Our Board

Our Board

Executive Committee

Heather McWilliams, Chair

Civic Leader

Pradip Patiath, Vice Chair

Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company

Scott C. Smith, Vice Chair

President and Publisher (retired), Tribune Corporation

Charles C. Calloway, Jr., Treasurer

Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig LLP

Meryl Rosen, Secretary

Attorney/Account Manager, The Chicago Winter Co.

Dave Elzinga

Expert Partner (Retired), McKinsey & Company

Suzanne Gignilliat

Real Estate Broker and Founder, Suzanne Gignilliat Inc.

Elaine Haydock

Civic Leader

Douglas H. Jackson, Emeritus Chair

Managing Director, Greenhill & Co.

Anita K. Sinha

Civic leader

Directors

Gabor Balassa

Litigation Partner, Kirkland & Ellis, LLP

Shadi Bartsch

Helen A. Regenstein Distinguished Service Professor of Classics and the Program in Gender Studies University of Chicago Department of Classic

Liz Buchanan

President of North American Business, NielsenIQ

Mary Louise Gorno

Managing Director, Ingenuity International

Cheryl Harris

Senior V. P., Sourcing & Procurement Solutions, Allstate Insurance Company

Kamilah Jones

Director, Head of Diversity & Social Impact Marketing Bain & Company

Raymond F. McCaskey

CEO, Health Care Service Corp. (retired) Blue Cross Blue Shield

Marquis Miller

VP of Economic Development at the Obama Foundation

Elizabeth Nolan

Managing Director, Bank of America

Kostas Poulakidas

Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig

Amy Coleman Redenbaugh

Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer, Thoma Bravo

Ryan S. Ruskin

President and CEO, The Ruskin Group

Edward N. Siskel

Partner, Latham & Watkins

Deborah H. Telman

Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs and General Counsel Gilead Sciences, Inc

Michelle Speller Thurman

Divisional VP and Associate General Counsel, Licensing & Acquisitions, Abbott Laboratories

James C. Warren

Executive Director, NewsGuard Technologies

Valerie B. Wiley

Founder and Director of The Schools Group

Emeritus Directors

Richard Franke*

Founder and Emeritus Chair, CEO Emeritus, Nuveen Investments

Jean S. Berghoff

Civic leader

Mary A. Boyer

Civic leader

Paul Gignilliat*

SVP – Wealth Management, Private Wealth Advisor, UBS

Richard Gray*

Founder and Emeritus Vice Chair, Richard Gray Gallery

Christopher N. Knight

Retired, Partner Foley & Lardner LLP

Karla Scherer

The Karla Scherer Foundation

Marilynn J. Thoma

Proprietor, Van Duzer Vineyards

Willard G. Fraumann, Emeritus Chair

Kirkland & Ellis (of counsel)

Clark Hulse, Emeritus Chair

University of Illinois-Chicago (emeritus professor)

Allegra E. Biery, Emeritus Chair

Market President, Wealth Management Northern Trust Company

John W. McCarter, Jr., Emeritus Vice Chair

The Field Museum of Natural History (President Emeritus)
*In memoriam