Priscilla Plumb

Priscilla’s experience spans over 35 years in corporate and professional services endeavors. Currently, she is a partner and practice leader at Sorrell, a boutique executive search and management consulting firm based in Houston.

Priscilla’s prior professional experiences are wide-ranging and diverse. In a leading role on HP’s Global Social Investment team, she managed community programs and large-scale alliances for corporate philanthropy and directed both strategic planning and grant implementation for the HP Company Foundation. As part of the executive team of HP Government and Public Affairs, she managed site-based government relations and public policy programs across the U.S., Latin America and Canada. She served on the corporate merger Program Management team prior to HP’s acquisition of Compaq Computer Corporation and contributed extensive work in cross-cultural integration for the two companies. She also has wide-ranging operational management experience, having served as the Chief of Staff to Compaq’s General Counsel. She has broad marketing and communications expertise and served as the Chief Marketing Officer for UHY Advisors, Texas. Additionally, as a Senior Director with ROI Communication she provided myriad internal communication consulting services to large, global, corporate clients, many of whom were undergoing significant growth and transformation. In the non-profit realm, over a two-year period she was a full-time consultant to the H.E. Butt Family Foundation as part of a think-tank experimenting with new program offerings. More recently, she served as one of the “on loan” leaders of the 2016 Pursuit for Those with DisABILITIES endeavor supporting The Center (serving individuals with I/DD).

Priscilla received her B.S. in Communications from UT Austin and is a Rice Jones School graduate (EMBA 2001) and Jones Citizenship Award recipient. After receiving her MBA, she remained very active with Rice and the Jones School, serving on the Jones Executive Programs Committee, the Jones School Alumni Association Board, and the Rice Alliance Roundtable Advisory Board. She also has participated as a judge in the Rice Business Plan competition for many years.

An avid community participant, Priscilla has enthusiastically supported several other education, civic and non-profit organizations. She has served as a member of the University of St. Thomas (UST) President’s Advisory Council, co-chair of UST’s Performing and Fine Arts Council, a Senior Fellow and Trustee of the American Leadership Forum (ALF) Houston Chapter (Class XXIII and Graduate Class II), and a Trustee of ALF’s National Board. She is a graduate of the Center for Houston’s Future Business/Civic Leadership Forum and has been very active with the Greater Houston Partnership. Her non-profit board service has included the American Red Cross for the Gulf Coast Region, Junior Achievement of Southeast Texas, and the Houston Technology Center (Advisory) among others. She currently serves on the Vestry of Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church as well as being an active Stephen Minister.

On the home front, she stays busy with recreational interests ranging from yoga, cycling and walking in her beloved Rice University neighborhood; enjoying restaurants, movies and travel with her significant other; spoiling her rescue dog Pepper; spending quality time with her extended family; and entertaining one or more of her 10 grandchildren (all under the age of 7, with more on the way). Life is good!