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 leads global business services, a cross-functional organization focused on end-to-end sales enablement, order management, customer order support and business intelligence. Her role is about making Dell EMC the easiest company to do business with in the world for customers, partners and team members. Dangerfield led the IT integration office as part of the Dell and EMC Integration team, responsible for ensuring the IT backbone of the two organizations came together seamlessly as the companies’ combined to become the biggest end-to-end technology solutions provider.  She joined Dell in August 1999, and has held executive positions in IT, consumer customer care call center operations, customer experience, and centricity. She was the GM, Dell El Salvador and managing director, Dell Global Business Center in Cyberjaya, Malaysia. Prior to joining Dell, Dangerfield held positions at Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway, and IBM. She earned her BBA in business computer information systems from Dallas Baptist University, and her MBA from Southern Methodist University. Dangerfield serves as North America co-chair of the Dell Women in Action employee resource group, which focuses on enabling women to grow and thrive through networking, leadership and expertise. She previously initiated chapters in Malaysia and El Salvador. She also serves as the executive sponsor for the Austin chapter of Dell Women’s Entrepreneur Network, and is on the board of directors for Dress for Success Austin, the Texas Conference for Women, and the Susan G. Komen Austin Affiliate.

Tamara Fields currently serves as the Client Account Lead (CAL) for State of Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts (TX CPA) and the Accenture Program Manager for the Centralized Accounting and Payroll/Personnel System (CAPPS) Program for the State of Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts (TX CPA). Ms. Fields also serves as the Health and Public Service High Performance Enterprise Lead (HPE) for the Southwest (SW) Region. Ms. Fields has worked for Accenture for the past 20 years supporting primarily large, complex federal financials and procurement ERP implementations. In the SW HPE role, Ms. Fields is responsible for facilitating sales and industry expertise for COTS / ERP systems, IT strategy, and backend systems. Ms. Fields, as the TX CPA CAPPS PM for Accenture, is supporting under the direction and leadership of the TX CPA, a multi-year effort to expand the CAPPS Finance and HR systems to 100+ Texas stage agencies over the next four years. She is currently managing the Operations and Support of the HR and Finance PeopleSoft applications for existing state agencies already deployed. Ms. Fields previously worked in Accenture Federal Services supporting Department of Defense Services account in the Defense portfolio in various capacities for the last decade prior to her state work. She supported the Defense Organization Financial Systems ACAT 1 Program as the Deputy Program Manager facilitating a successful roll out of one of the largest ERP SAP Financial transformations in the world which supported 52,000 users across 200 locations in 71 countries achieving full operational capability in July 2012. Ms. Fields also serves as the Diversity and Inclusion Lead for the Austin Accenture Office supporting the various Employee Resource Groups. Ms. Fields is focused on expanding diversity and inclusion within her company and community. She has facilitated several trainings and supported many speaking engagements that advance women and diversity in Information Technology. Ms. Fields is active in her community and has started new initiatives in her local church for disadvantage youth and single mothers. Ms. Fields serves on the Board of Directors for Paul Quinn University in Dallas, Texas in which she serves on several committees including the Executive and Finance committees.

In February of 2018, Jane Gasdaska assumed the role of Change Management Lead for Phillips 66’s business transformation. She had previously served as the General Manager, U.S. Product Supply and Distribution, for Phillips 66 Commercial.

During her 20+ year career in the Oil industry, she has held various positions in Supply & 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.

Jane attended the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts and graduated in 1988 with a degree in Mathematics. She also holds 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.

LISA HERITAGE McLIN is vice president, channel sales, and channel chief with Rackspace. In this role, she is responsible for the strategy and execution of growing partner relationships and propelling organizational revenue. Having been with Rackspace since 2002, McLin 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. McLin serves on the board of directors for Texas Conference for Women and on 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. McLin has been recognized as one of the 50 Most Influential Channel Chiefs of 2018, honored as CRN 2018 Women in the Channel, and was awarded Channel Partners Circle of Excellence for her executive vision, innovation, and advocacy of the indirect channel. McLin earned a BBA in accounting and business management from The University of Texas at San Antonio, and an executive business administration and management degree from The University of Texas at Austin.