Jill Wine-Banks is an MSNBC legal analyst, appearing regularly on the network’s prime-time and daytime shows. She began her career as the first female organized crime prosecutor at the US Department of Justice, which led...

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 1998 – 2001: Chairman, Bank of America, Illinois and Chairman, Bank of America, Illinois Advisory Board (formerly Continental Bank). Senior Business Executive in Chicago for Bank of America. Responsibilities included coordination of all...

Ms. Rudnick currently serves as Sr. Advisor to the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Chicago. She previously served as its Executive Director and a Clinical Professor of Entrepreneurship at the...

Diane is an architect, landscape architect, planner and urban designer, Vice President of CallisonRTKL and currently based in Hong Kong and Chicago, doing projects of all types and scales in China, Northeast and Southeast Asia,...

Throughout Carol Wyant’s professional career she has been a transformational change agent. In the early 1980s it was unusual for a woman, working for a full-service real estate firm specializing in downtown mixed-use development to...

Salme Harju SteinbergDr. Salme Harju Steinberg is an historian, writer, and leader in higher education. A specialist in U.S. economic and social history, she served as president of Northeastern Illinois University between 1995 and 2007....

Toni Smith spent 30 years as a consultant with Spencer Stuart, a leading international executive search firm. For the last 15 years of her tenure there she was the partner in charge of its practice...

Terry Savage is a nationally recognized expert on personal finance, the economy and the markets. She writes a twice-weekly personal finance column syndicated nationally by Chicago Tribune Content Agency. Terry appears weekly on the WGN...