Board of Directors

Officers

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

Joseph A. Brady, III
President
Managing Director
Jones Lang LaSalle

Paul Gray
Vice President
Co-Owner
Richard Gray Gallery

John McGowan
Vice President
Senior Vice President
The Northern Trust Company

Annabelle S. Volgman, M.D, FACC
Vice President
Medical Director
Heart Center for Women, Rush University Medical Center

Tim Malishenko
Treasurer
Civic Volunteer

Edward Filer
Secretary
Partner
Freeborn & Peters, LLP

Board of Directors

Ernie A. Arias
Area Director of Sales and Marketing
Park Hyatts of North America

Leigh Buchanan Bienen
Senior Lecturer
Northwestern University School of Law

David Catlin
Professor
Northwestern University

Richard H. Chapman
Member
Clark Hill PLC

Frank M. Clark, III
Managing Partner
Clark Enterprises Group LLC

Thomas J. Connolly
Vice President - Facilities Development
Walgreen Co.

Al DeVaney
Private Investor

Roe Faraone
Founder
Ideas for Corporate Entertainment

Charles Frankel
President & Founder
Easy Ware Software Solutions

Julie Gardziola
Director of Sales and Marketing
Park Hyatt Chicago 

Lee Golub
Executive Vice President
Golub & Company, LLC

Lisa Naparstek Green
Immediate Past Chairman
Civic Volunteer

Jon Harris
Senior Vice President, Global Communications
Sara Lee

Dawn Hillman
Civic Volunteer

Michael Jacobson
Partner
Katten, Muchin, and Rosenman LLP

Dr. Elena Kamel
President and Managing Partner
The Women's Group of Northwestern

Rachel Kraft
Executive Director
Lookingglass Theatre Company

Rocque E. Lipford Jr.
Managing Director
J.P. Morgan Chase

Laura Matalon
President & Owner
Allied Live

Melinda McMullen
Civic Volunteer

Jill Reznick Meier
Vice President
Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Alex Miller
Immediate Past President
Principal and Founder
The Renaissance Fund

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

Robert Palffy
President
Advocate Commercial Real Estate Advisors

Jane Quinn
Principal
Ruhaak 

Dr. Abbie Roth
Senior Partner
Northwestern Women's Health Associates

Matthew Smith
Senior Executive Vice President, Head of Sales and Planning
HSBC North America

Darren Snyder
Partner
Prairie Capital LP

Jeffrey Steigelman
Managing Director/Business Development Head, Commercial Banking
The Private Bank

James Stern
Founder & CEO
Endgame Entertainment

Nancy Timmers
Civic Volunteer

Diane Whatton
Vice President, Community Affairs
Harris Bank

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

Andy White
Artistic Director
Lookingglass Theatre Company

National Council

Billy Dec, III

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

Cynthia Nedeau

Donna Schatt

Lane Winter Vanderslice

Arnold Widen, M.D.