Brian O. Casey has served as Chief Executive Officer of Westwood since January 2006, as President, Secretary and director of Westwood since its inception in December 2001, and as Chief Operating Officer of Westwood from 2001 to 2005. Mr. Casey has served as Chief Executive Officer of Westwood Management since January 2006, as Secretary since 2003, as President since 2002, and as a director since 2000. Mr. Casey served as Chief Operating Officer of Westwood Management from 2000 to 2005, as Executive Vice President from 2000 to 2002, and as Vice President from 1992 to 1996. Mr. Casey has served as President and director of Westwood Trust since 1996. Since 2002, Mr. Casey has served on the Tartan Board of Directors, a group exclusively devoted to raising money for the Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children. Since 2006, he has been a member of the Governor's Business Council for the State of Texas. He was appointed in 2008 to the board of the Baylor Health Care System Foundation, which helps raise money to support Baylor Health Care System's mission of patient care, education, research and community service.
Susan M. Byrne
Chairman of the Board and Chief Investment Officer
Susan M. Byrne has served as Chief Investment Officer of Westwood since January 2006, and has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors and director of Westwood since its inception in December 2001, and as its Chief Executive Officer from December 2001 to December 2005. Ms. Byrne is the founder of Westwood Management and has served as its Chairman of the Board and Chief Investment Officer since 1983, as Chief Executive Officer from 1983 to 2005, and as President from 1983 to 2002. She served as a director of Westwood Trust from 1996 to 1999. Ms. Byrne serves as a member of the Board of Grace Presbyterian Ministries Foundation. She served as a member of the Board of the University of Texas Investment Management Company from 1996 to 2004 and as a member of the Board of Trustees for the City of Dallas Employees Retirement Fund from 1998 to 2003.
Tom C. Davis
Tom C. Davis has served as a director of Westwood since April 2004. He served as a director of Westwood Trust from March 2004 to December 2006. Since March 2001, he has served as Chief Executive Officer of The Concorde Group, a private investment firm, and serves on the Board of Directors of Dean Foods Company (NYSE), a dairy and branded foods business, and Affirmative Insurance Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ), an integrated, non-standard auto insurance business. He was the managing partner and head of banking and corporate finance for the Southwest division of Credit Suisse First Boston (formerly Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette) from March 1984 to February 2001.
Member of the Audit Committee
Member of the Nominating and Governance Committee
Richard M. Frank
Richard M. Frank has served as a director of Westwood and Westwood Trust since February 2006. Since December 2008, Mr. Frank has served as Executive Chairman of the Board of CEC Entertainment, Inc. ("CEC"), a Dallas-based NYSE company that operates a chain of pizza and children's entertainment restaurants. He has served as a Director of CEC since June 1985. He served as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of CEC from March 1986 to December 2008, and served as CEC's President and Chief Operating Officer from June 1985 until October 1988.
Member of the Audit Committee
Chair of the Compensation Committee
Member of the Nominating and Governance Committee
Robert D. McTeer
Robert D. McTeer has served as a director of Westwood and Westwood Trust since July 2007. Mr. McTeer has served as a Distinguished Fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) since January 2007. Prior to joining the NCPA, he was Chancellor of the Texas A&M University System from November 2004 through November 2006. Before that, he had a 36-year career with the Federal Reserve System, including 14 years as President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and member of the Federal Open Market Committee. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Guaranty Bank, headquartered in Austin, and Refocus Group, a medical device company in Dallas engaged in research and development of treatments for human vision disorders. He also serves on the Board of the University of Georgia's Terry College of Business. He is past president of the Association of Private Enterprise Education, a national association of free enterprise scholars, and a former board member of the National Council on Economic Education.
Member of the Audit Committee
Jon L. Mosle Jr.
Jon L. Mosle, Jr. has served as a director of Westwood since its inception in December 2001 and as a director of Westwood Trust since February 2006. He has served as director of SWS since 1991. He served as Director of Private Capital Management for Ameritrust Texas Corporation from 1984 to 1992. From 1954 to 1984, he was affiliated with Rotan Mosle, Inc., a regional NYSE member firm, which was acquired by PaineWebber Incorporated in 1983. His roles at Rotan Mosle, Inc. included supervisory responsibility for over-the-counter trading and municipal departments, as well as participating in corporate finance activities. He served as branch manager, regional manager, Vice Chairman of the Board and member of Rotan Mosle, Inc.'s operating committee.
Member of the Audit Committee
Chair of the Nominating and Governance Committee
Geoffrey R. Norman
Geoffrey R. Norman has served as a director of Westwood and Westwood Trust since April 2007. He has been an independent consultant to General Electric since 2004. He was employed by General Electric from 1968 to 2004, serving in various roles including comptroller of GE EspaƱola, chief financial officer of GE International Contractor Equipment, treasurer of GE Capital and executive vice president of GE Asset Management from April 1988 to March 2004. Mr. Norman currently serves on advisory boards for QD Technology, a software company; and buildOn, a not-for-profit entity that builds schools in underdeveloped countries and organizes after-school clubs in US high schools. Mr. Norman is also an advisor to Rock Maple Funds, a hedge fund of funds, and Synectic Asset Ventures, a private equity firm.
Member of the Audit Committee
Member of the Compensation Committee
Raymond E. Wooldridge
Raymond E. Wooldridge has served as a director of Westwood since its inception in December 2001. He has served as a director of Westwood Trust since 2000. He is a director of CEC Entertainment, Inc., a Dallas-based NYSE company that operates a chain of pizza and children's entertainment restaurants. He is Chairman of the Board of Reeves Bancshares, Inc., a one bank holding company whose principal subsidiary is Stockmans Bank, which serves southwestern Oklahoma. From 1986 to 1999, he was a director of SWS; from 1996 to 1999, he served as the Vice Chairman and Chairman of the Executive Committee of SWS; from 1993 to 1996, he served as Chief Executive Officer of SWS; and from 1986 to 1993, he served as President and Chief Operating Officer of SWS. He is a past Chairman of the National Securities Clearing Corporation, a national clearing agency registered with the SEC and past Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the National Association of Securities Dealers.
Chair of the Audit Committee
Member of the Compensation Committee
Member of the Nominating and Governance Committee