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Barbara Payne is Managing Partner of Water Lily Press, Inc. and President of Payne Communications. She has been a consultant in Houston since 1978. She started her public relations career in 1970 with the American Petroleum Institute in Washington, D.C., the national trade association for the oil industry. As API's Senior Manager of Public Communications, she was the oil industry’s spokesperson during the Arab Embargo on radio and television talk shows across the country. She wrote, narrated and appeared in five documentary films about oil industry operations -- including offshore drilling and the construction of the Alaska Pipeline -- which was aired on national television.

Barbara came to Houston in 1975 as Director of Consumer Affairs for Gulf Oil Corporation, where she was responsible for developing and executing the corporation’s consumer affairs, customer relations, and energy education programs. She testified before a U.S. Congressional Committee as Gulf’s representative opposing legislation to create a Federal Consumer Protection Agency.

After becoming a consultant, Barbara worked with both the U.S. Department of Energy Consumer Affairs Unit and the White House Office of Consumer Affairs during two administrations. She was contracted to plan and execute national seminars on consumer issues and such sensitive topics as the disposal of nuclear waste.

During the late 1980's, Barbara was a consultant to several major medical facilities in northwest Houston, some of the area’s most successful physicians in private practice, and many of the area’s small businesses. She hosted her own radio talk show, DOCTORS ON CALL, on KSEV radio; and was the editor of Houston Northwest Business News and ON CALL magazine.

Barbara has been involved in a variety of community service organizations for more than 20 years, and was recognized as 1996 Volunteer of the Year by Houston Northwest Chamber of Commerce. Today, she serves as Communications director for the North and West Harris County Regional Water Authorities, the North Fort Bend Water Authority, and includes the Harris-Galveston Subsidence District and a growing number of water-related businesses and utility districts among her clients. In 2004, Harris County Commissioners Court appointed Barbara as a Commissioner of the Harris County Emergency Services District #11 and she currently serves as President of that board.

Hugh Wynn is the Chief Financial Officer for Water Lily Press, Inc.

After receiving his Accounting degree from Oklahoma State University, he served as finance officer with a U.S. Army Artillery Unit in Turkey. After completing his military service, he returned to OSU and earned an MBA.

Hugh moved to Houston with Conoco, last serving as Director, Supply and Distribution, Wholesale & Chemical Sales in the company’s Natural Gas & Gas Products Department. He later became Executive Vice President of Gulf States Oil & Refining Company. After selling his interest in that company, Wynn and business partners formed Wynn-Fowler, Inc. and other entities including USA Trailers, Inc., Entrust Investments, Ltd., American Polymers, Inc., and Entrust Exploration, Inc.

Today, Hugh is a private investor and serves as President of Wynn-Fowler, Inc., Managing Partner of Entrust Development Company, Ltd., and Senior Business Advisor to Payne Communications & Associates. He and his wife, Carolyn, have long been active in university scholarship programs, endowing several Presidents’ Distinguished Scholarship Trusts at their alma mater, OSU. Wynn served on the OSU Foundation Board of Governors for many years.

While his daughters were growing up and active in sports in northwest Harris County, Hugh served as Administrative Vice President of the Spring Klein Girls Softball League and helped create and chair the league’s scholarship committee. He also formed and chaired the scholarship committee for the Houston Chapter, OSU Alumni Association, and led its initial funding drive.

Hugh has written several books, including Laundry List, a suspense novel about money laundering strategies; The Generation-X Files (Dare to be Average), a financial primer; The Mormon and Mr. Sullivan, based on the infamous Southern Utah Mountain Meadows Massacre; and his most recent novel, West of the Cross Timbers (available on the WLP website), a frontier/western which recounts the tragic demise of an indigenous way of life in North Texas.

 Kim Jackson joined Water Lily Press in 2007.

Previously, Kim was a community news reporter with the Houston Chronicle’s Neighborhood News section for six years, and she continues to work with the Chronicle on a freelance basis.

During her full-time tenure with the Houston Chronicle, she wrote more than 1,000 articles on events and issues important to residents and business owners in north, northwest and west Harris County, and southwest Montgomery County.

She also worked as a reporter at the Pasadena Citizen daily newspaper and as an editor for The Woodlands Villager weekly paper.

Before launching her career in journalism, Kim worked in marketing, public relations and publishing in Houston and Hong Kong. While living in Hong Kong, she wrote, edited and marketed a full-color magazine for a prominent American business and social networking organization, and worked as a freelance writer and editor for several Hong Kong publishing companies and magazines.

She is involved in the Houston Press Club, Association of Women Journalists, Houston Police Department’s Citizens Police Academy Alumna Association and as a volunteer in various organizations. She graduated from Texas A&M with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism in 1990.
 

Nikki Wynn is the author of Journey to Pansophigus and WATER IS LIFE, an activity/ coloring book for the primary grades.

Nikki earned a degree in Journalism from Texas A&M University in 1994. She began her career in the Public Relations department of WilTel Communications, working as part of a team responsible for writing, developing and coordinating the production of their internal and external publications.

Nikki continued her career in 1997 at Ogilvy & Mather. While working in their Houston office, she helped to create, coordinate and produce award-winning print, radio, point-of-sale and internet advertising for Shell Oil, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the YMCA, Houston.

In 2000, Nikki moved to Ogilvy & Mather’s national headquarters in New York City, where she led account teams on such multi-million dollar clients as Enron, Goldman Sachs, Amtrak and AT&T Wireless.

After over three years in New York, Nikki returned to Houston to pursue her career as a freelance journalist and communications consultant with Payne Communications where she works primarily on communications programs for water, legal, and small business clients.