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Our greatest asset is our people.

Our management

Our team

Our Board

Our Board is comprised of senior leaders from Chicago’s most prominent corporate, nonprofit, and philanthropic organizations. They provide invaluable resources, including pro bono project teams, “on loan” executives, funding, and counsel that maximize the impact of our work.
  • Deborah L. DeHaas*
    Chair
    Vice Chairman, National Managing Partner for the
    Center for Board Effectiveness
    Deloitte
  • Paula Allen-Meares
    Chancellor Emerita, University of Illinois
    John Corbally Presidential Professor Emerita, Professor of Medicine, UIC Chicago College of Medicine
  • Larry A. Barden
    Partner and Chairman of the Management Committee
    Sidley Austin LLP
  • Ricardo Bekin
    Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer
    Ativo Capital
  • Bram Bluestein*
    Managing Partner
    Bluestein and Associates, LLC
  • 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
  • Francesca Cornelli
    Dean
    Kellog School of Management
  • 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
  • Michael Fassnacht
    CEO and President
    FCB Chicago
  • John Garabedian*
    Senior Advisor
    The Boston Consulting Group
  • Sunil Garg
    Solutions Lead, Energy
    Uptake
  • Brent Gledhill
    Managing Director, Global Head of Investment Banking
    William Blair & Company
  • Larry J. Goodman, MD*
    Retired CEO of Rush University Medical Center and President Emeritus of Rush University
  • Graham C. Grady
    Partner
    Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP
  • David Hackett*
    Partner
    Baker McKenzie LLP
  • Lori Healey
    President, Chicago Business Unit
    Clayco
  • Linda Imonti
    Principal, Advisory Services
    KPMG LLP
  • Kish Khemani
    Partner
    A.T. Kearney
  • Tom Kilroy
    Senior Partner
    McKinsey & Company
  • Liam Krehbiel
    Founder + Chair
    A Better Chicago
  • Anne Ladky*
    Executive Director
    Women Employed
  • Bruce Lubin
    Vice Chair
    CIBC US
  • Paul C. Maranville
    Managing Partner
    Lantern Partners
  • John W. McCarter, Jr.*
    Chair, Board of Regents
    Smithsonian Institution
  • Dorri McWhorter
    Chief Executive Officer
    YWCA Metropolitan Chicago
  • Cindy S. Moelis
    President
    The Pritzker Traubert Foundation
  • Laurence Msall
    President
    Civic Federation
  • David Narefsky*
    Partner
    Mayer Brown
  • Christopher A. O'Herlihy
    Vice Chairman
    Illinois Tool Works Inc.
  • James D. Pajakowski
    Executive Vice President, Strategy and Quality
    Protiviti
  • John Petrovski
    Senior Managing Director, Commercial Real Estate
    BMO Harris Bank
  • Curtis Reed, Jr.
    Managing Director and Region Manager - Chicago
    JPMorgan Chase
  • Robert G. Reiter, Jr.
    President
    Chicago Federation of Labor
  • E. Scott Santi+
    President and Chief Executive Officer
    ITW
    Chairman
    The Commercial Club of Chicago
  • Mark Shadle
    Managing Director, Corporate Affairs
    Zeno Group
  • Maurice Smith
    President
    Health Care Service Corporation
  • 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,
    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 & Chief Executive Officer
    Parkside Realty, Inc.
  • Dana Wright
    Managing Director
    MATH Venture Partners
  • * Executive Committee Member
  • + Ex Officio Member

Our Leadership Council

Our Leadership Council is comprised of a group of executive- and partner-level business leaders who bring their stature and considerable experience to bear on the issues and opportunities on which we work. Council members 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.
  • Barbara Ford
    Co-Chair
    Partner
    Phoenix Strategic Advisors
  • Doug Scott
    Co-Chair
    President
    A Better Chicago
  • Bill Abolt
    Vice President
    AECOM
  • Peter Bresler
    Vice President, Digital Performance
    AVIA Health Innovation
  • Kevin Brockenbrough
    Vice President and Director of Account Planning
    Burrell Communications
  • Michael Chiappetta
    Director, Chicago Market Development
    Accenture
  • Jamie Cleghorn
    Partner
    Bain & Company
  • Anusha Dhasarathy
    Partner
    McKinsey & Company
  • Brian Greenblatt
    Managing Director
    CIBC
  • Gareth Hayes
    Partner
    Roland Berger
  • Adam Hecktman
    Director of Technology & Civic Innovation
    Microsoft
  • Michael Hughes
    Managing Director
    West Monroe Partners
  • Katherine C. Jahnke Dale
    Associate
    DLA Piper LLP (US)
  • Akshay Kapur
    Partner
    McKinsey & Co.
  • Joanna Krupa
    Senior Vice President, Corporate
    Zeno Group
  • Phyllis Lee
    Chief Marketing Officer
    Jiobit
  • Joshua C. Milberg
    Vice President of Technology, Strategy and Transformation
    The Allstate Corporation
  • Kedra Newsom
    Principal
    The Boston Consulting Group
  • Michelle Russell
    Partner and Managing Director
    The Boston Consulting Group
  • Carmita Semaan
    Founder & President
    The Surge Institute
  • Meghan Shehorn
    Partner
    Bain & Company
  • Whitney Smith
    Philanthropic Giving Lead, Midwest
    JPMorgan Chase
  • Robert Soles
    Partner, Advisory, IT Audit & Assurance
    KPMG LLP
  • Mike Stringer
    Executive Design Director, Data Science
    IDEO
  • Susana Vasquez
    Associate Vice President
    University of Chicago Office of Civic Engagement
  • Stephanie Wagner
    Partner
    Mayer Brown, LLP
  • Lawrence Wojcik
    Partner
    McDermott Will & Emery LLP
  • 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

Former Co-Chair,

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