Houston Endowment 2012 Annual Report

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Independent Members of the Investment Committee L . E . Si m m o n s graduated from the University of Utah, studied at the London

He is founder and president of SCF Partners and serves on the boards of directors of Zions Bancorporation, Ellison Ranching Company and United Airlines. He is on the board, and former chairman, of Texas Children’s Hospital; a trustee of Rice University and former chairman of the Council of Overseers for its Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business; and a trustee of the Texas Heart Institute and the Gordon and Mary Cain Pediatric Neurology Research Foundation. He also serves on the London School of Economics North American Advisory Council, on the advisory board of Scripps Cardiovascular Institute and as a director of the Methodist Hospital Research Institute. Mr. Simmons was formerly a member and chairman of Houston Endowment’s board of directors. B r u c e Zi m m e r m a n graduated from Duke University and Harvard

Business School. He is chief executive and chief investment officer of The University of Texas Investment Management Company (UTIMCO), the nation’s second-largest pool of university assets. Mr. Zimmerman began his career at Bain and Company then went on to serve in a variety of management roles at Texas Commerce Bank (now JPMorgan Chase). Before joining UTIMCO, he was global head and chief investment officer of pensions at Citigroup.

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School of Economics and received his master’s from Harvard Business School.

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