Our greatest asset is our people.
Our management
- Brian Fabes
Chief Executive Officer - Meredith Sparks Ament
Principal - Frank Beal
Senior Executive - Antonio Benecchi
Principal
- Kirsten Carroll
Associate Principal - Michele Hallett
Special Assistant to the Chief Executive Officer - Beth Lampson
Associate Principal - Rasmus Lynnerup
Principal
- Rohan Mascarenhas
Associate Principal - Wendy McCullough
Principal - Eric Patton
Principal
- Eleanor Perrone Toriski
Principal, Development and Communications - Mark Van Grinsven
Senior Consultant - Veenu Verma
Principal
Our team
- Sam Abbott
Senior Associate - Marie Akerman
Associate, Development and Communications - Jeff Barrett
Program Assistant - Andrea Clinton
Associate - Aleks Czulak
McKinsey Fellow
- Elise Dagley
Program Assistant - Monique Etienne
Program Assistant - Shoham Geva
Associate - Beth Herzfeld
Project Manager - Anna Katter
Senior Associate
- Djenaba Kelly
Senior Associate - Sam Leiter
Analyst - Kevin Nigarura
Associate - Alec Noggle
Analyst - Destiny Ortega
Senior Associate
- Sky Patterson
Analyst - Amanda Paz
Senior Associate - Dejah Powell
Analyst - Lydia Sorensen
Senior Associate - Richard Wu
Analyst
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
Executive Managing Director
and President of Illinois Commercial Banking
CIBC - 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 - Anne R. Pramaggiore
President and Chief Executive Officer
ComEd
- 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