Anthony R. Chase

Director Since 2020

Mr. Anthony R. Chase is Chairman and CEO of ChaseSource, LP, a staffing, facilities management, and real estate development firm. Mr. Chase started and sold three ventures (Chase Radio Partners, Cricket Wireless and ChaseCom) and now owns and operates his fourth, ChaseSource. The first, Chase Radio Partners, founded in 1992, owned seven radio stations and was sold to Clear Channel Communications in 1998. The second was Cricket Wireless a nationwide cell phone service provider that he started together with Qualcomm in 1993. He opened the first Cricket markets in Chattanooga and Nashville, TN. The third was ChaseCom, a company that built and operated call centers in the United States and India which he sold to AT&T Corporation in 2007. He is also a principal owner of the Marriott Hotel at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston and the Principal Auto Toyota dealership in greater Memphis, TN.

Mr. Chase serves on several non-profit boards in Houston: Houston Endowment, Greater Houston Partnership, Texas Medical Center, MD Anderson Board of Visitors, and the Greater Houston Community Foundation. Mr. Chase previously served as Deputy Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and the Chairman of the Greater Houston Partnership. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Mr. Chase serves on the boards of LyondellBasell Industries N.V., Nabors Industries Ltd. and Par-Pacific Holdings, Inc. and previously served on the Board of Heritage Crystal Clean, Inc. until 2022. Mr. Chase is a Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Houston Law Center.