2024 CCB Mentoring Conference
November 7, 2024
5:30-7:30 PM
Dillon 2 Conference Hall
Speakers:
David Ambrose
David Ambrose is the founder and owner of The Ambrose Group, which provides appraisal, tax consulting, and related real estate services to clients in Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio through its various entities including The Ambrose Appraisal Co., Ambrose Tax Consulting, Ambrose Cost Segregation, and Appraisal Review Solutions. Fresh out of college David worked at a real estate appraisal firm in Houston for six years before starting his own company in answer to God’s calling. He has served on the boards of A Child’s Hope, and Bethel Heavenly Hands, among others, during his career. He has been an elder at the Hope Church and currently pastor’s Grace at The Gathering Church. Through 25 years of participating in foreign mission trips to places such as Zambia, Burundi, South Sudan, China, North Korea, and Haiti, he gained much insight into God’s heart for people all over the world. David graduated from Baylor University with a BBA in Real Estate/Finance and an MBA. David is married to his best friend, Kathy, whom he met while attending Baylor. God has blessed them with 5 children – 4 biological, and one adopted from Cameroon, Africa, and 12 grandchildren.
Paul Cannon
In 1994, Paul H. Cannon answered a blind add on a South Texas College of Law job placement board as a 3rd year law student for what was supposed to be a clerkship position with no opportunity for advancement at Simmons and Fletcher, P.C. In 2020, he became the managing partner at Simmons and Fletcher, P.C. Paul earned his J.D. at South Texas College of Law in 1995 and became board certified in Personal Injury Trial Law in 2005. He has tried over 50 cases to verdict in his career. Paul has been recognized as a ‘Super Lawyer’ by Thomson Reuters legal ratings every year from 2017 to 2024, and; he was recognized as a ‘Top 100 Trial Lawyer’ by the National Trial Lawyers Association each year from 2017 to 2024. He also received the ‘Outstanding Mentor Award’ Houston Young Lawyer’s Association in 2020. Following COVID, Paul H. Cannon used his newly-acquired Zoom skills and his firm website to create Meet Houston Missions and the Simmons and Fletcher, P.C., Local Missions Podcast, a show he hosts to promote local area missions. His law firm is the presenting sponsor of the WalkLikeMadd Houston Event, and a supporting sponsor of several other missions’ events including Rescue America, Cy-Hope, Keturah’s Haven, Three-Graces, and the Kailee Mills Foundation. Paul mentors students seeking to become attorneys and young attorneys starting their practice. Paul and his wife were married in 2001 and have one Longhorn (Sydney) and one Aggie (Zachary).
Raleigh Jenkins
Raleigh Jenkins is the owner of ABC Home and Commercial Services in Houston, Texas, that provides pest control, lawn, pool, and landscaping services to residential and commercial clients. He and his wife, Kimberli, founded ABC in 1986 and grew it from a sole operator to today’s 275 associates with over $40 million in annual revenue. He has served on the board of the Better Business Bureau and is on the board of Boys and Girls Country. While serving as president of the National Pest Management Association in 2010, he did several mission trips to deal with pest issues in Haiti after the big earthquake hit the country. Along with family and friends, he founded A Child’s Hope, a non-profit organization in Haiti that cares for abandoned children. ABC and the Jenkins family philosophy is to give back to others. Over the years they have supported Habitat For Humanity, Boys and Girls County, Northwest Assistance Ministries, Houston Food Bank, St. Jude’s Hospital, and Elijah Rising, among many others. Raleigh is a graduate of Texas A & M University and the University of Houston. The Jenkins have 3 grown children and 7 grandchildren.
Mayte Weitzman
Mayte Weitzman is the Public Relations Director of Goya Foods of Texas, which she joined after operating her own public relations firm, The W Group. Prior to founding her own firm in 2003, she served as the U.S. Public Relations Manager for AeroMexico and was key in implementing the airline’s first public relations policy for worldwide operations. She began her career in public relations and internal communications at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in 1989, later serving as Senior Account Executive at De La Garza Public Relations in Houston.
Mayte is an award-winning communications professional with more than 30 years of experience in strategic public relations and has enjoyed a life-long career serving the community. For over 15 years, she helped Goya become a household name in the Texas and US markets. Through the Goya Gives program, which donated 4 million lbs. of food last year, she coordinated food donations and aid not only in Texas but also into many Latin American countries and now Ukraine, where she performed humanitarian work on the Global Empowerment Mission in 2022. Most recently she led the Goya Cares social responsibility program which is dedicated to bringing awareness and education to prevent child trafficking. Mayte has been recognized as one of Houston’s 50 Most Influential Women by Houston Woman Magazine, honored by Latino Learning Centers with the Barbara Bush Humanitarian Award, and honored as Senior Female Corporate Executive of the Year by the Houston Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, among many other recognitions. She also served as Past President and CEO of the Institute of Hispanic Culture of Houston, among numerous other civil duties.
Weitzman holds a bachelor’s degree in Journalism/Public Relations from the University of Houston and an Executive Community MBA from the University of Texas at Austin. Born in Mexico to Cuban parents and raised in Texas, Mayte boasts that she is truly multi-cultural but totally Texan at heart. She lives in Houston with her husband Javier and has two children both attending Texas colleges.