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Board of Governors

Officers

Chair

Lee M. Mitchell* 
Thoma Bravo, LLC

Vice Chairs

King Harris*
Harris Holdings, Inc

George A. Ranney, Jr.*
Chicago Metropolis 2020

Co-Vice Chairs - Development

Paul C. Carlisle*
Chase

Robert V. Fitzsimmons*
Mayer Brown LLP

Secretary 

Kelly King Dibble*
The Northern Trust

Treasurer

Jeff E. Smith*
Ernst & Young LLP

General Counsel

John M. McDonough*
Sidley Austin LLP

Past Chair

John A. Buck*
The John Buck Company

President

MarySue Barrett*
Metropolitan Planning Council

Rolando R. Acosta
Acosta, Kruse, Raines & Zemenides, LLC

John W. Baird
Baird & Warner, Inc

David E. Baker
Illinois Institute of Technology

Yasmin T. Bates-Brown 
Harris Bank

Todd Brown*
ShoreBank

Karen S. Butler
Great Harbor Advisors

Vincent Cordero
Univision Television Group

Lester Crown
Henry Crown & Company

Jon B. DeVries
URS Corporation

Sidney R. Dillard*
Loop Capital Markets

Ann M. Drake
DSC Logistics, Inc.

Robert V. Fitzsimmons
Mayer Brown LLP

James C. Franczek, Jr.
Franczek Radelet P.C.

Dennis J. Gannon
Chicago Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO

John S. Gates, Jr.*
PortaeCo LLC

Joseph Gonzalez
DeStefano + Partners, Ltd.

Linda Goodman 
Goodman Williams Group

Jacques N. Gordon, Ph.D. 
Jones Lang LaSalle

Joseph A. Gregoire 
National City Bank, a part of PNC

M. Hill Hammock 
Chicago Deferred Exchange Company

David Hiller
McCormick Foundation

Kathy Hopinkah Hannan
KPMG LLP

Julie M. Howard 
Navigant Consulting

Lawrence Howe

Jerry S. James 
Edward R. James Partners

Bernard Loyd
Urban Juncture

Mary K. Ludgin 
Heitman

Sari Macrie* 
Allstate Insurance Company

Peter Malecek
Bank of America

James E. Mann*
Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation

Michael Moore
Barclays Capital

Nora Moreno Cargie
The Boeing Company

J. Scot Pepper 
Pepper Construction Company

Stephen M. Porras
Axia Development Inc.

Anne R. Pramaggiore
ComEd

Quintin E. Primo, III
Capri Capital Advisors LLC

Kevin C. Richardson
Heartland Solutions Group

Jean Rudd
JR Strategies

Jesse H. Ruiz
Drinker Biddle & Reath, LLP

Maria N. Saldaña*
Duncan-Williams, Inc. 

Lisa Snow
Davis & Hosfield Consulting LLC

Martin Stern
U.S. Equities Realty, LLC

James P. Stirling
UBS

Bruce W. Taylor
Taylor Capital Group

Mary White Vasys
Vasys Consulting Ltd.

Paula Wolff *
Chicago Metropolis 2020

*Member of the Executive Committee

Honorary Members

Jean Allard
Edward K. Banker
Laurence O. Booth
Jay K. Buck
Clark Burrus
Donald Haider
James J. McClure, Jr. 
Walter W. Reed
Daniel R. Toll

Honorary Life Governors

Dorothy L. Rubel

Resource Board

Bridget M. Anderson
KPMG LLP

Mark A. Angelini
S.B. Friedman and Company

Marca Bristo
ACCESS Living of Metropolitan Chicago

Christopher B. Burke, Ph. D.
Christopher B. Burke Engineering, Ltd.

Gloria Castillo
Chicago United, Inc

Alison L. Chung
TeamWerks

Ellen C. Craig

Paul A. Dillon 
Dillon Consulting Services LLC

Omar A. Duque 
Illinois Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

Paul B. Fischer

Bernard J. Ford, Sr.
McDonough Associates, Inc

Julie E. Hamos
Illinois House of Representatives

John F. Hartray, Jr.
Nagle Hartray Danker Kagan McKay Architects Penney Architects Ltd.

Robert A. Hutchins

William C. Jackson

Sokoni Karanja
Centers for New Horizons, Inc

Paul King
Sphere Development, Inc.

Thomas C. Kirschbraun
Jones Lang LaSalle

John V. LaMotte
The Lakota Group

Avis LaVelle 
A. LaVelle Consulting Services

John G. Markowski 
Community Investment Corporation

Leigh Morris
Indiana Department of Transportation

Mary C. Moster
L.C. Williams & Associates

Paul E. Nowicki
BNSF Railway Company

Sylvia Puente
Latin Policy Forum

Jorge Ramirez 
Chicago Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO

James A. Ratcliffe

Joanne V. Schroeder
Vlecides-Schroeder Associates, Inc

Smita Shah 
SPAAN Tech, Inc.

David Sharpe 
Illinois Institute of Technology

A. Gail Sturm
Pro Ten Realty Group/CORFAC International

Karla Olsen Teasley
Illinois American Water

Robert B. Teska

Mindy W. Turbov
Turbov Associates

Priscilla A. Walter 
Drinker, Biddle & Reath, LLP

Joseph A. Williams
Target Group, Inc