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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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