Lupe Fraga
Lupe Fraga of Houston received his Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Texas A&M University in 1957. During his tenure at A&M, he was a letterman on the TAMU baseball team. He is Chairman and CEO of Tejas Office Products, Inc. Fraga began his career in the office products industry more than 44 years ago after serving in the United States Army.
Mr. Fraga is very active in the Houston community. He has served as Chairman of the Board of the Harris County Child Protective Services, the Houston Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, the Greater Houston Convention and Visitor’s Bureau and is currently the Chairman of the Board of the Federal Reserve Bank Dallas-Houston Branch.
Mr. Fraga has served as a trustee of St. Thomas University and is Chairman Emeritus of the Houston Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. He is and has been a member of the Development Board for the Galveston-Houston Catholic Diocese, Metropolitan and National YMCA, the Houston Hispanic Forum, Strake Foundation, Houston Urban League, Houston Proud, Sam Houston Area Boy Scouts, Trees for Houston and Zoological Society. Mr. Fraga also serves on the executive committee of the United Way-Gulf Coast Chapter, the Greater Houston Partnership and the Houston Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. On assuming office, Mayor Bill White appointed
Mr. Fraga to the Mayoral Economic Task Force.
Mr. Fraga’s Company, Tejas Office Products, Inc., has been recognized by the Houston Business Journal as one of Houston’s Top 100 Small Businesses as well as one of the largest minority-owned businesses. Other awards that Tejas Office Products has received include the Houston Minority Business Council Supplier of the Year (1991 and 2001) and their Emerging
E-10 Award (2002); Shell Oil Company MWBE Supplier of the Year (2002); and CenterPoint Energy Minority Supplier of the Year (2003).
Mr. Fraga is a 2003 recipient of the Mays Business School Outstanding Alumnus Award from Texas A&M University, University of Houston Downtown Volunteer of the Year in 1997, 1993 Houston Hispanic Chamber’s Businessman of the Year, the 1992 Fiestas Patrias Hispanic of the Year and has been inducted into the St. Thomas High School Hall of Honor. In 2004, the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce named him Hispanic Businessman of the Year for Region III. That same year, 2004, Mr. Fraga was recognized as Father of the Year by Community Partners.
Mr. Fraga was appointed to the Board of Regents by Governor Rick Perry in 2005. He serves on the Committee on Audit and the Committee on Academic and Student Affairs. Mr. Fraga is also a member of the Committee on Campus Art and Aesthetic Improvement, the Policy Review Committee and serves as the Board’s liaison to the Executive Committee of the Panhandle Plains Historical Museum. He has served as chair of the Special Committee on Educational Access. His term expires February 1, 2011.