WELCOME WILSON NEW CHAIRMAN OF UH SYSTEM
BOARD OF REGENTS
Calvin W. Stephens Will Serve as Vice Chairman, Jim P. Wise as Secretary
HOUSTON, August 16, 2007– Welcome W. Wilson Sr., noted real
estate developer, community leader and University of Houston alumnus,
has been elected chairman of the University of Houston System Board
of Regents for the fiscal year 2008, which begins Sept. 1, 2007.
He replaces Leroy Hermes, who served two terms as chairman.
The board also elected Calvin W. Stephens to serve as vice chairman
and Jim P. Wise as secretary.
The nine-member board is the governing body of the University of
Houston System, which includes the University of Houston, UH-Clear
Lake, UH-Downtown, UH-Victoria and teaching centers in Sugar Land
and Cinco Ranch.
The new officers were elected by the board at a meeting Thursday
that also saw the approval of the FY08 budget, which totals $1.12
billion. (See separate release.)
Wilson was appointed to the board in 2006 by Gov. Rick Perry and
will serve through 2011.
He is chairman and CEO of GSL Industrial Holdings, L.P., a group
of companies that own and lease single-tenant industrial facilities
in Texas. GSL Industrial also constructs build-to-suit and design/build
projects. Wilson is also chairman of the board of River Oaks Financial
Group, Inc., a mortgage banker.
Since 1955, he has been a real estate developer of subdivisions,
apartment complexes, shopping centers, industrial facilities and
office buildings. During the 1960s and 1970s, he was chairman of
the board at three Texas banks. He served in the Eisenhower and
Kennedy administrations as a five-state Director of Civil and Defense
Mobilization, which included responsibility for what is now known
as FEMA.
He graduated from UH in 1949 with a bachelor’s degree in business
administration, and is a former vice president of the Houston Alumni
Organization. He received the UH Distinguished Alumnus Award in
1970 and the C.T. Bauer College of Business Distinguished Alumnus
Award in 1996. He has long been actively involved with the M. D.
Anderson Library.
He is a current or past board member of numerous professional and
civic organizations, among them the Houston Convention and Tourist
Bureau, the March of Dimes and the Texas Chapter of the American
Judicature Society. He is married to Joanne Guest Wilson, an alumna
of UH.
Stephens was appointed to the board in 2004 and will serve through
2009.
He is chairman and president of SSP Consulting, L.C., a firm that
provides surety support for public sector entities. He is also Chairman
and Chief Executive Officer of National Corporate Network. Stephens
serves on the advisory board of the University of North Texas College
of Business Administration and the associate board of the Southern
Methodist University Cox School of Business. Stephens is a board
member of the Cotton Bowl Athletic Association, the YMCA of Metropolitan
Dallas and a former chairman of the Southern Dallas Development
Corporation. He is chairman of the African American Leadership Council
and member of the Chief Executives Round Table.
He is a UH alumnus, having received his bachelor’s degree
in marketing in 1972. He holds a master’s of business administration
from Southern Methodist University. Stephens is chairman of the
board of trustees of Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church of Dallas where
he also serves as an ordained Deacon.
Wise was appointed to the board in 2006 and will serve through 2011.
He is a Managing Member of Haddington Energy Partners III, a private
equity fund that provides capital to midstream natural gas companies
with a focus on natural gas storage, gathering and processing, and
other midstream natural gas activities. He has almost 40 years of
operational and financial experience with several public companies,
among them Integrated Electrical Systems, of which he was vice chairman
of the board, CEO, and co-founder. He also held senior executive
posts with Transco Energy Company and Houston Natural Gas Company.
A native Houstonian and fourth generation Texan, Wise graduated
from the UH’s C.T. Bauer College of Business in 1966 with
a BBA degree with a major in accounting. He is a member of the college’s
Dean’s Executive Advisory Board, and was named Distinguished
Alumnus in 2001.
He is a member of many civic and professional organizations, among
them Life Member of the Houston Metropolitan Area Advisory Board
and member of the National Advisory Board of the Salvation Army,
and serves on the board of several corporations.
ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM
The University of Houston System is the state’s only metropolitan
higher education system, encompassing four universities and two
multi-institution teaching centers. The universities are the University
of Houston, a nationally recognized doctoral degree-granting, comprehensive
research university; the University of Houston-Downtown, a four-year
undergraduate university beginning limited expansion into graduate
programs; and the University of Houston-Clear Lake and the University
of Houston-Victoria, both upper division and master’s-level
institutions. The centers are the UH System at Sugar Land and the
UH System at Cinco Ranch. In addition, the UH System includes KUHF-FM,
Houston’s National Public Radio and classical radio station,
and KUHT-TV, the nation’s first educational television station.
For more information about UH visit the university’s ‘Newsroom’ at www.uh.edu/admin/media/newsroom.
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