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Executive moves, new appointments, and honors across Dallas-Fort Worth.

 

Sammons Industrial Names New Leaders to Executive Team

by | Feb 23, 2024

Dallas-based Sammons Industrial announced that Mark Piccirillo, Amanda Coley, and Heather Meiner have been appointed to the company’s executive leadership team.

“I am excited to have Mark, Amanda, and Heather join me at Sammons Industrial as we continue to drive a strategic vision to best support our growing industrial sector. Their leadership in the Briggs business provides unmatched experience in supporting our customers, businesses, and team members, while maintaining a solid company culture,” Sammons Industrial CEO Dan Lister said in a statement....

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Texas Instruments Adds Rice University President to Its Board
by | Feb 23, 2024
Reginald DesRoches has been the president of Rice University in Houston since 2022 and a professor of engineering there since 2017.
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Plano’s DZS Adds 2 Industry Veterans to its Board of Directors
by | Feb 23, 2024
Attorney Todd Jackson brings 30 years of M&A advisory and transaction experience to the board with more than $30 billion in transactions closed. Paul Choi is the CEO of Invites Ventures, the purchaser in the company’s recent private placement.
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Dallas-Based Global Specialty Materials Co. ATI Elects New President and CEO
by | Feb 23, 2024
Kimberley Fields will succeed Robert S. Wetherbee, who will become executive chairman, according to aerospace and defense leader ATI. Fields has served as chief operating officer since 2022 and became president in July 2023.
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Westlake’s Goosehead Insurance Announces Change at the Top

by | Feb 23, 2024
Mark Miller will succeed Chairman and CEO Mark Jones as CEO on July 1, when Jones transitions to executive chairman.
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After Moving to New Downtown Digs, HBG Design Names New Dallas Leader and Principal for Nat’l Hospitality Practice
by | Feb 15, 2024
After 20 years at HKS Architects, Ray Mabry has joined Memphis-based HBG Design to "forge new frontiers in the national hospitality and entertainment industry" while helping HBG cement its footprint in the Dallas metro area. He'll be doing that from the firm's new Dallas office in the iconic, 72-story Bank of America Plaza.
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Former Dallas Fed President/CEO Joins Star Mountain Capital as Senior Advisor
by | Feb 15, 2024
An author of three books on leadership, Robert Kaplan is bringing his more than 40 years of investment management, business management, monetary policy, investment banking, and leadership experience to the specialized investment firm.
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Industry Veteran to Lead Skidabrader’s New Aviation Division

by | Feb 9, 2024
John Hunter will lead the new division for Fort Worth-based Skidabrader, which serves dozens of military and civilian airports. The company's solutions help ensure "the safest possible runway conditions" in the face of challenges posed by constant tire scuffing and rubber buildup.
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Women’s Foodservice Forum Appoints New Leaders to its Board
by | Feb 9, 2024

Dallas-based Women’s Foodservice Forum (WFF) has announced the appointment of two industry leaders who will join its 2024 board of directors and named the senior leaders who will serve on the board executive committee....

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Dallas-Based Think Tank Taps Rice University Head as Its New President, CEO
by | Feb 9, 2024
Legal scholar David Leebron succeeds former Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, bringing two decades of organizational leadership to Texas 2036, a nonpartisan, nonprofit policy organization founded by Tom Luce.
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TPG Appoints Partner, Head of Infrastructure for TPG Rise Climate
by | Feb 9, 2024
Scott Lebovitz will focus on TPG Rise Climate's new strategy targeting investments in infrastructure and real assets that are critical to global decarbonization and energy transition marketplaces, TPG said.
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HilltopSecurities Names Head of Fixed Income Capital Markets

by | Feb 9, 2024
Jason Lisec joined HilltopSecurities in 2009 and has served as co-head of fixed income capital markets since 2020. He has more than 30 years of experience in fixed income capital markets, as well as risk management.
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Bush Center’s Kenneth A. Hersh To Receive 2024 Horatio Alger Award for Lifetime Achievements and Philanthropy
by | Feb 9, 2024

Kenneth A. Hersh, president and CEO of the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas has been selected for membership in the prestigious Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans Inc.,...

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Southlake’s Sabre Corp. Adds Former Lyft CFO to Its Board
by | Feb 9, 2024
Elaine Paul, the former CFO of Lyft, Amazon Studios, and Hulu, has been elected to Sabre's board, effective Feb. 16. On that same day, Zane Rowe and Rachel Gonzalez will retire from the board.
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MoneyGram Adds 4 New Leaders to Accelerate Global Digital Strategy
by | Feb 9, 2024
The company said the new leaders will partner closely with the executive leadership team and will report directly to MoneyGram Chief Digital Officer Seth Ross.
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