Our greatest asset is our people.
Our management
- Rebekah Scheinfeld
Chief Executive Officer - Meredith Sparks Ament
Principal - Frank Beal
Senior Executive - Antonio Benecchi
Principal
- Kirsten Carroll
Principal - Michele Hallett
Chief of Staff - Anna Katter
Associate Principal - Djenaba Kelly
Associate Principal
- Beth Lampson
Associate Principal - Rohan Mascarenhas
Principal - Destiny Ortega
Associate Principal - Eleanor Perrone Toriski
Chief Operating Officer
- Lydia Sorensen
Associate Principal - Mark Van Grinsven
Senior Consultant - Veenu Verma
Principal
Our team
- Sam Abbott
Senior Associate - Marie Akerman
Senior Associate, Development and Communications - Alex Barth
KPMG Fellow - Jeff Barrett
Operations Associate - Reena Burt
Analyst
- Elise Dagley
Senior Operations Associate - Monique Etienne
Operations Associate - Julie Habbert
Senior Associate - Beth Herzfeld
Project Manager - Andrell Holloway
Protiviti Fellow
- Lola Knight
Northwestern Undergraduate Fellow - Alec Noggle
Associate - Amanda Paz
Senior Associate - Alex Price
Analyst - Ericka Woods
Analyst
- Richard Wu
Associate - Sandra Zarichny
Protiviti Fellow
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
Chief Executive Officer
Corporate Leadership Center
- 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
Kellogg 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 - Aarti Dhupelia
Vice President for Undergraduate Education and Dean of the Undergraduate College
National Louis University
- Michael C. Evangelides
Principal
Deloitte - Charles L. Evans
President and Chief Executive Officer
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Michael Fassnacht
Chief Marketing Officer for the City of Chicago
World Business Chicago - John Garabedian*
Senior Advisor
BCG - Sunil Garg
Phunhousian in Chief
DNS Capital - 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
Implementation Lead
Obama Foundation - Kish Khemani
Partner
Kearney - Tom Kilroy
Senior Partner
McKinsey & Company - Liam Krehbiel
Founder + Chair
A Better Chicago - Anne Ladky*
Former 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 - Kedra Newsom Reeves
Managing Director and Partner, Chicago
BCG - David Reifman
President, Chicago Business Unit
Clayco - Robert G. Reiter, Jr.
President
Chicago Federation of Labor
- E. Scott Santi+
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
ITW
Chair
The Civic Committee of The Commercial Club of Chicago - Jennifer F. Scanlon+
President and Chief Executive Officer
UL Inc.
Chair
The Commercial Club of Chicago - Mark Shadle
Managing Director, Corporate Affairs
Zeno Group - Meghan Shehorn*
Partner
Bain & Company - Maurice Smith
President and CEO
Health Care Service Corp. - Robert Soles
Partner, Technology Audit and Assurance
KPMG LLP - Susan Stetler
Chief People Officer and Co-Founder
West Monroe Partners - Tina Tabacchi
Partner in Charge, Chicago
Jones Day - William Von Hoene*
Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer
Exelon Corporation - 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
Civic Consulting Alliance's Leadership Council provides a unique opportunity for impact on Chicago's civic issues. It serves as a forum to engage leaders from our community of pro bono partners and other stakeholders to provide meaningful input to support Civic Consulting Alliance’s work and clients
- Barbara Ford
Co-Chair
Partner
Phoenix Strategic Advisors
- Doug Scott
Co-Chair
Senior Advisor
Corporate Coalition of 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 - Charlie Corrigan
Executive Director, Head of Midwest Philanthropy
JPMorgan Chase
- 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
Partner
DLA Piper LLP (US)
- Akshay Kapur
Partner
McKinsey & Co. - Joanna Krupa-Brown
Executive Vice President
Zeno Group - Phyllis Lee
SVP Marketing
Manifold Group - Joshua C. Milberg
Vice President of Technology, Strategy and Transformation
The Allstate Corporation - Michelle Russell
Partner and Managing Director
The Boston Consulting Group - Carmita Semaan
Founder & President
The Surge Institute
- Mike Stringer
Executive Design Director, Data Science
IDEO - Stephanie Wagner
Partner
Mayer Brown, LLP - Lawrence Wojcik
Senior Counsel
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
Kearney - Clark Burrus
Retired Vice Chairman
First Chicago Capital Markets, Inc. - Jim Glerum
Managing Director and Chairman, Regional Banking for North America
Citigroup - 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