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
Civic Leader
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)