Board
Amy Wheelus
Chairman of the Board
Vice President -Architecture & Strategic Planning Consumer Technology Platforms - AT&T
Lisa Frey
Vice Chair of Talent
IT Scrum Master, Toyota Connected
Vance McCollough
Vice Chair of Budget & Finance
Partner, Moss Adams
Tad McIntosh
Vice Chair of Member Services
President, HumCap
Andrew Olowu
Vice Chair of Innovation
CTO, Axxess
Deb Sawyer
Vice Chair of Programs
Managing Director, The Dubrof Group
Kathy Curry
Vice Chair of Awards Gala
Technology Manager, State Farm
Calvin Carter
Vice Chair of Marketing
Founder and CEO, Bottle Rocket
Barbara Baffer
Immediate Past Chair
Vice President, Government & Industry Relations, North America, Ericsson
Board of Directors
Robert Atkins
CEO, Blananced Media Technology
Gurshaman Baweja
CIO and Sr. VP
Texas Instruments
Dr. Richard Benson
President, UT Dallas
Chris Bradford
President of Newline Interactive
Greg Carr
Founder/Managing Member, Carr Law Firm PLLC
Barry Carter
CIO, RealPage
Oliver Chandhok
Market President & Publisher, Dallas Business Journal
Dave Copps
CEO, Worlds
Brennan Cropper
Sr. Dir. Software Engineering
Capital One
Kathy Curry
Technology Manager
State Farm
Jon Davis
Chief Revenue Officer
Matrix Resources
Dr. Kay Eggleston
President, Richland College of the DCCCD
Mark Farris
Sr. Partner, Launch Consulting
Charlie Fell
VP, Comerica Bank - Life & Sciences
Farid Firouzbakht
Sr. VP Mobility Solutions
Commscope
Robert Fitzgerald
Partner, Deloitte
Caroline Gagliardi
Partner, PWC
Roger Hall
General Manager, Defense & Aerospace, Qorvo
Stacie Hyatt
Founder, SL Partners/SACL
Robert Jackson
Executive VP, General Counsel & Secretary
Cyrus One
Dustin Johnson
Partner
Haynes and Boone, LLP
Sanjay Jupudi
President, Qentelli
David Little
Sales Director, Red Hat
Chris MacFarland
Executive Chairman & CTO
Masergy
Betty Manetta
President & CEO
Argent Associates
David Matthews
Managing Director, REVTECH
Mary Elizabeth McNeely
President, McNeely Technology Solutions
Garyld Miles
COO/VP, Operations & Engineering, The RealTime Group
Rod Naphan
CTO, SVP, Technology Business Unit, Fujitsu Network Communications
Shanthi Rajaram
President & CEO
Amazech Solutions
Barry Shurkey
CIO, NTT Data Services
Vik Thapar
Partner, Cypress Growth Capital
Melissa Townsley-Solis
CEO, Giact Systems
Ex-Officio Board Member
Babar Bhatti
Dallas AI, Artificial Intelligence Forum
Chris Deans
Deloitte, Blockchain Forum
Jackson Ku
AT&T, Cybersecurity Forum
Steve Parta
Seven Tablets, Analytics & Insights Forum
Eric Peltier
Chairman of the Board, Richardson Chamber of Commerce
Pete Poorman
UTDallas, Healthtech Forum
Andy Slote
Object Spectrum, Internet of Things Forum
Honorary Board Members
Rusty Cone
General Manger & VP of Business Development, Unicom Engineering
Rich McBee
President, Riverbed Technology
Doug Moore
CEO, Fujitsu Network Communications
Kent Novak
CEO, Valencell
Krish Prabhu
Retired from AT&T Labs
Jeff White
Industry CTO, Dell Technologies