Laurence Hirsch's Email & Phone

Laurence E. Hirsch, Chairman. Mr. Hirsch co-founded Highlander Partners in April 2004 after he retired from the position of CEO and Chairman of the Board of Centex Corporation, one of the largest homebuilding and related financial services companies in the U.S at that time (in 2009 Centex was acquired by Pulte Homes Inc.). Mr. Hirsch had served as Centex's CEO since 1988 and as Chairman since 1991. He joined the company in 1985 as President, COO and a Board member. During Mr. Hirsch's 18-year tenure as CEO, Centex rapidly expanded its core homebuilding business and added new financial services and home services businesses. Revenues grew from just over $1 billion to more than $10 billion, net earnings rose from $40 million to $825 million and the company's stock price increased twenty-fold. Prior to Centex, Mr. Hirsch served as President, CEO, and a director of Southdown, Inc., a cement and oil and gas producer. Mr. Hirsch successfully transformed Southdown, Inc. from a struggling conglomerate into the country's premier domestically-owned cement producer, which was later acquired by Cemex, S.A. de C.V. Prior to that, he was a partner at Bracewell and Patterson, a Houston-based law firm. Mr. Hirsch holds a B.S. in Economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania as well as a J.D., cum laude, from the Villanova University School of Law and a Masters Degree in International Public Policy from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. In December 2008, Mr. Hirsch joined the board of directors of Freddie Mac as an independent director. Currently, he also serves on the boards of directors of A. H. Belo Corporation (NYSE:AHC), a newspaper publishing company, and Eagle Materials Inc. (NYSE:EXP), a construction products company, and he is Chairman of the Center for European Policy Analysis and an Advisory Director of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Mr. Hirsch received the Bene Merito award from the government of Poland in 2010. © 2004-2011 Highlander Partners,L.P. All rights reserved.