University of Illinois | 150 Years & Beyond

Ashley Valentine

Co-founder and president

Washington, D.C.-based Sick Cells

Andreas Cangellaris

Provost, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs

M.E. Van Valkenburg Professor in Electrical & Computer Engineering

Naya Crittenden

Right side hitter, UI volleyball, 2015-16

Top scorer in Swiss pro league, 2019-20

Armando Espinal

Senior financial analyst

Disney Television Animation

Brandon Jones

Brigade judge advocate

Based in Wiesbaden, Germany

Carl Johnson

Retired Navy captain

Grove Street Fiduciary CEO

Jeff Carter

Manager

West Loop Ventures

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Jason Colwell

Belgium-based managing director

The Crosby Group

Ryan Neiswender

Basketball Paralympian

Plays professionally in Germany

Sophia Battle

European procurement director

Nike technology and services

Katarina Mescal-Pevzner

VP, marketing

Panoply Media

Artan Sheshmani

Associate professor, Center for Quantum Geometry of Moduli Spaces

Mathematician, Harvard Center of Mathematical Sciences And Applications

Gioia Altobelli

Computational biologist

Bioinformatics of the UK

Colleen Keough Wagner

Fiction author, editor

aka ‘Rumer Haven’

Ann Lee Joe

Climate change secretariat

UN’s German campus

Elizabeth Elmore

Assistant appeals counsel

Int'l Criminal Tribunals

Carol Brighton

Owner

CSBrighton Consulting

Idun Reiten

Norwegian mathematician

Humboldt Research Prize

George Symeonides

Vice-consul/foreign service

U.S. State Department

Maureen Cormack

U.S. ambassador

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Karl Hess

Swanlund professor emeritus

Beckman Institute

Jodi Kawada Page

Spokeswoman

Uber

Riley Kerestes

Technical group manager

Caterpillar of Germany

John Kuffel

European pricing director

Bacardi of Germany

Samir Mirza

Former Twitter engineer

Advisor/investor