Success Stories

Dallas business executive Arun Agarwal firmly believes in this Texas-worthy adage: “It ain’t bragging if it’s the truth.” About a year after being appointed by Governor Greg Abbott as vice chair of the Texas Economic Development Corporation (TxEDC), Agarwal put…

COSTEP, or the Council for South Texas Economic Progress, is one of TxEDC’s newest investors that represents a seven-county region – Cameron, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Starr, Webb, Willacy and Zapata. The economic development organization’s CEO Adam Gonzalez is on mission…

Rio Grande Valley banker S. David Deanda Jr. firmly believes in the future of his region. Deanda, president of Pharr-based Lone Star National Bank since 2003, says the Rio Grande Valley is emerging as a major medical hub, benefits from…

Tech attorney Inderpreet Sawhney says the decision by Infosys Ltd. to place its U.S. hub in the Dallas-Fort Worth suburb of Richardson is no accident. Sawhney, group general counsel and chief compliance officer at India-based Infosys, notes that Texas draws…

When financial services giant Charles Schwab Corporation announced it would purchase TD Ameritrade in 2019, it signaled good news for Westlake, Texas. This northern suburb of the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area would welcome the merged companies alongside healthy investments into…

Leading global financial services firm JPMorgan Chase is known for its prowess in the banking sector. The company continues its upward growth trajectory with consistently high rankings for management and investment value – not just in the United States, but…

A company that began in a University of Texas dorm room 35 years ago has since transformed into the largest publicly traded company in the area. Headquartered in Round Rock, Dell Technologies has an extensive presence across Texas and is…

Occidental’s road to Texas dates back nearly 60 years. Founded in California in 1920, Occidental began investing in Texas in 1963, growing its oil and gas, midstream and chemicals businesses and employing thousands of residents over the decades. In 2014,…

This aerospace and defense giant, which traces its roots to 1912, now employs 110,000 workers globally and continues its trajectory of growth. Texas is home to more than 23,000 Lockheed Martin employees at the company’s Aeronautics Headquarters in Fort Worth,…

Founded in 2008 by Bryan Sheffield, Parsley Energy is a Permian-focused independent oil and natural gas company. The company is exclusively focused on the most prolific portions of the Permian Basin, one of the most resource-rich oil basins in the…