
He is the former President & CEO of KLRN-TV, and held positions as Vice President of Institutional Advancement for Texas A&M University-San Antonio, Vice President for Arguindegui Oil Companies, and held leadership positions at Valero LP and NuStar Energy. Upon his move to San Antonio to acquire his Bachelor of Arts Degree from UTSA, he continued his private piano lessons for a total of 14 years, performing for former First Lady Barbara Bush during a campaign stop. Vazquez grew up in Laredo where he studied piano with a retired concert pianist who was the pupil of Mexican composer Manuel M.


Vazquez provides consulting services in the areas of non-profit, oil and gas, international business, and government affairs, and currently works as Senior Development Director for Hemisfair Conservancy. A collection of Suhail’s photographs from seven continents was shown at PechaKucha Volume 5. He leads Yoga privately and at Yoga in Motion while serving on the Advisory Council of International Yoga Day – a declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2014. Suhail was named 40 Under 40 by the Business Journal in 2020. He was elected to Class XL of Leadership San Antonio and completed a Marshall Memorial Fellowship in Spring of 2018 in August of the same year he was appointed to serve on the Board of Sister Cities International, a Washington DC based organization that grew out of the League of Cities under President Eisenhower. Suhail is the Mayor’s appointee to the Public Art Commission and enjoys serving on the Board of Directors of Constitution Cafe & The Lone Star Art Alliance. He served two terms as a Trustee of The Mind Science Foundation, one term on the Board of Directors of Gemini Ink and is the Arts & Culture Chair for Anuja San Antonio – the organization managing San Antonio’s Sister City Relations with Chennai, India.

Suhail works in Institutional Advancement for Musical Bridges Around the World, a non-profit performing arts company charged to unite, educate and inspire through culturally diverse visual and performing arts. He then travelled the world by ship under the auspices of the United Nations Economic & Social Council before returning home in 2008. In Philadelphia he began graduate studies before moving to a small Japanese mountain village for a year of contemplation, deep sea fishing, hiking, skiing and teaching. Suhail Arastu was raised in San Antonio, Texas and studied Neurobiology & Classics at The University of California, Berkeley where he competed as an NCAA Gymnast.
