Martin B. Cominsky
President & CEO
[email protected]
Phone: 713-533-4901
Jennifer Leone
Chief Financial & Administrative Officer
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Phone: 713-835-8112
Maria Magee, CFRE
Chief Development Officer
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Phone: 713-533-4924
Ali Al Sudani
Chief Programs Officer
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Phone: 713-533-4940
Bonnie Weisman
VP of Human Resources
[email protected]
Phone: 713-533-4967
Jodi Bernstein
VP of Interfaith Relations and Community Partnerships
[email protected]
phone: 713-533-4969
Terry L. Merriett
VP of Program Quality & Compliance
[email protected]
phone: 346-679-0717
Elliot Gershenson
President Emeritus
2024 BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Kathy C. Flanagan, M.D., Chair of the Board
Physician
Henry Florsheim, Chair Elect
Retired President, ABC-13, KTRK
Saied Alavi, Vice Chair
Sr. Director, Marek
Ann Kaesermann, Treasurer
Retired Vice President- Controller, Hilcorp Energy Company
Nadia Tajalli, Secretary
Accounting Manager, Evtex Companies
Dr. Maureen Quirk, At-Large
Chief Marketing Officer, Chief Outsiders
Nihala Zakaria, At-Large
Community Volunteer
Randall Evans, Immediate Past Chair
Attorney, Hirsch & Westheimer
Martin B. Cominsky, President and CEO
Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston
Charles R. Erickson
Jo Ann McLaughlin
Richard Steele
Rabbi Roy Walter
Elliot Gershenson, President Emeritus
Charles Foster, Advisory Board Chair
Foster Global
C. Richard Everett, Advisory Board Co-Chair
Everett Interests
Robert Sakowitz, Advisory Board Vice Chair
Hazak Corporate Consulting, CEO
Former President/CEO Sakowitz, Inc.
Jerome Axelrod
Managing Director, Stark Capital Management
Shahzad Bashir
CEO, Morae Legal
Dr. Marc Boom
President and CEO, Houston Methodist
Dr. Moien Butt
Retired Pathologist
Dr. David Callender
President and CEO, Memorial Hermann
Alejandro Chaoul, PhD
Huffington Foundation Endowed Director of The Jung Center’s Mind Body Spirit Institute
Peter Cook
Owner & CEO, Juice Goose
Ric Campo
CEO, Camden Properties
The Honorable Ed Emmett
Chief Strategist, The Emmett Company
Bob Eury
President, Central Houston Inc.
Kathy C. Flanagan, M.D.
Physician and IM Board Chair
Ann Friedman, Ph. D
Mindful Being
Bob Harvey
Retired President and CEO, Greater Houston Partnership
Winell Herron
Group President, Public Affairs and Diversity, H-E-B
Judge Lina Hidalgo
Harris County Judge, Texas
Stephen Holmes
Commissioner, Galveston County
Curtis Huff
President and Chairman of Freebird Partners
Rochelle Jacobson
Philanthropist
Bashar Kalai
President and CEO, Amerapex
Brigitte Kalai
Community Volunteer
Steve Kean
President and CEO, Greater Houston Partnership
Karen Labat
Education Specialist, Workforce and Diversity Outreach, Shell USA Inc.
Tammy Lanier
Director of Communications, Episcopal Diocese of Texas
Stan Marek
CEO, Marek Companies
Barry Margolis, CPA
Partner, RSM US LLP
Fred G. Marshall
Retired Executive, ExxonMobil
Regina Rogers
Community Volunteer
Don Sanders
Vice Chairman, Sanders Morris Harris
Amb. Arthur Schechter
Former U.S. Ambassador to the Bahamas
Riaz Siddiqi
Founder and Managing Partner, Denham Capital
Vican Sun
President, TANSCO, Inc.
Mustafa Tameez
Managing Director, Outreach Strategists
The Honorable Sylvester Turner
62nd Mayor of Houston, TX
Benjamin Warren
President & CEO, ITC Trading Company Ltd
Dr. Frazier Wilson
Vice President, Shell Oil Company Foundation
Fred Zeidman
Chairman, Gordian Group
Murad Ajani
Partner, CSoft Technologies
Dr. Loren Blanchard
President, UH - Downtown
Dan Boggio
President & CEO, PBK
Emma V. Chambers
Manager, Corporate Social Responsibility, Air Liquide
Wendy Cooper
Senior Analyst, Compliance and Ethics at Cheniere Energy, Inc.
Jacques D’Rovencourt
General Manager, Hilton Americas Houston
Carlos Duarte
President, Advocates of a Latino Museum of Cultural and Visual Arts and Archive Complex in Houston, Harris County
Mark Eddings
Vice President, NRG - Direct Energy, US Home
Dr. Marla Fielder
Director of Pharmacy – Southwest Division, Kroger
Tonya Franshaw
Executive Director, Chase
Rabbi Steven Gross
Houston Congregation for Reform Judaism
Chris Hollins
Principal Attorney, Hollins Law Group PLLC
Tyler Juergens
Senior Manager, PwC
Roberta Konicki
Managing Director, Macquarie Group
David Paradis
CEO, Trillium Flow Technologies
Jim Procuniar
President, The SYGMA Network
Jeremy Samuels
Community Volunteer
Brian Wagaman
VP - Gas and Supply Operations, CenterPoint Energy
Rev. Dr. Tamla Wilson
Director of Institutional Relations, Bridgeway Capital Management
Clergy Team Member, Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church
Bret Baccus
Philamena Baird
Nizar Charania
Mary Gwen Hulsey
Sushma Mahajan
Dr. Fatima Mawji
Rev. Tom Pace
Garland Pohl
Shahnaz Waliany
Rev. John Wurster
Dr. Jim Bankston
Charlene Chuang
D. Fort Flowers
Charles Foster
Jay Harberg
Bill King
Paula Sutton
Shaukat Zakaria