Houston’s top corporate financial professionals will be recognized Friday at the Best CFOs of the Year Awards luncheon — the final event in the Houston Business Journal’s 2009 CelebrateEnterprise program.
Keynote speaker for the May 22 event at the Wortham Center-Grand Foyer will be James K. Galbraith, holder of the Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government and Business Relations at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, at The University of Texas at Austin.
Finalists for the awards, to be made in eight categories, are:
• Emerging Public Company |
David Hollaway, Prosperity Bancshares Inc. |
• Large Public Company |
Randy Meyer, Amegy Bank of Texas |
John Rickel, Group 1 Automotive Inc. |
Michael Taff, McDermott International Inc. |
• Emerging Private Company |
John Biedermann, Entelligence LLC |
Donna Charleson, The Right Step |
Roy Johnson, Rig-Up Services Inc. |
Kimberly Macias, ADC Rig Services Inc. |
Michele Merz, Decision Strategies U.S.A. |
Stephen Odom, SolArc |
Jesse Perez, Geotrace Technologies Inc. |
• Mid-Cap Private Company |
Al Gallo, Redstone Hospitality |
Luke Saban, Falcon Gas Storage Co. Inc. |
Harvey Schnitzer, EMS Group LLC |
Dennis Turnipseed, Total Safety US Inc. |
Trenton Thornock, US Zinc Corp. |
• Large Private Company |
Carl Lenz, Texas Pipe & Supply Co. |
• Large Nonprofit |
Patrick Calelly, Collaborative for Children |
Denise Castillo-Rhodes, Texas Medical Center Corp. |
Patricia Chandler, Seven Acres Jewish Senior Care Services Inc. |
Ray Chung. Neighborhood Centers Inc. |
Melissa Fisher, Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center |
Beth Tanner, Houston Food Bank Inc. |
• Best Growth Manager |
James Kauderer Jr., OTC Global Holdings LP |
Margaret “Meg” Lassarat, Mustang Engineering Inc. |
• Good Samaritan |
Patricia Chandler, Seven Acres Jewish Senior Care Services Inc. |
Margaret “Meg” Lassarat, Mustang Engineering Inc. |
For more information or to purchase tickets go to www.celebrateenterprise.com. Tickets may also be purchased at the door.
Presenting sponsor of CelebrateEnterprise is Sterling Bank.
For media questions contact Lee Semmel, lasemmel@bizjournals.com
For event questions call: 281-615-6380
Contacts:
CelebrateEnterprise
Lee Semmel, 281-615-6380
lasemmel@bizjournals.com