Chairman of the Board of Barshop & Oles, L.P.
and Founder of La Quinta Inns, Inc.
Mr. Barshop is founder and retired
Chairman of the Board, President and CEO of La Quinta Inns, Inc. In
September 1995 he joined forces with Barshop Enterprise of San Antonio
and C. P. Oles Company of Austin to form a new company to merge their
real estate interests. Mr. Barshop is Chairman of the Board of this San
Antonio-Austin based firm, Barshop and Oles, L.P.
Mr.
Barshop is a former director of Southwest Airlines, former chairman of
the Austin-San Antonio Corridor Council, and the San Antonio Free Trade
Alliance. He is very active in local, state and nationwide affairs.
A
graduate of The University of Texas, he is a former member of the Board
of Regents of The University of Texas System, and currently serves on
numerous U.T. boards and committees. Mr. Barshop is also a former member
of the Board of Trustees of The University of Incarnate Word in San
Antonio and until the Fall of 2005 he held the Roy F. and Joann Cole
Mitte Chair in Entrepreneurship Studies at Texas State University. Mr.
Barshop is also a Trustee and member of the Advisory Council of the San
Antonio Academy. In 2005, Mr. and Mrs. Barshop were honored as the key
benefactors in the establishment of the Sam and Ann Barshop Institute
for Longevity and Aging Studies which is located in the Texas Research
Park.
Mr.
Barshop is a recipient of The University of Texas Ex-Student’s
Association Distinguished Alumni Award; Distinguished Alumnus
Award-College of Business Administration, The University of Texas at
Austin; College of Business Administration Hall of Fame, The University
of Texas at Austin; 2003 San Antonio Business Hall of Fame Laureate;
2003 Inductee-Texas Philanthropy Hall of Fame; and 2004 recipient of
The Americas Lodging Investment Summit Lifetime Achievement Award.
Tuesday, December 6
9:30 am
McCoy Hall 119
