University of Illinois | 150 Years & Beyond

Brooke Elliott

Dean, Gies College of Business

Josef and Margot Lakonishok Professor in Business

Ken Holtzman

Major League Baseball's winningest Jewish pitcher

Threw two no-hitters, won three World Series rings

Randy Buhr

Director of championships and alliances

NCAA

Josh Whitman

Illini athletic director

2017 Central Illinois Business Magazine Forty Under 40 Man of the Year

Stephanie Cohen

Global head of platform solutions, Goldman Sachs

2018 Distinguished Alumna Award, Gies College of Business

Emily (Klopf) Gardner

MillerCoors local media manager

2017 Homecoming Comeback Award winner

Jerred Pauwels

VP/strategic partnerships

John Deere

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Stephanie Moore

Assistant dean of the arts

University of California-Santa Cruz

Steven Wymer

Boston-based Fidelity investment portfolio manager

Namesake of UI's Steven S. Wymer Hall

Chrystalla Mouza

Dean

UI College of Education

Jeff Brown

Dean, Gies College of Business

Margot Lakonishok Professor of Business

Dr. Michael Adkesson

President/CEO

Chicago Zoological Sociey

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

George Danos

Auditor

Champaign County

Ugur Uygur

Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship

Loyola University of Chicago

Raul Gouvea

Professor, International Management

University of New Mexico

Timothy Bracken

Director, affordable housing team

Berkadia

Matt Kramer

Assistant general counsel

Jimmy John’s

Karin (Dommermuth) O'Connor

Clinical Assistant Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Northwestern U

Executive Director, Heizer Center for Private Equity and Venture Capital

Darnell Leatherwood

Founder, Black Boys Shine!

Founding member, My Brother's Keeper Alliance Action Team

Myles Gage

COO and co-founder

Rapunzl Investments

Ann McBrien

First woman to serve as VP/sales at Procter & Gamble

Started UIAA Comeback program, Illini Pride founding board member

Norman Beamer

Administrative patent judge

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Adrienne Washington

Leadership coach and consultant, AA3 Solutions LLC

Former HR senior manager, Lockheed Martin