Welcome
Founded in 2013, the University of Houston’s Board of Visitors is a presidentially-appointed advisory board of private sector thought leaders with a broad array of expertise, interests and connections. Members of the Board of Visitors act as university champions serving as ambassadors and strategic partners for the University of Houston.
To find out more about the Board of Visitors and other volunteer opportunities at the University of Houston please contact our office at bov@uh.edu
or call 713-743-9116.
Aylwin Lewis (’76, M.B.A. ’90)
Chair, Board of Visitors
Former Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of Potbelly Corporation
Steve Stephens (’80)
Past Chair, Board of Visitors
Chief Executive Officer
Amegy Bank
Victor Barcot (’95, M.B.A. ’97)
Managing Director
Houlihan Lokey
Jeffery Beauchamp (’69, M.S.M.E. ’73)
Entrepreneur and Private Investor
Clark Beecher (’00)
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
Beecher Reagan Advisors, LLC
Maury Blackman (’92)
President and Chief Executive Officer
Premise Data
Robert Boblitt, Jr. (F.S. '81)
President
Silver Eagle Beverages LLC
Carlos de Aldecoa Bueno
President and Chief Executive Officer
Gulf Coast Distillers
Meredith Chastang
Senior Account Director
PaperCity Magazine
Arturo Chavez ('90)
Senior Principal
Page
Kim Clarke (’81)
Vice-Chair, Student Success Task Force
Chief Human Resource Officer
Kirby Corporation
Judy Cook (J.D. ’89)
Co-Chair, Nominations Committee
Vice President and Secretary
Mark and Judith Cook Foundation
Marcus Cosby
Senior Pastor
Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church
Thasunda Duckett ('96)
President and Chief Executive Officer
TIAA
Anette Edens (M.B.A. ’77, M.Ed. ’89, Ph.D. ’94)
Licensed Psychologist
Aggie Foster (’78, M.B.A. ‘86)
Community Volunteer and Arts Patron
Lily Chen Foster (M.A. ’92)
Retired Actress and Community Volunteer
Lance Funston (’67)
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Core Care America and Ultimark Products, LLC
Jo Furr (M.Ed. ’95)
Community Volunteer, Former Teacher and HISD Advanced Academics Supervisor
Stephen Greenlee
Former President of ExxonMobil Upstream Business Development Company
Elvin Hayes (’85)
President
King’s Valet and Rossi, USA
Craig Jones
President and Chief Executive Officer
Long Lake Ltd., Woodmere Development Co.
Manmohan Kalsi (M.S.M.E. ’70, Ph.D. ’75)
President
Kalsi Engineering, Inc.
Robert Kneppler (’85)
Chair, Student Success Task Force
Managing Director
Marsh Wortham, a division of Marsh USA, Inc.
Glenn Lilie (Honorary Doctorate Degree ’16)
Chief Executive Officer
G. Terrell Ventures Inc.
Nick Massad (’73)
President and Chief Executive Officer
American Liberty Hospitality, Inc.
Elizabeth McIngvale (Ph.D ’14)
Founder
The Peace of Mind Foundation
Director
McLean OCD Institute || Houston
Jerad McMayon (’00)
Co-Founder and Partner
OFS Energy Fund
David McMenamin (’74)
Former Managing Partner of Carson Wealth
Sonny Messiah-Jiles (’74)
President
Defender Media Group
Laura Murillo (’89, M.Ed. ’98, Ed.D. ’03)
President and Chief Executive Officer
Houston Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
Judy Nyquist
Chair, Public Art Task Force
Community Volunteer and Arts Patron
Marvin Odum, III (M.B.A. ’95)
Chief Executive Officer
816 Group
Pamela Chambers O’Rourke (’95)
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
ICON Information Consultants LP
Richard Earl Penick (’78)
Former President of Maintenance Supply Headquarters
Jack Pogge (’75)
Former President, Chief Operating Officer and Director of CSG Systems International, Inc.
Ricky Raven (’83, J.D. ‘86)
Co-Chair, Nominations Committee
Partner
Reed Smith LLP
Maria Rios (FS ’88)
Owner and President
Nation Waste Inc.
Lillie Robertson
Philanthropist
Samuel Schreiber (’74)
Senior Advisor, Trustar Bank
Darryl Schroeder (’69)
Chief Executive Officer
Lonestar Energy Fabrication
Gregory Shoemaker (’79)
Former Global Head of Supply Chain of Hewlett Packard Inc.
Michele Verma, Phd (’79)
Community Volunteer
Anthropology and Education, Ph.D
Bridget Wade
Owner
Bridget Wade Designs
Bruce Williamson (M.B.A. ’95)
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Southcross Energy Holdings
Drue DaSilva (’93, M.S. ’99)
President
UH Alumni Association Foundation
Leslie Flynne
President
Houston Public Media Foundation
Tom Hetherington
President-Elect
UH Law Foundation Board
Shazia Khan (’84)
Secretary, UH Alumni Association Foundation
Wayne Luckett (’74)
Incoming President, UHAAF
President and Chief Executive Officer
Branwar Wine Distributing Co.
Leonard Roth
Chairman and President
UH College of Business Foundation
Laurie Rutherford (’86, M.B.A. ’91, M.S. ’04)
Immediate Past President
UH Alumni Association Foundation
Michael Sachs (’97)
Member-At-Large
UH Alumni Association Foundation
Vissett Sun (’93, O.D. ’95)
Past President and Board Member Foundation for Education and Research in Vision, Inc.
Richard Whiteley (’93, J.D. ’99)
Treasurer
UH Alumni Association Foundation
Alvin Zimmerman (’64, J.D. ’67)
Chair
UH Foundation
MR. HARI AGRAWAL
Terms of Service 2014 – 2018
MS. DINA AL-SOWAYEL (’91)
Terms of Service 2014 – 2015
MRS. ANNA M. BABIN
Terms of Service 2016 – 2018
DR. DONALD BACIGALUPI (’83)
Terms of Service 2014 – 2017
MR. ROBERT L. BARTKOWIAK, JR. (’84)
Terms of Service 2014 – 2017
MR. JEFFERY O. BEAUCHAMP (’73)
Terms of Service 2014 – Present
NELDA L. BLAIR (J.D. ’82)
Terms of Service 2014 – 2017
MR. J. DOWNEY BRIDGWATER (’84)
Terms of Service 2014 – Present
MR. JOHN R. BUTLER, JR.
Terms of Service 2014 – Present
MR. RICHARD J. CAMPO
Terms of Service 2014 – 2015
THE HONORABLE JOHN T. CATER
Terms of Service 2014 -2018
MR. JOHN A. CLARKE (’81)
Terms of Service 2014 – 2018
MR. FRED S. COUPLES (’80)
Terms of Service 2014 – 2016
MR. JAMES R. CRANE
Terms of Service 2014 – 2015
MRS. CHERYL D. CREUZOT (M.B.A ’12, J.D. ’92, ’81)
Terms of Service 2014 – 2019
THE HONORABLE DAVID H. DEWHURST (J.D ’80)
Terms of Service 2015 – 2016
DR. ANETTE T. EDENS (’94)
Terms of Service 2015 – Present
MR. STEPHEN J. FELICE (M.B.A ’84)
Terms of Service 2014 – 2015
MRS. LILY CHEN FOSTER (’92)
Terms of Service 2014 – Present
MR. WILLIAM GRANVILLE, III
Terms of Service 2014 – 2017
MR. C. GREGORY HARPER (’97)
Terms of Service 2014 – 2016
MS. CHAILLE WINSTON HAWKINS
Terms of Service 2016 – 2020
MR. ELVIN HAYES (’85)
Terms of Service 2015 – Present
MR. RICHARD "RACEHORSE" HAYNES (J.D. ’56)
Terms of Service 2014 – 2017
MR. CHRIS HELMS
Terms of Service 2014 – 2018
MR. ERIC M. HILTON (HONORARY DOCTORATE ’85)
Terms of Service 2014 – 2016
MRS. BARBARA HINES
Artist
Terms of Service 2016 – 2020
THE HONORABLE W. P. HOBBY (HONORARY DOCTORATES ’97)
Terms of Service 2014 – 2017
MR. JOHN L. KING
Terms of Service 2016 – 2021
THE REVEREND WILLIAM A. LAWSON (HONORARY DOCTORATE ’93)
Terms of Service 2014 – 2017
MR. F. CARL LEWIS (FS ’82)
Terms of Service 2014 – 2017
MR. GLENN T. LILIE (FS ’68, HONORARY DEGREE ’16)
Terms of Service 2014 – Present
MR. MICHAEL C. LINN
Terms of Service 2016 – 2019
MR. WAYNE M. LUCKETT (’74)
Terms of Service 2015 - Present
MR. FREDERICK R. LUMMIS, II
Terms of Service 2014 – 2017
MR. RANSOM C. LUMMIS
Terms of Service 2014 – 2015
MR. JUGAL K. MALANI
Terms of Service 2017 – 2017
MR. JERAD D. MCMAYON (’00)
Terms of Service 2016 – Present
MR. JOHN T. MCNABB, II
Terms of Service 2014 – 2015
MR. PERSHANT MEHTA (’95)
Terms of Service 2014 – 2015
THE HONORABLE JACK B. MOORE (’77)
Terms of Service 2014 – 2018
THE HONORABLE MICA MOSBACHER (FS ’83)
Terms of Service 2014 – 2016
DR. LAURA G. MURILLO (M.ED. ’98, ’89)
Terms of Service 2014 – Present
MR. MARVIN D. NATHAN (J.D. ’66)
Terms of Service 2014 – 2015
MR. JOHN L. NAU, III
Terms of Service 2014 – 2016
MRS. JUDY NYQUIST
Terms of Service 2021 – Present
MR. MARVIN E. ODUM, III (’95)
Terms of Service 2014 – Present
MR. CHRIS J. PAPPAS
Terms of Service 2014 – 2015
MR. JOSEPH M. POGGE (’79)
Terms of Service 2014 – 2015
MR. RICHARD G. RAWSON (’72)
Terms of Service 2014 – 2018
MS. LILLIE T. ROBERTSON (’72)
Terms of Service 2014 – Present
MS. DOMINIQUE SACHSE (’90)
Terms of Service 2014 – 2016
MR. SAMUEL A. SCHREIBER (’74)
Terms of Service 2016 – Present
MR. DARRYL A. SCHROEDER (’69)
Terms of Service 2014 – Present
MR. GREGORY WAYNE SHOEMAKER (’79)
Terms of Service 2014 – Present
Mr. Steve D. Stephens (’80)
Terms of Service 2014 – Present
MR. DHEERAJ VERMA (’00)
Terms of Service 2016 – 2019
MS. NICOLE VOGEL (’00)
Terms of Service 2014 - 2016
MR. DARYL W. WILKERSON (FS ’80)
Terms of Service 2014 – 2017
MR. BRUCE A. WILLIAMSON (’95)
Terms of Service 2016 – Present
MR. FLOYD C. WILSON (FS ’72)
Terms of Service 2014 - 2016
BOARD OF VISITORS TASK FORCES
POWER ATHLETICS
CHAIR: GREGORY SHOEMAKER (’79), VICE CHAIR: CRAIG JONES
OBJECTIVES
- Support and promote the University of Houston Department of Athletics mission – Building Champions for Life – by engaging with the student-athlete experience at UH.
- Energize the UH fan base and the City of Houston to maximize revenues that can be re-invested ensuring sustained success by helping fill athletic venues.
- Allow student-athletes to develop and compete on the national level by supporting the development and maintenance of state-of-the-art athletic facilities.
- Ensure that UH students, student-athletes and constituents are part of a Tier One, nationally relevant athletics program by attracting and retaining top athletic leadership.
PUBLIC ART
CHAIR: JUDY NYQUIST
OBJECTIVES
- Provide insight into developing and reviewing strategic partnerships and prospects to support the Public Art program and its funding priorities.
- Foster and strengthen engagement opportunities for visitors and the community to tour the collection, exhibitions and explore the System’s collection.
- Support strategic programs and events related to the 50th Anniversary milestone.
- Advocate for the Public Art program, both locally and nationally, bringing awareness to thecollection and its exhibitions.
STUDENT SUCCESS
CHAIR: ROBERT KNEPPLER (’85), VICE CHAIR: KIM CLARKE (’81)
OBJECTIVES
- Partner with Career Services to review and expand external contacts for student opportunities, identify industry gaps for connections, and participate in professional volunteer training opportunities.
- Explore opportunities to support student recruitment efforts by leveraging contacts in Houston and other markets.
- Support the continued growth of the Scarlet Seals of Excellence, a program in which students demonstrate learning outside the classroom in preparation for post-graduation opportunities.
THIRD WARD ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT
CHAIR: AYLWIN LEWIS (’76, M.B.A. ’90), VICE CHAIR: JERAD MCMAYON (’00)
OBJECTIVES
- Encourage the creation of partnerships between UH and the community.
- Provide insight into developing and growing programing, in partnership with the C.T. Bauer College of Business, through small-to-medium sized business incubation programs such as the SURE™ program and The Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship.
- Illuminate the strengths of Third Ward businesses for increased business activity between the UH business community and Third Ward enterprises.
THIRD WARD SCHOOLS
CHAIR: MICHELE VERMA, VICE CHAIR: HELEN SHAFFER
OBJECTIVES
- Create a lasting relationship between the UH community and the Third Ward community through outreach and service-learning that results in increased student success and college andcareer readiness.
- Develop partnerships between UH and the Third Ward community to support the identified needs of Third Ward Schools.
- Promote impactful collaborations between UH, UH College of Education, and the Third Ward Community to support, effect, and communicate progressive change in Third Ward.