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Mission Statement
The Texas Business Leadership Council (formerly the Governor’s Business Council) was created in 1994 as a non-partisan 501(c)(6) nonprofit corporation that provides public policy research and recommendations to our state’s elected leadership.
As Texas’ only statewide CEO based public policy research organization, the Texas Business Leadership Council is in a unique position to provide the state’s senior executives with a united voice in the legislative and regulatory process.
There are approximately 100 members of the Texas Business Leadership Council at any one time. To qualify for membership, a person must be the Chief Executive Officer, President, Managing Director of the Board of Directors, or the top executive in the state for his or her employer. Membership is comprised of leaders of small, medium and large corporations. The Executive Committee of the Texas Business Leadership Council is responsible for membership criteria.
Executive Bios
Woody Hunt Woody L. Hunt is chairman and chief executive officer of Hunt Companies, Inc., and its affiliated companies. Hunt Companies is a diversified investment, real estate development, design-build, construction, asset, and property management holding company headquartered in El Paso, Texas. It has branch offices in Honolulu, Hawaii; Albuquerque, New Mexico; and Washington, D. C. Mr. Hunt also serves as chairman of the Hunt Family Foundation that he and his wife, Gayle, established in 1987. Mr. Hunt graduated with honors from The University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor’s degree in Finance, and subsequently received his MBA in Finance from UT. He also earned an MA in Management from the Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. Mr. Hunt is past president and current board member of the Medical Center of the Americas Foundation in El Paso; member of the Board of Visitors of the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center-Houston; founding member of the Paso del Norte Group in El Paso where he now serves on the Executive Committee; member of the Development Board at The University of Texas at El Paso; member of the Development Board for the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center at El Paso; and member of the National Board of the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE). Mr. Hunt previously was the vice chairman of The University of Texas System Board of Regents; served seven years, three as chairman of the Board of Directors of The University of Texas Investment Management Company (UTIMCO); was chairman of the Texas Select Commission on Higher Education and Global Competitiveness; was a member of the Commission for College Ready Texas and the Texas Tax Reform Commission; and was chairman of the Paso del Norte Health Foundation. He was a member of the Board of Directors and chairman of the Finance Committee of PNM Resources in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Mr. Hunt is married to the former Gayle Greve and they are the parents of five children and eight grandchildren.
Justin Yancy
Justin Yancy joined the Texas Business Leadership Council (formerly the
Governor’s Business Council) as its Executive Director in July 2001. As
Executive Director, Justin manages the day-to-day operations of the Texas
Business Leadership Council, a 501(c)(6) non profit organization that
provides public policy research and recommendations to our state’s elected
leadership.
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