Wes Kubesch
Vice President
Wes is a resident of Cuero, DeWitt County, Texas. He and his wife Courtney are graduates of Cuero High School. They moved back to Cuero in 2019, along with their four children.
Wes is a graduate of Rice University, holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® (CFA®) designation, and is a member of the CFA Institute. He has worked in the financial services industry for over 20 years. He currently is a Partner with Corient Wealth Management. Prior to its acquisition by Corient, Wes was the President of Galapagos Partners, a leading multi-family office in Houston, TX.
Wes has served on various boards, committees, and community organizations over the years.
Paul Celauro
F. Paul Celauro came to Texas in 1971. He settled in Houston and met Hochheim native Catherine Bitterly (Braden) in 1982 which led him to Cuero. They married in 1985 and bought a ranch in DeWitt County in 1987 where they are retired and live today.
Paul is a 1965 graduate of Vanderbilt University and a retired officer from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers where he served in the late 60’s. In the early 70’s he became a partner in the legendary Texas consulting firm Dannenbaum Engineering Corporation where he spent the last fifty years.
He is credited with originating many notable civil engineering projects around the state. His strengths have been in organizing, financing and implementing large regional projects.
Gayle Batts
A 31-year resident of DeWitt County, Green DeWitt Community, Gayle Batts graduated in 1969 from Calhoun High School, Port Lavaca, in 1972 from Texas State University, San Marcos, where she pursued a Bachelor of Science degree in Business, with secondary studies in English.
In 2015, she retired from a 41+ year sales career with the IBM Corporation, specializing in corporate leasing of computer hardware, software and services, holding related sales management positions.
After her retirement and until February of this year, she served on the Cuero ISD Education Foundation board and is now serving the organization as a community committee member, dedicated to growing their Corporate grant funding base.
Since moving to Cuero, she has been an active member and officer in the Cuero Pilot Club and is currently serving the Green DeWitt Community Center as First Vice President. She is a member of the First Baptist Church of Cuero where she is an active team member of the Kids First and Vacation Bible School programs.
She enjoys life at the Double O Bar Ranch with her husband, Tom, hosting frequent family gatherings, cooking for the cowboys and engaging with and supporting their 10 grandchildren both at home and in their schools and extracurricular activities.