University of Illinois | 150 Years & Beyond

Emily Santiago

Lead naturalist

NW Trek Wildlife Park

June Panagakos Podagrosi

Founder, executive director

Child’s Play Touring Theatre

Jeff Kibler

VP, solutions/customer success

Flybits of Canada

Peg Ross

VP, global HR

Project Concern International

John Norkus

Managing director

Chicago consulting firm

Jim Gaspar

President

Attune Foods

Daisy Porter-Reynolds

Executive director

Aurora Public Library

Juanita Havill

Children’s book author

Santa Cruz County, Ariz.

Jess Brown

Senior VP

Carollo Engineers

Bruce Miller

VP/global account director

Schlumberger

Phil Hockberger

Associate VP/research

Northwestern University

Rebecca Bilbro

Lead data scientist

ByteCubed, Inc.

Colleen Keough Wagner

Fiction author, editor

aka ‘Rumer Haven’

Michael Harring

Retired VP

Deere & Company

Blair Sheppard

Dean emeritus

Duke School of Business

Gina Chinino Dardi

Global comms manager

Cushman & Wakefield

Laurie Weingart

Interim provost

Carnegie Mellon U

Brad McCredie

Fellow/VP, IBM

Power Systems Development

Steve Chicoine

Former oilman

Management consultant

Nora Wang

Senior engineer

Pacific NW Nat’l Lab

Andy Kessler

Inside View columnist

Wall Street Journal

Kevin Stotmeister

President/CEO

Federal Health Sign

Bethany Dohleman

Director, Nike

Workforce development

Geoff Miller

President

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