OFFICERS
Jennifer Steans
Chair
President & CEO
Financial Investments Corporation
Steven Koch
Vice Chair
Managing Partner
Bowline Group
Michelle L. Collins
Secretary
President
Cambium LLC
Jill Griebenow
Treasurer
EVP, CFO, Treasurer and Accounting Officer
Cboe Global Markets
Board Members
Lisa Konik Aronin
Board Member
Boys & Girls Club of Chicago
Jeff Bethke, Ex-Officio
Chairman, Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority
CEO
Ingenuity Advising
James Blair
President and CEO
F.H. Paschen
John Bucksbaum
Founder
Bucksbaum Retail Properties, LLP
Gery J. Chico
Partner
Chico & Nunes
Eileen Chin
President, RM
Chin and Associates
Larita Clark, Ex-Officio
CEO
Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority
Marilynn Kelly Gardner, Ex-Officio
President and CEO
Navy Pier
Sasha Gerritson
Opera Program Director
Northeastern Illinois University School of Music
Scott Goodman
Principal
Farpoint Development
Sandra P. Guthman
Chair Emerita, Board of Directors
Polk Bros. Foundation
Dean M. Harrison
Executive Chairman
Northwestern Memorial HeathCare
Torrence Hinton
President
Peoples Gas and North Shore Gas
Laura Keidan Martin
Partner
Katten
Aarti Kotak
Managing Director, Head of ESG and Social Impact
Ariel Alternatives
Terrance B. McGann, Ex-Officio
Board Member, Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority Partner, McGann
Ketterman & Rioux
Suzet McKinney, DRPH MPH
Principal and Director of Life Sciences
Sterling Bay
Richard S. Price
Executive Chairman
Mesirow
Jorge Ramirez
Managing Director, Infrastructure Investments
Labor & Government Strategies, GCM Grosvenor
Bridget Reidy
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
Exelon Corporation
Smita Shah
Founder & CEO
SPAAN Tech
John H. Simpson
Partner
Broadhaven Capital Partners
Eric Smith
Vice Chair
BMO Commerical Bank
Emily Heisley Stoeckel
Chairman of the Board
The Heico Companies and Heico Holding
Syreeta Harris Strickland
Head of Investment Banking Marketing
William Blair
Kelly R. Welsh
Former President, Civic Committee
Commercial Club of Chicago
Life Trustee
Norman Bobins
Vice Chairman
CIBC Bank USA
William J. Brodsky
Chair Emeritus
Chairman
Cedar Street Asset Management
Donna La Pietra
Executive Producer
Kurtis Productions
James R. Reilly*
Former CEO
Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority/Senior Fellow, Metropolitan Planning Council
John R. Schmidt
Partner
Mayer Brown
*In memoriam