
William E. Fitzgibbon III, Ph.D.  Dean, University of Houston – College of Technology
Paul M. Frison Executive Vice Chairman, Houston Technology Center
Ted D. Girdner Vice President, Business Services, Comcast Houston Region
Robert F. Gray, Jr. Partner, Mayer Brown LLP
Thomas D. Gros Senior Vice President, Sales & Marketing, Reliant Energy
William D. Gutermuth Partner, Bracewell & Giuliani LLP
Jeffrey Harder Partner, Jackson Walker L.L.P.
Andy Icken Deputy Director, City of Houston
Bradley K. Jensen, Ph.D. Principal Academic Relationship Manager, Microsoft Corporation
John J. Kennedy President & CEO, Wilson – A Schlumberger Company
Krista Kiblawi Associate Director-Data Sales, Verizon Wireless
William L. LaFuze Partner, Vinson & Elkins LLP
Carlos Lara President, Lara & Associates, LLC
Lee J. Laviolette Partner, Accenture Management Consulting
Karen Love Director, Practice Growth, PKF Texas, P.C.
Pamela Lovett Executive Vice President–Business Development, Comerica Bank
T. Kevin McConn Group President-Private Client Services, Frost National Bank
Carl McCutcheon Chairman & CEO, AMM Exploration, LLC
George L. McLendon Provost, Rice University
Maryanne Maldonado Vice President & Managing Director, Energy Acceleration, Houston Technology Center
Daniel Mark Partner, Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.
Keith Meyer Chairman & CEO, Sunthenoil LLC
Bob Mitchell President, Bay Area Houston Economic Partnership
Roberto Moctezuma IT Advisor, Houston Technology Center
Phil Morabito CEO, Pierpont Communications, Inc.
Dallas Parker Partner, Mayer Brown LLP
Brett A. Perlman President, Vector Advisors
Chris Perque Partner, Houston Office, Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
Gregory Phillips Partner, Phillips & Reiter, PLLC
Peter J. Pintar
Senior Vice President - Corporate Strategy and Development, 
TETRA Technologies, Inc.
Gregory Price
Director of Consulting Services, PKF Texas, P.C.
Eric Pulaski
Founder & CEO, SmartVault Corporation
Oscar Santollani
Managing Partner, Soteica LLC
Bob Schwartz
Vice President & Senior Advisor, Energy Ventures US, Inc.
Richard M. Scruggs Partner, Winston Sage Partners; President & CEO Salient Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Jeffrey Seemann, Ph.D. Vice President for Research, Texas A&M University
Rob Sellers Executive Vice President-Director of Finance, Texican Natural Gas Company
Paul Stewart CEO, Atos Origin North America
H. William Swanstrom Partner, Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP
James A. Taylor Chairman & CEO, CHR Solutions, Inc.
Dr. Joseph W. Tedesco Dean, University of Houston - Cullen College of Engineering
Joseph L. Trahan President & CEO, 1-Service LLC
Walter Ulrich President & CEO, Houston Technology Center
Aruna Viswanathan
Chief Underwriting Officer, Clearspring Capital group
Kenneth D. Wells, MD
President, Alken Health Resources
Mark White
Chairman, Geovox Security; former Governor, State of Texas
Stephen White
CEO, Qukku
Todd Zuspan
Partner, Ernst & Young LLP


Ben Exner MBA Board Fellow, Rice University, Jones Graduate School of Business; ex-officio