Sherry Mose is the Executive Director of the Houston Municipal Employees Pension System (HMEPS). Prior to becoming the System’s Executive Director in December 2025, Mose was the Plan Administrator of the City of Houston Deferred Compensation Plan for over 20 years, and was a long-term Trustee and Chairman of HMEPS. As Plan Administrator and HMEPS Chairman, Mose initiated and led the annual F.R.E.E. events to give City of Houston employees and retirees the opportunity to hear from experts on their pension, deferred compensation, social security and Medicare benefits. Mose serves as President of the Board of Directors of the Texas Association of Public Employee Retirement Systems (TEXPERS). Mose is also First Vice President of the Executive Board of the National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems (NCPERS). Mose also served as President for the National Association of Government Defined Contribution Administrators (NAGDCA) and has been a frequent speaker at deferred compensation and pension conferences. Among her accolades, Mose received the Director's Award for Outstanding Achievement, the City of Houston Communicator Award for excellence in employee communication, and the NAGDCA Leadership Recognition Award. Recognizing her outstanding leadership in making a difference for minorities and professional women, she received the Joyce Johnson Award from the National Association of Securities Professionals. Mose was involved in the School-To-Work program with the Houston Independent School District. As a former member of the Brentwood Baptist Church, she served as president of the New Members Orientation Committee and currently volunteers as a kindergarten associate at River Pointe Church.
The Houston Police Officers Board of Trustees elected Terry Bratton in January 2002. He has been Chairman for six years and is currently Vice Chairman. After more than 39 years with HPD, Bratton retired in August 2015. During his career, he spent most of his time training officers in tactics and force use. Bratton served as President of the Texas Police Association, holds an LLC from the Texas Law Enforcement Command College, and has an advanced instructor certificate from Texas A&M. In 2002, he received a lifetime achievement award from the 100 Club and a second achievement award in 2015 from HPD. Bratton is a chaplain with the Billy Graham Law Enforcement Rapid Response Team, a volunteer with PACA, and also volunteers with many organizations, including the HPD and HPOU Peer Support team, and COPLINE. His wife, Melanie, is also a retired HPD officer, and their youngest son, Tyler, is an officer currently working at the North Belt station.
Larry Knott retired from the Dallas Area Rapid Transit Retirement Plan & Trust, where he worked as a central support mechanic for more than 35 years. He has served over 10 years on the DART defined benefit retirement committee and was re-elected in 2015. He was elected to the TEXPERS Board of Directors in April 2018. Knott was the former executive vice president of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1338, serving 10 years in labor leadership. Before DART, he served three years of active duty and was Honorably Discharged from the U.S. Army.
Tyler Grossman is the executive director/chief investment officer of the El Paso Firemen & Policemen's Pension Fund. He was elected to the El Paso Firemen & Policemen's Pension Fund Board of Trustees in 2001. He served until 2006, when he took a brief leave of absence to work in Iraq with a private company protecting United States Diplomats, including the US Ambassador of Iraq. Upon his return, he was re-elected to the board as a trustee in 2009 and served as Chairman until his retirement in October 2015. He served El Paso citizens since 1994 as a police officer retiring as a lieutenant. Upon his retirement, he assumed the position of Executive Director in 2015 and Chief Investment Officer in 2020. He holds a bachelor's degree in criminal justice from Park University and an MBA from the University of Texas-El Paso. Grossman also graduated in July 2013 from the Bill Blackwood Law Enforcement Management Institute of Texas. He was elected to the TEXPERS Board of Directors in March 2012.
Brian Jones brings more than 30 years of fire service leadership and public‑sector stewardship to his work in Texas pension governance. He began his career in 1991 with Jacksonville Fire Department as a firefighter‑paramedic before joining Longview Fire, where he rose to Assistant Fire Chief and served the community for more than two decades. From 2007 to 2023, Jones served on the Longview Firemen’s Relief & Retirement Fund, spending nearly his entire tenure as vice‑chairman. He played a central role in developing the Fund’s Funding Soundness Restoration Plan, a collaborative effort with city leadership and advisors that ultimately benefited from the City of Longview’s approval of a $45.6 million pension obligation bond. This milestone restored the Fund’s amortization period and returned it to full compliance with Texas Pension Review Board guidelines. Jones credits the success of the effort to the shared vision he developed with fellow trustees Kolby Beckham and Andy Parker. After retiring from Longview Fire in 2023, Jones joined the Port Arthur Firemen’s Relief & Retirement Fund as a Civilian Trustee, where he helps guide fiduciary oversight, investment stewardship, and member‑focused policy. In April 2026, he was elected to the TEXPERS Board of Directors by the Fire Caucus during the association’s Annual Conference in Galveston, reflecting the confidence placed in him by fire service pension leaders statewide. Jones’ combined experience as a senior fire service leader, long‑serving pension trustee, and statewide representative gives him a unique perspective on the operational, financial, and human dimensions of firefighter retirement systems.
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Sherry Mose
Jose Cavazos
Carla Brewer
Larry Knott
Kolby Beckham
Brian Jones
Paul Thompson