Board of Trustees

Shay Bahramirad
Vice President, Engineering, and Smart Grid, ComEd

Gina Berndt
Managing Director, Chicago, Perkins + Will

Rick Blair
Vice President, General Manager, Turner Construction Company

Tom Brean
Partner, Grant Thornton LLP

Andre Brumfield
Principal, Design Director & Global Director for Cities + Urban Design, Gensler

Joseph G. Burns
Managing Principal, Thornton Tomasetti

Ann Drake
Founder and President, Lincoln Road Enterprises - AWESOME

Shelley Finnigan
Global Technical Sales Engineer/Head of Technical Sales & Marketing for the Americas, ArcelorMittal

Joan Burnstein Gand
President, Bauhaus and Beyond

Scott George
Co-Founder & Managing Director, CMD Global Advisors, LLC

Gordon Gill
Partner, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill

Andy Gloor
Chief Executive Officer, Sterling Bay

Graham Grady
Partner, Taft Stettinius & Hollister

Sandra Helton

Carrie J. Hightman
Executive Vice President & Chief Legal Officer, NiSource Inc.

Will Johns
SVP | Middle Market Banking, TCF National Bank

Kurt Karnatz
President, Environmental Systems Design Inc.

Robin Loewenberg Tebbe
President, LIFT Office LLC

Ursula Moncau
President, Schaumburg Bank & Trust Company, N.A.

Michael Newman
President & CEO, Golub & Company LLC

Jenny Niemann
President, CEO and Owner, Forward Space

Catherine Odelbo
Morningstar Inc. (Retired)

James D. Parsons
Senior Advisor, The Brinson Foundation

John C. Pintozzi
Senior Vice President & Controller, The Allstate Corporation

Lee Pollock
Trustee and Advisor to the Board, The International Churchill Society

Robert S. Rivkin
Senior Vice President, General Counsel, United Airlines, Inc.

John W. Rutledge
Founder, President & CEO, Oxford Capital Group LLC/Oxford Hotels & Resorts, LLC

Adam Semel
Managing Partner, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

Clifford Shapiro
Partner, Barnes & Thornburg

Lynn Sutton
Managing Principal, Kairos Worldwide

Jill Tanz
Partner, Chicago Mediation LLC

Ann Thompson
Senior Vice President, Architecture and Design, Related Midwest

Marcy Twete

Theodore I. Yi
Partner, Quarles & Brady, LLP

Ex-Officio Members

Catherine Baker
AIA Representative

Kent Foutty
Docent Council President

Jason Patch
Auxiliary Board President

Constance Rajala
Docent at Large

Life Trustee

Henry H. Kuehn

Trustees Emeritus

John DiCiurcio
Chief Operating Officer, Turner Construction Company

Walter Eckenhoff
Founding Principal, Eckenhoff Saunders Architects

Jan Grayson

Jeffrey Jahns
Partner, Seyfarth Shaw

Alvin Katz
Partner, Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Daniel Maguire
Chief Executive Officer (Retired), Executive Construction Inc.

Lloyd B. Morgan
Morgan Interests, LLC

Richard H. Schnadig
Retired Partner, Vedder Price

John Syvertsen
Senior Principal, Cannon Design (Retired)

John J. Viera
Commonwealth Edison (Retired)