The Frost Distinguished Lecture Series brings prominent business and community leaders to UTSA to share their knowledge and experiences with students and others in the university and business community. The lecture series, which began in 1988, presents a forum for business leaders and academics to share their experiences in business so that students can broaden their understanding of the business world and the individuals who lead it.
(Rodney Choice/Choice Photography/www.choicephotography.com)
Ramiro Cavazos
Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Business Building 2.01.02, Liu Auditorium
Ramiro A. Cavazos is President and Chief Executive Officer of the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (USHCC), America’s largest business advocacy organization for Hispanics. He is a trusted economic development expert and champion for bipartisan solutions that generate wealth to advance
economic opportunity for the Hispanic community. Prior to his role at the USHCC, Cavazos was the President and Chief Executive Officer of the San Antonio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, the nation’s first Hispanic Chamber of Commerce founded in 1929.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
2022
Carlos Alvarez, founder of the Gambrinus Company
Read Story
2020
Phillip Green, chairman and chief executive officer of Cullen/Frost Bankers
View Lecture
2017
Lorenzo Gomez, chairman of The 80/20 Foundation and Geekdom
Read Story
2016
Richard Peretz, '85, CFO at UPS
Harvey E. Najim, founder of the Najim Charitable Foundation and Sirius Company Solutions
2015
Kim Lubel, CST Brands, Inc.
Michael Garcia, '85, chief financial officer and senior vice president of acquisitions and development for the Omni Hotels & Resorts
2014
Patrick T. Mulva, MBA '75, Exxon Mobil Corporation
Red McCombs, McCombs
2013
Dick Evans, Frost
Gregory Goff, Tesoro
2012
Dr. Bernard T. Swift, Jr., Texas MedClinic
Jim Bodenstedt, '96, MUY Brands LLC
2011
Nancy Kudla, MBA '87, Kudla Foundation
Bill Morrow, '86, CSIdentity Corporation
2010
Kathleen Quiroz, Strasburger, Price, Oppenheimer, Blend, Attorneys at Law
Alfonso Tomita, MBA '01, President, Sushi Zushi
2009
Elaine Mendoza, President and chief executive officer, Conceptual Mindworks, Inc
Josue Robles, Jr., President & CEO, USAA
2008
Lanham Napier, President & CEO, Rackspace
Robert Estrada, Chairman of the Board, Estrada Hinojosa & Co., Inc.
Suzanne Wade, President of the SA Food/Drug Division, H-E-B
2007
General Al Zapanta, President & CEO, U.S.-Mexico Chamber of Commerce
2006
Lionel Sosa, CEO, Mexicans & Americans Thinking Together (MATT)
Dr. Ray Perryman, President & CEO, The Perryman Group
2005
Patricia Diaz-Dennis, Sr. VP / Assistant General Counsel, SBC Services, Inc.
Dr. James J. Heckman, Professor of Economics, University of Chicago
Lt. Gov. William P. Hobby, Former Lieutenant Governor of Texas
2004
Jeanie R. Wyatt, MBA '86, CEO, South Texas Money Management, Ltd.
James R. Adams, Retired Chairman of Board, Texas Instruments
2003
Charles L. Korbell, Jr., President & CEO, Clarke American Checks Inc.
Henry Muñoz, III, Chairman of Board & CEO, Kell Muñoz Architects Inc.
Dolph Briscoe, Former Governor of Texas
Art Laffer, Founder & Chairman/Economist, Laffer Associates
2002
Ernest Bromley, Chairman & CEO, Bromley Communications
Marty Wender, Owner, Charles Martin Wender Real Estate & Investments
David Oreck, Founder & Chairman, Oreck Corporation
2001
Navarra Williams, President, Time Warner Cable
Henry Cisneros, Chairman & CEO, American City Vista
Jamie Rochelle, General Manager & CEO, City Public Service
Lee Sutterfield, President & Chairman of the Board, SecureLogix Corporation
2000
Nelson W. Wolff, President, Sun Harvest Farms Partners, Ltd.
Don Peppers, Partner, Peppers and Rogers Group
1998
Gene Stallings, Former Head Football Coach
David Robinson, CEO & co-Founder, The David Robinson Foundation
Tino Duran, Owner and Publisher, La Prensa
1997
Balous T. Miller, President, Bill Biller Bar-B-Q Enterprises, Inc.
Debbi Fields, Founder and Former Chairman of Mrs. Fields Cookies
Drayton McLane, Jr., Chairman, McLane Group, L.P. and Owner of Houston Astros
B. J. "Red" McCombs, CEO, McCombs Enterprises
1996
Gen. Robert T. Herres, USAF (Ret.), Chairman & CEO, USAA
Kenneth Whipple, Former President-Ford Financial Services Group, Exec.V.P.-Ford Motor Co. & Chairman & CEO-Ford Motor Cr. Co.
1995
Ann McLaughlin, 17th United States Secretary of Labor
Richard L. Scott, Former President and CEO of Columbia/HCA Health Care
Edward E. Whitacre, Jr., Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, SBC Communications, Inc.
Walter B. Wriston, Former Chairman of Citicorp
1994
Horst Schulze, President & CEO, The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company
1993
Kenneth Whipple, President, Ford Financial Services Group
1992
Tom Benson, Chairman of the Board, Benson Automotive
1991
Roger Hemminghaus, President & CEO, Diamond Shamrock
Robert Mosbacher, U.S. Secretary of Commerce
Richard W. Evans, Jr., President, Frost National Bank
1990
Gordon E. Forward, President & CEO, Chaparral Steel
Herbert D. Kelleher, Chairman of the Board, President & CEO, Southwest Airlines
William Dr. Brock, Former U.S. Secretary of Labor
1989
George Becker, Jr., Former President, Sea World of Texas
Charles Butt, CEO, H.E.B. Grocery Company
John Connally, Former Governor of Texas
1988
Charles Martin Wender, Real Estate Financier
