Business Leadership Week: Executive Leadership Panel

Business Leadership Week

Executive Leadership Panel

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

11:00 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.

McCoy Hall 119

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.

Daniel Guerrero
Mayor of San Marcos

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.

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.



 

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.