Leadership

2021 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Officers

Franklin J. Harberg, Board Chair
Attorney, Harberg, Huvard, Jacobs, Wadler, LLP

Charlene Chuang, Vice Chair
BP, Retiree

Randall Evans, Vice Chair
Attorney, Hirsch & Westheimer

Nizar Charania, Treasurer
Director, Financial Reporting, Westlake Chemical

Dale Bodden, Secretary
Vice President, CenterPoint Energy

Shaukat Zakaria, Past Board Chair
President, Health Quest Pharmacy 

Directors

Saied Alavi
Senior Director, Marek

Sanjay Ahuja
President & CEO, PF Waterworks 

Dan Boggio
President & CEO, PBK

Rev. Mauricio Chacon
Associate Pastor, Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church

Jacques D’Rovencourt
General Manager, Hilton Americas Houston

Carlos Duarte
Director of Development, Mi Familia Vota 

Marla Fielder
Pharmacy Director, Kroger

Dr. Kathy Flanagan
Psychiatrist 

Henry Florsheim
Retired President, KTRK

Charles Foster
President, Foster P.C.

Dr. Vasant Garg
Radiologist, Houston Methodist

Rabbi Oren Hayon
Senior Rabbi, Congregation Emanu El

Chris Hollins
Principal Attorney, Hollins Law Group

Tyler Juergens
Senior Manager, PwC

Brigitte Kalai
Community Volunteer

Rabbi David Lyon
Senior Rabbi, Congregation Beth Israel 

Scott McMillian
President, Advanced Applications 

Maureen Quirk
Vice President, Marketing, Sysco

Aamir Shah
Executive Director, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.

Dr. Kohur “Mani” Subramanian
Consultant

Paula Sutton
Senior Vice President, Morgan Stanley  

Dr. Shahin Tavackoli
Cardiologist, Comprehensive Heart Care

Tamla Wilson
Director of Institutional Relations, Bridgeway Capital Management

SENIOR BOARD MEMBERS:

Bret Baccus
Philamena Baird
Rev. Jim Bankston
Mary Gwen Hulsey

Sushma Mahajan

Dr. Fatima Mawji
Rev. Tom Pace
Larry Payne
Garland Pohl
Shahnaz Waliany
Rev. John Wurster

LIFETIME BOARD MEMBERS:

Charles R. Erickson
Bill King
Jo Ann McLaughlin
Richard Steele
Rabbi Roy Walter
Elliot Gershenson, President Emeritus

ADVISORY BOARD:

Judge Lina Hidalgo, Honorary Chair
Harris County Judge, Texas

Mayor Sylvester Turner, Honorary Chair
Houston, TX

Charles Foster, Advisory Board Chair
Foster Global

Richard Everett, Advisory Board Co-Chair
Everett Interests

Art Acevedo
Houston Police Chief

Murad Ajani
President, Aga Khan Council for the Southwestern United States

 Jerome Axelrod
Managing Director, Stark Capital Management

Shahzad Bashir
CEO, Morae Legal

Dan Boggio
President & CEO, PBK 

Neil Bush
Businessman and Investor/Chair, Points of Light

Dr. Moien Butt
Retired Pathologist

Peter Cook
Owner & CEO, Juice Goose 

Ric Campo
CEO, Camden Properties

Ed Emmett
Professor, The Kinder Institute for Urban Research, Rice University

Bob Eury
President, Central Houston Inc.

Archbishop Joseph Fiorenza
Archbishop Emeritus, Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston 

Ann Friedman, Ph. D
Mindful Being

Bob Harvey
President and CEO, Greater Houston Partnership 

Winell Herron
Group President, Public Affairs and Diversity, H-E-B 

Commissioner Stephen Holmes
Commissioner, Galveston County

Rochelle Jacobson
Philanthropist

Swatantra Jain
Partner, Vinmar International

Bashar Kalai
President & CEO, Amerapex Corporation

Dr. Sippi Khurana
Rheumatologist, Immunologist and Internist

Darryl King
CEO, Principle Partnering Group, LLC

Dr. Stephen Klineberg
Professor, Rice University/ Founding Director, Kinder Institute

Edward Kuntz
Businessman 

Karen Labat
Workforce Development and Diversity Expert, Shell Oil Company

Rev. William A. Lawson
Pastor Emeritus, Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church 

Stan Marek
CEO, Marek Companies

Barry Margolis, CPA
Partner, RSM US LLP 

Fred G. Marshall
Retired Executive, ExxonMobil

Jim McIngvale
Owner, Gallery Furniture

Paul Moskowitz
Executive VP, Human Resources, Sysco

Scott Nyquist
Senior Partner, McKinsey  

Robert Sakowitz
Hazak Corporate Consulting, CEO, former President/CEO Sakowitz, Inc. 

Don Sanders
Vice Chairman, Sanders Morris Harris 

Amb. Arthur Schechter
Former U.S. Ambassador to the Bahamas 

Ash Shah
Investor 

Dr. Riaz Siddiqi
Founder and Managing Partner, Denham Capital

Mustafa Tameez
Managing Director, Outreach Strategists

Jeff Tapick
President & CEO, Martin Preferred Foods 

Dr. Frazier Wilson
Vice President, Shell Oil Company Foundation/Manager, Social Investment, 
Shell Oil Company 

Fred Zeidman
Chairman, Gordian Group