Officers
Dana Thompson, MD, MS, MBA, FACS
Chair
Division Head, Otolaryngology, Head and Neck
Surgery, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s
Hospital of Chicago
Julie Scott
Vice Chair/Chair Elect
President & CEO, CTS Impact
Joan Bottarini
Secretary -Treasurer
Chief Financial Officer, Hyatt Hotels
Francesca DeBiase
Immediate Past Chair
Board Director – Sysco Corp and Norfolk Southern Corp.
Board Members
Tracey Benford
Secretary-Treasurer
Retired Partner, Goldman Sachs
Cathy Birkeland
Partner, Latham & Watkins LLP, Former Chicago
Office Managing Partner and Global Co-Chair
Capital Markets Practice Group
Kathy Bolhous
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Charter Next Generation
Barbra Bukovac
PwC Vice Chair
Christina Corley
President, International & Vice Chair, CDW
Marsha Cruzan
Former Regional President, U.S. Bank
Former Regional President, U.S. Bank.
Board Director
Opella Ernest, MD
President, HCSC Markets
Natasha Galavotti
President, Tree of Life Canada, KeHE Distributors
Yonhee Choi Gordon
Former Principal, Chief Operating Officer & Chief Marketing Officer, JMG Financial Group
Kelly Graves
CEO, Eastport Holdings
Erin Inman, PE
President & CEO, Primera Engineers
Mary Josephs
Founder & CEO, Verit Advisors LLC
Nora Larke
Executive Vice President and Chief Human
Resources Officer, Wintrust Financial
Jennifer Lyons
Regional President and General Manager CBS
Chicago and CBS Detroit
Dee Merriwether
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, W.W. Grainger Inc.
Celena Sarillo
President, Start Early
Zaldwaynaka (“Z”) Scott
President, Chicago State University
