Business Leadership Week
Executive Leadership Panel
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
11:00 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.
McCoy Hall 119
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Mark Curry
Community Bank President,
Austin Business Banking, Wells Fargo and Company |
Mark Curry has 41 years of
financial service experience and currently leads the Wells Fargo Austin
Business Banking team. This group of professionals dedicates their time, talent
and Wells Fargo’s resources to support our business customer’s financial success. The team builds deep and long-term
relationships with their customers and community so that they have the reliable
support and earned trust necessary to succeed in the marketplace.
During his career Mark has
held key leadership positions within local independent and regional banks. Prior to his banking career he spent 12
years in the information system consulting business with a Big Five accounting
firm and still maintains his CPA license.
Mark graduated from Texas Tech University in 1973 with degrees in
Accounting and Management.
For many years Mark has
served, supported and lifted the community in which he lives and works. He has
served on various area boards focusing on youth development, public and private
education, economic development and leadership. Mark is a proud graduate of
Leadership Austin-class of 2000.
Currently Mark serves the
community by working with the following organizations: Austin Chamber of
Commerce Education Council, Greater Austin Economic Development Corp Board,
Austin Public Education Foundation, Long Center Board and chair of the Long
Center Corporate Council. He also chairs Austin Partners in Education and
served as the past chair of the Social Equity Committee for Austin Area
Research Organization. He and his wife Pat are active members of St. Theresa’s
Catholic Church and serve the church in several capacities.
Mark and his wife Pat have
been married 38 years and enjoy two adult children, Cory and Haley. In support
of these two, Mark and Pat have served as PTA presidents or officers, Booster
Club president, youth sports coach, Dancer’s Dad and CCE teacher at St.
Theresa’s. Cory and his wife Amy live in the Fort Worth area and have three
sons: Hogan, Rece and Grayson who keep their grandparents young and laughing.
Haley lives in San Antonio where she represents the oil and gas industry in
South Texas with great success.
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Daniel Guerrero
Mayor of San Marcos
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Mayor Daniel Guerrero
has served three terms as Mayor and two terms as a City City Council Member for
the City of San Marcos, Texas. He currently serves on the executive boards for
the Capital Area Council of Governments, Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization,
and as a board trustee for the Ki Academy Charter School. Mayor Guerrero is a
graduate of Austin Community College, Texas State University and St. Edward's
University.
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Yamile Jackson
CEO, Nurtured by Design |
Yamile, a native of
Bogota, Colombia, is the CEO of Nurtured by Design, the global leader in
applying ergonomics, human factors, and safety engineering to providing
nurturing developmental care to preemies, well babies, children in distress,
and their parents. She founded Nurtured by Design in 2001 after her son Zachary
was born 12 weeks prematurely and survived the deluge of Tropical Storm Allison
that shut down his life-support equipment. He spent 5 months in the intensive
care unit in Houston and Yamile has kept her promise to him that his pain and
struggle to survive were not going to be in vain.
She has 4 engineering degrees, and has received over 18 awards including
Oprah's and Toyota's Standing Ovation Award, Top 20 Latino Innovator of the
Year by NBC Latino, Marketer of The Year by the American Marketing Association
Houston Chapter, Ultimate Latina Award in the Health Category by the United
States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, and has been featured in Readers Digest,
Fox and Friends, BBC, Univision, The Doctor’s show, Rachael Ray, the Today
Show, and TEDx.
Zachary's incredible story of survival was also the inspiration of the TNT
movie “14:Hours” and against all odds, he is a normal teenager, athletic,
funny, loving, and smart and is Nurtured by Design’s CIO (Chief Inspirational
Officer). Yamile's products, The Zaky, Kangaroo Zak, and Zen by Zak are sold to
families and to over 400 hospitals in over 50 countries and she has donated
more than 50,000 of her products to critically ill babies around the world on
behalf of Zachary.
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Steven Soos
CEO ProtolPO, Inc. |
Steve has worked throughout: Asia, the Middle
East, North Africa and Europe. He left a very successful carrier in Asset
Performance Management to "do something about the economy." The talk
will be about the journey from a passionate but vague notion to the biggest
changes in securities law since 1933.
