Our Board
Larry Eppley
Chairman of the Board
Managing Partner, Sheppard Mullin
Laura Ferris Anderson
Treasurer, Chair of the Finance and Audit Committee
Head of Industry Strategy, JPMorgan Merchant Services
Ted Souder
Secretary, Chair of the Nominating and Governance Committee
Head of Industry, Retail, Google
Jim O’connor, Jr.
Chairman Emeritus
Global Head of Venture Capital and Managing Director, William Blair
Troy Henikoff
Chair of the Programming Committee
Managing Director, MATH Venture Partners
Joe Shenton
Chair of the Development Committee
Principal, Summit Trail Advisors
Adam Hecktman
Chair of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee
Director of Technology and Civic Innovation Chicago, Microsoft
Leslie Anderson
U.S and International Head of Workplace Experience Technology, BMO Harris Bank
VENKAT ATLURI
Senior Partner, McKinsey and Company
Laurie Bauer
Partner, Latham Watkins
Brenna Berman
Executive Director at City Digital, A UILABS Collaboration
Matt Brown
Partner, Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
MIKE CARLIN
CIO, Abbvie
STAN CHIA
CEO, Vivid Seats
Linda Darragh
Executive Director, Kellogg School of Management
Dean Debiase
Chairman, Reboot Partners
Jim Dugan
CEO, Co-Founder, and Managing Partner, OCA Ventures
Daniel Henry
EVP and Global CIO, McDonald’s
Scott Holloway
General Manager, Flexport
John Howard
SVP General Counsel, Grainger
AndY Kofoid
EVP and COO, B2C, Salesforce
Mark Lawrence
CEO, SpotHero
Starr Marcello
Deputy Head and Executive Director of the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Chicago
Matt Mccall
Partner, Pritzker Group Venture Capital
MIKE MCMURRAY
President, Globetrotters Engineering Corporation
Dori McWhorter
CEO, YWCA Metropolitan Chicago
Jeff Miller
Chief Commercial Officer, Synchronoss Technologies
CARLOS MINETTI
EVP and President, Discover
SUZANNE MUCHIN
Principal, Mind + Matter Studio
RAJAN NAIK
CSO, Motorola
RANDY NORNES
EVP of AON Risk, AON
Maura O’Hara
Executive Director, Illinois Venture Capital Association
Jaime De Paulo
President & CEO, Illinois Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (IHCC)
Kristi Ross
Co-CEO and President, tastytrade
Ellen Rudnick
Sr. Advisor on Entrepreneurship and Adjunct Professor, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Patrick Ryan, JR.
Founder and CEO, INCISENT Labs Group
Renee Sang
Managing Director, Accenture Customer Innovation Network
Andrew SChwartz
Managing Director & Market Lead, CIBC
JAI SHEKHAWAT
Founder, SAP Fieldglass
Chris SmYth
Central Region TAS Managing Partner, Ernst & Young
Adam Stanley
CIO, Cushman & Wakefield
Sara Star
Nonprofit Leader and Investor
Matthew Summy
VP, Comcast
Scott Swanson
President, PNC
Mark Tebbe
Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
David Tolmie
Partner, Edgewater Funds
Howard Tullman
Executive Director, Kaplan Institute and General Managing Partner of G2T3V LLC and Chicago High Tech Investment Partners LLC
Kevin Willer
Partner, Chicago Ventures
Sam Yagan
CEO, ShopRunner
Betsy ZIegler
CEO, 1871
Our Advisory Board
hank adams
CEO, Harvest2O
dennis boecker
Global IT Innovation Lead, Robert Bosch LLC
steve collens
CEO, MATTER
sonny garg
Solutions Lead, Energy, Uptake
brian hoff
VP of Innovation, Exelon
jack keenan
Executive Managing Director, Cushman & Wakefield
matt maloney
Co-Founder & CEO, GrubHub
talia mashiach
CEO, Founder & Product Architect, Eved
bret maxwell
Managing General Partner, MK Capital
pam netzky
Founder, Amplify Snack Brands
lloyd semple
Consultant, Russell Reynolds Associates
tim stojka
CEO, Agentis Energy
Genevieve thiers
Founder, Sittercity.com
tom thompson
Senior Managing Director, WP Global Partners
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