Jerrell Gibbs received his Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration in Finance and his Masters degree in Management and Administration from Texas A&M. He is also a graduate of the Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program and the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College.
He served in the U.S. Army for over 20 years including assignments in Vietnam, serving as unit commander on three continents and artillery battalion commander in the First Cavalry Division. His last military assignment was with the Army General Staff in the Pentagon working with members of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate for approval of the Army’s annual budget.
Mr. Gibbs served for 22 years in various executive positions for TXU Corp., a Fortune 100 electric company, retiring as President. He also served as director of Nuclear Emergency Insurance Limited, Penn Virginia Corp., a public oil and gas exploration and production company and Quanta Services, Inc., a utility infrastructure construction and maintenance company.
He has been the Chairman of the Board of the Texas A&M Research Foundation, the Chairman for the Aggie Spirit Development Council in the One Spirit One Vision campaign, and a Director of Texas A&M University’s Private Enterprise Research Center. He served on the Advisory Council for the Texas A&M Health Science Center, the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets Development Council and the Texas A&M President’s Board of Visitors.