Board of Directors

Chairman – Stephen Barth – CEO at Coastal Caverns 

Vice-Chairman – Lou Allen, MBA – Independent Financial Advisor

Secretary -  Jennifer Waldner, MA
 – Corporate Communications at American General Treasurer

Alexander Obregon – Special Projects Coordinator at City of Houston Controller’s Office 

  • Nora Blum – Alternative Energy Consultant and Project Manager
  • Charlene Buford, MBA
 – Accounting Manager at Halliburton
  • Jack Darden – Financial Advisor at Veritrust
  • Michael Dacey – President Community Banking Wells Fargo
  • Bob Dyer – Director of Operations Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church
  • Jessica Neikirk – Vice-President at IBC Bank
  • Rosana Schoonmaker – Sales Executive at Xerox Secretary
  • Paul Turner – Co-Partenr in Charge Sutherland
  • Amy Vandaveer – Professor of Marketing University of Houston Bauer College of Business

Lorraine Decker, CLU, ChFC, MSFS – President


Advisory Board

  • Christopher Barbic – YES Prep Founder
  • Albert Cheng – Deputy Regional Director for Senator Hutchison and former member of S4L Board
  • Kim Fontenot – Financial Advisor, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Houston, TX
  • Holly Luong Ham, MBA – Sales Support Executive at HP Enterprise Services & former  Chairman of S4L Board
  • Stephen L. Klineberg, PhD
 – Professor, Department of Sociology at Rice University
  • Nancy Sims
 – Senior VP at Pierpont Communications & Professor at University of Houston
  • Tiffany Thomas
 – Executive Director of Linda Lorrel Scholarships
  • Mark Vencil, MBA – former member of S4L Board

Professional Advisors

  • John Caldwell – Attorney
 at Woodcock, Washburn, Kurtz, & MacKiewsicz
  • Kenneth L. Decker, CPA-PFS, CFP – CEO at Decker Consulting & Skills for Living Co-Founder
  • Chini Streitwieser, CPA
 – Independent Accountant
  • Jeff Stys – President at Strategic Decision Associates
  • Michael Till, CPA – Partner at Mohle Adams LLP