Officers and Directors

Officers

Susan Gallagher

Chair

President & CEO
BPI Group

Cary Grace

Secretary-Treasurer/Finance & Audit Chair

CEO, Global Retirement & Investments
Aon

Diane Offereins

Vice Chair/Chair Elect

EVP, President – Payment Services
Discover Financial Services

Board Members

Deb Boyda

U.S. CEO
Isobar

Denise Cade

SVP & General Counsel
IDEX Corporation

Liz Connelly

Immediate Past Chair Nominating Committee Chair

Chief Human Resource Officer & SVP
CDW

Susan Hassan

Grace Hou

Future Leaders Chair

Secretary
Illinois Department of Human Services

Catherine Kenworthy

Engagement Chair

Interim CEO
LEAP Innovations

Michelle Larson

President & CEO
Adler Planetarium

Phyllis Lockett

CEO
LEAP Innovations

Kary McIlwain

Communications Chair

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s
Hospital of Chicago

Suzet McKinney

CEO and Executive Director
Illinois Medical District

Linda Myers

Governance Chair

Partner, Debt Finance
Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Jenny Niemann

WIFL Co-Chair

CEO
Forward Space

Maria Pesqueria

Program Chair

President
Healthy Communities Foundation

Tierney Remick

Membership Chair

Vice Chairman,
Board and CEO Services
Korn/Ferry International

Joyce St. Clair