University of Illinois | 150 Years & Beyond

CeCe (Marizu) Cooper

Swimming star turned senior content producer for Apple Fitness+

Earned UI degrees in broadcast journalism (2010), education policy studies (2012)

Yakaira Nunez

VP/Research & Insights Platform

Salesforce

Newton Cheng

Global health and performance lead

Google

Kelvin Droegemeier

UI atmospheric sciences professor and special advisor to the chancellor

Former director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

Steve Johns

President and founder

Confluence Pharmaceuticals

Sheila Repeta

Head of People

TeamSnap

Josh Whitman

Illini athletic director

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

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Chris Myers

VP/Advanced Technology

John Deere

Mike Malsch

Legal attaché

FBI

Sandeep Pandya

CEO

Everguard

Sonny Tai

CEO/co-founder, Actuate

Marine Corps veteran

Anna Hecht

Money reporter

CNBC

Chris Gerrib

Author, IT project manager

Addison Group

Aaron Walz

Director, Ag Data Services

Purdue College of Agriculture

Michael Munie

Founder, stealth AI company

Former Google software engineer

Kishor Trivedi

Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Duke University

Evan Glazer

Head of school

The Avenues: The World School

Chirantan ‘CJ' Desai

Chief product officer

ServiceNow

Aisha Conner-Gaten

Instructional design librarian

Loyola Marymount University

Elizabeth Pittelkow Kittner

Head of Finance

International Legal Technology Association

Jameson O’Guinn

Adobe senior manager

Digital strategy & architecture

Rick Lawrence

President,

PCIX, Inc.

Susan Standiford

Chief technology officer

IKEA Group

Lothar Soliwon

President, CEO

ZG Worldwide Consultants

Lynne Thieme

Software engineer

Trustee, Delta Gamma Foundation