PRESS RELEASE

 

For Immediate Release

 

Contact:

Chuck Smith, Deputy Director

Equality Texas Foundation

512-474-5475

 

 

Equality Texas Foundation Elects Troy Greenstreet to Board of Directors 

 

Austin, TX (January 6, 2009) –  Equality Texas Foundation announces the election of Troy Greenstreet to its board of directors.  Greenstreet joins JD Angle, Fort Worth; Reed Bogle, Dallas; Dr. Paul Boskind, San Antonio; Rob Caballero, Houston; Grant Caplan, Houston; Mark Erwin, Austin; Frank Hood, Houston; Whitney Kelly, Amarillo; Martha Oestreich, Austin; Douglas Plummer, Austin; Rob Scamardo, Houston; and Marsha Warren, San Antonio.

 

Troy Greenstreet is a Senior Group Manager at PepsiCo.  He is a founding member of the EQUAL employee network at PepsiCo’s Frito-Lay division.  EQUAL is PepsiCo’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) employee resource group.  Troy spearheaded the drive for LGBT inclusion throughout PepsiCo by working with senior management to add sexual orientation and gender identity/expression to the corporate Equal Employment Opportunity statement and to secure domestic partner benefits across PepsiCo. 

 

Troy has been a member of the PepsiCo EQUAL Leadership Team since 2002, and currently sits on the PepsiCo Global GLBTA Steering Committee.  Prior to his employment with PepsiCo, Troy worked for Deloitte & Touche, where he was a member of the steering committee that added sexual orientation to the corporate Equal Employment Opportunity statement, as well as secured domestic partner benefits.

 

Greenstreet currently serves on the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Business Council, has served on the Dallas/Fort Worth Federal Club Governing Committee and the Dallas/Fort Worth Major Donor Committee.  Troy also served three years on the board of the Fort Worth Avenue Development Group, a non-profit that focuses on revitalizing and developing businesses in the Oak Cliff area of Dallas.  Troy and his partner, Brent Willmott, live in Dallas.

 

 

Statement by Troy Greenstreet:

 

“Equality Texas Foundation is such an important organization.  We should all feel better knowing that they focus on equal rights for LGBT Texans 365 days a year.  I am excited to be a member of the Equality Texas Foundation board and hope to help grow the organization across the great state of Texas.  Every LGBT citizen of Texas (plus our Allies) should be an active member of Equality Texas...let’s all work together to make this happen!”

 

 

Equality Texas Foundation educates and engages the public about policies and their effect on Texans of all sexual orientations and gender identities/expressions.


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