University of Illinois | 150 Years & Beyond

Ronald Filler

NY Law School professor

Gave $200,000 for band tower

John Schippman

Director of studio content

NBC Sports Chicago

John Galante

President

AE Ventures

Maddie Kelly

Executive director

Oak Lawn Park District

Ian Wang

President/curator

Spurlock Museum

Tom Livingston

Chief Illiniwek 27

Regional VP, CSX

Bob Axelrod

Senior VP

FleishmanHillard

Jim Thompson

Illinois’ 37th governor (1977-91)

Died in 2020 at age 84

John Creech

Chief Illiniwek 31

Johnson & Johnson Vision

Larry Smith

President

Entrepreneurs in Education

Brian Carley

SVP/CFO

Clubessential

Jon Pyatt

Chief of staff

U.S. Rep. Cheri Bustos

Dan Petrella

Business source editor

Chicago Tribune

Alison Osterbur

VP/Human Resources

NBCUniversal Media

Amanda McGrory

Won 7 Paralympic medals

Training for 2020 Games

Jodi Kawada Page

Spokeswoman

Uber

Ankit Patel

Senior manager

American Express

Ryan Gower

President

Lincoln Trail College

Abby Funk

Woman’s Board member

Rush U Medical Center

Mitch Altman

Inventor, hacker

Cornfield Electronics CEO

Shivani Singh

Software engineer

Google

Vipin Arora

Economist

U.S. Energy Administration

Margaret Ahrweiler

VP/marketing director

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.

Beth Vaughn

TV anchor

WRTV, Indianapolis