With more than 300 members, the Emerging Leaders community is a dynamic cross-sector network of Chicago’s visionary, globally minded, locally committed leaders.
In his previous role at engineering consulting firm Sargent & Lundy, Jon Horek advised clients and delivered projects in the electric utility, gas utility, heavy industry, institutional, and commercial building sectors. He broadly focuses his work on three trends transforming global energy infrastructure—efficiency, decarbonization, and resiliency.
Mark Hoyt is Popmenu’s first chief financial officer, bringing over 25 years of experience in leading financial performance for global SaaS companies and startups. He plays a key role in supporting Popmenu’s mission to help restaurants succeed through technology innovation. Before joining Popmenu, Hoyt led international growth at Groupon and served as VP of international finance at CareerBuilder.
Prior to joining Thrivent Mutual Funds—a subsidiary of Thrivent Financial—Michael Hubbard was an analyst covering U.S. small cap financials and real estate at William Blair Investment Management. While in this role, he founded and led the company’s veteran business resource group and served as one of the founding board members of the Alliance Board.
Mariam Huss is the founder of Axxum Consulting, a firm specializing in human capital, value creation, and talent placement. With over 20 years of experience in organizational design, M&A, and process improvement, she has taught global change at Northwestern University and served as the first female president of the French American Chamber of Commerce in Chicago.
Bryant Ives is a managing director with Ernst & Young's consulting practice, focusing on supply chain, finance, analytics, and emerging tech within the advanced manufacturing and mobility group. He has a proven track record of working with clients to support them with enterprise and business unit transformations aimed at unlocking value and driving efficiencies.
Michael R. Jarecki is the principal and founding attorney of Jarecki Law Group, LLC, a Chicago-based full-service U.S. immigration law firm, and he's a board member of the Federal Bar Association’s Immigration Law Section. The AILA Chicago chapter awarded Jarecki the Minsky Beacon of Light Award for his dedication to the advancement of the immigration field and for outstanding mentorship.
Minoo Javanmardian joined Oliver Wyman's health and life sciences practice with over 25 years of experience as a strategy consultant, executive coach, and business leader in the healthcare industry. She's focused on developing strategy-based transformation in the healthcare industry, including the payors (health plans) and providers (e.g., hospitals and clinics) sectors.
Tanya Jeong leads employee engagement and giving for AbbVie, a biopharmaceutical company located in northern Chicago. In this role, she spearheads volunteerism, giving, and assistance programs for the company. Jeong launched AbbVie’s fifty-million-dollar long-term philanthropic commitment addressing racial inequity, as well as several COVID-19 philanthropic initiatives.
Before her role at the Chicago Quantum Exchange, Andrea Jett Fletcher managed the civic engagement, participatory democracy, and public policy initiatives of the McCormick Foundation. Previously, she worked with the University of Chicago Cultural Policy Center, the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, the Brookings Institution, and the African Development Bank.
Sherene Awad Jodrey is senior counsel at Boeing, where her practice focuses on employee benefits and executive compensation matters. She represents Boeing on all matters relating to the company’s US retirement, health, and welfare programs, executive compensation programs, global equity plans, and employee-related aspects of mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures.
