Cohort, 2015, Industry, Culture & the Arts, Sector, Non-profit, Since 2006, Sarah Herda has been director of the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Founded in 1956, the Graham Foundation is the largest foundation in the United States committed to awarding project-based grant...

Cohort, 2017, Industry, Science, Technology, & Innovation, Sector, Private Sector, Now at Rivian, Rebecca Delaney was the youngest engineering team leader for the design firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill’s (SOM) sustainable engineering studio in Chicago. Delaney led multidisciplinary sustain...

Cohort, 2010, Industry, Banking & Finance, Sector, Private Sector, For 15 years, Zach Egan was the fund manager of Columbia Acorn International (ACINX), which in 2012 received the Lipper award for best performance over 10 years among international small/mid-cap growth funds. From 2014 to 2018, he...

A Council working paper shows the climate benefits of shared mobility, but urban leaders must implement policies that make it safer and more accessible.

Cohort, 2010, Industry, Business & Consulting, Sector, Private Sector, Piyush Chaudhari is the CEO at Salsify, after previously working at Aon Consulting, IBM, Motorola, and McKinsey and Company. He has been awarded two U.S. patents in the area of microelectronics. He earned his BS and MS in mech...

Cohort, 2016, Industry, Housing & Transportation, Sector, Private Sector, Francisco Gonzalez-Pulido is currently the founder and principal at FGP Atelier. Previously, in his 15 years at the international architectural firm JAHN, he designed and built projects on four continents. He shared the des...

Cohort, 2016, Industry, Healthcare, Sector, Private Sector, Natasha Krol's work has included facilitating collaboration across distributed higher education systems, supporting the government of Nigeria in reducing poliovirus cases, and designing innovation labs. Recently, Krol supported Chicago a...

Cohort, 2011, Industry, Banking & Finance, Sector, Private Sector, Prior to his time at Equator Capital Partners, Paul Christensen was a faculty member of the finance department at Northwestern University and the president and COO of ShoreCap Management, an international private equity company ba...

Cohort, 2011, Industry, Banking & Finance, Sector, Non-profit, Tony Davis serves as the president and managing partner of Linden Capital Partners and has more than fifteen years of principal investing and consulting experience. He is a member of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC...

Cohort, 2011, Industry, Business & Consulting, Sector, Private Sector, A Manhattan native who, since 2000, has been proud to call Chicago home, Levinson is civically active as a non-profit board member, volunteer mentor, and community-based religious educator. He’s a cum laude graduate of Princ...