Leadership Council

The Fund's Leadership Council is a group of more than 50 senior-level executives and civic leaders in Chicago who are committed to improving school leadership and student achievement in our public schools. As representatives of the businesses, foundations, and families who invest in The Fund, they are experts in finance, marketing, research and non-profit management.



Kevin Hanrahan, Chairman
President, Optimus Recruiting, LLC

Joanne Alter
Founder, Working in the Schools

Virginia Aronson
Managing Partner, Sidley AustinLLP

Arnold Berlin
President, Berlin Family Fund

Paul Boulis
President, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois

Deborah Bricker
President, Bricker Partners LLC

Julie M. Brock

Anthony Bryk

Spencer Professor for Organizational Studies, Stanford University

Victoria Chou
Dean, College of Education, University of Illinois at Chicago

Vince Cozzi
Managing Director, Ventas Healthcare Properties

Bob Darnall
Former President & CEO, Inland Steel Industries, Inc.

Theresa Davis
Attorney, Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

James Donnelley
Partner, Stet & Query Limited Partnership

Barbara Eason-Watkins
Chief Education Officer, Chicago Public Schools

Carla Jane Eyre

Debbie Ferruzzi
Executive Vice President, Corporate Strategy, Equity Office Properties Trust

Rita Galowich
President, Fund, Inc.

Paul Goren
Vice President, The Spencer Foundation

Sandra Guthman
President & CEO, Polk Bros. Foundation

Anne Hallett
Former Executive Director, Cross-City Campaign for Urban School Reform

Lawrence Hollins
President, The Hollins Group

Leon Jackson
President, Multi-Fac Corporation

William Jackson
Senior Vice President/Partner, Booz Allen Hamilton

Jeannine James
Member at Large, Chicago Foundation for Education

Carol Kaplan
President, Kaplan Foundation

James D. Keith
Senior Regional Manager-First Vice President, Washington Mutal Inc.


Dennis Keller

Chairman, DeVry Inc.

Shelley Keller
Director of Corporate Strategy, Exelon Corporation

Iris Krieg
President, Iris Krieg and Associates, Inc.

Robin Lavin
President, OSA Foundation

Charles Lewis
Chairman, Lewis-Sebring Family Foundation

Kathy Lidbury

William Little
President & CEO, Quam-Nichols Co.

Lyle Logan
Senior Vice President, Northern Trust

Joe Mansueto
Chairman, Founder & CEO, Morningstar, Inc.

R. Eden Martin
President, The Commercial Club of Chicago

John W. McCarter, Jr.
President & CEO, The Field Museum

Howard M. McCue III
Partner, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw

Alfred McDougal
President, McDougal Family Foundation

Andrew McKenna, Jr.
President, Schwarz

Samuel J. Meisels
President, Erikson Institute

Zoe Mikva
Former Program Staff Member, Business and Professional People for the Public Interest

Carolyn Nordstrom
Managing Director, DBM International Center for Executive Options

Susan Blankenbaker Noyes
Attorney

Ted Oppenheimer
President, Oppenheimer Family Foundation

John W. Rogers, Jr.
Chairman & CEO, Ariel Capital Management, LLC

Ken Rolling
Executive Director, Parents for Public Schools

Walter Scott
Professor of Management, Kellogg School of Management

Gretchen Crosby Sims
Education Program Manager, The Joyce Foundation

Paul Snyder
Midwest Area Managing Partner, KPMG LLP

W. Fritz Souder
Managing Principal, RCP Advisors

Janet Tallberg

Director/Loan Review Manager, Merrill Lynch Capital

Alex Thompson
Vice President – Operations, State Farm Companies

Linda Wolf
Retired Chairman & CEO, Leo Burnett Worldwide

Jon Zitzman
President, JFJ Development

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