Board Of Directors
Meet the Team
Allison Rix, Chair
Allison has served on CCFW’s Board of Directors since March of 2020. Allison is the founder of Allison Rix, Inc., a national recruiting firm for the pharmaceutical, medical device and biotechnology industry. Allison spent more than 14 years in medical sales and management. She started her award-winning career with Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, where she was the youngest sales representative promoted to District Sales Manager. Allison was a National Sales Director for Biovail. Today, she uses her extensive industry knowledge and relationships to attract top talent and provide superior recruiting services to clients and candidates.
Allison resides in Fort Worth, Texas, with her husband and son.
Butch Bercher, Vice Chair
Butch has served as a member of CCFW’s Board of Directors for more than 10 years. After retiring from a 32-year career at GTE, now Verizon, Butch became a ‘professional-volunteer’ in 2000.
Butch is a veteran of the United States Army (82nd Airborne). He holds his Bachelor of Science from the State University of New York at Albany and his MBA from Elon University. He has been married to his wife, Frankie, for 57 wonderful years. Together, they have two children, seven grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
Austin Barr, Treasurer
Austin Barr has been a longtime supporter of CCFW and has been thrilled to join the board and chair the Finance Committee. When not volunteering, he works as an Executive Director with J.P.Morgan Private Bank in Fort Worth. He specializes in managing client relationships in Texas and New Mexico working primarily with high net worth families. Austin provides advice on asset allocation, investment management, banking and specialized lending.
Prior to moving back to Texas, Austin served as a Captain in the Army’s Special Operations community, completing multiple deployments to Afghanistan with the elite 75th Ranger Regiment and 4th Infantry Division, where he was proud to lead soldiers in combat.
Austin is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he received a Bachelor’s of Science, and played four years of Division 1 football. Austin is also a graduate of the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas, Austin, where he received a Master’s in Business Administration.
Sunnie Sellers, Secretary
Sunnie Sellers learned the value of hard work growing up on a cattle ranch in Ringling Oklahoma. She earned her undergraduate degree in Finance from Oklahoma State University (1996–2000) before moving to Dallas to attend graduate school at Southern Methodist University.
Following graduate school, Sunnie spent over a decade in the corporate sector, including 12 years selling medical devices. For the past four years, she has served on the board of Catholic Charities, contributing her leadership and experience to support the organization’s mission.
A resident of Fort Worth for the past 20 years, Sunnie is deeply rooted in the community she calls home. She is married to Tommy Winters, and he helps her raise her 3 children.
Additional Board Members
Terrence Butler
Al Lobo
Michelle Marlow
Father Jack McKone
James Meintjes
Barbara Merkle
Natalie Ayala Hall
Debbie Morrison
Aaron Munoz
Mary Schlegel
Breda Shelton
Charlie Smith
Pat Svacina
Terry Wegemer