Dallas Fed reappoints Gina Luna to Houston Branch board

For Immediate Release: January 8, 2021

DALLAS—The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas has reappointed Gina Luna to its Houston Branch board of directors for a term ending Dec. 31, 2023.

Luna joined the Houston Branch board in 2018.

As a board member, Luna provides input on regional economic conditions as part of the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy functions.

Luna is a managing partner of GP Capital Partners, LP, a private credit/equity fund focused on lower middle-market companies. She is a board member of two public companies and one privately held company. In 2016, she founded Luna Strategies to advise companies on complex strategic issues and growth initiatives. Previously, she was chair of JPMorgan Chase in the Houston Region and head of middle-market banking.

Luna is the founding board chair for Houston Exponential, an organization focused on building the city’s innovation ecosystem, and is a senior advisor to the HX Venture Fund.  She is also board chair of St. Luke’s Health System and serves as a trustee of The Texas A&M Foundation, The Welch Foundation, The Welch Institute and Baylor College of Medicine. 

She was elected chair of the Greater Houston Partnership in 2015 and served as chair of the nationally acclaimed workforce initiative, UpSkill Houston, from 2013 to 2017.  She continues her service on the GHP board, and executive and nominating committees.

Luna is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors, Women Corporate Directors, International Women’s Forum, and the Texas A&M Mays School of Business Dean's Advisory Board. She is active in the Young Presidents’ Organization.

Luna received the Bob Onstead Leadership Award from the Greater Houston Partnership, is a Greater Houston Women’s Chamber of Commerce Hall of Fame inductee and was named one of Houston’s 50 Most Influential Women.

She is a summa cum laude graduate of Texas A&M University.

The Houston Branch board consists of seven members, four appointed by the Dallas Fed and three by the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington, D.C.

For more information on the Dallas Fed, visit www.dallasfed.org.

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Media contact:
James Hoard
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Phone: (214) 922-5307
Email: james.hoard@dal.frb.org