Board of Directors
W. Stewart Smith, Chairman
For the past 20 years, Stewart Smith has served as a principal of Fuller Realty Partners, LLC, a privately-held full service real estate company located in Houston. There, he is the co-managing partner of all Fuller real estate investment partnerships, which own, manage and lease numerous commercial, retail and industrial properties across Texas. He is also a successful residential real estate developer and the manager of Carsam Capital, a private equity partnership that invests in all Fuller projects. Stewart is a graduate of The University of Texas where he majored in economics, and was captain of the golf team. He was first exposed to cancer at a very early age when his late grandmother battled and succumbed to color cancer. His mother-in-law, a survivor of breast cancer, is a vocal and active advocate of breast health. Several of his friends are young breast cancer survivors, whose experiences motivated this father of three young girls to become an engaged participant in cancer-related causes. Stewart serves on the Advance Team of The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, the hospital’s next-generation advisory board.
Bonnie Baldwin, M.D., Vice-Chairman and Secretary
Dr. Bonnie Baldwin has been a practicing reconstructive and plastic surgeon for 20 years. A cum laude graduate of Duke University with a B.A. in Psychology, she attended medical school at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. She is a former Assistant Professor in the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, where she awarded a fellowship and practiced surgery for 6 years. A specialist in reconstruction following ablative cancer resections, Bonnie has been in private practice since 1997 and holds surgical privileges at 9 hospitals in Houston. She has repeatedly been named one America’s Top Doctors and has authored dozens of professional articles of on surgical oncology. Among many professional affiliations, Bonnie is a member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons and The Society of Surgical Oncologists. She is a former director of Sheltering Arms Senior Services, an advisor to Susan G. Komen for the Cure® and the American Cancer Society, and is very active in creating, facilitating, and maintaining support groups for cancer survivors. Bonnie is a member of The Women’s Fund and the Kappa Kappa Gamma Alumnae Association, and is a supporter of The Kinkaid School.
Bill Hamilton, Treasurer
Bill Hamilton attended the University of Maine where he obtained a B.A. in Fine Arts. A competitive equestrian, he co-owns Kross Creek Farm, an upstate New York boarding and training facility of horses in all levels of dressage. For 17 years, Bill was the vice president and designer at Carolina Herrera Ltd., after which he launched his own ready-to-wear company which operates under the label Bill Hamilton. The Manhattan resident was witness to his late mother’s breast cancer diagnosis and treatment, and has frequently designed for high profile cancer patients and survivors, among them the late former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, former First Lady Nancy Reagan, and the late Claudia Cohen Perelman. He has provided personal support to cancer-related causes by underwriting showings of his runway collection at events benefiting Atlanta’s Doris Shaheen Breast Health Center, The Amschwand Sarcoma Cancer Foundation, Baylor College of Medicine’s Breast Center and the Beth Sanders Moore Young Breast Cancer Survivors’ Program at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. Bill was an original organizer of New York’s Bailey House and is a longtime supporter of New York Foundling Hospital.
Nancy Wilson Hargrove, Director
Nancy Hargrove is a partner and Associate General Counsel of Thompson & Knight, LLP, where she is responsible for managing all issues of ethical and professional conduct of the Firm and its attorneys. Prior to taking this position, she was a partner in the Firm’s Trial Practice Group. She has been affiliated with the firm for over 25 years. Nancy is a graduate of the University of Texas and obtained her J.D. at the University of Houston Law Center. Prior to entering law school, she served as Manager of Patient Services at The Methodist Hospital in Houston, where she worked closely with Dr. Michael E. DeBakey facilitating his care of dignitaries and foreign patients who traveled to Houston for medical care. She serves as a director of Mental Health America of Greater Houston and is a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma Alumnae Association. Nancy lost a longtime close friend to complications stemming from multiple myeloma. Many of her maternal relatives died of breast and ovarian cancers, with a suspected tie to a BRAC2 genetic disorder. As daughter and caregiver, she is a survivor of pancreatic cancer which claimed her mother’s life.
Cabrina Owsley, Director
“I lost a very dear friend to colon cancer. When we were single, we were the closest of friends. I met the love of my life. She met hers. I got married. Soon after, she got married. I became pregnant. She became pregnant. I had my first child. She had a miscarriage and was soon thereafter diagnosed with cancer. I lost her in 2007,” recounts Cabrina Owsley, who is a survivor, too, of a family member diagnosed with cancer. Cabrina is a graduate of Pepperdine University School of Law and holds a Master’s Degree in Alternative Dispute Resolution. She has served as legal counsel to Dow Corning Trust Settlement Facility, Universal Pictures and the Director’s Guild of America. The former art consultant is a respected director of several Houston charitable organizations and is a noted benefactress of cancer and other healthcare initiatives, as well as her loves — the performing and visual arts. A tireless volunteer, she has chaired numerous events raising significant awareness and financial support for Houston non-profits. The mother of three young children, Cabrina is very active in the Children’s Ministry Council of Christ Church Cathedral in Houston. She resides a portion of each year in a village on a peninsula of Lake Michigan.
Jeff Smith, Director
Jeff Smith currently serves as President and CEO of S&S Directional Drilling, a full service horizontal directional drilling business supporting the oil and gas pipeline industry with primary locations in Louisiana and Texas. Jeff founded S&S in 2009 and previously worked in public relations since his graduation from the University of Texas at Austin in 1991. In 2000, Jeff founded Smith & Sacco Public Relations, a boutique public relations firm with an emphasis on non-profit organizations. Smith & Sacco, which is still in operation and managed by Jeff’s wife and partner, Kathryn, has been rated by the Houston Business Journal as one of the top 25 PR firms in Houston for the last nine years. Jeff is very involved in civic activities, currently serving on the boards of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and the Junior League of Houston Advisory Board. In 2010, Jeff lost his beautiful mother, Glenna, due to complications stemming from multiple myeloma. Since that time, Jeff has dedicated his philanthropic efforts to cancer research and cancer survivorship.