Ricardo Baca Mares
Ricardo Antonio Baca is the CEO/Founder at RAB Law Firm, P.C. where his practice focuses on corporate and construction law issues. Prior to starting his own law practice, Mr. Baca was an associate with the litigation and construction/surety sections of the law firm Coats Rose Yale Ryman & Lee, P.C. Before joining such firm, Mr. Baca worked with several architectural firms around Texas, where he focused on commercial, industrial, and higher education projects and successfully completed the Internship Development Program as monitored by the National Council of Architecture Registration Boards. Mr. Baca’s legal practice focuses on all aspects of commercial and residential construction litigation as well as international corporate law issues for clients throughout Central and South America. Mr. Baca represents architects, homeowners, engineers, general contractors, developers and subcontractors.

Marcus L. Davis
Marcus L. Davis, president and CEO of tbk Holding, Inc. – parent company of the breakfast klub and the Reggae Hut – has more than 20 years food service experience as the guiding force behind two of Houston’s hottest eating establishments. Receiving his early training working with his father’s catering business, Davis worked his way through the ranks with Chick-fil-A, Inc., and become a field general manager overseeing quality control for franchises in Florida, Georgia and Texas. After a three-year tenure as a history teacher at Sharpstown Middle School, Davis returned to his true calling to open the breakfast klub in 2001. A native Houstonian, Davis is a graduate of Kashmere High School and an alumnus of Texas Southern University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science.

Brian Jackson
Brian W. Jackson is Manager of Technical Services for Campus Services & Operations at Texas Southern University; which oversees parking facilities for the University.  His responsibilities include serving as computer administrator and creative agent for various university computer service systems such as Blackboard Transaction, Event Management System, and Symon Digital Signage. He also creates and maintains six departmental websites under the Campus Services & Operations umbrella. Mr. Jackson brings more than 15 years of computer graphics, animation, video production, GIS and database management to the Commission.  He holds a Bachelors degree in Television and Radio Production from Prairie View A&M University.

Dallas Jones
Dallas Jones brings several years of government experience to the Parking Commission. In his current position as District Director for Senator Rodney Ellis (District 13), Jones' responsibilities include constituent services, community relations and communications. He has worked under Congresswomen Sheila Jackson Lee and Representative Garnet Coleman as well as a Regional Field Director for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Jones is extremely active in the community and participates in the boards of several active organizations including Express Children's Theater, Fourth Ward Redevelopment Authority, and the Exceptional Men of The Talented Tenth, Inc.

Andrew J. Layden
Andrew Layden is Director of Business Development for Standard Parking covering all Texas cities and New Orleans, Louisiana. His responsibilities include developing relationships, creating business partnerships and procuring new business. Mr. Layden brings more than twenty years of parking experience to the Commission. He also serves on the Parade Committee for the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. He holds a bachelors degree in business administration from the University of Texas in Austin.

M. Marvin Katz
Renowned Houston real estate, probate and estate planning attorney Marvin Katz joined the Parking Commission after more than 50 years of practicing law. A 1954 graduate of Texas A&M University, Katz received his law degree from the University of Texas School of Law in 1959 and has since been featured in numerous articles in Texas Law Review and Southwestern Law Journal. He also is a frequent lecturer in real estate programs sponsored by the Texas Bar Association, Houston Bar Association, the University of Texas School of Law, Georgetown University School of Law, South Texas School of Law and the City of Houston, as well as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Houston.  Katz has served on numerous committees and task forces involving City of Houston municipal matters, including chairman for the City of Houston Planning Commission, among others.

Evalyn L. Krudy
A former member of the Texas Medical Center Transportation Taskforce, Evalyn Krudy now serves as principal for Civic Associates, which provides assistance for homeowners groups and nonprofit organizations. Krudy served as executive director for University Place Association and Super Neighborhood Council from 1998 through 2001, and now serves on the Council and Board of these organizations. She was actively involved in the development of the Residential Parking Permit ordinance, which helps curb commuter parking in neighborhoods. Since 1989 she has served as chairman or co-chairman of Trees for Boulevard Oaks. She also served on the executive and bylaws committees for Blueprint Houston and was a cofounder of B. I. R T. H (Bringing Information and Resources to Houston).

F. Xavier Peña
F. Xavier Peña is Senior Counsel for Finance at Plains All American Pipeline, L.P. His areas of expertise include debt financing and corporate governance.  Prior to joining Plains, Peña was an attorney for seven years at Vinson & Elkins L.L.P.  His principal area of practice at Vinson & Elkins was public finance with an emphasis on tax-exempt finance, municipal finance and urban development.  In addition to practicing law, Peña is active in the community, currently serving as Chairman of the Board of Santa Maria Hostel, a non-profit drug recovery center in Houston.  Peña is also on the Board of Directors of Writers In the Schools and an Advisory Board Member for the Hispanic Scholarship Fund.  Peña received his Bachelor of Business Administration in accounting and his Master in Professional Accounting from The University of Texas in 1997.  He received his Doctor of Jurisprudence from the University of Texas School of Law in 2001.  Peña is also a licensed Certified Public Accountant. 

Charles D. Reedstrom
A Certified Administrator of Public Parking (CAPP), Reedstrom serves as Senior Practice Builder for Kimley-Horn & Associates, Inc. He is responsible for projects that include the design and implementation of parking revenue control systems and ground transportation systems for controlling and tracking commercial vehicles through airports, parking analysis and studies, parking rate analysis, feasibility studies and site selection for new parking facilities. He also provides the design and implementation of Parking Guidance Systems (PGS) and wayfinding to improve patron’s ability to quickly find available parking thus reducing vehicular carbon output and reducing energy.

Reedstrom is a member of the Advisory Council for the International Parking Institute, a member of Class XX of Leadership Houston and previously served as director of the Texas Parking Association. Several of his literary works have been published in various trade publications, including a chapter discussing technology in parking applications in the parking handbook, "Parking 101: A Parking Primer," published by the International Parking Institute.