Advisory Board
Randy Foutch, Chair
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Laredo Petroleum, Inc.
Doyle Beneby
Chief Executive Officer, New Generation Power International (NGPI), an international independent renewable energy company
Samuel Bodman
Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy; Board of Directors for DuPont, Hess Corporation, and the AES Corporation
Jack Broodo
Business President, Feedstocks & Energy, The Dow Chemical Company
Ernest Cockrell
Chairman, Cockrell Interests Inc.; President and Director, Cockrell Foundation; Chairman and Director, the Welch Foundation
Helen Currie
Chief Economist, ConocoPhillips
Linn Draper
Former Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of American Electric Power Company, Inc; Faculty member in nuclear engineering at UT-Austin from 1971-79
Donald Evans
Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Commerce; Chairman, Energy Future Holdings; Senior Partner, Quintana Energy Partners; Chairman, George W. Bush Presidential Center
Henry Groppe, Vice Chair
Founding Partner, Groppe, Long & Littell
Bruce Harris
Senior Director of Federal Government Relations for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
Marilu Hastings
Environment Program Director for the Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation
Ron Hulme
Chief Executive Officer, Parallel Resource Partners
Marianne Kah
Former Chief Economist of ConocoPhillips and Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy
Ryan Lance
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, ConocoPhillips
James Marston
Vice President of Energy Program and Director of Texas regional office, Environmental Defense Fund
Jack Randall
Co-founder and Managing Partner, Jefferies Randall & Dewey Inc.; Director, XTO Energy; Co-founder, Caymus Energy Fund
Thomas Schuessler
President, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
Shahid Ullah
Partner, Stratum Energy
Deborah Wince-Smith
President and CEO, Council on Competitiveness; Board of Directors, NASDAQ-OMX, Inc.