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Glenn Hegar was elected Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts in 2014 and was re-elected in 2018 and 2022.

Hegar is a sixth-generation Texan who grew up farming land that has been in his family since the mid-1800s. He’s a 1993 graduate of Texas A&M University and earned his law degree at St. Mary’s University. Before his election as Texas Comptroller, he served in the Texas House of Representatives and Texas Senate, where he worked on issues including public education, transportation, tax reform, government transparency, Second Amendment rights, water issues and tort reform.

As comptroller, Hegar is chief finance officer for the world’s eighth-largest economy. He has emerged as a passionate advocate for conservative financial management who focuses on his agency's constitutional duties and is committed to maintaining its reputation for customer service and transparency. He founded the state’s Transparency Stars program, pushed for ways to protect our Rainy Day Fund against rising inflation, worked to reform our state pension systems and guided the formation of the nation’s first state-administered precious metals depository. Hegar is recently working toward closing Texas’ digital divide and remediating the opioid crisis, through the Broadband Development Office and Opioid Abatement Fund Council, respectively.

His upbringing taught him the core values of hard work, honesty and integrity — the same values he and his wife Dara work to instill in their three teenagers, Claire, Julia and Jonah. Hegar’s most important title throughout his years of service is the one closest to home: Dad!

Marianne Fazen, PhD is President and CEO of the Texas Business Group on Health, a statewide coalition representing the interests of Texas employers in healthcare purchasing and policy issues. She also serves as Executive Director of the Dallas-Fort Worth Business Group on Health, a regional employer-led coalition of 155 DFW-area employers and other healthcare stakeholders committed to improving healthcare quality, efficiency, and patient outcomes in North Texas. Both coalitions advocate a value-driven approach to employer-sponsored healthcare and rapid transformation of the current fragmented healthcare delivery system into integrated, accountable patient-centered systems of care.

Dr. Fazen also serves on the Board of Directors (Past Chair) of URAC, a national managed care accreditation organization, and on the Executive Committee of the North Texas Accountable Healthcare Partnership, a regional multi-stakeholder collaborative initiative focused on healthcare system transformation in North Texas. She is the Past President and out-going Treasurer of Board of Governors of the National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions, a national organization representing 50 regional employer coalitions across the country.

Dr. Fazen has an undergraduate degree in Medical Technology from University of Wisconsin and a Doctorate in Communications Science & Human Development from University of Texas at Dallas.

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