Rebecca Contreras

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Rebecca Contreras of Hutto is the majority owner, co-founder, and President & CEO of AvantGarde, LLC (AG), a minority- and woman-owned small business consulting firm with capabilities in human resources, strategy, organizational change, business processes, and information technology. She has previously worked in executive leadership roles within the Office of the Texas Governor, the White House, and the U.S. Department of Treasury, working to drive large-scale people and organizational change initiatives. She is a member of the National Academy of Public Administrators and the Women President’s Organization. She is a former presidential appointee on the National Women’s Business Council and the Board of Visitors of the United States Military Academy at West Point, and served on the Board of Governors of the American Bible Society. For the past ten years, she and her husband have run LaunchPad, an Austin-based non-profit they co-founded to equip and enrich the lives of disadvantaged youth and underserved families through targeted programs and services. Rebecca has earned many professional certificates, including from the Senior Executive Development Program hosted by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management and from the Governor’s Executive Program hosted by The University of Texas at Austin LBJ School of Public Affairs.