Board of Trustees

Executive Committee

Chair
Keating Crown
Principal
Sterling Bay

Vice Chair
Dr. Stephanie B. Smith
Business Executive

Treasurer
Carole L. Brown
Executive Vice President, Head of Asset Management
PNC

Secretary
Christopher M. Murphy
Vice President, Chief Counsel
The Hertz Corporation

Douglas R. Brown
Civic Leader

Dennis Chookaszian
Retired Chairman and CEO
CNA Insurance Companies 

Nora Daley
Civic Leader

Amy Eshleman
Civic Leader

Rich Feitler
Former Chairman
TPN

D. Cameron Findlay
Retired Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
Archer Daniels Midland Company 

Paul Goodrich
Civic Leader

Racquel Harris
Retired Business Executive

Jon Michael Hill
Ensemble Member
Steppenwolf Theatre Company

Liz Kramer Lefkofsky
President
Lefkofsky Family Foundation

Ronald J. Mallicoat, Jr.
Market President and Managing Director - Wealth Management
The Northern Trust Company

Lynn Lockwood Murphy
Civic Leader

Karen Rodriguez
Ensemble Member
Steppenwolf Theatre Company 

Bruce Sagan
Publisher

Helen Zell
Executive Director
Zell Family Foundation

Trustees

Michael W. Bender       Retired Senior Partner
Digital McKinsey 
 
Susan O. Berghoef   President
The Orlebeke Foundation
 
Amy Bluhm   Civic Leader
 
Kevin Boehm   Co-CEO and Co-Founder, Boka Resaurant Group
Co-Founder, BIAN
 
Michael Brennan       CEO, Commercial Solutions
CRC Group
 
Chanel W. Coney       Director
CFI Partners
 
Beth Boosalis Davis   Retired Attorney
 
Glenn Davis   Co-Artistic Director, Ensemble Member
Steppenwolf Theatre Company
 
Ritu Dhingra   Chief Compliance Officer
High Pointe Capital Management, LLC
 
Audrey Francis   Co-Artistic Director, Ensemble Member
Steppenwolf Theatre Company

 

Asheesh Goel  

Partner, co-head of Government Enforcement Defense and Internal Investigations Group        Kirkland & Ellis LLP

 
Aimee Graham   Assistant General Counsel
The Brattle Group
 
Peter Hagel   Counsel
Perkins Coie LLP
 
Dennis D. Howarter   Retired Partner
PricewaterhouseCoopers
 
Rebecca L. Johnston  

Co-Founder
Arundel Way Partners

 
Sandra Marquez       Ensemble Member
Steppenwolf Theatre Company
 
Tarell Alvin McCraney   Ensemble Member
Steppenwolf Theatre Company
 
David E. Mendelsohn   Partner, Chicago Office
DLA Piper
 
Verett Mims   CFO
Blum Capital Partners
 
Yasen Peyankov   Ensemble Member
Steppenwolf Theatre Company
 
Anne M. Phillips   Owner, Managing Director
The Edge Theater
 
Deborah Quazzo   Managing Partner
GSV Ventures
 
Robert S. Rivkin   Senior Vice President & General Counsel
United Airlines
 
Brenda Robinson   Head of Film Finance and Inclusion Strategies
HiddenLight Productions
 
Cari B. Sacks   Civic Leader
 
Matthew Shapiro   Manager
Mason Avenue Investments
 
Colette Cachey Smithburg   Real Estate Broker
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Susan Stone   General Counsel and Senior Vice President
CNA Insurance
 
Elliot A. Stultz   Senior Vice President, Assistant Secretary and Deputy General Counsel
Allstate Insurance
 

Bryan Traubert

  

Chairman
Pritzker Traubert Foundation

 

Emeritus Trustees

J. Robert Barr        Retired Partner
Sidley Austin LLP
 
Lawrence Block   Retired Partner
Schiff Hardin LLP
 
Michael Cahan   Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
MAC Management Company, Inc
 
John N. Fox, Jr   Retired Vice Chairman and Global Director
Deloitte
 
Lawrence M. Gill   Retired Attorney and Executive
 
Robert J. Greenebaum, Jr.   Executive Vice President
CRC Group
 
John H. Hart   Founder - Chairman Emeritus
Hart Davis Hart Wine Co. 
 
Donna LaPietra   Executive Producer
Kurtis Productions, Ltd.
 
Eric Lefkofsky   Founder and CEO
Tempus
 
Kenneth J. Porrello   Executive Director
CEO Perspectives Program
 
Merle Reskin^   Civic Leader
 
Randall K. Rowe   Chairman
Green Courte Partners, LLC
 
Gloria Scoby^   Retired Group Publisher
Crain Communications
 
John R. Walter   Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
ASHLIN Management Company

Past Chairpersons

William L. Atwell

Larry D. Brady

Douglas R. Brown

Nora Daley

Laurence Edwards

John N. Fox, Jr.

Eric Lefkofsky

Elliott Lyon

Gordon Murphy

William H. Plummer

Bruce Sagan

Gloria Scoby

Donna Vos

 

^In Memoriam