Diane Primo is the CEO of the Purpose Brand agency, an award-winning, Chicago-based public relations, branding, and digital marketing firm. Diane Primo is the only African American female CEO of a purpose-driven communications agency. Diane’s...

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...

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...

Leslie J. Sawyer is President and CEO of Environmental Design International inc. (EDI), and has been leading the firm since August 2016 after serving nearly 20 years on EDI’s Board of Directors. As businesses grappled...

Alyssa Rapp serves as the Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Healthwell Acquisition Corp. I. Ms. Rapp served as Chief Executive Officer of Surgical Solutions, a B2b healthcare services business providing non-clinical surgical services...

Andee Harris is the founder and CEO of Franklin Heritage, private equity firm that invests in cutting-edge technology and manufacturing. Formerly the CEO of HighGround Software, which she successfully sold to Vista Equity Partners in...

Diane is the retired chief executive officer and president of Hickory Farms, LLC, aleading multi-channel retailer of food gifts and specialty foods. She held this role from March 2016 through January 2022. Under Diane’sleadership, the...

Growing up on Chicago’s South Side, Kimberly Moore had always been a fan of tinkering.Lovingly known to her family as “Ms. Fix It” “? even at a young age, she was able to focuson creative...

Elizabeth “Betsy” Ziegler is the first female CEO of 1871, now the Number 1 ranked university affiliated-tech incubator in the world.Previous to 1871, Betsy was the Chief Innovation Officer at the Kellogg School of Management,...

Laura Neiman, President & CEO of Neiman Brothers Company, Inc., joined her family’s business immediately upon completion of her BA in Economics and Managerial Finance from Brandeis University. Ms. Neiman represents the third generation of...