Meet our Speakers
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Antonio Carrillo
Antonio Carrillo serves as Arcosa’s president and CEO, as well as a member of its Board of Directors. From April to November 2018, he served as the senior vice president and group president of Construction, Energy, Marine and Components of Trinity Industries Inc. From 2012 toFebruary 2018, Carrillo served as the CEO of Orbia Advance Corporation (formerly known as Mexichem S.A.B. de C.V.), a publicly-traded global specialty chemical company. Prior to joining Orbia, he spent 16 years at Trinity Industries, where he served as senior vice president and group president of the company’s Energy Equipment Group and was responsible for its Mexico operations. Carrillo previously served as a director of Trinity Industries from 2014 to November 2018 and as a director of Dr. Pepper Snapple Group Inc. from 2015 to 2018. He currently serves as a director of NRG Energy.
Carrillo has been a professor of finance at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, one of Mexico’s most prestigious universities in finance and accounting. He holds a master’s degree in business administration with a major in finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He earned his bachelor’s degree in mechanical and electrical engineering at Universidad Anáhuac in Mexico City
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Curt Farmer
Curtis C. Farmer is chairman, president and CEO of Comerica Incorporated and Comerica Bank. He also serves as a director of both organizations and leads Comerica’s Management Executive Committee.
Farmer joined Comerica as executive vice president of Wealth Management in 2008. He was named vice chairman of Comerica’s Retail Bank and Wealth Management divisions in 2011, and president, Comerica Incorporated and Comerica Bank in 2015. He was appointed as CEO in April 2019 and assumed the role of chairman on Jan. 1, 2020.
Farmer joined Comerica from Wachovia Corporation of Charlotte, N.C., where he served as executive vice president, Wealth Management. During his 23 years with Wachovia, he held a variety of positions of increasing scope and responsibility.
Farmer holds a bachelor’s degree from Wake Forest University, where he also earned his master’s degree in business administration.
Farmer’s board affiliations are Circle 10 Council of the Boys Scouts of America, SMU Tate Lecture Series, SMU Cox School of Business Executive Board, The Clearing House, Crystal Charity Ball Advisory Board, Methodist Health System Foundation and Wake Forest University Board. In addition, he is a member of the Bank Policy Institute and Dallas Citizens Council.
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Katrice Hardy (Moderator)
Katrice Hardy is vice president and executive editor of The Dallas Morning News. Previously, she was executive editor of The Indianapolis Star and Midwest regional editor for USA Today Network.
When Hardy joined the network in 2016, she was the executive editor of The Greenville News and then took on responsibilities as the South regional editor overseeing news organizations in South Carolina, North Carolina, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and Virginia. Previously, she had worked for 20 years at The Virginian-Pilot, where she started as an intern and left as managing editor.
Hardy’s IndyStar newsroom and its reporting partners—The Marshall Project, AL.com and Invisible Institute—were awarded the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for “Mauled: When Police Dogs are Weapons.” The newsrooms where she has led have won multiple IRE, Editor & Publishers and state honors as well.
She is a board member of The Marshall Project and a member of the National Association of Black Journalists, the Dallas Assembly and the International Women’s Forum.
Hardy believes strongly that a news organization’s role is to shine light on wonderful people and organizations making a difference in local communities and to uncover the problems, ills, misuses and abuses to help make positive change.
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Tom Luce
Tom Luce’s life has been one of family, professional accomplishments, public service and social entrepreneurship.
He was the founding and managing partner of the Hughes and Luce law firm. He was lead attorney on multibillion mergers and litigation and was selected at various points in his career as one of the best attorneys in Dallas, Texas and the United States.
Luce’s public service in Texas was distinguished by gubernatorial and legislative appointments to major state positions, including chief justice of the Supreme Court pro tempore, Sunset Commission, Cancer Prevention and Research Institute, Texas Commission on Judiciary, chief of staff of the Select Committee on Public Education, and the Superconducting Super Collider.
On the national level, he was appointed as assistant secretary of education by President George W. Bush, confirmed by the United States Senate and appointed to The Library of Congress Board by the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.
In addition to Texas 2036, Luce has founded and led numerous other nonprofit organizations dedicated to serving the needs of others, including the Texas Business and Education Coalition, Just for the Kids, Data Quality Campaign, the National Center for Educational Accountability, the National Math and Science Initiative and the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute. His latest venture is serving as interim CEO of Biotech Initiatives of LHP Philanthropies.
He has authored two books on improving public education and has taught at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, the University of Texas LBJ School of Public Affairs, Southern Methodist University and the University of Texas at Dallas.
Luce has been married to his wife, Pam, for more than 60 years. They have three children and seven grandsons. He received his undergraduate and law degrees from Southern Methodist University where he has been honored as a distinguished alumnus.
Carrillo has been a professor of finance at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, one of Mexico’s most prestigious universities in finance and accounting. He holds a master’s degree in business administration with a major in finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He earned his bachelor’s degree in mechanical and electrical engineering at Universidad Anáhuac in Mexico City