President:Mr. Norman Bermes
Vice
President - ProgramsSarah Walker
SecretaryMr. Dan Cooper
Mr. Bill Schwennsen
Bill Schwennsen is the Immediate Past President the East Fort Worth Business Association.
Bill is a life-long resident of East Fort Worth, graduating from Eastern Hills High School in 1973, and from Texas A&M University in 1977 with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Marketing. Following graduation, Bill returned to Fort Worth and spent four years in corporate finance at General Dynamics-Fort Worth (now Lockheed Martin). After spending eighteen years in business insurance marketing, Bill is currently an investment representative with Edward Jones. Bill's office is in the Eastchase area of East Fort Worth, and he advises individual investors and small business owners on setting and achieving financial objectives.
Bill's community involvement is evident in the many organizations he participates in. He is a 1996 graduate of Leadership Fort Worth and is currently President of Goals for East Fort Worth. He also serves as Chair of the White Lake Hills Community Trust, as an area representative for the Texas A&M Association of Former Students, and is a Past-President of the Fort Worth/Tarrant County A&M Club.
Bill and his wife, Trish, have lived in the White Lake Hills neighborhood since 1983. They have two children: Chrissy, who attends Nolan Catholic High School, and Billy, a student at St. John The Apostle School. Ginger, East Fort Worth's most spoiled Basset Hound, rounds out the Schwennsen family.
Community
Affairs DirectorMs. Wanda Conlin
Economic DirectorDr. Tim Morton
Dr. Morton received his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine in 1990 from Texas A&M University. After a year of practicing dairy medicine, he found himself in Dallas, where his wife, Becky, was in dental school.
In Dallas, he joined MRSW, Inc., one of veterinary medicine's first corporate practices and shortly thereafter became the first District Manager for PetSmart Veterinary Services managing several veterinary practices in Texas and New Mexico. After five years with MRSW, Dr. Morton knew he needed more tools to better perform in an expanding veterinary profession. He decided law school would provide many of those tools and received his law degree from SMU in 1999.
Following law school, Tim, and business partner and wife, Dr. Becky Morton, took their interest in business and passion for their professions into private practice. They saw great opportunity in East Fort Worth. They purchased and merged four East Side veterinary practices, Handley Animal Hospital, Woodhaven Pet Clinic, Oakhaven Pet Clinic and Zahn Pet Clinic. The result is Family PetCare. At the same time, Becky started her Dental practice inside the Family PetCare building.
Dr. Morton currently practices veterinary medicine as well as business and veterinary law at his office inside the Family PetCare building allowing him to switch hats throughout the day. Dr. Morton's veterinary interests include vigilant attention to patient comfort and wellbeing, providing technology, training and support to Family PetCare's terrific staff and providing spay/neuter/health services to established rescue groups.
Tim and Becky are big believers in East Fort Worth as a great place to live, work and play. They moved their family here several years ago and preach the appeal of East Fort Worth to all who will listen. Becky sold her dental practice in 2005 to spend more time developing their other business interests and to dedicate more time to their daughter, Sarah, and son, Joshua. They have a host of pets including birds, reptiles, dogs and cats as well as being self-appointed protectors of wildlife, and their habitats, in and around East Fort Worth.
DirectorPhilip Aldridge
DirectorDoug Henderson