Sergio Rodríguez is the President and CEO of the Hector and Gloria López Foundation whose mission is to provide scholarships and persistence support to Latino students from Texas who are first in their family to pursue their baccalaureate degree. These students come from some of the most under-resourced parts of Texas, including South Texas, the Rio Grande Valley, San Antonio, El Paso and the Austin/Central Texas region. The Hector and Gloria López Foundation is the namesake of Sergio’s aunt and uncle, Hector and Gloria López, prominent South Texas ranchers whose ranching estate created one of the largest Latino-funded and Latino-dedicated private foundations in the country. Since its first grants in 2022, the Hector and Gloria López Foundation has granted over $25mm in scholarship support for first-generation Latino students with the goal of creating educated, economically mobile students to be the future leaders of Texas.

In his role as CEO of the Foundation, Sergio manages the endowment as well as 35,000 acres of South Texas ranches and mineral interests in 6 counties of South Texas. He also provides the philanthropic and grantmaking leadership to his team members in Austin and South Texas. Prior to this, Sergio spent 7 years managing GALO OPS, LLC (formerly GALO Land & Cattle Co.), the ranching business begun by his aunt and uncle in 1951. Sergio was also a Vice President and Account Executive for 20 years at CGI Technologies and Solutions, an international professional consulting and technology firm. In this position, Sergio sold and managed complex IT systems integration projects with federal, state, municipal and commercial clients in Washington DC, London, Denver and Austin.

Sergio is a native of Alice, Texas, but grew up in Austin, where he resides with his wife Louise and three daughters. Sergio currently sits on a number of boards, including serving as the Development Committee Chair of the Austin PBS Board of Directors and the Board of Trustees at St. Edward’s University. In the past, Sergio has also served on the boards of Con Mi MADRE, Breakthrough Central Texas and the Austin Community Foundation where he helped to found the Hispanic Impact Fund. He is also currently a member of the Philosophical Society of Texas, the Austin Area Research Organization (AARO) and the University of Texas Chancellor’s Council Executive Committee.

Sergio holds a Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University in Architecture and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.