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Fall 2014 : United to End Cancer

United to end cancer

15 business and community leaders join MD Anderson's advisory board

BY Miriam Spradling

The MD Anderson Cancer Center Board of Visitors (BOV) welcomes a new slate of officers and 15 new members:

Nita Ambani, Mumbai, India: businesswoman, philanthropist and president of H.N. Hospital and Research Centre
David Beck, Houston: founding partner of Beck Redden LLP, named as one of the top 10 trial lawyers by the National Law Journal
I. Jon Brumley, Ft. Worth: private investor, 45-year veteran of the oil and gas industry and owner of Bounty Investments LLC
Ted Collins Jr., Midland: chairman and CEO of Patriot Resource Partners LLC, an independent oil and gas producer
William J. Doré Sr., Lake Charles, La.: CEO of Doré Energy Corporation, an oil and gas company; founder of Global Industries Ltd., an offshore oil and gas industry services provider; member of the Horatio Alger Board of Directors
Gregg H. Falgout, Houston: founder, chairman, CEO and president of Island Operating Company Inc.
Gilbert Garcia, Houston: managing partner of Garcia Hamilton & Associates, an institutional asset management company
Jimmy I. Gibbs, Spartanburg, S.C.: businessman, entrepreneur, philanthropist and founder of Gibbs International (textiles, energy, real estate, mining and demolition)
George Y. Gonzalez, Spring, Texas: partner in the energy, mergers and acquisitions and international practice groups in the Houston office of Haynes and Boone LLP; named one of Hispanic Business magazine’s Top 100 Influential Hispanics in the U.S.
Michael J. Medrano, Houston: president and CEO of Equivalent DATA, providing electronic delivery services to attorneys, investigators, corporations and legal professionals
Laura Murillo, Ph.D., Houston: president and CEO of the Houston Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
Reynaldo Reza, Houston: vice president, portfolio manager at Fayez Sarofim & Co., responsible for pharmaceuticals industry research, a sector leader for the health care industry
Alexander Rovt, Ph.D., New York: businessman, real estate investor, president of IBE Trade Corporation (agricultural fertilizer production, sales and marketing)
Joseph Tortorice Jr., Beaumont: retired Air Force officer and founder, president and CEO Deli Management Inc., parent company of Jason’s Deli
Mark White Jr., Houston: Governor of Texas from 1983 to 1987, a business executive, attorney and chairman of Geovox Security Inc.

Mel Klein.

Joining incoming chair Mel Klein as BOV officers for Fiscal Year 2015 (Sept. 1, 2014 - Aug. 31, 2015) are:

Chair-Elect — James J. Mulva, Austin

Vice Chair — Nancy Loeffler, San Antonio

Immediate Past Chair — Harry J. Longwell, Dallas

MD Anderson President — Ron DePinho, M.D.

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