David A. Bristol, Jr.
Mr. Bristol is Vice Chairman and Principal at Sentinel Trust Company.
D. Fort Flowers, Jr., CFA
Mr. Flowers is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Sentinel Trust Company.
Richard W. Flowers, JD
Mr. Flowers is the former Vice President of Difco, Inc. He is a lawyer as well as a professional engineer and earned his MBA from Vanderbilt University. Mr. Flowers served in the United States Marine Corps Reserve for 12 years and is the former president of many not-for-profit organizations.
Richard R. Cruse, JD
Mr. Cruse is a retired shareholder in the law firm of Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Martin. He is board certified in estate planning and probate law and in tax law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. He is also a fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. Mr. Cruse is a former Trustee of the Houston Bar Foundation.
Manuel J. Mehos, CPA
Mr. Mehos is a private investor, a CPA, and the current Chairman of Green Bank of Houston (chartered in 2005). He is the founder and former Chairman and CEO of Coastal Banc, a Houston-based bank that was sold to Hibernia Corporation in 2004. He served as Chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas and worked at Goldman Sachs from 1980 to 1985. In addition to serving on other private and not-for-profit boards, Mr. Mehos was appointed by Governor George W. Bush to the Finance Commission of Texas in 1996, where he served until 2002. He has undergraduate and graduate business degrees from The University of Texas at Austin.
Stephanie Donaho, JD
Ms. Donaho is a partner at the law firm of Locke Lord LLP, and a former Co-Chair of its Board of Directors. She has extensive experience in estate planning, probate, trust and estate law, transfer taxation, philanthropic plans, and asset protection. She currently serves as a member of several not-for-profit boards, including Nature Conservancy of Texas and Goodwill Industries of Houston. Ms. Donaho has been named as one of the top 50 women attorneys in Texas and as one of the top 100 lawyers in Houston in Texas Monthly’s “Super Lawyer” edition for a number of years.
Elisabeth Prast
Mrs. Prast has been President of The Fruehauf Foundation since 2013. She previously served as a member of the Board of Trustees of Trinity Preparatory School in Winter Park, Florida. Mrs. Prast earned her MBA in Finance from Rollins College, Crummer Graduate School of Business.
Walter J. Muller III, PhD
Mr. Muller retired in 2017 from Bank of America as its Chief Investment Officer for the Corporate Investments Group, where he worked under the direction of the board’s committees on asset/liability management and market risk. His prior roles at Bank of America included serving as the bank’s Quantitative Finance Executive and supporting the Corporate Treasury and Risk Management groups. He received his bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and master’s degree in Economics from University of Georgia, and earned a PhD in Applied Economics from the Sloan School of Management at MIT. Mr. Muller is a former member of the US Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee.
Harvey C. Fruehauf, Jr., Director Emeritus
Mr. Fruehauf has managed private investment portfolios for over 35 years. Those portfolios include holdings in public and private corporations, real estate, mineral interests, and venture capital. He has served on numerous for-profit boards, including as a director of a Fortune 100 company for more than 30 years. He has also been active as a member of many not-for-profit boards.
J. Thomas Eubank, JD, Director Emeritus
Mr. Eubank is Senior Counsel at the law firm of Baker Botts LLP and a former member of its management committee. He specializes in estate and business planning and taxation. He is a former President of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and of its Foundation. Mr. Eubank also is a former governor of Rice University.