A highly successful investor with over twenty years of venture capital experience as co-manager and lead technology investor at William Blair Capital Partners (WBCP), Ellen Carnahan is now Principal of Machrie Enterprises LLC. Machrie Enterprises...

Professional Background: Joyce Simon joined the John G. Shedd Aquarium in Chicago in 1992 as its first Chief Financial Officer; she also serves as the Secretary-Treasurer of the Shedd Aquarium Society, the not-for-profit corporation that...

Anna Caroline Ball is Chairman and CEO of the 120-year-old Ball Horticultural Company, which specializes in all aspects of horticulture, including breeding, biotechnology, production, and marketing of hybrid flower seeds and other floriculture crops. Privately-held...

Diane P. Wood is the Director of the American Law Institute (ALI), a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago, and a former U.S. Circuit Judge (for 29 years). Judge Wood attended the...

Voluntary Boards: Field Museum; Children’s Memorial Hospital; Off the Street Club; Chicago Council on Foreign RelationsCorporate Boards: Wal-Mart; Janus Funds

Priscilla A. (Pam) Walter is a partner in the Chicago office of Gardner Carton & Douglas LLP and the founder of its Cyberlaw and Intellectual Property practice, which is part of the Technology Department. The...