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2025 Event Host Committee

Craig Bondy
Bondy Capital, LLC

Ellen Carnahan
Machrie Enterprises LLC

Jodi Caro
Ulta Beauty

Robert Coulton
CIBC Private Wealth

Janel Daley
Protera

Ada Dolph
Seyfarth

Colin Downey
Capital Group

Dean and Laura Egerter
The Egerter Family Foundation

Alex Feld
The Pritzker Organization

Kari Galassi
DuPage County Board Member

Stacy Gross
Havas Media Group

Dinaz Mansuri
The Mayer and Morris Kaplan Family Foundation

Russ Monco
PwC

Brian Moncrief
Ares Management

Evan Palenschat
Proskauer Rose

Jim Parsons
Retired, The Brinson Foundation

Paige Ponder
Idea Jar, LLC

David Schuppan
The Vistria Group

Steve Smith
UBS

Maurice R. Swinney
Chicago Beyond

Natalie Tessler
Independent Strategy Consultant

Elizabeth Vaughan
Gallagher

Carmen Vega
NBCU Local Chicago

Georgia Vlamis
USG

Jim Welch
Nexgen Packaging, LLC

 

CIS of Chicago Board of Directors

Mark Brady (Board Chair)
Retired Partner, Investment Banking, William Blair & Company, LLC

Jim Welch (Board Vice Chair)
Co-CEO, Nexgen Packaging

Michelle Brown (Board Treasurer)
SVP of Operations & Customer Excellence, Encore

Brian Moncrief (Board Secretary)
Managing Director, Credit Group, Ares Management Corporation

Dr. Sherron J. Bibbie
Retired Administrator, Chicago Public Schools

Don Bielinski
Managing Partner, SMB Interim Management

Craig A. Bondy
Founder and CEO, Bondy Capital

Mary Capasso
EVP, COO, and General Counsel, PPM America, Inc.

Janel Daley
Vice President, Business Development, Protera

Miranda Davis
Medical Management Specialist, BCBS-IL

Josh Gray
Managing Director, Private Equity Endeavor, Vista Equity Partners

Jonathan Guryan, PhD
Lawyer Taylor Professor of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University

Ryan D. Harris
Partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP

John M. Hawn
Retired – Former Director of Operations, YUM! Brands, Inc.

Ralph Leslie
EVP, CFO, & COO, The Pew Charitable Trusts

Bradley H. Meyers
Managing Director, GCM Grosvenor

Jim Parsons
Retired President, The Brinson Foundation

Adrian Perkins
Fellow, Stanford Veteran Fellowship Program, and SVP, Prospect Park

Matt Spiegel
EVP, TruAudience Growth Strategy, TransUnion

Doug Warshauer
Retired Founder, Kessler Warshauer Ventures