May 20, 2014
Scenes from Austin and Houston
I’m on the road: 13 days, 8 flights, 6 cities, 5 presentations, 219 slides, and 1 carry-on. So for today’s blog entry, I feature a few scenes from the Austin and Houston chapter meetings that I presented at.
June Anne Burke and Denise Glagau of Baker & McKenzie and Ken Lipscomb, the Austin Chapter president. June Anne and Denise co-presented with me on “The Hottest Topics in Stock Compensation Today” in Austin and then the three of us road-tripped to San Antonio to speak at the E*TRADE Directions conference. A big thank you to Ken for arranging the Austin chapter meeting to coincide with our travel schedule!
Gary Hamilton of My Equity Comp and Kimberly Steele of Apple. Gary is an officer of the Sacramento chapter and Kimberly is a board member of the Austin chapter and was previously president of the Phoenix chapter.
Gustavo Dalanhese of E*TRADE and a colleague. Gustavo is president of the NASPP’s new Salt Lake City chapter. The Austin meeting was a veritable who’s-who of NASPP chapter leadership!
Kevin Roberts of Morgan Stanley (and president of the Houston chapter), Erika Rivera of Morgan Stanley, and John Vander Voort of Morgan Stanley (and former president of the Houston chapter) pose with me for a picture. A big thank-you to Kevin for scheduling the meeting to accommodate my travel schedule and thanks to Erika for helping with the meeting setup. And thanks to John for the pre-meeting Starbucks!
Katrina Rene of Phillips 66, Dina Snow of Quanta Services, and Cheryl Bounds of Freeport-McMoRan Oil & Gas. If you haven’t noticed, there are a lot of oil and gas companies in Texas. After hopping around the state on a plane, I can also attest to the fact that Texas is a BIG state.
These lovely ladies told me they are the “Three D’s”: Doree Alacon-Sta Ana of CenterPoint Energy, Dinny Tan of INP, and Daphyne Clowers of CenterPoint Energy. Maybe they have a band on the side or maybe they just happened to sit at the same table and all have names that start with “D”? (I prefer the “band” theory.)
– Barbara