University of Illinois | 150 Years & Beyond

Michael Coates

Former Twitter chief information security officer

Co-founder & CEO, Altitude Networks

Tonise Paul

President/CEO

Energy BBDO

Don Scifres

Laser physics pioneer

UI Engineering HOF

Chris Gandy

3-year basketball starter

CEO, Midwest Legacy Group

Mannie Jackson

Basketball Hall of Famer

CEO, Harlem Globetrotters

Bill Smith

Champaign-born Huffy Corp. CEO

Died in 2019

Jeremy Stoppelman

Yelp CEO

Ex-PayPal VP/engineering

Steve Chen

YouTube co-founder

Class of 2022, Grainger College of Engineering Hall of Fame

Heather Pink

Co-founder, CEO

PinkDear LLC

Clark Benson

CEO/founder

Ranker

Jay Vroom

CEO

CropLife America

Sherwin Pomerantz

Jerusalem-based consultant

President, Atid EDI

Pat Basu

CEO

Cancer Treatment Centers of America

Andrew Hibel

Co-founder, COO

HigherEdJobs

John Hass

CEO/President

Rosetta Stone

Mohamed El-Ashry

Senior fellow

United Nations Foundation

Kris McMasters

Former CEO

CliftonLarsonAllen

Diane Pearse

Hickory Farms CEO

Ex-Crate & Barrel CFO

John Zeglis

Telecommunications exec

Former AT&T president

Ryan Hoch

Forbes 30-under-30

Overgrad CEO

Pedro Cevallos-Candau

President/CEO

Primera Engineers

Chris Kennedy

Chair, UI trustees

2009-15

Sheila Johnson

BET founding partner

WNBA team president

Jeff Huber

CEO, Grail

Former Google exec