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Welcome W. Wilson, Sr.

Chairman, UH System Board of Regents
Chairman, GSL Welcome Group, L.L.C.


Welcome W. Wilson, Sr., has served as Chairman of the UH System Board of Regents since September 1, 2007. He was reelected in June 2009 to serve through August 2010. He was appointed to the Board in April 2006 by Governor Rick Perry and will serve as a regent through August 31, 2011.

He is chairman of GSL Welcome Group, LLC. a group of companies that own and lease single-tenant, industrial facilities in Texas. He is also a principal in Kingham Dalton Wilson, LLC, a Houston commercial construction company.

 

Since 1958, he has been a real estate developer of subdivisions, apartment complexes, shopping centers, office buildings and, in recent years, industrial facilities. During the 1960s and 1970s, he was board chairman of two Texas banks and a major stockholder in the Houston Astros.  

He served in the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations as a five-state Director of Civil and Defense Mobilization, a division of the Executive Office of the President.   In 1966 he was appointed Special Ambassador to Nicaragua by President Lyndon Johnson. He was a witness to the Atom Bomb tests in Nevada in 1954 and the Hydrogen Bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific in 1956.  In 1958 he was selected as one of Ten Outstanding Young Men in Federal Service.

He received a BBA degree from the University of Houston in 1949, where he received its UH Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1970 and the C.T. Bauer College of Business Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1996. He received an AA degree from Texas Southmost College in 1946, and received its Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2005.

 

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