The Magazine
THE ELEGANT TEXAN is a magazine that dares to be different in an age where we are inundated with color, “lifestyle” magazines, social networking and everyday images in all forms of print media. NO OTHER TEXAS MAGAZINE appeals specifically to those with refined tastes and higher intellects.
With a focus on the finer things in life, we strive for artistic quality, intriguing and different articles, first class photographic imagery and a concentration on the people, events and locations that make Texas the truly GREAT state! With its large footprint format of 11” x 14”, this magazine makes a dramatic visual impression. 
Our publication makes timeless use of black and white imagery with the occasional, well positioned use of color splashes to surprise and accentuate. We have conceived and designed a magazine that is meant to grace the homes and offices of our subscribers, to present the products and services of our advertisers in a tasteful yet powerful format, and to entertain our casual readers.
THE ELEGANT TEXAN has been published in Texas since 2002, and we continually hear shouts of approval and clamoring for more from our readers. Now, in 2011, and in response to requests from subscribers and advertisers alike, we are continuing to publish THE ELEGANT TEXAN with some color highlights and on a biannual basis.
THE ELEGANT TEXAN is designed for the more discerning and sophisticated Texan, and we thank all of you for your valued input and support .
The Publisher
Kim Cleaver
Kim Cleaver played a major role in the American Funeral Industry for almost 30 years, and she built her career at one of the largest Funeral Home/Cemetery complexes in North America at Restland, Dallas and found her vocation. She was a consistent over-achiever and rapidly rose in the sales organization of Stewart Enterprises, the second-largest, public Funeral Home/Cemetery company in the United States, becoming Vice President of Sales in 1990, and Executive Vice President of Sales in 1993. At this time, she was the first senior female executive in the industry.
In 1997 she joined Rose Hills Company (California) as the Executive Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Operations, with full responsibility for the largest funeral home/cemetery complex in North America at Rose Hills, California. Under her guidance and leadership, Rose Hills rapidly achieved spectacular growth, and by expanding Rose Hills from $20 million to $80 million in annual sales, she set a sales record for the industry in 2000. This has still never been beaten and when Rose Hills was acquired by SCI, the largest, public Funeral Home/Cemetery company in the world, this record is still mentioned on their website to this day. As part of Rose Hills, she recruited, organized and managed the largest Asian sales force in the country, at one point, employing over 250 sales staff alone in this market sector.
She took a hiatus from the Funeral Business in 2000, to move back to Texas to open a successful printing company. Since that time, she has succesfully startied 3 regional Texas magazines; CityGuide, The Elegant Texan and The Elegant Woman. From the beginning of the 2000s, her passion has always been the flagship publication The Elegant Texan, and she now continues to dedicate her time and energy to growing this publication and helping the many charities that are featured in this series of magazines.
The Editor-in-chief
Glyn Meek
Glyn Meek has been in high-tech industries for over 40 years and brings a technology perspective to the publishing business as it is experiencing rapid changes in the 21st century.
In a European-based career up through 1980, he was involved in a variety of technical projects including a posting at the European Space Agency headquarters in West Germany. He was one of the early software developers on microprocessor based computers during the late 1970s.
He moved to Dallas, Texas in the early 1980s where he worked extensively in the Healthcare IT industry, helping to design a number of Hospital Information Systems and Pharmacy Systems. During this time, he personally developed a software product in 1984 that was nominated as ‘Best New Software Product of the Year’ by Infoworld magazine, helped design the Michigan State Lottery hardware/software system, and through the permanent Under Secretary of Labor, assisted the US Department of Labor in the production of one of the first government HTML-based services for small companies. After a spell working with Mort Meyerson, the former CEO of Perot Systems, he joined Dell Computer Corporation in 1989 as the first CIO, and stayed for 3 years during the early, spectacular growth of Dell. Later, after leaving Dell, he was the VP of Services for Tivoli when IBM purchased Tivoli and he served as an IBM VP for a number of years after the acquisition.
After a period as COO of Collective Technologies, where he grew the company from 50 to 600 people, providing Systems Management and general Unix consultants to Fortune 500 companies and Wall Street brokerage firms, he formed a venture-funded startup. He ran TriActive during the dotcom ‘boom’ and raised $25 million to fund the company which is still in existence today and which survived the equally famous dotcom ‘bust’. At the request of the Mayor of Austin and the Texas Governor’s Office, he was the President and CEO of the WCIT2006 (World Congress on Information Technology) organization from early 2005, and was involved in the planning and execution of this prestigious, globally-recognized, biennial congress on behalf of WITSA (World Information Technology Services Alliance). He was personally presented with a Texas Leadership Award by the Governor of Texas for this largest ever gathering of international IT professionals in the State of Texas. He is a partner in a small software company (in 2005, the product he personally designed and wrote, was nominated by Pocket PC Magazine as ‘Best New Business Product of the Year’), has been editor-in-chief of The Elegant Texan since 2002 and has been an adjunct professor in Entrepreneurship at the University of Texas McCombs Business School. He serves on the Advisory Board of St. Edwards University, and as the chairman of two software companies, he has been actively involved in the fund-raising, sales, marketing and technical design areas of the organizations.
He has been published in CIO Magazine, is internationally recognized as a speaker on IT related issues, writes a bi-weekly blog for ComputerWorld as The Geezer Geek and consults on a variety of IT projects around the world.
