University of Illinois | 150 Years & Beyond

Norman Beamer

Administrative patent judge

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Jason Brett

Entertainment executive

Co-produced ‘About Last Night’

Gary Brierley

President

Doctor Mole, Inc.

Deb Busey

40 years in local government

Champaign County administrator, 1998-2016

Tom Cartwright

Bank advisor

Formerly of JP Morgan Chase

Dan Farber

Law professor

Cal-Berkeley

Derek Dimke

LinkedIn relationship manager

Made Illini record 84.8% of FGs (39-for-46)

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Robert Gaynes

Distinguished physician

Emory School of Medicine

Donna Greene

Former CEO

Busey Wealth Management

Jeanne Harris

Business analytics lecturer

Columbia University

Bill Hill

Asst. managing editor

MLB.com

Sharon Marshall Hoerr

Emeritus professor

Michigan State University

Freeman Hrabowski

President, UMBC

One of Time’s ‘Most Influential'

Avis (Sampson) LaVelle

Former press secretary to Chicago Mayor Richard Daly

Executive director, Business Leadership Council

Diane Wolfe Marlin

Urbana mayor since 2017

Coordinator, UI Family Resiliency Program (2000-10)

Jim McKinstray

Retired VP

The Andersons

David Prosperi

Senior VP, communications

The Options Clearing Corp. (OCC)

J. Robert Rossman

Professor and dean emeritus

Illinois State University

Scott Shearer

Bockorny Group VP

USDA deputy ass’t secretary (1993-96)

Tom Siebel

Software entrepreneur

Donated $157 million-plus

Angela Sinickas

2020 Alumni Achievement Award

International corporate communication researcher

Tom Starr

AT&T Labs

Distinguished Engineering Alum

Shiraz Tayabji

Senior principal engineer

Applied Research Associates

Stephen Tobolowsky

Actor

Ned from 'Groundhog Day'

Stuart Umpleby

Past president

American Cybernetics Society