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Shahrzad Amirani is vice president, head of new products and innovation, at Ipsen Biopharma. She is passionate about improving patients’ lives by implementing customer-centric approaches to new product development and bringing life-saving medicines to market. She has held positions in both pharmaceutical and biotech companies, working on commercial development, life cycle management and integrated care. Amirani established the Shahrzad Amirani Endowed Scholarship at UTA and has contributed to over 2,000 microloans for women starting small businesses. A member of the UTA President’s Advisory Board since 2009, she holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and a PhD in business administration.
For more than two decades, attorney Jacob M. Monty has successfully practiced at the intersection of immigration, labor and employment laws. He is the founder and managing partner of Houston-based law firm Monty & Ramirez LLP and is a nationally recognized authority on issues facing employers with large Hispanic workforces. He has held gubernatorial appointments to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, University of Houston Board of Regents and Texas Private Security Board and currently serves as outside counsel for the Mexican Consulate in Houston and as chair of the Center for Latino Jewish Relations. A member of the UTA President’s Advisory Board, Monty earned a bachelor’s degree in history from UTA and a law degree from the University of Houston Law Center.
Wendy A. Okolo is an aerospace engineering researcher in the Intelligent Systems Division at NASA Ames Research Center. She focuses on systems health monitoring and control systems design with applications to air and space components, vehicles, and systems. Her research experiences include working at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, where she examined aircraft formation flight for fuel savings. Okolo earned a bachelor’s in aerospace engineering and, at age 26, became the first black woman to earn a PhD in aerospace engineering from UTA. Her numerous honors include the 2019 NASA Ames Early Career Researcher Award; the 2019 Women in Aerospace Award for Initiative, Inspiration and Impact; and the 2019 Black Engineer of the Year Award for Most Promising Engineer in U.S. Government.
Michael B. Ray is a longtime advocate for UTA and chair of the College of Science's Advisory Council. Dr. Ray is retired but most recently was ExxonMobil’s Distinguished Science Advisor. During his career, he held positions as laboratory director at ExxonMobil’s Corporate Strategic Research and division manager of technical software development, among other technical positions. He was named a Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Fellow in 2009 for his contributions to geophysical computation. In 2008 he and his wife, Wanda, established the Michael B. and Wanda G. Ray Scholarship for Graduate Studies at UTA. Ray received three degrees from the University: a bachelor’s and master’s in mathematics and a PhD in mathematical sciences.
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