Governing Board
Board Officers
Chair – Judith C. Rice
Senior Vice President & Head of Community Affairs & Economic Development, BMO Harris Bank
Vice Chair - Jeff Palan
Senior Vice President, Premier Customer Network, SAP America, Inc.
Vice Chair – Fred E. Reid
Account Executive, Dell, Inc.
Treasurer - Gary J. Fennessy
Vice President, Operations, Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Secretary - Krista Rivers
Ariel Investments
Board Members
Markell Bridges
Director IS Strategy, Planning & IS Operations, Kraft Foods Inc.
Rev. Jeffrey Carlson, Ex-officio
Associate Pastor, St. Paul’s United Church of Christ
Charlotte R. Damron
Principal, Damron Associates
Richard J. De Cleene
Chief Financial Officer, IL Municipal Retirement Fund
Richard H. Fleming
Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, USG Corporation
Samantha Frost
President, UCAN Auxiliary Board
Lawrence I. Hayes
John Hill
Kevin B. Hynes
Partner, O'Keefe Lyons & Hynes, LLC
Ron Kinnamon
Former Asst. National Executive Director of the YMCA of the USA
Ricardo Knight
President, Medlux Rehabilitation & Wellness
Elizabeth H. Miller
Elena O’Connell
Tonya Pemberton
Tracy Robinson
Marketing Director, Amtrak
Curtis Spears
President & COO, Gardner Rich, LLC
Vanita Stevenson
Vice President, Employ America, LLC
Thomas C. Vanden Berk, Ex-officio
CEO, UCAN
Emmett T. Vaughn
Director - Diversity & Inclusion Strategy, Exelon
