About
Board of Directors
The University of Illinois Foundation Board of Directors is the governing body of our organization. The Board is responsible for identifying and supporting our mission and selecting our chief executive.
The Board consists of a regular membership of 19 to 24 elected directors. Once elected, a Board member serves as a regular director for a term of three years.
Officers of the Board
Chair
Richard C. Osborne MBA ’73
Senior Managing Director, Madison Industries
Chair-Elect
Karen M. Golz ’76
(Retired) Global Vice Chair, Ernst & Young Global Limited
Immediate Past Chair
Anthony G. DiTommaso ’74, MS ’76
Managing Partner, Ecvall, LLC
President/CEO
James H. Moore, Jr.
Secretary & Legal Counsel
Jennifer F. Cerasa
Treasurer & COO/CFO
Christine C. Devocelle MBA ’13
Chief Investment Officer
Travis Shore
Assistant Treasurers
Kelly L. Bennett '04, MAS '05
Michelle S. Bolger MBA ’14
Assistant Secretary
Jacquline N. Schweighart ’03, EdM ’09
Governing Directors
Shakeeb Alam ’97
Co-Founder & President, East Bridge Capital Management
Donald E. Bielinski ’71
Managing Partner, SMB Interim Management, LLC
Alan D. Feldman ’74, MBA ’76
(Retired) Chairman, President & CEO, Midas, Inc.
William D. Forsyth ’86
President and Founder, Frontier Partners
Laura L. Fraley ’77, MS ’79
Principal, Greenway Family Office, LLC
Alejandra Garza ’88
Founder and Principal, AGG Consulting
Beth Georgia Gies ’89
President, Gies Foundation
Cynthia M. Helle ’85
Director, The Josselyn Center and Providence Englewood Charter School Foundation
Julie A. Kellner ’86
(Retired) Executive Director, The Lincoln Academy of Illinois
Stuart L. Levenick ’76
(Retired) Group President, Caterpillar, Inc.
Jean M. Manning ’72, MBA ’78, JD ’83
Emeritus Chief Counsel for Employment, United States Senate
A. Helen McGrath ’77, MS ’78
(Retired) Vice President, AT&T Inc.
Saul J. Morse ’69, JD ’72
Attorney, Brown, Hay & Stephens, LLP
Deborah A. Paul, PhD MS ’79
(Retired) Biochemist/Director, Business Development & Licensing, Abbott Laboratories
Mary Ellen Penicook ’81, JD ’87
(Retired) Corporate Attorney & Assistant Secretary, Federal Signal Corporation
Kay M. Schwichtenberg MBA ’84
(Retired) President & CEO, Central Life Sciences
Khawar M. Siddique ’94, MD ’98
CEO, DOCS Health & DOCS Surgical Hospital
Paul T. Tucker ’70, MS ’71, PhD ’75
(Retired) Corporate Vice President, Computer Sciences Corporation
Ex-officio Directors
Donald J. Edwards ’88
Chair, University of Illinois Board of Trustees
Chief Executive Officer, Flexpoint Ford, LLC
Timothy L. Killeen
President, University of Illinois System
Paul Ellinger
Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Comptroller, University of Illinois System
James H. Moore, Jr.
President/CEO, University of Illinois Foundation
Life Directors
James M. Benson ’68
Chairman, Benson Botsford, LLC
Gary K. Bielfeldt ’58, MS ’59
Managing Partner, Bielfeldt & Company, LLC
Henry B. Blackwell II ’52
(Retired) Counsel, Baker & Daniels, LLP
Doris K. Christopher ’67
Founder & Chairman, The Pampered Chef, Ltd.
James R. DeBord ’69, MS ’71, MD ’74
(Retired) Professor of Surgery, University of Illinois College of Medicine
Jane Phillips Donaldson ’65, MS ’67
Partner, Phillips Oppenheim
David J. Downey ’63, JD ’66
President, The Downey Group, Inc.
W. Robert Felker ’74
Partner, Gator Trading
Juanita F. Francis ’70
President, F2 Family Foundation
Louis A. Friedrich ’67
(Retired) Principal, Bernstein Global Wealth Management
John A. Georges ’51
(Retired) Chairman & CEO, International Paper Company
Phillip C. Goldstick ’53
(Retired) Chairman of the Board, G. Equity Investment Group, Ltd.
Mary Kay Haben ’77
(Retired) President, North America, William Wrigley Jr. Co.
G. Stephen Irwin MD ’77
(Retired) President & Chairman, The Center for Outpatient Medicine
Mannie L. Jackson ’60
(Former) Chairman, Harlem Globetrotters
Gail Veasman Kellogg ’65
(Retired) Partner, Hewitt Associates
Shahid R. Khan ’71
President, Flex-N-Gate Corporation
Robert Klaus ’57
President, Klaus Companies
Leon J. Loichle MA ’71
(Retired) Global Personnel Development Manager, Ford Motor Company
Gregory B. Lykins ’69
Vice Chairman, First Busey Corporation
Co-Founder and Partner, Armory Capital LLC
R. Eden Martin ’62
Of Counsel, Sidley Austin, LLP
William C. Merchantz ’79
(Retired) President & CEO, Lakeview Technology, Inc.
Steven L. Miller ’67
Chairman & President, SLM Discovery Ventures, Inc.
Roger L. Plummer ’64
President, Plummer & Associates Consulting
Gayl S. Pyatt ’64
(Retired) Attorney, Gayl Simonds Pyatt, Attorney at Law
Mark A. Pytosh ’86
President & CEO, CVR GP, LLC
Jane Hayes Rader ’54
(Retired) Commissioner, Illinois Human Rights Commission
José L. Santillan ’80
(Retired) Senior Securities Compliance Examiner, Industry Expert, Division of Enforcement, U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission
Edwin A. Scharlau II ’66, MS ’68, PhD ’74
(Retired) Vice Chairman, Busey Bank
Michael T. Tokarz ’71, MBA ’73
Chairman, The Tokarz Group, LLC
Carl L. Vacketta ’63, JD ’65
(Retired) Senior Counsel, DLA Piper, LLP (U.S.)