Doug Beatty

Doug Beatty was born in Ohio but moved to Texas at an early age and grew up in Houston.  He graduated from Bellaire High School and eventually received a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Houston.  After four years in the Air Force, Doug returned to Houston married to wife Iris and he worked 35 years for Texaco as an information technology professional in a variety of assignments, while Iris began a piano teaching business.  He opted to retire one year after the merger that formed ChevronTexaco.

Currently, Doug is on the board of Gabriel's Gifts, a non-profit, missing children's organization formed in 2000 to provide services and support along the spectrum of missing child issues.  He is also an avid golfer and tennis player and is on the Tennis Committee at the University Club.

Doug and Iris have been married 35 years, have two children, attend Westbury UMC, and reside in Bellaire. The Beatty's two children are both in the performing arts: a daughter who runs the Williamsburg Art Nexus performing arts center in Brooklyn, New York, and a son who recently acquired a B.A. degree from Northwestern University in Radio-Television-Film.