R. Bruce LaBoon

Sterling Bancshares, Inc. provides commercial banking services. It provides services to small and mid-sized businesses. Its activities are carried out through two segments including Commercial Banking and Mortgage Banking. The Commercial Banking segment provides retail and commercial banking services including demand, savings and time deposits. The segment provides commercial, real estate and consumer loans, merchant credit card services, letters of credit, cash and asset management services. The Mortgage Banking segment originates, sells and services single family residential mortgages. In addition, the Bank facilitates sales of mutual fund and insurance products.

The American National Red Cross provides blood collections and disaster relief services. The firm provides neutral humanitarian care to the victims of war, emergency assistance, disaster relief and education. It offers compensate services such as support and comfort for military members and their families, the collection, processing and distribution of blood products, educational programs that promote health and safety, and international relief and development programs. The company was founded by Clarissa Harlowe Barton in 1881 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Locke Liddell & Sapp LLP provides legal services. It is a law firm with a range of clients and a national presence. The law firm represents and protects the interests in entrepreneurial companies and individuals. The company has offices in Austin, Dallas, Houston, New Orleans and Washington, DC. It has approximately 400 lawyers who represent a range of businesses and individual clients having extensive domestic and foreign business interests. The company is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

Texas Children's Hospital provides health care services. Its offers include audiology , dental, dermatology, critical care, nephrology, electrodiagnosis, heart transplant, and kidney transplant. The company was founded in 1950 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Greater Houston Partnership operates as a place for community-minded business leaders who want to be involved in Houston''s positive growth and influence the direction. The company was founded in 1840 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Texas Heart Institute provides an avenue for exchange of ideas relating to the clinical and research activities. It provide an avenue for exchange of ideas relating to the clinical and research activities among the present and former Cardiology fellows, trainees, and teaching staff of the Texas Heart Institute. The company was founded by Denton A. Cooley in 1989 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

The Texas Medical Center provides healthcare services. The company was founded in 1900 and is headquartered in Huston, TX.