Board Members

In February 2021, Carla Piñeyro Sublett joined IBM as Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer.

Carla is responsible for overseeing all global marketing, brand initiatives, and client feedback across IBM through NPS for the company. Accountable for demand generation, her team includes marketing professionals located in dozens of countries worldwide.

Carla brings to IBM more than 20 years of experience leading global marketing and sales organizations with a passion for business strategy, customer-centric digital marketing, and social impact as IBM accelerates its transformation to an open hybrid cloud platform and AI company.

Prior to joining IBM, Carla served as the Executive Vice President, CMO, and General Manager of the Portfolio Business unit of National Instruments (NI). Previously, Carla was the CMO of Rackspace and spent 16 years at Dell, where she worked across every sales function and geography, including serving as the CMO of Latin America.

Carla is a recognized leader in building a better society by the Aspen Institute and a member of its Henry Crown Fellowship class of 2016. In 2017, she was named a Women to Watch by Inc. Magazine. As an immigrant from Uruguay, Carla is a champion for diversity and inclusion and was awarded “Top 50 Influential Hispanic” by Hispanic Business Magazine. She is the president of the board of the Texas Conference for Women and sits on the board of the Association of National Advertisers (ANA).

Carla is an alumna from the University of Texas at Austin, School of Architecture.

TAMARA FIELDS, Office Managing Director for Accenture in Austin, is responsible for bringing innovation to clients, recruiting and retaining top talent and strengthening Accenture’s impact in the Austin community. As a business veteran with more than two decades of cross-industry, multilateral project management experience, Tamara helps better serve clients with creative, strategic, and transformative solutions.

In addition, she is also the Director of Operations for Accenture’s U.S. South Market Unit, responsible for executing the business strategy to drive growth and efficiency, and engaging and developing high performing leaders across the 13-state region.

Passionate about promoting an inclusive and diverse workplace, Tamara serves as the U.S. co-lead for Accenture’s women’s employee resource group and the inclusion and diversity lead Accenture’s Austin office. In support of the company’s goal to achieve 50/50 gender balance by 2025, she advocates that Accenture’s rich diversity makes teams stronger—more creative, innovative and competitive—helping Accenture to better serve clients and communities.

An Austin native and University of Texas graduate, Tamara serves on the Red McCombs School of Business Advisory and is Accenture’s former executive recruiting sponsor for UT. She is a board member of the Texas Conference for Women and Paul Quinn College, a historically black college in Dallas. Tamara serves on Austin Chamber of Commerce’s Executive Committee as Vice Chair of State and Local Advocacy Tamara and is a recipient of the Austin Chamber of Commerce’s Greater Austin Business Award for Executive Leadership. She was named the Texas Exes Black Alumni Network’s 2019 Legacy Alumnus of the Year and is a winner of Austin Business Journal’s 2019 Profiles in Power and the Central Texas chapter of the Texas Diversity Council’s 2018 DiversityFIRST awards. She also serves as a coach and mentor in and outside of Accenture, helping people find their voice and preparing them for career advancement.

BOBBI DANGERFIELD retired from Dell Technologies in February 2019 as SVP Global Business Operations. 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 as an Advisor to MeBeBot, a software startup in Austin, is a revenue operations consultant and is engaged in angel investing. She also serves on the Board of the Texas Conference for Women, Susan G. Komen Greater Central Texas, Emeritus Board Chair of Dress for Success Austin and Travis Association for the Blind. 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.

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.

MYRNA ESTRADA is a Senior Vice President and Field Executive for Liberty Mutual Insurance. She manages the distribution of Liberty Mutual Commercial Lines products and Safeco Personal Lines products in a six-state footprint that includes Texas. She has the privilege of leading 67 sales professionals in Liberty’s largest region. She grew the footprint from approximately $400M in DWP to just over $2.5B today. The region partners with over 7000 independent agents in a six-state footprint and is based out of the amazing campus in Plano, Texas. As one of highest-ranking leaders in the Plano Campus, Myrna has spearhead campus-wide initiatives such as an annual Discovery Day. Employees can take a few hours to learn about other departments, explore growth and development opportunities and take ownership of their advancement and careers. She is involved in several ERG’s and is an ally to all 7 of them. She is the Executive Co-Sponsor of the Amigos ERG and is on the Council for Men as Allies. She just recently completed her 5th annual Women’s Conference. Myrna celebrated her 38th anniversary with Liberty Mutual/Safeco last December. She is married to Rudy Murillo and lives in North Texas. Estrada has 2 sons and 2 stepdaughters.

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.

Loretta Fellers is a global executive with extensive experience across sales, business and finance operations. She currently leads the Dell Technologies Customer Success organization within the Customer and Finance Support organization. The Customer Success team is a global organization that supports $18B in annual revenue and delivers ‘white glove’ integrated program management support across the Order to Cash cycle for our most complex and strategic customers.

Loretta has held a number of diverse sales and operations roles during her career. In addition to her current responsibilities leading the Customer Success team, Loretta plays an instrumental role in supporting Dell Technologies’ Employee Resource Groups (ERG’s). Loretta currently holds leadership roles within Dell Technologies chairing the Central Texas Chapter of Dell’s WIA (Women In Action) and Latino Connection Membership board ERG roles. She has a strong passion for diversity, collaboration and strong execution, and thrives on leading teams that enables success for Dell Technologies and the customers we serve.

Loretta is married to her husband Jim, has two sons, Andrew and Alexander, and resides in Austin, Texas. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management and a MBA from the University of Texas at Dallas.

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 serves as Rackspace’s Global Vice President and Channel Chief where she 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.