A Leadership
Development
Program

Dick Anderson

Dick Anderson is a founding partner of HPI Real Estate Services and Investments and serves as its managing partner overseeing day-to-day operations.

Building on his quick success with Trammell Crow Company, Dick co-founded HPI in 1992 with two other Trammell executives. HPI has grown from a four-person development firm to a full-service real estate firm with over 150 employees with offices in Austin, Dallas, and San Antonio and holds an active portfolio of over 15 million square feet of office, industrial, and retail products.

Dick began his real estate career as an intern for Trammell Crow Company while at Southern Methodist University. Upon graduation, Dick turned his college internship into a five-year marketing career with Trammell, resulting in him serving as Marketing Director for the company’s industrial division before co-founding HPI.

Dr. Richard Reddick

Richard J. Reddick, Ed.D. is the inaugural associate dean for equity, community engagement, and outreach for the College of Education at The University of Texas at Austin. He is also an associate professor in the Program in Higher Education Leadership in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy (ELP) at UT. Additionally, Dr. Reddick serves as the Assistant Director of the Plan II Honors Program in the College of Liberal Arts. Dr. Reddick is the faculty co-chair for the Institute for Educational Management (IEM) at Harvard University, and teaches in the Institute for Management Leadership in Education. Dr. Reddick earned his B.A. in Plan II Liberal Arts Honors at UT. He then went on to teach elementary and middle school in the Fifth Ward community of Houston, Texas. He went on to work in the student affairs field at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, and Emory University. He earned master's and doctoral degrees from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Dr. Reddick's research has been highlighted on NPR, the Associated Press, PBS, the BBC, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and he regularly presents his research at the annual meetings of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE). In addition to these scholarly activities, Dr. Reddick is a Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! champion, husband to Sherry, and most importantly, dad to a 12- and 10-year old. Dr. Reddick is the board chair of Montessori For All, the first public Montessori school in East Austin, and serves on the Austin Regional Board for IDEA Public Schools. He is a proud graduate of Department of Defense Dependent Schools and the former Johnston High School in East Austin.

Becky Heston

After graduating from the University of Texas, Becky’s career began in 1983 and has covered a full range of real estate services, including project management, facility management as well as retail, office and industrial property management.

Commencing with the opening of the Domain in Austin, Becky and her team have become specialists in the management of vertical mixed-use projects. Becky was a Principal at Trammell Crow Company and a Managing Director at its successor, CBRE. Now as a Principal at Endeavor Real Estate Group, Becky is responsible for implementing the company’s property management services platform for projects in and around Austin. In this role, Becky oversees and coordinates management resources for property owners, asset managers and investors.

Chris Gagnon

Chris Gagnon is a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company, a management consulting firm. Chris co-leads McKinsey’s Organization Practice globally and is the head of the firm’s OrgSolutions group. He helps clients improve performance and health by taking an integrated approach, aligning organization design with culture, talent, change management, and leadership. He has worked with clients in many sectors, including consumer products, hospitality and leisure, private equity, and technology.

Chris has long been active in knowledge creation and publishing. He led the team that co wrote Real Change Leaders: How You Can Create Growth and High Performance at Your Company (Harmony Books, 1995) and has published numerous articles in the Harvard Business Review and the McKinsey Quarterly on topics such as agility, analytics, leadership, and organizational health. Chris lives in Austin, Texas, after spending much of his career in the Northeast. In his free time, he enjoys working out, playing chess, enjoying blues harmonica, and coaching youth basketball. Chris holds an M.B.A. from the Amos Tuck School and a B.A. from Dartmouth College.

Nikelle Meade

Nikelle Meade is an attorney with the law firm of Husch Blackwell LLP in Austin, Texas. Meade’s practice is focused on representation of clients before state, and local governmental agencies on real estate development, procurement, and economic development matters. During prior legal appointments, she served as Judicial Intern for Justice Jack Hightower of the Supreme Court of Texas, as a Legislative Intern for State Representative Dawnna M. Dukes and as an Associate Attorney with the law firm of Minter Joseph & Thornhill, P.C. Ms. Meade's professional affiliations include the American Bar Association State and Local Government Section and Section of Real Property, Trust, and Estate Law, the State Bar of Texas, the College of the State Bar, the Texas Bar Foundation, the Austin Bar Association, the American Planning Association, the Urban Land Institute, The National Council for Public-Private Partnerships, the Real Estate Council of Austin, CREW (Commercial Real Estate Women). Ms. Meade received a BA in English Literature and Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin and a Doctorate of Jurisprudence from the University of Texas School of Law.

Thomas Ball

Thomas Ball is a founding general partner of Next Coast Ventures, a venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage information technology companies, with a primary focus on internet, software, and technology-enabled business and consumer services.

Tom was previously at Austin Ventures from 2005-2015 where he served as a general partner. He was also the first investor in RetailMeNot, Inc. Prior to his involvement with Austin Ventures and RetailMeNot, Tom founded a number of successful companies, including Openfield Technologies (which later merged with Razorgator Interactive Group) where Tom was CEO, and eCoupons where Tom served as CEO until the sale of the company to Lifeminders.

Tom has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Florida and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Sheila McHargue

Sheila McHargue is Managing Director of Asset Services for Cushman & Wakefield’s Austin market. With more than 28 years of experience, Sheila brings a wealth of knowledge within the commercial real estate industry to her role.

Before joining Cushman & Wakefield, she served at Peloton Commercial Real Estate as the Vice President and Regional Director of Property Management for the Austin and San Antonio offices.

Starting her career in 1991 with Trammell Crow/CBRE, Sheila spent 16 years delivering property management services for a two million square foot office and retail portfolio. She later moved to Pyramid Properties (Aquila Commercial) where she managed operations for a three million square foot portfolio.

Sheila has extensive experience in contracting and managing performance of third party property management, as well as agency leasing brokerage firms. In addition, she has participated in various acquisition, disposition and redevelopment transactions with Reit. Shelia received her bachelor’s degree from Texas Tech University.