Ken Fisher

Ken Fisher is Chairman of the HGA board of directors. He is executive vice president and chief financial officer of ChampionX (NASDAQ: CHX) and has more than 35 years of financial and operational leadership experience. He served as CFO for Noble Energy from 2009 until 2020, when the company was acquired by Chevron. Ken also served as chair of the board of Noble Midstream Partners (NASDAQ: NBLX) from 2016 to 2020. Before joining Noble Energy, Ken held senior leadership roles at Shell and General Electric Company.

Mark Jacobs

Mark Jacobs is Vice Chairman of the HGA board of directors and Board and President of Houston Capital Corporation. Mark’s deep commercial lending and corporate finance background includes Bank of America and GE in Chicago. Mark led GEs Commercial Lending Group Southwest, based in Dallas. Most recently, Mark was Market President of Regions Bank in Houston. Mark is very involved in the Houston Community with the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo and The Houston Grand Opera. He also serves on the board of the Montrose Center, Greater Houston Port Bureau, Houston Area Urban League, and The Complete Communities Advisory Board. He is originally from Fort Worth, Texas and holds a BBA from the University of Texas at Arlington and a MBA from Butler University.

Patricia Booker

Pat Booker is Philanthropy Chair of the HGA board of directors. She holds a B.A. with honors and an M.A from St. Joseph College. After graduation, Pat worked in multiple capacities with students with developmental delays. She served as the Lead Educational Diagnostician for Conroe Independent School District for over 20 years where she executed comprehensive evaluations for students who were struggling academically. As Lead Diagnostician, she trained other diagnosticians in compliance issues. Pat was a member of the Parent Forum at The John Cooper School and an officer in the National Charity League. Additionally, she participated on various committees at The Club at Carlton Woods. Presently, she is a Trustee for First Tee and board member for the Booker Family Foundation where she researches and recommends worthy charitable organizations for the Foundation to support. She is also a member of the River Oaks Women’s Association. Pat is one of a select group in the Ezekiel Cullen Society at the University of Houston and is a member of the Founder’s Circle at Saint Joseph College. She and her husband, Mike Booker, have been past Honorary Chairs as well as past Honorees of the Annual Luncheon for First Tee – Greater Houston.

Rob Chisholm

Rob Chisholm was Managing Director, Public Securities on the Energy Infrastructure Equities team for Brookfield Asset Management from October 2018 until February 2022. Prior to joining Brookfield in 2018, Mr. Chisholm was a Principal and Senior Portfolio Manager in Center Coast Capital Advisors L.P. since its inception in 2007. Prior to forming Center Coast in 2007, Rob worked in the Energy Investment Banking Division of Morgan Keegan and was Senior Project Analyst at Enbridge Energy Partners, LP where he analyzed midstream MLP mergers and asset acquisitions. He also worked at Koch Industries in the Capital Markets, Hydrocarbon and Midstream Groups. Rob and his wife, Jessica, chaired the Annual First Tee Luncheon in 2021 & 2022 and have been longtime supporters of the HGA Scholarship Fund. Rob earned his MBA from The University of Texas at Austin and has a BBA from Texas Christian University.

Ashton Radvansky

Ashton Radvansky is currently an Investment Banking Associate at Jefferies LLC, focused on Midstream Energy M&A. A native of Houston, TX, he first became involved with the Houston Golf Association as a junior golfer when he was 12 years old and was awarded ‘Player of the Year’ during the 2014 season. Ashton started with First Tee when he was 6 years old and completed the program in full, through ACE-level certification. He was selected as the keynote speaker during First Tee’s 2020 luncheon at River Oaks Country Club. Ashton attended Strake Jesuit College Preparatory for high school and Bucknell University for college, where he was a four-year varsity golf letterman at each institution. At Bucknell, Ashton graduated Magna Cum Laude, with a BSBA in Finance, while achieving both Dean’s List and Patriot League Student-Athlete Academic Honor Roll each semester. Ashton was Co-Chairman of the Freeman College of Management Advisory Board and was the Men’s Golf Team Representative for the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. Before joining Jefferies LLC, Ashton began his career at TD Securities as an Investment Banking Analyst.Anna Peikert

Ann Peikert

Anna Peikert joined the HGA board in 2023 and serves on the Philanthropy Committee. She is a business owner, entrepreneur, and philanthropist who began her career in consulting working with global technology and management consulting firms. Her current business, Crossbell Ventures, aspires to make investments and develop partnerships that are both meaningful and positively impact our community, and is primarily focused on real estate developments in both the commercial and residential real estate markets. Anna is a seventh-generation Texan originally from south of San Antonio and holds a B.S. from Texas State University.James Casey

Brian Conner

Brian Conner joined the HGA board in 2023 and is currently a Managing Director with Jefferies LLC in the Energy Investment Banking Group where he serves as Co-Head of Midstream Investment Banking. He has over 20 years of investment banking experience and has executed over 100 transactions involving aggregate consideration in excess of $250 billion. He holds B.S. in Business with an Accounting Concentration from Virginia Tech and an M.B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

James Casey

James F. Casey joined the Board of the HGA in 2023. He is currently a Vice President within Morgan Stanley’s Investment Banking Division, where he is responsible for sourcing and executing capital markets and M&A transactions across the traditional and low-carbon energies landscape. He has 15 years of finance and accounting experience, having previously he held roles various energy finance positions at Credit Suisse, Hess, and Deloitte. He is originally from Birmingham, Alabama and holds a BA in Accounting from Auburn University and an MBA from Rice University.

Raleigh Wolfe

Raleigh Wolfe joined the HGA board in 2023 and is currently a Counsel at Vinson & Elkins, LLP, where he advises clients on corporate transactions, including capital markets, securities laws, mergers and acquisitions, private equity and general corporate matters. He is originally from New Orleans, Louisiana and holds a B.S. in Financial Management from Clemson University and a J.D. and an M.B.A. from Louisiana State University.]Christina Stritzinger

Christina Stritzinger

Christina Stritzinger is a director in management consulting at KPMG, LLP. She works with financial services clients to enhance business processes / ways of working, products, and technology to deliver business transformation. She is a University of South Carolina alumna, where she studied finance and public relations. Christina is a lifelong golfer and has volunteered as a coach with the First Tee (Charlotte and Greater Houston chapters) for more than 10 years. Christina is excited to help the HGA sustain and expand its positive impact on kids all across the Houston area as future “game changers” who will move the world.

Mark Miller

Mark W. Miller is currently a Partner with Locke Lord LLP where his law practice focuses on business transactional matters, with special emphasis on energy and real estate related projects and contracts. He is also co-chair of the firm’s Construction Practice Group. He has practiced law and been an HGA member for over 30 years. Mark is a Michigan native and adopted Texan having moved to Houston in 1971. Mark attended Rice University, earning a BA in Geology in 1985. Mark was a four-year letterman on the Rice tennis team and was co-captain his senior year. He received his law degree, with honors, in 1991 from the University of Texas School of Law. Mark is a former President of Westwood Golf Club. Mark and his wife Jennifer have two teenage daughters.

Andy Bynam

Anderson (“Andy”) Bynam is a Managing Director in the Public Finance Group at Mesirow Financial. Andy heads Mesirow’s Houston office and he focuses on servicing the firm’s clients in the State of Texas and other states across the South, the West, and the Mid-Atlantic. Andy has over 35 years of municipal finance experience. During his career, he has served as lead banker on financings totaling over $100 billion for governmental entities in Texas and other regions of the nation.

Andy began his public finance career in 1989 as a bond lawyer with the Public Law Section at Fulbright and Jaworski in Houston. He moved to the banking side of public finance in 1992 when he joined Grigsby Brandford & Co. He has also worked in senior banking roles for Siebert Brandford Shank and Citi before joining Mesirow in 2012.

Andy has also been involved in a variety of civic and charitable activities for the last three decades. He currently serves on the boards for non-profits including Every Texan, Texas Water Trade, and Jazz Houston, Inc. He is an active member of the Princeton Alumni Schools Committee for the Houston area. He has previously served on the boards for the Houston Area Urban League, the Municipal Advisory Council, the Midtown Management District, the Greater Houston Area Red Cross, and the Community Artists Collective.

Andy is an avid golfer and he also plays tennis and enjoys traveling with his wife and daughter. Andy earned a BA from Princeton University and a JD from Northwestern University School of Law.