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Our management

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Our Board

The Board of Civic Consulting Alliance comprises senior leaders from Chicago’s most prominent corporate, professional service, nonprofit and philanthropic organizations. They provide valuable resources such as pro bono project teams, “on loan” executives and counsel that helps our work have the greatest possible impact.
  • Deborah L. DeHaas*
    Chair
    Vice Chairman, Chief Inclusion Officer
    and Managing Partner for the
    Center for Board Effectiveness
    Deloitte
  • Paula Allen-Meares
    Chancellor Emerita,
    Professor of Medicine, John Corbally Presidential Professor University of Illinois at Chicago
  • Frank V. Battle, Jr.*
    Retired Partner
    Sidley Austin, LLP
  • Sally Blount
    Dean
    Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University
  • Bram Bluestein*
    Managing Partner
    Bluestein and Associates, LLC
  • The Honorable Edward M. Burke
    Ex-Officio Member
    Chairman, Committee on Finance
    City of Chicago
  • James B. Coleman
    Chicago Office Managing Director,
    Products Operating Group Managing Director
    Accenture
  • Michael Collins*
    Partner and Chief Financial Officer
    Bain & Company
  • Michelle L. Collins
    President
    Cambium LLC
  • Matthew C. Crowl
    Partner
    Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila LLP
  • A. Steven Crown
    General Partner
    Henry Crown and Company
  • Gillian Darlow
    Chief Executive Officer
    Polk Bros. Foundation
  • Daniel Diermeier
    Provost
    University of Chicago
  • Michael C. Evangelides
    Principal
    Deloitte
  • Charles L. Evans
    President and Chief Executive Officer
    Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
  • John Garabedian*
    Senior Partner and Managing Director
    The Boston Consulting Group
  • James T. Glerum, Jr.*
    Managing Director, Chairman,
    Regional Banking North America
    Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.
  • Larry J. Goodman, MD*
    Chief Executive Officer
    Rush University Medical Center
  • David Hackett
    Partner
    Baker & McKenzie LLP
  • Jake Henry
    Director
    McKinsey & Company
  • Linda Imonti
    Principal, Advisory Services
    KPMG LLP
  • Kish Khemani
    Partner
    A.T. Kearney
  • Liam Krehbiel
    Founder + Chief Executive Officer
    A Better Chicago
  • Anne Ladky*
    Executive Director
    Women Employed
  • Bruce Lubin
    Executive Managing Director
    and President of Illinois Commercial Banking
    CIBC
  • John W. McCarter, Jr.*
    Chair, Board of Regents
    Smithsonian Institution
  • Dorri McWhorter
    Chief Executive Officer
    YWCA Metropolitan Chicago
  • Laurence Msall
    President
    Civic Federation
  • David Narefsky*
    Partner
    Mayer Brown
  • Christopher A. O'Herlihy
    Vice Chairman
    Illinois Tool Works Inc.
  • Eric A. Reeves
    General Counsel and Managing Director
    Duchossois Capital Management
  • Sheli Z. Rosenberg
    Consultant to
    Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
  • E. Scott Santi
    President and Chief Executive Officer
    ITW
    Chairman
    The Commercial Club of Chicago
  • Nancy Searle*
    Senior Advisor
    Civic Consulting Alliance
  • Mark Shadle
    Managing Director, Corporate Affairs
    Zeno Group
  • Goli Sheikholeslami
    President and CEO
    Chicago Public Media/WBEZ
  • K. Sujata
    President/CEO
    Chicago Foundation for Women
  • Tina Tabacchi
    Partner in Charge, Chicago
    Jones Day
  • William Von Hoene*
    Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer
    Exelon Corporation
  • Frederick H. Waddell
    Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,
    Northern Trust Corporation
    Chair,
    The Civic Committee of The Commercial Club of Chicago
  • Kelly R. Welsh*
    President
    The Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago
  • Robert Wislow*
    Chairman
    CBRE Chicago
  • * Executive Committee Member

Our Leadership Council

The Civic Consulting Alliance Leadership Council is a group of executive- and partner-level business leaders who bring their stature and considerable experience to bear on the issues and opportunities we work on. As Council members they review our current and developing project portfolio, gather input from colleagues in the business community, recruit new pro bono partners and provide regular guidance on our work.
  • Matt Crowl
    Co-Chair
    Partner
    Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila LLP
  • Andrew Gottschalk
    Co-Chair
    Partner
    KPMG LLP
  • Bill Abolt
    Vice President
    AECOM
  • Peter Bresler
    North American Practice Leader, Health Analytics
    Towers Watson
  • Kevin Brockenbrough
    Vice President and Director of Account Planning
    Burrell Communications
  • Andrew Burroughs
    Partner
    IDEO
  • Randy Burt
    Principal
    A.T. Kearney, Inc.
  • Michael Chiappetta
    Director, Chicago Market Development
    Accenture
  • Theodore Chung
    Partner
    Jones Day
  • Jamie Cleghorn
    Partner
    Bain & Company
  • Barbara Ford
    Partner
    Phoenix Strategic Advisors
  • Brian Greenblatt
    Managing Director
    CIBC
  • David Hackett
    Partner
    Baker & McKenzie
  • Gareth Hayes
    Partner
    Roland Berger
  • Peggy McTigue
    Senior Vice President
    CBRE Group, Inc.
  • Michelle Russell
    Partner and Managing Director
    The Boston Consulting Group
  • Doug Scott
    President
    A Better Chicago
  • Michael Segobiano
    Senior Manager; Client Relationship Executive
    Deloitte
  • Mark Shadle
    Managing Director, Corporate Affairs
    Zeno Group
  • Whitney Smith
    Philanthropic Giving Lead, Midwest
    JP Morgan Chase & Co.
  • Shelley Stern Grach
    Director of Civic Engagement
    Microsoft Corporation
  • Robert Soles
    Partner, Advisory, IT Audit & Assurance
    KPMG LLP
  • Mike Stringer
    Co-Founder & Partner
    DataScope Analytics
  • Susana Vasquez
    Associate Vice President
    University of Chicago Office of Civic Engagement
  • Stephanie Wagner
    Partner
    Mayer Brown, LLP
  • Bryony Winn
    Partner
    McKinsey & Company
  • Lawrence Wojcik
    Partner
    DLA Piper
  • Maria Wynne
    Chief Executive Officer
    Leadership Greater Chicago
I find working with Civic Consulting especially satisfying because of the scale of the work. With a government client, you have the power to affect thousands of lives – the $33 million we saved in the first year of City-County collaboration can be put into public safety and save lives.

Matt Crowl


Partner, Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila LLP

Co-chair, Civic Consulting

Leadership Council

Life Members of our board

Life Members of Civic Consulting Alliance’s Board are former Board members who, during their tenure as Board members, played a special, usually long-term role in developing our organization. Life members include former Board Chairs and others who, over the past three decades, have made Civic Consulting Alliance what it is today.
  • William Best
    Vice President
    AT Kearney
  • Clark Burrus
    Retired Vice Chairman
    First Chicago Capital Markets, Inc.
  • Sandra P. Guthman
    Chair
    Polk Bros. Foundation
  • Leon Jackson
    President
    Multi-FAC
  • Phyllis Lockett
    Chief Executive Officer
    LEAP Innovations
  • R. Eden Martin
    Of Counsel
    Sidley Austin LLP
  • Lester H. McKeever, Jr.
    Managing Principal
    Washington, Pittman & McKeever LLC
  • Henry C. Mendoza
    President
    Henry C. Mendoza & Associates
  • Richard Morrow
    Retired Chairman of the Board
    Amoco Corporation
  • Michael Moskow
    Vice Chairman and Senior Fellow
    Chicago Council on Global Affairs
  • Mary Nelson
    President Emeritus
    Bethel New Life
  • Thomas Patrick
    Chairman, President and CEO
    Peoples Energy Corporation
  • Kenneth Porrello
    Partner
    Deloitte
  • Pamela Strobel
    Retired Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer
    Exelon Corporation