Cohort, 2011, Industry, Business & Consulting, Sector, Private Sector, John Murray is a former partner in Accenture’s Management Consulting group, focused on its Chicago-area client base. Before joining Accenture, he spent three and a half years as the chief bid officer for the Chicago 2016 Oly...

Cohort, 2011, Industry, Education, Sector, Academia, Before his role as President & CEO of Acero Schools, Richard Rodriguez worked for Res Publica Group and served as commissioner of the Department of Energy and Environment and deputy chief operations officer for the City of Chicago. He previousl...

Cohort, 2017, Industry, Business & Consulting, Sector, Private Sector, Previously, Mark Fastabend was the general manager for a foodservice equipment division within the Marmon Group. He has spent his career building businesses around innovative solutions that meet the needs of the global market,...

Cohort, 2017, Industry, Law, Sector, Non-profit, Anna Maitland works alongside marginalized communities to support locally-owned and led struggles toward progressive and sustainable change. She has engaged in the Americas and Africa on statelessness, asylum, sexual rights, and social and economic...

Cohort, 2015, Industry, Housing & Transportation, Sector, Private Sector, Now at Amazon Air, Mary Barnicle previously held the position of managing director of regulatory affairs at United Airlines. She advocated for the company’s interests before multiple government regulatory agencies, partic...

Cohort, 2013, Industry, Government, Policy, & Public Affairs, Sector, Private Sector, 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...

Cohort, 2014, Industry, Business & Consulting, Sector, Private Sector, As a partner at A.T. Kearney and a former executive vice president of crisis, issues, and risk at Edelman, Jennifer Thompson develops strategy and mitigation solutions for corporate crisis and risk avoidance. Working with mult...

Cohort, 2013, Industry, Government, Policy, & Public Affairs, Sector, Public Sector, Bridget Gainer is a member of the Cook County Board of Commissioners, where she chairs the pension committee and leads the reform of the county's foreclosure policy and treatment of women and mothers incarcerated...

Cohort, 2014, Industry, Business & Consulting, Sector, Private Sector, Before working at KittyHawk, Lincoln S. Ellis led Green Square's strategy and business development practices and headed the firm's Chicago branch, Green Square's first office outside of Memphis. Ellis created Columbia Universi...

Cohort, 2013, Industry, Science, Technology, & Innovation, Sector, Private Sector, Christian Hagen has over two decades of consulting experience, specializing in leveraging digital technologies and analytics to optimize supply chains, revolutionize operations, and secure competitive advantages fo...