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...

Ms. Steel is CEO and Founder of Alpha Wealth Advisors, LLC, a financial consulting firm advising family offices and private foundations in the U.S. and South America. In addition, she is an experienced board director...

Kristi L. Rowsell is an independent director of State Street Investment Management SPDR ETFs, a director of the Oakmark Funds, and member of the Board of Governors for the Investment Company Institute. She retired from...

Joyce M. St. Clair is a retired executive of The Northern Trust Company, Chicago. She held various Management Committee positions during her 30 year tenure including Chief Risk Officer, President of Operations and Technology, Chief...

Donna C. E. Williamson is the former Managing Director of the Ceres Venture Fund, L.P. and has over twenty-five years of strategy, operating, and board experience in the healthcare industry with particular expertise in strategy...

Marsha Cruzan is a trusted Board Director adept with crafting public/private companies’ business growth strategies by: Completing numerous M&A transactions, offering strategic counsel and forging key connections to spur business growth.Leading comprehensive risk analysis, implementing...

Jacqueline (Jackie) Barlow President, US Commercial Real Estate Banking, overseeing the teams that work with our middle market, institutional and specialty lending clients real estate clients across the U.S. She is a member of the...

Virxhini Gjonzeneli is the Chief Financial Officer at the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago, a $120 billion wholesale lender. In this role she is responsible for leading the finance organization, including accounting policy and...

Maggie McGuire O’Brien is a Managing Director and Co-Head of the J.P. Morgan Private Bank Chicago office. She leads and manages a team of more than 200 bankers, investors, credit executives, trust and estate attorneys,...

Senior Executive, Business Leader, Former Equity Sell-side Analyst, Board Member and Advisor with a career record of success in providing thought leadership, strategic vision, and business insight leading to significant business growth and shareholder value....