Fred W. Heldenfels IV of Austin, Texas is President and CEO of Heldenfels Enterprises Inc., a manufacturer of precast/prestressed concrete structures for the highway, industrial, commercial, and sports construction markets with headquarters in San Marcos, Texas. His firm has won numerous industry design awards and other recognitions including the Aggie 100 Award in 2005, 2006, 2010, and 2015.
Mr. Heldenfels served as 2022 chairman of the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce’s Board and remains an officer as immediate past chair. He was appointed Chairman of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) by Governor Rick Perry in May 2010 while serving on the board from July 2006 through December 2013. He also served as an appointee of Governor George W. Bush on the Coastal Coordination Council from 1995 to 1998.
Mr. Heldenfels is Past Chair of the A&M PAC board and serves as treasurer on the board of Texans for Lawsuit Reform and its PAC. In addition, Mr. Heldenfels is Past Chairman of the Texas A&M Twelfth Man Foundation (2001) and Past Chairman of PCI – the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (2004). He is a Past Chairman of both the Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Foundation (1997) and the Corpus Christi Chamber of Commerce (1993), where he helped initiate support for tort reform in the Coastal Bend, as well as the creation of a four-year university within the Texas A&M University System.
In 2015, Mr. Heldenfels was honored as a Distinguished Alumni of Texas A&M University, and in 2018 was named an outstanding Alumni of the Mays Business School at Texas A&M. Mr. Heldenfels was honored by induction into the Corpus Christi Business Hall of Fame in 2010 by Junior Achievement of the Coastal Bend. He is also the 1996 recipient of the Outstanding Leadership Alumni from Leadership Corpus Christi.
Mr. Heldenfels graduated from Texas A&M University in 1979 with a Bachelor’s in Business Administration. He and his wife Liz have lived in Austin since 1997 and have three grown children: Amy Jerke and husband Ryan of Austin, William Heldenfels and wife Lindsey of Nashville, and Holly Heldenfels of Austin as well as five beautiful grandchildren.
