Staff

Manuel (Ned) Muñoz
Team Leader

Academic Background: Bachelor of Arts in Political Science/International Relations, Austin College. Doctor of Jurisprudence, University of Texas School of Law. Studied international and comparative law at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London.

Areas of Expertise: Securities regulation, international finance and high yield debt

Muñoz worked for two and one half years as an attorney at Bear, Stearns & Co. in the areas of emerging markets loan trading, high yield debt transactions and restricted securities. Muñoz is fluent in Spanish.

Jesse Ancira

Academic Background: Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting, Southwest Texas State University; Doctor of jurisprudence, University of Texas School of Law.

Areas of Expertise: Legislative liaison and criminal justice

Jesse Ancira, Jr. is the Comptroller's legislative director and tax ombudsman, responsible for advising the Comptroller and executive managers on legislative issues affecting agency operations; interpreting legislation; participating in the interpretation and development of tax policy issues; managing agency efforts to pass legislation of interest to the Comptroller; and advising and assisting taxpayers with matters concerning agency tax policies.

Before joining the Comptroller's office, Ancira served as a legislative liaison for the Texas State Auditor's Office (SAO), advising managers on relevant tax legislation and supporting SAO's legislative agenda. He also served as an in-house consultant to SAO's White Collar Crime Unit, evaluating the scope and methodology of agency investigations. Prior to this assignment at SAO, Ancira was a special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, where he investigated the activities of Mexican and Colombian drug trafficking organizations and participated in the preparation of affidavits, surveillance, searches, arrests and other police functions. He also has held positions as general counsel to the Texas Legislature's Joint House and Senate General Investigating Committee and as a supervising state auditor for SAO.

Mary Louise (Mary Lou) Gibson

See Health Care and Human Services Team.

Winfred Kang

Academic Background: Bachelors of Arts in Economics, University of Texas, Masters in Economics, University of Texas

Areas of Expertise: Revenue estimating and public gaming

Winfred Kang is a revenue estimator, primarily responsible for analyzing court cost and gambling (bingo, pari-mutuel and lottery) revenues as well as economic trends. Additionally, Winfred assists in assembling the Biennial Revenue Estimate and Certification Estimate. He has held this position since 1991. Winfred has contributed to three statewide TPR reports and numerous special projects for the agency and has provided fiscal analysis for the past five legislative sessions.

Before joining the Comptroller's office, Kang was a research analyst for an Austin consulting company.

Lee Sprengel

See Government Performance Team.

Clint Winters

Academic Background: Bachelor of Arts in Economics, St. Edward's University; Masters in Public Affairs, the University of Texas at Austin, LBJ School of Public Affairs.

Areas of Expertise: Public safety and transportation issues

Key Projects: Texas Performance Reviews,, including reviews of the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation and the Texas Prison Industry

Clint Winters has 18 years of experience in policy analysis and the state and federal legislative processes. He is presently a member of the Comptroller's Research and Policy Development Division and is co-team leader for the Comptroller's upcoming review of the Texas Department of Transportation. As a member of the Texas Performance Review (TPR) team, Winters led teams on numerous projects, including the Comptroller's 1995 Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation review New Models of Care ; the public safety chapters of two major TPR statewide reviews; and the 1999 Texas Prison Industry Review.

From 1991 to 1995, Winters worked at the Governor's Office as a policy analyst responsible for tracking transportation, local government and other general government issues. In the latter 1980s, he was a policy analyst for the State Treasury, providing analysis for executive staff on policy issues including economic development, infrastructure finance, natural resources, state and local government organization and tax policy. From 1981 to 1985, he was employed by the Comptroller's office as an economist, working in areas such as water supply, economics, government organization and transportation.

Winters has developed and taught courses at St. Edward's University as an adjunct professor, including Political Science.

Linda Yarbrough

Academic Background : Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting, with honors, the University of Texas at Austin.

Areas of Expertise: Criminal justice, governmental accounting and governmental auditing

Key Projects: Texas Performance Reviews, Texas Comprehensive Annual Financial Report and reviews of the state's criminal justice system

Linda Yarbrough has extensive experience as a financial analyst and in-depth knowledge of both the statewide financial system and the Comptroller's internal finance system. Yarbrough currently works in the Information Technology Division as a system analyst of the Integrated Statewide Administrative System. Prior to this, she worked for three years in Fund Accounting as a financial analyst, compiling state agencies' annual financial reports into the Comptroller's Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for the State of Texas (CAFR). While in Fund Accounting, she also worked on the Treasury reconciliation project, the Treasury merger and TPR issues.

While in the Comptroller's Internal Audit Division, Yarbrough participated in the first TPR review, and became a part of TPR when it became a permanent division of the Comptroller's office. She contributed issues to three statewide TPR reviews as well as TPR's reviews of the state's criminal justice system, the Department of Human Services' Office of the Inspector General and the Texas Education Agency. She also coordinated the agency's Supported Employment Summit, which became considered a national model for efforts of its type. Yarbrough also spent 13 years in the Comptroller's Audit Division, where she audited state taxes, managed audit training and developed the automated audit system.