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
Cheryl Harris
Senior V. P., Sourcing & Procurement Solutions, Allstate Insurance Company
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
Liz Buchanan
President of North American Business, NielsenIQ
Suzanne Gignilliat
Real Estate Broker and Founder, Suzanne Gignilliat Inc.
Mary Louise Gorno
Managing Director, Ingenuity International
Kamilah Jones
Director, Head of Diversity & Social Impact Marketing Bain & Company
Raymond F. McCaskey
CEO, Health Care Service Corp. (retired) Blue Cross Blue Shield
Elizabeth Nolan
Managing Director, Bank of America
Ryan S. Ruskin
President and CEO, The Ruskin Group
James C. Warren
Executive Director, NewsGuard Technologies
Shadi Bartsch
Helen A. Regenstein Distinguished Service Professor of Classics and the Program in Gender Studies University of Chicago Department of Classic
Deborah H. Telman
Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs and General Counsel Gilead Sciences, Inc
Marquis Miller
VP of Economic Development at the Obama Foundation
Valerie B. Wiley
Founder and Director of The Schools Group
Cindy Moelis
President of the Pritzker Traubert Foundation
Michelle Speller Thurman
Divisional VP and Associate General Counsel, Licensing & Acquisitions, Abbott Laboratories
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)