Board of Advisors

Duy-Loan Le started her career at Texas Instruments (TI) at 19 and two decades later became the first Asian American and the only female to be elected to the highest title Senior Fellow in TI’s history. During her 35-year career at TI, she led the development to grow TI’s Memory product line across 5 countries and 3 continents to generate multi-billion dollar revenue, oversaw the development of the world’s fastest Digital Signal Processor per 2004 Guinness World Records, and pioneered products enabling TI’s entry into base station & VOIP markets. Duy-Loan holds 24 patents and currently serves on the board of directors at Cirrus Logic, Wolfspeed, Atomera, Brainchip, and other private & start-up companies. She obtained her BSEE from The Cockrell College of Engineering at The University of Texas in Austin and her MBA from The Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston and currently serves on the board of advisors at both institutions.

Dr. Nam Hoang is a Board Certified Internal Medicine and Pediatrics physician. He graduated with a B.S. from Texas A&M in 1987, a M.D. from Texas Tech Health Sciences Center in 1991, and finished his residency at University of Texas H.S.C. Houston in 1995. Dr. Hoang is a tireless volunteer for Charitable causes. He and his wife Vanessa, have three lovely young children. His hobbies include playing the classical guitar, gardening, handyman work, and raising koi fish.

Kim Williams-Smith holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and enjoyed a 27-year career with Texas Instruments where she managed high tech projects ranging from semiconductor chips to complex radar systems. She gained a global perspective leading multi-national teams and working with customers around the world. Kim has supported Sunflower Mission since its founding because she witnessed firsthand how enabling education in other countries dramatically improves lives, contributes to superior diverse business solutions, and promotes cross-cultural understanding. Since retiring, she has become a half-marathoner and pursues travel and several charitable interests with her husband, Rick.

Quynh Bui is currently a Senior Project Manager at Covance. He graduated from the University of Calgary with a Bachelor of Science in Zoology. He also holds a Doctor of Chiropractic degree, a Master of Science in Biology, and a Master in Public Health. He has worked actively with Sunflower Mission since 2003; having served on the Board of Directors for 8 years.

Dr. Tito Phuc Nguyen is a Board Certified Radiologist and Neuroradiologist. He graduated from the UC Riverside/UC Los Angeles BS/MD program and did his Radiology residency training at UC San Diego and Neuroradiology fellowship at UC San Francisco. He joined the Southern California Permanente Medical Group in 1994 and served on its Board of Directors from 2000-­2006. Dr. Nguyen attended the Sunflower Mission work camp with his daughter in 2014. Education remains an integral part of his activities through leadership roles in community PTSA and GATE programs and lecturing at UC Riverside Medical School.

Shaunna Black is President of Shaunna Black & Associates. She provides confidential solutions and services for business leaders enabling them to rapidly solve complicated problems. Specializing in global operations, turnaround consulting, and culture design, Ms. Black has managed operations internationally in 25 countries. From 1995 to 2009 Ms. Black served as Vice President with Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI) and led many organizations, including Worldwide Facilities.

Ms. Black serves on the Board of Directors for Micropac Industries, Inc., Operating Partner for Texas Women Ventures, Executive Advisory Board for the UT-Austin Cockrell School of Engineering, Advisory Board for the Alliance of Technology and Women, and Advisory Board for the Institute of Excellence in Corporate Governance at UT Dallas.

In her career Ms. Black has received many awards including the Alliance of Technology and Women's Lifetime Achievement Award, Pink's Top 15 Women in Business, Women in Technology Hall of Fame, Maura Women Helping Women, Tech Titans Community Hero Award, Frank Bromilow Distinguished Lecturer, and Circle of Honor. Ms. Black holds Bachelor of Science degrees in Mechanical Engineering from New Mexico State University and in Education from the University of Texas in Austin.

Barry McGeough is an Applied Innovation Fortune 500 leader in the footwear, apparel, and tech sectors. He delivers high-impact solutions to global multi-brand verticals from VF to PVH, Google to Wolverine Worldwide with product-agnostic enterprise-level digital, materials science, and business transformation innovations that drive exponential growth to some of the world’s most iconic brands like The North Face, Speedo, Merrell, Saucony, Exxon Mobile, Calvin Klein, and Tommy Hilfiger.

Recently appointed Americo Group’s Global Vice President of Innovation, Barry and his team will amplify the innovation process of dozens of globally recognized licensed and owned brands. He focuses on both the radical productization of new materials science and green-engineered solutions for circularity and digitalization of the consumer experience by accelerating the impact of 3D and AI along the value chain, bringing the process and productization of meaningful innovation, at scale.

Barry and his wife (Vi Ma) joined Sunflower Mission (SM)’s work camp for the first time in 2023, after having attended SM’s 20th anniversary gala. Barry’s personal call to civic duty is very well aligned with the work SM does. As a result, he and Vi became part of SM’s 100% volunteer-based operational staff and will attend work camp again in 2024. Barry shared: “As the son of working-class parents raised in a turbulent household with an unsure future, the only ray of hope for a stable life was education. Having availed myself of all forms of financial assistance, I was able to attend USC and get the kind of education that has, with hard work, helped me secure the kind of life and professional fulfillment my parents could only have dreamed of. Having paid these debts back, it is my duty and responsibility to pay it forward to a new generation so that I might help them to help themselves to a better tomorrow. I am blessed to have been introduced and invited into the Sunflower Mission family. It has been my honor to support the mission and volunteer at Work Camp, and it is an even greater honor to join the Board of Advisors so that I can bring my skills in business and in the Corporate Community to benefit this amazing organization.”