Board Members

SABRINA BROWN has over 20 years’ worth of hands-on experience in Texas government and politics. She offers valuable strategic counsel to a broad spectrum of clients. Brown’s extensive expertise in the state’s legislative, regulatory, public affairs and appropriations arenas, combined with her strong bipartisan relationships, provides businesses and organizations with vital political and governmental guidance. She has consistently been recognized by Capitol Inside as one of the top lobbyists in Texas. Prior to opening her own practice, Brown was a lobbyist for an Austin-based law firm, and previously spent a half-dozen years at the Capitol, working for the Texas House of Representatives. Brown currently serves on the boards of Dell Children’s Medical Center Foundation, West Austin Youth Association, Beyond Batten Disease Foundation, the Seton Development Board and the Texas Conference for Women. Brown earned an M.A. in public affairs at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas and her bachelor’s degree at Texas A&M University.

BOBBI DANGERFIELD retired from Dell Technologies in February 2019 where she led the Global Business Operations organization at Dell. Her role was about making it the easiest company on the planet to do business with. She oversaw the Order to Cash process for the company as well as Global Channel Operations, and BI, Reporting and Analytics for Sales, Operations and Services. Bobbi had the privilege of leading a team of over 5000 highly engaged team members in over 70 countries who took care of Dell’s customers energetically and passionately every single day. Bobbi serves on the Board of the Texas Conference for Women , Susan G. Komen Greater Central Texas and as Board Chair of Dress for Success Austin.  Bobbi is also an active SCORE mentor, helping entrepreneurs start or grow their businesses.  She lives in Austin with her husband Elmer and has two adult children, Paige and Tyler.

JANE GASDASKA assumed the role of change management lead for Phillips 66’s business transformation in February of 2018. She had previously served as the general manager, US product supply and distribution, for Phillips 66 Commercial. During her more than twenty-year career in the oil industry, she has held various positions in supply and trading, fuels marketing, business development, and downstream strategy. She began her career in 1996 as a crude oil scheduler working for Mobil Oil Corporation in Fairfax, Virginia, and through a series of mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures, worked for Tosco Phillips Petroleum, ConocoPhillips, and now Phillips 66. Gasdaska attended the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, and graduated in 1988 with a degree in mathematics. She also earned an MA in systematic theology from the Graduate Theological Union, and an MBA from the Kenan Flagler School of Business at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Carol McGarah, CEO of Blackridge, a Texas government relations firm, has worked in the Texas political arena since 1991. Her extensive background, proven work ethic, and respected relationships, positions her as a valuable asset to companies, associations, individuals and public entities needing governmental and regulatory counsel.

McGarah is widely recognized as an expert in environmental policy and law, stemming from her work as the Director of the powerful Senate Natural Resources Committee from 1991 – 2001. In this position, she gained valuable knowledge working on legislation involving air, water, waste, oil and gas, and agriculture, and was instrumental in the conception, development and passage of groundbreaking water and air-emission legislation. Ten years of Capitol experience provided her the expertise necessary to successfully maneuver the nuanced legislative and regulatory process.

Since starting her lobby career in 2001, McGarah has expanded her areas of expertise to include economic development, education, energy, finance, transportation, insurance, retail operations, municipal government, and real estate development. Often tapped to develop and lead strategic legislative and regulatory campaigns, McGarah brings a successful track record to her wide variety of clients.

As Rackspace’s Global Vice President and Channel Chief, Lisa Heritage McLin is responsible for the strategy and execution of growing partner relationships and propelling organizational revenue. Having been with Rackspace since 2002, she has mastered the development of high-velocity sales organizations through creating processes, methodologies and accountability for profit-generating programs and building relationships and strategies for the company’s partners and alliances. She is known for her visionary, strategy and execution combination that drives accelerated revenue growth in all transformations she leads.  She is a servant leader who also focuses on developing strong, winning teams and invests in mentoring and advancing the careers of those around her.

McLin serves on the Board of Directors for Texas Conference for Women, Board of Directors for Girls Inc. and as President of the Board for the Rackspace Foundation. She is also the Executive Chair for POWER, Professional Organization for Women Empowerment at Rackspace, the largest employee resource group at Rackspace. Lisa has been recognized as one of the 50 Most Influential Channel Chiefs of 2018, 2019 and 2020, honored as CRN 2018, 2019 and 2020 Women in the Channel and was awarded Channel Partners Circle of Excellence for her executive vision, innovation and advocacy of the indirect channel. LATINA Style announced Lisa as  2018 Top 12 Corporate LATINA Executives of the Year.  Lisa also won a Gold Stevie for Woman of the Year in the Business Services Industries in 2019.

McLin holds a BBA in Accounting & Business Management from University of Texas in San Antonio University and an Executive Business Administration and Management degree from University of Texas in Austin. Lisa lives in San Antonio with her husband, Matt and their two sons.  For fun she likes playing golf, fitness, reading and spending time with her family.