University of Illinois | 150 Years & Beyond

Jon Burgstone

Director, Symbol Capital

Illini Comeback Award

Terren Peterson

VP/platform engineering

Capital One

Paul Silver

Former CEO

Basswood Group

Karen Totaro

Executive VP/GM

San Diego Convention Center

Ravin Gandhi

CEO/co-founder

GMM Nonstick Coatings

Eduardo Torrealba

Director of engineering

Formlabs

Jim Lundeen

President/CEO

Lundeen Software

Alan Poeppel

VP/senior associate

Langan Engineering

Mark Pytosh

President/CEO

CVR Partners, Houston

Jill Smart

UI trustee

President, NAHR

Michelle Bassett

VP/digital media

Bassett & Bassett

Tianyi Zhu

Co-founder/partner

SmartHealth Ventures

Anna Catalano

Former BP executive

Global marketing head

Michelle Lenzen

Researcher/writer

Humans at Heart

Sarah Hardgrove-Koleno

Co-founder/CEO

Sports drink company

Neil Kane

Director, Michigan St.

Undergrad. Entrepreneurship

Mitch Altman

Inventor, hacker

Cornfield Electronics CEO

Rick Cattell

Database systems whiz

7 patents, 5 books

Kathleen Kayse

Chief media strategy/partnerships officer

Ad Council

Mike Muhney

Software entrepreneur 

Co-founder, ACT!

John Kuffel

European pricing director

Bacardi of Germany

Ping Fu

3D graphics expert

Geomagic cofounder

Samir Mirza

Former Twitter engineer

Advisor/investor

Roger Dickey

Founder/CEO

Gigster