Previous Conference Participants

• Honorable Illinois State Senate President Emil Jones, Jr.
• Honorable Rod Blagojevich (Governor of the State of Illinois)
• Honorable Lieutenant Governor Pat Quinn (State of Illinois)
• Secretary William Daley (Midwest Chairman, Chase Bank)
• Honorable Judge Roger Kiley, Jr. (Senior Vice President & General Counsel, AT&T)
• Mr. John Canning, Jr. (Chairman & CEO, Madison Dearborn Partners)
• Ms. Maye Foster Thompson (Executive Director of Business Diversity, University of Chicago Hospitals)
• Mr. Michael Moskow (President, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)
• Mr. Jack Lavin (Director, Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity)
• Ms. Kristi Lafleur (Chief of Staff, Illinois Department of Economic Opportunity)
• Mr. Barry Mitchell (President, ComEd)
• Mr. Thomas McLeary (President, Endow Inc.)
• Mr. Chet Gougis (President, Duff & Phelps LLC)
• Mr. Robert Filek (Partner, PriceWaterHouseCoopers)
• Mr. David Weinstein (President, Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center)
• Mr. Phillip Barreda (President, Chicago Minority Business Development Council)
• Mr. David B. Ferraro (Chairman & CEO, Buckeye Technologies)
• Dr. Damayanti Vasudevan (Vice President of Diversity & Inclusion, RR Donnelley)
• Dr. Clarence Nixon, Jr. (Managing Partner, CNC Group)
• Mr. Edward T. Swan (Senior Partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP)
• Ms. Susan Gallagher (Managing Director, Huron Consulting Group)
• Mr. Robert Grossinger (Senior Vice President of Civic & Community Development, LaSalle Bank)
• Ms. Barbara Lumpkin (Chief Procurement Officer, City of Chicago)
• Mr. Scott Meadow (Clinical Professor of Entrepreneurship, University of Chicago GSB)
• Mr. Larry Thompson (Small Business Program Manager, U.S. Department of Energy)
• Dr. Chirinjeev Kathuria (Chairman & President, PlanetSpace)
• Mr. Bruce V. Rauner (Chairman & Senior Principal, GTCR)
• Professor Steve Rogers (Professor of Entrepreneurship, Kellogg School of Management)
• Ms. Vinita Fields (Partner & Senior Portfolio Manager, Smith Whiley)
• Mr. David Wilhelm (Partner, Hopewell Ventures)
• Mr. Gerry Fernandez (Founder & President, MultiCultural Foodservice and Hospitality Alliance)
• Mr. Michael A. Nemeroff Esq. (Chairman of the Finance & Transactions Group, Vedder Price)
• Ms. Robin C. Brooks (Chairman & Majority Shareholder, Brooks Food Group, Inc.)

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