Ralph Savino
Ralph Savino is chief executive officer of El Seven Ranch and Garwood Irrigation Company. Savino is a University of Houston graduate and a Texas real estate broker. He’s joined the advisory board “to represent the interests of all agricultural farmers who rely on water from the Colorado River for their livelihood and the production of food for world consumption.”

Robby Cook
Robby Cook is former six-term state representative and mayor of Eagle Lake. Cook is now Partner in the Cook family farming operation, a governmental affairs consultant and vice-president of the Cellulosic Ethanol Development Company. Among his accomplishments in the Legislature, Cook was honored by the Texas Alliance of Groundwater Conservation Districts, the Office of Rural and Community Affairs, the Lower Colorado River Authority and others. He was also named Legislator of the Year by the Texas Section American Water Works Association, the Association of Rural Counties, the Texas Recreation and Parks Society and the Texas Game Warden Association.

Haskell Simon
Haskell Simon is longtime advocate for interests of the Colorado River, a rice farmer since the 1970s and a local and regional leader. For decades Simon has volunteered his time on issues ranging from upstream and downstream water use, water quality and supply, rice farming and other agribusiness, the environment and wildlife.

Laurance Armour
Laurance Armour is general manager of Pierce Ranch.

Myron Hess
Myron Hess is legal counsel and manager of Texas Water Programs in the National Wildlife Federation’s Austin office. Hess concentrates on protection of wetlands and water resources. Hess has worked on environmental law in private practice and for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. He is a graduate of the University of Texas Law School and Texas A&M University.

Cindy Loeffler
Cindy Loeffler joined the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department in 1987. In 2001, she was named the water resources branch chief at Texas Parks and Wildlife. Loeffler’s duties now include managing the water quality and water quantity programs and coordinating the department’s response to water resource issues affecting fish and wildlife.

Jennifer Walker
Jennifer Walker is a water resources specialist for the Lone Star Chapter of the Sierra Club. Walker works primarily on the Texas Living Waters Project and focuses her energy on water policy issues across the state with an emphasis on state water planning, conservation and bay and estuary protection issues. She has a Bachelors of Science in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology from the University of Texas at Austin.

Greg Meszaros
Greg Meszaros joined the Austin Water Utility as director in September of 2007. As director of Austin Water Utility, Greg is responsible for a $400 million budget, 1,000 plus employees and a $1.5 billion, 5-year capital improvement plan. He manages and directs all aspects of utility-related business including EPA regulatory compliance, performance enhancement, asset management and customer relations. He previously served as the director of city utilities and public works for the City of Fort Wayne, the second largest city in Indiana with a population of nearly 250,000. While in that capacity, he had overall executive responsibility for all public works functions including the city’s drinking water, sanitary sewer and storm water utilities.

David Vaughan
David Vaughan is assistant city manager for the City of Burnet. Vaughn has 12 years experience in municipal government, including two years in water and wastewater operations, four years in finance and six years in planning and development. He currently has direct administrative oversight of Burnet’s water and wastewater department. Vaughan has a Bachelors of Science in Business Administration, Masters in Business Administration and is a certified government finance officer.

Earl Foster
Earl Foster is General Manager of Lakeway Municipal Utility District.

Rick Gangluff
Rick Gangluff has worked at the South Texas Project for more than 32 years after completing 6 years in the U.S. Navy Nuclear Submarine Service.  He is currently the Chemistry, Environmental, and Health Physics Manager for the STP Nuclear Operating Company.  His responsibilities include the management of the 7,000-acre, off-channel reservoir that provides cooling water for the steam electric generation process.  Rick has a Bachelor of Science in Nuclear Science from the University of Maryland.  He was a member of the Lower Colorado Regional Water Planning Group (Region K) from 1998 until 2006 and continues as an alternate member.

Ken Gorzycki
Ken Gorzycki joined the Horseshoe Bay Resort team with more than 31 years experience as a golf course superintendent. He is responsible for overseeing the maintenance, operation and management of the three championship Robert Trent Jones Sr. golf courses at the resort. A certified golf course superintendent and certified commercial restricted pesticide applicator, Gorzycki graduated from Texas A&M University in 1977 with a Bachelors of Science in Agronomy. He belongs to several professional associations including the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America, the Lone Star Golf Course Superintendents Association and the United States Golf Association.

Kerry Spradley
Kerry Spradley is a lake property owner since 1996. Spradley is president of the board at the Windermere Oaks Water Supply Corporation, where he has served as a board member and officer since 2004. Spradley is serving on the Water Management Plan Advisory Committee “to ensure that stakeholders have water availability for the future in the upper Colorado River basin.”

Janet Caylor
Janet Caylor is owner of Lakeway Marina and Riviera Marina on Lake Travis and a self-described "lifelong water person." Caylor retired from a 30-plus year career with the Wall Street firm Merrill Lynch in April 2009. Prior to her retirement, she was regional managing director for southeast Texas, previously working in New York City and other major markets. Caylor most recently served on the Board of Directors of the Greater Houston Partnership, won the Responsible Citizen of the Year award at Merrill Lynch in 2007 for her work in the Houston community and received a Tribute to Women in Industry Award in Bergen County, New Jersey, for leadership excellence. Caylor served as a board member of the Protect Lake Travis Association in 2009-10 and in September helped organize the shoreline cleanup for the City of Lakeway. In March 2010, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst named Caylor to the state Advisory Panel on Recreational Boating Safety.

Rusty Brandon
Rusty Brandon owns and operates the Hi-Line Lake Resort on the northern end of Lake Buchanan with his wife Dixie. Brandon was was born and raised on the east side of Lake Buchanan and has been back in this area for the past eight years, when he purchased the Hi-Line Lake Resort. Prior to owning and operating the Hi-Line, Brandon worked for Southwest Airlines for 24 years in various management positions.

Jo Karr Tedder
President of the Council Creek Property Owners Association, Tedder coordinates all East Lake Buchanan property owner associations. Tedder is a retired educator and administrator who is serving or has served on a number of Burnet County committees and commissions including the Comprehensive Planning Committee, Transportation Committee and Emergency Service District No. 5. She also is project manager for the new Burnet Library Building Project. Tedder lived many years on the East Coast, serving as a state party chair and organizing the eastern U.S. regions during national campaigns. Tedder returned home to Texas from Washington, D.C.