
DABE - D/FW Association for Business Economics
A Chapter of The National Association for Business Economics - NABE
Officers
President
Dave Ottum
Financial Economist
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Vice President
Christopher Slijk
Economist
Caterpillar Inc.
Treasurer
Braden Darrah
Relationship Banking Officer
Frost Bank
Communications & Social Chair
Dylan Irwin
Associate Relationship Manager
Frost Bank
Committee Chairs
Membership
Vacant
Education
Julia Bunch
RealPage
Past President Advisor
Laila Assanie
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Past Presidents
2024 Laila Assanie - FRB of Dallas
2023 Arben Skivjani - RealPage Inc.
2022 Daniel Sanabria - TMNA
2021 Paul Dorasil - Homepoint Financial
2019-20 Ryan Tharp - SRS Real Estate Partners
2018 Ryan Davis, PhD - Witten Advisors
2017 D'Ann Petersen - Business Economist
2015-16 Chuck Ehmann - RealPage
2014 Michelle Driscoll - Bureau of Labor Statistics
2013 Jekabs Bikis, PhD - Dallas Baptist University
2012 Sara Rutledge - Invesco Real Estate
2011 Julie Wojciechowski - Bureau of Labor Statistics
2010 Paul Hendershot - Dallas Regional Chamber
2009 Jessica Heer - Dallas Regional Chamber
2008 Jeanette Rice - Verde Realty
2007 Alan Bush - FDIC
2006 Barbara Kraus - EDS
2005 Mark L Ford - Atmos Energy
2004 Mine K. Yucel, PhD - FRB of Dallas
2003 Jerome Watters - Bureau of Labor Statistics
2002 Valerie Warm-Pelan - EDS
2001 Kathleen S. Adler, PhD - Collin County Community College
2000 Michael L. Nieswiadomy, PhD - University of North Texas
1999 Dan Miller - Central & Southwest
1998 Robert Gaddie - Bureau of Labor Statistics
1997 Sylvia McCormick - Electric Power Research Institute
1996 Clyde S. King - Texas Utilities Corp
1995 Harry Glenos, PhD - NationsBank
1994 Ira Silver, PhD - J. C. Penney
1993 Harvey Rosenblum, PhD - Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
1992 Steve Guisinger, PhD - University of Texas at Dallas
1991 Sydney Smith Hicks, PhD - First Republic Bank
1990 Dennis J. O'Brien, PhD - Caltex Petroleum
1989 Terry Lynch - Murray Savings
1988 Charles Hatfield - Consultant
1987 Edward L. McClelland, PhD - Republic Bank Corp
1986 William C. Gruben, PhD - Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
1985? Stan Reber - Texas American Bankshares
1984? John Sartain - Consultant
1983? Louis Buck, Jr., PhD - Texas Utilities Corp
1982 James F. Deegan - Ensearch
1981 J. Carter Murphy, PhD - Southern Methodist University
1980 Ernest T. Baughman - Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
1979 Paul R. Gormly - Texas Instruments
1978 Harold M. Achziger - Texas American Investment
1977 M. Harvey Earp - Mercantile National Bank
1976 William Paul Weathers - Fort Worth National Bank
1975 George Kelly - Southwestern Bell Telephone
1974 James Byrd, PhD - First National Bank
1973 Tom McMillan, Jr., PhD - Texas Power & Light
1972 Arthur Douglas Foster - Gifford Hill
1971 Joe Mehan - Atlantic Refining Company
1970
1969 Sydney Reagan, PhD - Southern Methodist University
1968 Tom Robertson - Braniff Airlines
1967 Ralph Green, PhD - Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
1966 Sanford Singer - Lone Star Gas
1965 George J. Winston - Southwestern Bell Telephone
1964 Donald R. Burrus - Texas Instruments
1963 Eugene C. Zorn, Jr. - Republic National Bank
1962 Arthur A. Smith, PhD - First National Bank of Dallas
1961 Phillip E. Coldwell, PhD - Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas