Today, you may know Kathleen LaValle as the CEO of Dallas CASA. This July marks her ten-year anniversary, but her path here was not a straight one. “Prior to becoming the CEO, I was a practicing attorney,” said LaValle. “I focused on commercial litigation and regulatory disputes, primarily in the telecommunications and electric power sectors. […]
Elizabeth Barnhill is currently a manager for Pricing & Margins at Options Clearing Corporation (OCC). The OCC is the only clearing house for all U.S. equity option trades, managing risk for those involved in options trading by being the buyer to every seller and the seller to every buyer. Originally from Lubbock, Barnhill earned her […]
Today, Rachel V. Smith is the global head of enterprise data governance at McKesson — a pretty big leap from where her interest in technology started. “One of my first tech experiences was with a second-hand Macintosh computer. It was glitchy at best,” she said. But at 10 years old, it was good enough to convince […]
As a business manager, woodworker, wife, mother, and board member of Autism Speaks, Brenda Premenko came to North Texas over ten years ago, rising in her career as the Vice President and Construction Executive at Turner Construction Company and contemplating a family with her new husband. “I made a few stops before we landed here,” […]
Maruchy Cantu is Executive Vice President of Administration, DE&I at DFW International Airport. Under that umbrella sits human resources, supplier diversity and development, risk management, communications and marketing, government relations, and community engagement. “The airport is a key piece of our region’s success, and we take our role in supporting the region’s growth very seriously,” […]
