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Brent Brotine
Chicago advertising creative director
Current freelance copywriter
Stan Deal
President/CEO
Boeing Commercial Airplanes
Cheryl Quinn
LAS Alumni Achievement Award
QnA Pharma Consulting, LLC
Mansi Shah
Author, 'The Taste of Ginger’
Senior VP/Legal, Warner Bros. Entertainment
Yakaira Nunez
VP/Research & Insights Platform
Salesforce
Jaime Torres
General manager/sports attorney
International Baseball Sports Management, Inc.
Dr. Michael Adkesson
President/CEO
Chicago Zoological Sociey
Kim Kidwell
Associate Chancellor for Strategic Partnerships & Initiatives
Dean, College of ACES, 2016-21
Mark Wolters
Teaching Associate Professor of Business Administration; Academic Director, Marketing Major
Globetrotting host of 'Wolters World' YouTube channel
Kelly Loeffler
Former U.S. senator for Georgia (2020-21)
Former WNBA team owner, Bakkt CEO
Janet Hoffman Mathis
2021 ACES Award of Merit recipient
President/CEO, Elevate Illinois
Phil Coady
President, Microgroove
Former Air Force Band member
Ken Schweizer
Morris Professor of Materials Science & Engineering
Polymer Physics Prize recipient
George Danos
Auditor
Champaign County
Nell Bekiares
Animal biologist, conservation scientist, wildlife ecologist, zoologist
Research specialist, University of Wisconsin
Ugur Uygur
Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship
Loyola University of Chicago
Daniel Oerther
President-elect, American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists
Professor of environmental health engineering, Missouri University of Science & Technology
Jayda Imanlihen
Director of Multimedia Design & Production, Bovard College, University of Southern California
Executive Director, Black Girl Film School
Rasheda Ali Walsh
Speaker, author
Daughter of Muhammad Ali
Michael Harmata
Norman Rabjohn Distinguished Professor of Chemistry
University of Missouri
Libby Tyler
Planning manager, City of San Pablo, Calif.
Former Urbana community development director
Raul Gouvea
Professor, International Management
University of New Mexico
Jack Groppel
Former Illini men’s tennis coach (1978-81)
Co-founder, Johnson & Johnson Human Performance Institute
Jennifer Lewis
Hansjörg Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering
Harvard University
