Pike Powers

Pike Powers is a super-lawyer-turned-entrepreneur whose leadership helped turn Austin from a university town into a high-tech powerhouse. Powers, a 1962 Lamar University graduate honored in 1978 as a Lamar Distinguished Alumnus, was partner-in-charge of the Austin office of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P, from 1978 through 2004.

His leadership promoted a new creative spirit in the capital city - one that seized on global opportunities for economic development. That effort began in the governor's office where Powers led in rallying the community toward the goal of landing the most prestigious economic development prize of the early 1980s - the Microelectronics Computer Technology Consortium (MCC).