University of Illinois | 150 Years & Beyond

John Zeglis

Telecommunications exec

Former AT&T president

Ray Ozzie

Lotus Notes creator

Ex-Microsoft executive

Ryan Hoch

Forbes 30-under-30

Overgrad CEO

Pedro Cevallos-Candau

President/CEO

Primera Engineers

Tom Hogan

Kony CEO

Ex-Hewlett-Packard VP

Chris Kennedy

Chair, UI trustees

2009-15

Sheila Johnson

BET founding partner

WNBA team president

Lynn Morley Martin

21st Secretary of Labor

U.S. Rep, 1981-91

Michelle Hodges

VP and chief HR officer

Curves Jenny Craig

Brad Oltmanns

Global board director

PricewaterhouseCoopers

Jason Brett

Entertainment executive

Co-produced ‘About Last Night’

Tom Siebel

Software entrepreneur

Donated $157 million-plus

Sue Bostrom

Former executive VP

Cisco Systems

Brian Murphy

Chief operating officer

Navy Pier

Michael Kelly

Media executive

Ex-Weather Channel CEO

Ayala Donchin

New York restaurant owner

Founded Evelyn’s Kitchen

Julia Gouw

Retired banking COO

California’s East West Bank

Betty Mohlenbrock

President, Reading Legacies

Alumni Humanitarian Award

Sima Dahl

International speaker

Personal branding specialist

Roxanne Decyk

Former oil industry executive

Held top posts at Shell, Amoco

Jack Welch

Former CEO, General Electric

Died in 2020 at age 84

Robert Johnson

Billionaire businessman

BET founder