A native of South Texas, built-in in Corpus Christi, Texas, the sparkling Urban center By The Bounding main. Thomas Graham is the founder of Crosswind Media & Public Relations and for more than 20 years has helped business leaders energize their brands and achieve their business organisation objectives through constructive media and corporate communications strategies. He is an accomplished brand architect, crisis-tested media spokesperson and an proficient in shaping public opinion and managing complex communications programs.

Equally the one-time head of U.Southward. communications for a top 10 global financial institution and do leader in two global public relations firms, Thomas brings decades of experience helping business concern leaders engage finer with their near important stakeholders. He founded Crosswind Media & Public Relations to provide clients with experienced senior counselors who are committed to helping navigate communications challenges to achieve business organization results. Thomas has been privileged to develop global brand strategies, direct communications of large-scale acquisitions and to prepare senior executives at Fortune 500 companies for media interviews, investor and analyst roundtable discussions and presentations before business conferences and to employees.

As the Executive Vice President of Communication & Paradigm at BBVA Usa, Thomas developed the brand strategy for BBVA Group's U.Due south.-acquired financial institutions while protecting the overarching brand reputation from the bug associated with acquisition, integration and fiscal manufacture crises. While serving on the management committee, he held primary oversight of branding, investor relations, corporate communications, employee communications and executive programs. Prior to BBVA, Thomas served as a General Manager with Weber Shandwick, the world's largest public relations bureau, where he directed the firm'due south Austin office.

During his 20 years of public relations, Thomas gained extensive feel in political and regulatory bug, corporate communications, brand strategy, investor relations, crisis and reputation management and media relations. His clients have included leaders in their fields and amid the globe's most admired companies, including Fluor, Wal-Mart, the Project Management Plant, Atmos Energy, NRG Energy, the Texas Firm Republican Caucus, Vought Aircraft and The Methodist Hospital. He is a old business reporter covering local, regional and national trends in concern, financial, agricultural, oil and gas and industrial sectors as well as a former communications director for a Texas State Senator. He serves on the boards of the Texas Sports Hall of Fame and The Texas Advancement Project. He is a member of the National Investor Relations Institute, the Public Relations Society of America, active in communications organizations, and a frequent lecturer on communications problems before students, non-profit, governmental and business associations. He is married to Tanya Fielder and they have three children.

Mary Keith Trawick is a world-class graphic designer and digital production manager. She started her publishing career at Texas Parks & Wildlife Magazine and Texas Monthly. She spent 5 years in New York publishing, including executive tenure equally a impress and publications managing director at John Wiley and Sons, and as a multimedia manager at Dorling Kindersley. Back in Texas, she managed production at Thou&S Typesetters. She was the blueprint manager for more than than a decade at the corporate headquarters of Keller Williams Realty, the world'due south largest existent estate franchise. Mary Keith is a world traveler and spent a twelvemonth in Adana, Turkey. She is an accomplished athlete and a tearing competitor who is a ii-fourth dimension full Ironman finisher. In her spare fourth dimension, Mary Keith embraces the great outdoors, hits the art and music scenes, and spends time with family unit by dragging them to all those things.

Venessa Santos-Garza has more than 15-years of professional experience in the communications field. She began her career as a journalist and worked in telly and radio before branching out into public relations. As a senior account executive for Crosswind, much of her time is spent working with those in the healthcare arena where she has spearheaded initiatives such equally Vote Safe Nueces, a campaign to encourage Nueces County voters on how to remain good for you during COVID while still exercising their right to vote. As the account lead, she serves every bit the day-to-day contact for clients and helps to go along projects moving smoothly. Her various groundwork also lends a unique perspective to brand development, strategy, and media. Venessa, a Texas native, has a main's caste in Strategic Communication from Texas A&M University. She manages the Crosswind office in Corpus Christi.

Apr Dang is Crosswind's Management Consultant, bringing to the agency 20 years of experience in squad and projection management leadership and consulting, spent principally in global finance and banking. She has all-encompassing feel in navigating loftier-contour staff and clients through fast-changing market challenges and she is an accomplished crisis responder with a history of team leadership in sales, marketing, credit underwriting and audit. She has deep international roots. April has proud Jamaican, Chinese and British bloodlines.  April and her iv siblings began working at age 16 to put themselves through university and have since gone on to careers in a variety of industries including accounting, engineering, art design, banking and marketing.  Apr herself, a varsity athlete in loftier school and a member of the African American Caribbean Students Association at the Academy of Toronto, graduated with a bachelors degree, majoring in psychology.  She met her hubby , currently an engineer for Austin-based Dell , in 1993 – beyond the net on the U of T volleyball court. April and her sons have been deeply committed volunteer members of the Texas-based Young Men's Service League that sets mothers and sons to a common and local philanthropic project during high school years. She has taken on many board positions in this organization. Her passion for volleyball also lives on and she can be often found equally the well-nigh animated fan in the stands at historic Gregory Gym on the nearby UT Austin campus where her equally-ambitious Longhorn spikers were this year the Number i women'south team in the nation.

Mac Walker provides media and strategic communications counsel to Crosswind'south energy, healthcare, engineering science and government clients. He is passionate about helping people with unlike political ideologies connect on important issues through constructive communications and story-telling.

Mac previously worked for Governor Greg Abbott as his Deputy Press Secretary and a primary spokesperson for the Governor's role. During this time, Mac was responsible for the Governor's media releases, media date and query responses, and social media. Well-nigh recently, Mac served as the communications associate for a national education policy consultancy, where he directed all internal and external communications and was directly responsible for highlighting the company's work online and in the media.

Built-in and raised in Florida, Mac earned his bachelor'south degree from Rollins College in political science and communications. He was a Segmentation 2 student-athlete and team captain, as well equally actively involved on campus. Outside of work, Mac enjoys playing golf, watching sports, and spending time with friends and family unit.

Charles is President/CEO for Charles R. Smith Consulting, LLC.  A company he founded in June 2018 after retiring from Texas state regime.  His primary practise areas are healthcare, technology, and human being services where he has thirty years of land regime experience.

Charles created relationships with many business leaders, state executives, and legislators.  He has a country and national reputation for being a homo of high integrity and honesty, improving operations, thoughtfully using engineering to increment efficiencies, creatively resolving issues, and fiscal stewardship. He is a frequent speaker at state, regional, and national conferences.

Charles spent more than twenty-six years in Texas Child Support Division at the Office of the Attorney General.  He worked his fashion upwardly from caseworker to division director.  Along the way, he established a long history of partnership with HHSC staff at the local, regional, and country levels to outreach TANF, Medicaid, WIC, and SNAP recipients who could benefit from child support services.  Throughout his career at CSD, Charles was a frequent speaker at HHSC meetings and trainings.  Under his direction as Managing director of Field Operations from 2004-2013, the program rose to get the highest performing kid support program in the nation.  He served as the Director of Child Support from 2013-2015.

Charles was appointed to serve as the Texas Health and Human Services Commission's (HHSC) Master Deputy Executive Commissioner in July 2015 and became Executive Commissioner effective June i, 2016. As Executive Commissioner, Charles oversaw the Texas' Health and Human Services system agencies consisting of a $40 Billion annual budget and 50,000 employees serving 7.five meg Texans in more than 600 programs that included child welfare, Medicaid, WIC, SNAP, mental wellness, regulatory, and aging.  During his tenure at HHSC, Charles successfully consolidated agencies and improved its overall efficiency and accountability to Texas citizens every bit directed by the country legislature.  In Dec 2017, he successfully negotiated a federal waiver with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that will bring $30+ Billion in healthcare funding to Texas.

Charles presently serves on the board for several private companies and not-profit associations/organizations.  He has worked on, led, or overseen many efforts and campaigns associated with public awareness, outreach, and marketing.

Charles is a proud graduate of Texas Tech University.

Director of Digital Strategies

JT Graham coordinates design, programming, enhancement and content of client websites and web-based services for Crosswind.

JT works directly with state and global clients to appraise social media needs and then identifies and delivers appropriate internet technologies to all-time meet client objectives and to best support implementation and on-line maintenance. He is besides an achieved producer of audio and video services created and directed to support client special events.

JT Graham has e'er had a love for Texas music, rhythm, and amusement technologies. Afterwards attending Dub Academy in Due east Austin during high school, he has been DJing professionally at events since early 2012. In fall 2012, he attended Harding University for communications and media, where he was a live radio host for Harding Radio, and in fall 2013, he attended Nighttime Equus caballus Institute for Audio Engineering science in Nashville. In improver to managing the marketing and social media for his own music career, JT has worked at Vector Marketing and interned at Crosswind Media & Public Relations.

He rejoined the Crosswind team full time in August 2014, and at present assists with event production, handles the firm'southward IT, manages the agency and client websites, and oversees the agency's digital strategies across the web.

Aurora Silva is an banana account executive at Crosswind Media & Public Relations.  She is a born and raised Houstonian, currently living in the Cypress surface area, who enjoys anything involving Mediterranean nutrient and Texas sunshine. Her mom makes the best ribs, and she is always excited to see what new cosmos she will be cooking up in the kitchen.

She attended Texas A&G in College Station where she received her Bachelor's in English and cruel in love with fantasy novels afterward attending a Fiction Fantasy literature course. Princess Bride is still the wittiest novel she's always read, she recommends that novel to everyone looking for a practiced express joy.

Aurora is a co-founder of a not-profit organization named Positioning Excellence Around Kids (P.E.A.K.).  The goal of P.E.A.G. is to ensure that students in the Chiliad-12 surroundings have equal admission and opportunities to build a bright hereafter. P.E.A.Thousand. works with depression-income families in Texas to offer programs that introduce participants to the skills and interests they have not all the same best-selling.

During her time at A&M she was also a member of Her Campus, an online global community for college women.  Her Campus is now the #1 media site for college women, written entirely by the globe's top higher journalists. In this organization, founded past iii smart, empowered, and fearless higher women, Aurora wrote blog postings and contributed to the social media of her chapter in College State – all dedicated to and empowering higher women.

Aurora was an member of Texas A&M's chapter of American Clan of Academy Women (AAUW), a non-turn a profit organization founded in 1881 that advances disinterestedness for women and girls through advancement, pedagogy, and research to stop discrimination.  Advocacy efforts by AAUW have propelled endless new laws, including the Equal Pay Human activity, showtime proposed in 1945 and finally passed in 1963; the Title IX subpoena in 1972; the Family unit and Medical Exit Act in 1993; and the Lilly Ledbetter Off-white Pay Human action in 2009.

Later on graduating, Aurora returned to the Houston area where she enjoys watching scary movies similar A Tranquility Identify with her Mini Schnauzer named Fifer, ever followed by something funny like Bob'south Burgers. She likewise loves trying new foods and would dearest to try Japanese food in Tokyo one day.  Aurora stays active by going on long walks, doing yoga, and lifting weights at the gym. Her favorite international trip was visiting Greece during New year's Eve where she ate ane too many gyros and traveled to Delphi. Her dream vacation is going to the Florida Keys where she'd spend her fourth dimension out in the sunshine and past the beach.

Adrian Patenaude is an accomplished editor, writer and director of marketing media and collateral, specializing in social media and online communications.

Adrian joined the Crosswind team in 2014 after moving to Austin to pursue a career in public relations and film. She grew upwardly in Thailand where her family worked in community development and partnered with local churches in the rural north. Due to this overseas upbringing, she has a global perspective beneficial to our clients working in an increasingly international and multicultural world.

As a creative writer, published poet and photographer, she has a beloved for constructive language and powerful visuals that expresses itself in the printing releases, videos and reports she produces for clients.

Adrian is a fundamental team member at Crosswind, serving as the agency'due south primary social media supervisor, corporate scriptwriter, photographer and critical workflow primary on Crosswind's wellness, college education and international applied science accounts. She is also involved in the creative community in Austin, including serving as a marketing volunteer for the Austin Asian American Picture Festival. Adrian studied advertising and public relations at Abilene Christian University (ACU).

Strategic Corporate Counsel

Tom Goff serves as strategic counsel to clients on matters involving corporate branding, reputation, crisis management, financial transactions, senior executive media positioning, business-to-business marketing, legal disputes and media and annotator relations. He brings 30 years feel as a successful financial announcer, media strategist and corporate reputation director. He has advised senior management teams at a number of global corporations including Microsoft, Starbucks, MySpace, Sony Corporation, Warner Bros., Kaiser Permanente, Figurer Sciences Corporation and Dubai World Backdrop, among others.

Tom previously served every bit an executive vice president with the nation's largest independent PR house, in senior corporate communications roles at Global Crossing, Lockheed Corp. and Atlantic Richfield Visitor (ARCO) and every bit a successful financial announcer. At Global Crossing, Tom directed corporate sponsorships, acted equally the master spokesperson for a multi-national telecommunications corporation and personally promoted, managed and controlled coverage and encompass stories for the company's top management squad in Forbes, Fortune, Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones News Service, Barron's and Bloomberg, also as CNBC, CNNfn and other print and electronic outlets.

Every bit director of media and public relations for ARCO, Tom acted as a corporate spokesperson for financial and operational developments, managed crisis and oil-spill communications systems and supervised ARCO's corporate image advertising, litigation communications and community relations initiatives. Tom worked for 10 years at the Lockheed Corporation where he served equally director of advertising and promotions, personally managing principal aspects of the successful $xx million PR and ad endeavor behind Lockheed's win of the F-22 Advanced Tactical Fighter program, the largest unmarried defense contract and then awarded in American history. In improver, he acted as managing director of internal communications, coordinator of news and public data and as financial editor of Lockheed's award-winning annual and quarterly reports.

Tom'due south editorial tenure included business organization, political editorial and reporting positions at Esquire, New York Mag and of Fortune 500 lists at Fortune. As founding editor and editor-in-main of The Corporate Board, Tom led that journal to a readership with the highest-ranking business audition in America – the directors serving on boards of the nation's largest public corporations – and currently serves on the board of editors.

Tom is a fourth-generation Californian, holds a bachelor's degree in government with honors from California State Academy at Sacramento and a JD from UC-Davis where he served on the law review. He as well served more than than a decade as an officer in the Armed services Police Corps, U.Due south. Army Reserve.

For nearly xxx years, Rear Admiral Robert Durand has been entrusted to lead teams, evangelize results and provide key strategic insight at the nation's highest and most critical levels, providing counsel to CEOs, CMOs and four-star combatant commanders. Robert recently retired from the U.S. Navy as Vice Main of Information and he at present provides strategic media and spokesperson services to clients of Crosswind Media and Public Relations.

Every bit the senior reserve public affairs officeholder in the Navy, Robert led 500 Navy Reserve public diplomacy professionals and mass communication specialists who provide communication back up to the Navy worldwide for events, exercises and combat operations. His command was the equivalent of a major marketing agency's global workforce with supervision over media relations, crunch communication, strategic messaging, multimedia production, organizational communication and executive positioning.

In his civilian career, Robert has led corporate communications at 5 venture-funded high-technology companies, from early phase-startups to individual equity turnarounds. He has taken iv startups from invisibility to marketplace prominence, resulting in two $400M+ acquisitions, and has also led public relations at a global cybersecurity company through a $2B acquisition, merger, and global rebranding effort.

He translates circuitous engineering science into the words, ideas and images that excite customers, investors, employees and partners.

A native of Lakewood, Colorado, Robert was deputed in 1988 later on graduating from the U.S.   Naval University. He was deployed to the Ruby-red Sea in back up of Operation Desert Tempest, was mobilized twice to serve as director of public affairs, Articulation Task Strength Guantanamo, and was recalled to active duty from 2009-2012 as managing director of Public Affairs for the Chief of Navy Reserve at the Pentagon.

Robert counts the Defense Superior Service Medal, the Legion of Merit, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, the Navy Meritorious Service Medal, Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal (three), Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal and various service and campaign awards as symbols of homage to his service.

Senior Advisor, Economical Development

Jonathan Westward. Taylor has devoted his career to public service. He has served his land as a frontline combat medic and the State of Texas as a leader of its economic development programs, with oversight of the country's investment and reinvestment programs. Near recently, Taylor managed contract programs for the Lower Colorado River Authorization which delivers vital electrical ability, water and public recreation to many thousands of Texans.

Before that, he was executive director nether Governor Rick Perry for the land's Economic Development and Tourism attempt where he oversaw integrated marketing (advertising, public relations, enquiry) in domestic and international markets, successfully encouraging non-Texas travel to the Lone Star Country and generating millions of dollars to local Texan communities and securing thousands of jobs in local communities.

Jonathan likewise served as Director of the Texas Emerging Technology Fund. The Fund is the state'southward largest, most active seed and early stage venture capital investment fund with over $400 million in expenditures. Jonathan led the development of the strategic plan and managed the State's investment in 133 portfolio companies and 22 large scale inquiry projects. He reported results directly to the Texas Legislature and brash the Governor, Lt. Governor, and Speaker of the Business firm on investment decisions of taxpayer funds.

Jonathan's prior public service includes managing the $100 1000000 Research Grant Matching and Inquiry Superiority Grant programs, developing and leading the Texas Modest Business Summits, and creating the Texas Small Business Advisory Council. Jonathan served 8 years in the United States Ground forces Reserve, as staff sergeant, combat medic and gainsay Counselor.

In Afghanistan, he served at a remote U.S. combat outpost and trained Afghan National Army and National Police staff, leading them to deploy and equip an emergency medical treatment facility for a population of over l,000 Afghans.

Previously, Jonathan managed 200 medical personnel, $4 million of equipment, and patient throughput of a fully functional 80 bed Level 3 Army Field Hospital. He served in the Dominican Republic, providing emergency medical treatment of approximately 700 U.S., Cardinal American and Caribbean area armed forces and police forces, and he has trained and supervised the medical personnel in a diversity of remote and hostile environments.

He has earned the Combat Medic Bluecoat, Statuary Star, Regular army Commendation Medal, an Afghanistan Campaign Medal with service star, a Global State of war on Terror Service Medal, NATO medal for ISAF, and several other commendations.

Jonathan holds a BA in Political Science, Economics emphasis with a minor in criminal justice from Texas Christian Academy and extensive military training including U.South. Army Basic Grooming and Advanced Individual Training, Warrior Leader Course, U.South. Army Combat Advisor among others. Jonathan's medical training has included NREMT-B, Avant-garde Cardiac Life Back up Provider and Instructor, Pediatric ACLS Provider and Teacher, Pre-Hospital Trauma Life Support Provider and Instructor, Combat Medic Advanced Skills Provider and Instructor, Field Direction of a Chemic and Biological Casualty Class, MITT Medical Course, and many others.

"Windy" is a 2015 Kentucky-bred thoroughbred mare who was registered with the Jockey Club, a thoroughbred breed registry, every bit Princessdaisyleigh. Her sire is Graydar, the son of Unbridled's Song – who won $1.3 1000000 and was posthumously granted the title of leading sire in North America in 2017 – and grandson of 1990 Kentucky Derby winner Unbridled, who claimed most $iv.5 meg in race earnings. Her dam is Scarlet Sherry, a granddaughter of Canadian-bred Deputy Minister who sired many successful racehorses – a feat replicated past his son, and Windy's grandsire, Awesome Again.

Her excellent racehorse breeding was washed at the hands of international breeding performance SF Bloodstock breeders – the "SF" stands for Soros Fund. George Soro'southward investment firm, Soros Fund Management, is backside SF Bloodstock and its international racing functioning, SF Racing Group. This Soros arm likewise endemic a 15 percent stake in Triple Crown winner Justify.

Windy's convenance brought her owners and investors $15,000 in 2016 at the famed Keeneland Yearling Sale, where she was bought by a acme racehorse possessor named Craig Aguiar. Withal, every bit is the case with then many racehorses, fantabulous breeding did not translate into top racing talent. Princessdaisyleigh'due south final race at Churchill Downs on September 17, 2017 culminated in an 8thursday place-finish (out of nine horses). She had earned less than $2500 in her three races.

Almost exactly ane year afterwards, on September 13, 2018, Crosswind vice president Karen Johnson noticed her sitting in a Texas impale pen, waiting to be saved, or shipped to slaughter in Mexico.

Afterward quarantine, vet attention and residuum for an injury, Windy spent the next few months relaxing and just "being a horse" at Karen's farm. In June 2019 she entered training with Dan Keen, during which she had to learn that not every ride is a race, as well equally encountering many other things most racehorses don't encounter – from cows, to ATVs.

Regardless of what Windy's final horse "degree" will be in – whether information technology's trail and pleasance, jumping, or working cows – she has become an important fellow member of the Crosswind team and is a reminder of what can happen when responsibility wanes, and as a symbol of hope for new beginnings.

For more 20 years, Barbara has provided strategic communications counsel, issues management, marketing and public relations for a broad range of clients, primarily in the healthcare and engineering science sectors.

Amongst her previous roles, she has served every bit Vice President at Edelman'southward San Francisco office where she developed and led a practice focused on Health Technology and Senior Vice President at Porter Novelli Life Sciences (formerly FischerHealth) where she led client teams for the agency's Medical Device & Diagnostic, Wellness Information technology and Health Services practices.

Barbara also founded and ran Modern Health Communications, Inc. focused on strategic communications for the healthcare and wellness industries.

Barbara brings a deep history in technology, medical devices and understanding of the healthcare landscape to the challenges faced by healthcare companies. Her clients have included ArthroCare, AcerMed, Conceptus, Great Basin Diagnostics, i2i Systems, Opthonix, MedeAnalytics, Brain Resources, Medtronic (Kyphon), Carl Zeiss, Hoag Memorial Hospital, Imaging Healthcare Specialists, Xeltis, Off-white Isaac Company, Viveve and The Turek Dispensary.

Barbara started her career equally a reporter and editor afterwards earning her Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from Temple University in Philadelphia. She enjoys hiking, cooking—and eating. Her "bucket list" includes traveling throughout Europe and learning to cook Thai food in Thailand.

Tammy Ditmore brings a passion for precise language and a knack for spotting careless mistakes to Crosswind, helping ensure that press releases, blog posts, ads and almanac reports are accurate, engaging and mistake-free.

Tammy began her editing career more than three decades ago on a newspaper copy desk in Abilene, Texas. She went on to fill various editing chairs at the Dallas Times Herald and the Austin American-Statesman.Since leaving the newsroom, she has worked as the managing editor of an academic journal and edited scores of books, magazines, websites and manufactures for publishing houses, businesses, authors and scholars.

She is a member of the Editorial Freelancers Association; American Copy Editors Society; Independent Book Publishers Association; and the Modest Publishers, Artists and Writers Network.