Board of Directors

Officers

Richard Ditton, Chairman
Co-founder and Executive Vice President
Incredible Technologies, Inc.

Joe Brady, President
Managing Director
Jones Lang LaSalle

Paul Gray, Vice President
Co-Owner and Director
Richard Gray Gallery

Nancy Timmers, Vice President
Civic Leader and Philanthropist

John McGowan, Vice President
The Northern Trust Company

Edward Filer, Secretary
Attorney
Freeborn & Peters

Rocque E. Lipford Jr., Treasurer
Managing Director
J.P.Morgan Securities, Inc.

Andy White
Artistic Director & Ensemble Member
Lookingglass Theatre Company

Rachel E. Kraft
Executive Director
Lookingglass Theatre Company

Lisa Naparstek Green, Immediate Past Chairman
Community Leader and Philantropist

Alex Miller, Immediate Past President
Principal and Founder
Renaissance Fund

Board of Directors

Ernie A. Arias
Regional Director of Sales and Marketing
Hyatt International

Leigh Buchanan Bienen
Senior Lecturer
Northwestern University School of Law

David Catlin
Ensemble Member, Lookingglass Theatre
Professor, Northwestern University School of Communication

Rich Chapman
Member
Clark Hill PLC

Frank M. Clark, III
Owner
Clark Enterprises Group

Tom Connolly
VP Facilities Development
Walgreen Co.

Al DeVaney
Private Investor

Tai Duncan
Director, Corporate Liaison
Ariel Investments

Kathy Fanning
Chief Financial Officer
Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture

Roe Faraone
Lyfe Kitchen

Charles Frankel
President and Founder
Easy-Ware Software Solutions

Julie Gardziola
Director of Sales and Marketing
Park Hyatt Chicago 

Lee Golub
Executive Vice President
Golub & Company

Jon Harris
Chief Communications Officer
The Hillshire Brands Company

Michael A. Jacobson
Partner
Katten Muchin and Rosenman LLP

Elena Kamel
President and Managing Partner
The Women's Group of Northwestern Memorial Hospital

Laura Matalon
Owner
Allied Live, LLC

Melinda McMullen
Consultant

Jill Reznick Meier
Vice President
Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Tom O'Neill
Senior Vice President, Regulatory and Energy Policy and General Counsel
ComEd

Bob Palffy
President
Advocate Commercial Real Estate Advisors

Jane Quinn
Principal
Ruhaak 

Abbie Roth, M.D.
Senior Partner
Northwestern Women's Health Center

Matthew Smith
Retired, SEVP Head of Strategy and Planning
HSBC

Darren Snyder
Partner
Prairie Capital LP

Jeffrey Steigelman
Corporate Business Development
The Private Bank

Diane Whatton
Vice President, Community Affairs
BMO Harris Bank

Charlotte B. Whitaker
Corporate Vice President, Law- Licensing and Transactions
Motorola, Inc. 

National Council

Billy Dec, III

Carol Genis

Todd Leland*

J. Scot Pepper*

Kevin Rochford*

*Emeritus Board President

Emeritus Council

Geoffrey Baer

Elizabeth Barrett

Richard Bromley

Barton L. Eilts

Julie Hanahan Foley

Celia G. Leventhal

Tim Malishenko

Alex Miller

Cynthia Nedeau

Donna Schatt

Lane Winter Vanderslice

Annabelle Volgman, M.D., FACC

Arnold Widen, M.D.