Board of Directors

David Chandler, Chair
Partner
Chicago Growth Partners

Reed M. Badgley

James W. Baumann
Former President
Follett College Bookstores

Dominic Belmonte
President & CEO
Golden Apple Foundation

Allegra E. Biery
Senior Vice President
The Northern Trust Company

Robert Center

Marta Cerda, J.D.
One-Stop Transition Director
Chicago Workforce Board

Jeff Cohodes
President, Private Client Services
The Northern Trust Company

Maggie C. Daley

Ron Davies
Operating Partner
Chicago Growth Partners

Griselle Diaz-Gemmati
Golden Apple Fellow (1993)
Chair, Academy Committee

Crystal Ellis-Abdullah
Teacher, Wheeling High School
Golden Apple Scholar (2002)

Mark A. Fuller III
Principal
William Blair & Company, L.L.C

Allan F. "Duffy" Gaynor
Vice President, Global Services
IBM Corporation

Ron Huberman
Chief Executive Officer
Chicago Public Schools

James Kemmerer
Vice President & Senior Portfolio Manager
Bank of America

Timothy M. Kenny
President
Kenny & Kenny P.C.

Janet Knupp
President
The Chicago Public Education Fund

Martin J. Koldyke

Founder and Chair Emeritus
Retired Chairman
Frontenac Company

Patricia B. Koldyke

Jay S. Layman
Partner
Ernst & Young, LLP

Marc Levin

Glenn "Max" McGee, PhD
President
Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

Jacquie McGrew
Golden Apple Fellow (1999)

Jim McNitt
President
Jim McNitt & Associates

Rev. Calvin S. Morris, PhD
Executive Director
Community Renewal Society

Nancy B. Northrip
Owner
Ultimate Gymnastics

Sanford E. Perl
Partner
Kirkland & Ellis

Peter W. Poulos
Partner
Winston & Strawn LLP

Edward Prentice III
President & CEO
Centrax Corporation

John Smart
Managing Director
BMO Capital Markets

Ernest W. Torain, Jr.
Shareholder
Vedder, Price, Kaufman, & Kammholtz, P.C.

Ivy Walker
Chief Executive Officer
World Health Imaging Alliance

Board of Directors Emeritus
Grace Barry
Albert L. Bennett
Andrew K. Block
Manford Byrd, Jr.
Barbara E. Franke
Frank W. Gardner
William Dren Geer, Jr.
Stanford J. Goldblatt
Barbara Levy Kipper
John D. Mabie
William J. McCarter
Ferdinand Nadherny
Donald S. Perkins
Bruce Rauner
Patrick Ryan, Sr.
Gordon Segal
Arnold R. Weber