Science and Engineering Advisory Board | Houston Christian University

Advisory Board of 26 in business attire smiling together in a tiled hallway, gathered for an academic meeting indoors. — Science and Engineering Advisory Board, 2018

HCU’s Science and Engineering Advisory Board began as the Engineering Advisory Board. The group’s initial focus, beginning in May 2015, was to study the possibility of establishing a College of Engineering at HCU. The Board, comprised of industry experts, conducted a literature review, analyzed labor market data, and collected information from industry partners to determine areas of possible growth. Based on this information, the focus of the Board quickly centered on creating a degree program in Cyber Engineering as a first step in building programs under a College of Engineering. The Cyber Engineering program is unique to this region and results in the production of highly sought-after graduates in this emerging professional field.

Engineering Advisory Board

Keith Elliott

Mr. Keith Elliott President, Elliott Advisory Group, LLC
Senior VP Global Offshore, Noble Energy (retired)
Houston, TX

(John) Keith Elliott is President of Elliott Advisory Group LLC, a consulting firm providing strategic planning support, asset operations and project management advice to investment management professionals, corporate Executive teams and Boards of Directors.

Keith has over 40 years’ oil and gas industry experience, including 11 years with Noble Energy. He joined Noble in October 2009 as Vice President of Major Projects and was accountable for oversight of Noble’s major projects portfolio, including the Tamar, Leviathan, Aseng and Alen projects. He was subsequently appointed Vice President of Operations and Engineering Services, with responsibility for development, Board of Directors engagement and implementation of Noble’s strategies, policies, objectives, and capabilities related to major capital project planning and execution, as well as Noble’s global Engineering, Drilling and Supply Chain Management activities. In 2013 Keith was appointed Senior Vice President of Noble’s Eastern Mediterranean Region, accountable for regional business strategy development and execution in Israel, Cyprus, Jordan and Egypt. In 2018 Keith assumed responsibility for the totality of Noble’s global Offshore portfolio as Senior Vice President, Offshore, and President of Noble Energy International, Ltd. He held that position through Noble’s merger with Chevron Corporation in October 2020, retiring from Chevron in December 2020.

Prior to joining Noble, Keith was employed by BP Exploration for 25 years. Over that period he held a variety of US, international and worldwide technical and leadership positions in Drilling and Completions, Production Engineering and Operations, Major Capital Project Management and General Asset Management.

Keith is a 1980 graduate of Louisiana Tech University and holds a BS in Petroleum Engineering.

Emeritus/Emerita Advisory Board Members

Terry Cargill

Vice President, Giving Strategies
Waterstone
Colorado Springs, CO

After 32 years in banking, Terry Cargill retired from JPMorgan Chase as a Managing Director to pursue other life-long interests while more actively serving his church and community. In August of 2015, Terry joined WaterStone, a Christian foundation, in the role of Ambassador/Giving Strategies. Most of Terry’s career has been centered in Commercial Banking and Treasury Management where he has held a number of leadership roles. As a Certified Treasury Professional (CTP), Terry has spoken at numerous conferences on various treasury management topics and has been honored as a “Hall of Fame Favorite Banker” by the Houston Treasury Management Association. Terry and his wife, Barbara, graduates of Baylor University, have three sons and reside in The Woodlands, Texas. Barbara is serving her third elected term on the Texas State Board of Education.

Matt Daniel

Matt Daniel, LEED AP, now retired, was the Corporate Vice President for Satterfield & Pontikes Construction and its subsidiary company, Prolego Consulting Solutions, LLC where he also served as General Manager.

Matt holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Building Construction from Texas A&M University (1980), and has been in the construction industry for 44 years. During his career, he has served in Field Operations, Business Development, and Executive leadership positions.

Matt enjoys giving back to the local community. In addition to his work at Houston Christian University, he has also served on multiple boards for non-profit groups and educational institutions. Some of these include the Bay Area Chorus of Greater Houston Board, the University of Houston College of Technology (TLIM) Advisory Board, the Boy Scouts of America (Sam Houston Council) Board, the Institute for Leadership in Capital Projects (I-LinCP) National Board, the Associated Builders and Contractors of Greater Houston (ABC) Board, the Society for Marketing Professional Services (SMPS) Houston Chapter Board, and several others. He has also been an Adjunct Professor at Texas A&M University, the University of Houston, and Prairie View A&M University. He is currently serving on the 2017 and 2022 Bond Oversight Committee (BOC) for Spring Branch ISD, overseeing bond program funding in excess of $1 billion.

Matt was honored to be one of the founding members of the College of Science and Engineering Advisory Board in 2015. He is passionate about Christian-based education and has enjoyed seeing the COSE continue to grow and prosper.

Tony DiCamillo

Tony is President of ExtremeTix, Inc. a SaaS model ticketing solutions company based in Houston. ExtremeTix has 500+ active clients across North America. DiCamillo has played an instrumental part in the design, implementation and support of ExtremeTix’s technology platform. In addition to leading the organization, Tony’s additional roles include studying industry trends and security practices as well as communicating with customers to identify their current and future needs. ExtremeTix is the sole ticketing provider for HCU men’s and women’s sports. With over 20 years of management experience DiCamillo has held related roles with the Houston Rockets, LMI and SMG Worldwide venue management groups. Tony holds a Bachelor of Science degree earning a double major in Business and Kinesiology from Houston Baptist University where he was a 4 year letterman on the Huskies basketball team

W. Carl Glaw, CPA, CGMA

A fourth generation Houstonian and strong proponent of education, Carl is a 1977 graduate of the University of Houston’s Bauer College of Business and continues to support many of the University’s programs. Named Distinguished Alumnus of the Year in 2003, he has served as the Chairman of the Advisory Board of the University’s Wolfe Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation Carl also served as Chairman of the Advisory Board for the Department of Petroleum Engineering beginning in the Fall of 2004 through 2008 and is currently an active board member. Tirelessly committed to the accounting professions and his community, Carl is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation for which he has worked diligently for 15 years. Texas Business Hall of Fame is a non-profit organization whose mission it is to provide scholarships for students in 22 Texas colleges. Carl is Chairman of the Finance Committee and as a committee member, has served since 2010. He also a member of professional organizations including the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants & the Houston Chapter of the Texas Society of CPAs. Carl also serves as an advisor on the Thomson Reuters Editorial Board. Carl is also a member of the AICPA’s Forensic Valuation Services Section.

Ron Harrell

Chairman Emeritus
Ryder Scott
Houston, TX

Mr. Harrell is a Petroleum Engineering graduate of Louisiana Tech University and continues as Chairman Emeritus of Ryder Scott Company, Petroleum Consultants. He retired as Chairman in May 2006. Ron remains active in the industry as a licensed engineer in three states and serves on several Boards of Directors including corporations, universities and not-for-profit organizations. He is a Senior Advisor to RSK(UK)LTD, The Carlyle Group and Morgan Stanley Private Equity Group.

Richard C Kuriger, III

President
RCK, Inc., State of Texas Life Insurance Organization
Houston, TX

Dick moved to Houston in 1964 and started working in the insurance business. He earned the following designations: CLU, APM, MSFS, CIC, CFP®, ChFC, AEP, RFP, RFC, CIS, CEC, CRIA. He became President of the State of Texas Life Insurance organization. Dick has also been President of or is on the Board of 17 organizations giving of his time freely to give back to a community that has been supportive of his efforts. Having worked for many charities in helping raise money through the creative use of life insurance products he is ready to once again lend his expertise. He is most proud of his 6 children and their spouses plus 12 grandchildren.

Nansen Saleri

Dr. Nansen G. Saleri is the President, CEO, and co-founder of Quantum Reservoir Impact (QRI), a unique value-creation enterprise in the upstream oil and gas industry since 2007. He is considered one of the industry’s preeminent authorities in reservoir management for his pioneering ideas in maximizing hydrocarbon recoveries, and he currently holds three U.S. patents. He is also the President of the Kristin Saleri Art Foundation. As the former Head of Reservoir Management for Saudi Aramco for nearly a decade, Dr. Saleri led efforts toward establishing reservoir management metrics and launching its massive gas expansion program. He played a pivotal part in the company’s technological ascendancy in its upstream capabilities, specifically in the area of modern reservoir management and ‘smart’ technologies. Dr. Saleri was chief architect of the company’s hugely successful optimization programs, most notably for Ghawar, the world’s largest field. Prior to his work with Saudi Aramco, Dr. Saleri worked for Chevron, serving as Manager of Reservoir Engineering. In 2006 he was the recipient of the Society of Petroleum Engineers John Franklin Carll Award, and he is both an SPE Distinguished Member and Distinguished Speaker. Dr. Saleri is also cited among the industry’s game changers in the book titled, Groundbreakers – The Story of Oilfield Technology and the People Who Made it Happen by Mark Mau and Henry Edmundson (2015). He is a sought-after opinion leader on global energy issues with wide-ranging media engagements, including the Wall Street Journal, Houston Chronicle, Reuters, Bloomberg and CNBC, and business forums such as the MIT Sloan School of Business, ABANA, and Hart Energy.

Bob Sternenberg

Dr. Bob holds a BBA in Business/Accounting/Industrial Engineering from the University of Houston. In 1965, he got his MBA with a focus on economics and finance from the University of Houston, and in 1972, he received his PhD in Economics, also from UH. Realizing that a PhD wasn’t quite enough education (and letters behind his name), Bob subjected himself to the CPA exam and became a CPA in 1973. During the decade of the 80s, Mr. Sternenberg spend most of his time with Hughes Tool Company as the Vice President and Treasurer. A company with sales of $2.2 billion, Hughes Tool was a key player in the merger of Baker and Hughes. In the 90s, Bob spent time as President and CEO of Wedge Group, Incorporated, an investment company with annual sales between $300 million and $2 billion before becoming a consultant. In the early 2000s, Bob was a partner with Tatum LLC, which was a company that provided contract CFOs and project-based financial services to companies in need of financial expertise.