Board of Trustees

Our Team

About Houston A+ Challenge

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honoring Founding Board Member
Maconda Brown O'Connor
and Founding Board Chair
Andrea White

The Houston A+ Challenge Board of Trustees provides vision, leadership and guidance to the organization and its staff.

This dedicated team of volunteers also helps Houston A+ Challenge raise awareness of the need for community involvement and support of the Houston region's public schools.

Members of the A+ Board come from all walks of life -- they are business and nonprofit leaders, educators, philanthropists, community volunteers and parents.

Executive Committee

CHAIR
Bill Crouch
Continental Airlines, Inc.

PRESIDENT
Gasper Mir, III
MFR, P.C.

TREASURER
Thomas L. Elsenbrook
Alvarez & Marsal Buisness Consulting, LLC

SECRETARY
Yava D. Scott
Siebert Brandford Shank & Co., LLC

Founding Board Member

Maconda B. O’Connor, Ph.D.
The Brown Foundation

Board Members

Susan A. Bischoff
Houston Public Library Foundation

Jonathan Day
Andrews Kurth LLP

Bolivar Fraga
Neighborhood Centers, Inc.

Ann Friedman, Ph. D.
Community Volunteer

Roberto Gonzalez
Employment & Training Centers, Inc.

Shawn Gross
SAJG Investments, Inc.

Scott McClelland
H-E-B

Karol Musher, M.A., CCC-SLP
Texas Children’s Hospital

Mary Nesbitt
Parent Visionaries

Rod Paige, Ph.D.
Chartwell Education Group LLC

David Ruiz
Bank of America

J. Victor Samuels
Victory Packaging, Inc.

J. David Thompson, III
Thompson & Horton LLP

Bobby Tudor
Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co.

Andrea White
Community Volunteer

Advisory Board

Leonel Castillo
City Hall (Retired)

Michael Dee
Investment Banker

H. Devon Graham, Jr.
R. E. Smith Interests, Inc.

Jenard M. Gross
Gross Investments

Harry M. Reasoner
Vinson & Elkins, LLP

Rosie Zamora
Houston Wilderness, Inc.