Cohort, 2025, Industry, Banking & Finance, Sector, Private Sector, Social Media, In the financial services industry since 2013, Ryan Schomburg currently works for HSBC Asset Management where he assists corporate clients with their investment needs. Previously, he worked in corporate banking relat...

Cohort, 2025, Industry, Education, Sector, Academia, Diane D. Williams is an adjunct faculty member and fellow at the China Center for Social Policy. She is completing her Ph.D. in social work focused on productive aging in older adult populations, specifically focusing on social integration and ...

Cohort, 2017, Industry, Law, Sector, Private Sector, Kruti Trivedi is previously an assistant US attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, where she served in the securities and commodities fraud section. A federal prosecutor based in Chicago, Trivedi has investigated and prosecuted a wide ...

Cohort, 2014, Industry, Law, Sector, Private Sector, Before joining Boeing, Anthony P. Garcia was with the US Department of Justice. His last assignment was to the gangs and narcotics section in the US Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois. He served as the US Department of Just...

Cohort, 2012, Industry, Banking & Finance, Sector, Private Sector, Daniel Bryant is the former founder and chief executive officer of Sheridan Road Financial, an investment consulting and management company that services middle-market companies and their executives. Before founding Sheridan Road,...

Cohort, 2017, Industry, Advocacy & International Development, Sector, Non-profit, Khadine Bennett is Associate Legislative Director with the ACLU of Illinois. She drafts, testifies, and lobbies on a wide variety of legislative issues. Bennett began her ACLU of Illinois career as a Legal Fellow wi...

Cohort, 2023, Industry, Banking & Finance, Sector, Private Sector, Andrew Harrison is the head of US digital partnerships at BMO Financial Group and leader of WMNfintech, a national accelerator program run in collaboration with 1871. He has spent 15 years in finance and banking focusing on commer...

Chris Shadek's passion is finding innovative solutions to complex problems to make a difference in people's lives. He currently runs a software startup where he is in the process of launching a new app focused on making it easier for people to be social together in-person. He has extensive experi...

Cohort, 2026, Industry, Business & Consulting, Sector, Non-profit, Social Media, Before his role as executive director, Brian Peckrill served as the fellows’ program director, where he was responsible for designing and implementing forward-thinking, ethics-focused experiences for top MBA studen...

Ankit Panda discusses North Korea's nuclear program.