Leadership

Fred R. Lummis, a Houston businessman and entrepreneur, was elected a trustee of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in 2010. 

Fred R. Lummis is chairman and chief executive officer of Platform Partners, LLC, a Houston, TX-based investment company he cofounded in 2006. He and his family have a long association with HHMI. His father, William R. Lummis, served as a charter trustee of the Institute for more than two decades until his retirement in 2007. The elder Lummis played a critical role in the reorganization of the Institute following the death of Howard R. Hughes, Jr., the Institute's founder and Lummis’ cousin.