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David Devonshire
David Devonshire is an executive vice president of Motorola and has served as the company’s chief financial officer since April 2002. In this role, he is responsible for company-wide treasury, tax, audit, financial and managerial reporting, forecasting and planning, internal accounting controls, investor relations, real estate and the Motorola Credit Corporation.

Prior to joining Motorola, a global leader in providing integrated communications and embedded electronic solutions, he served as executive vice president and chief financial officer of the Ingersoll-Rand Company for four years. While at Ingersoll-Rand, a leading diversified industrial firm, Devonshire was responsible for strategic planning, business development, accounting, tax, treasury, investor relations and internal audit.

Prior to joining Ingersoll-Rand in 1998, Devonshire was senior vice president and chief financial officer for Owens Corning for five years where his leadership in the areas of corporate restructuring, reengineering, financing, acquisitions, planning and information technology contributed to that company’s financial success.

Devonshire also served as corporate vice president and controller for Honeywell for two years before becoming the firm’s corporate vice president of finance in 1992. He also served as corporate controller for the Mead Corporation for two years and was with Baxter International, Inc. from 1972 to 1988 in various financial roles. He began his career at KPMG in 1968.

Devonshire holds an M.B.A. degree from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and a B.S. degree in accounting from Widener University in Pennsylvania.

He serves on the board of directors for Roper Industries and ArvinMeritor, Inc., the advisory board of CFO Magazine, and on the board of trustees for John G. Shedd Aquarium. Source

Deborah DeHaas
Deborah is the Vice Chairman and Regional Managing Partner for Deloitte & Touche USA LLP Midwest Region, which includes offices in Chicago, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Omaha, Cedar Rapids, Davenport and Des Moines. With 5,000 professionals, Deloitte is the largest Big Four firm in the region. In this role, Deborah leads the quality, client satisfaction, growth and human resource initiatives in the region. Deborah also serves as advisory partner on a number of the firm’s most significant clients in the Chicago area. Prior to assuming her current role, she was the Regional Managing Partner of Strategic Clients for the Midwest Region.

Deborah served as the 2003/2004 Campaign Chair for United Way. She is the Treasurer of Millennium Park, Inc. and WTTW/Channel 11, where she also serves on the Executive Committee. In addition, she is on the Boards of the Chicago Club, the Executives’ Club of Chicago and the Economics Club of Chicago. She is a member of the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago, the Museum of Science and Industry, World Business Chicago, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Northwestern University.

Deborah graduated from Duke University with a B.S. in Management Science and Accounting. She is a Certified Public Accountant and a member of several state and national professional societies, including the AICPA and the Illinois CPA Society. Source

Harry Kraemer
Harry M. Jansen Kraemer, Jr. is an executive partner with Madison Dearborn, a private equity firm based in Chicago, and also a Clinical Professor of Management and Strategy at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. He is the former chairman and chief executive officer of Baxter International Inc., a $9 billion global healthcare company. He became Baxter's chief executive officer in January 1999, and chairman of the board of directors in January 2000. He is a member of the Dean’s Advisory Boards of Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, as well as a member of the Advisory Board of LEK Consulting. Mr. Kraemer graduated summa cum laude from Lawrence University of Wisconsin in 1977 with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and economics. He received an MBA from Kellogg in 1979. He is also a certified public accountant. Harry, his wife Julie, and their five children live in Wilmette, Illinois. Image Source

Evan Eschmeyer
Evan Eschmeyer is an American former professional basketball player who was selected by the New Jersey Nets in the 2nd round (34th overall) of the 1999 NBA Draft. A 6'11" center from Northwestern University, Eschmeyer played in four NBA seasons from 1999-2003. He played for the Nets from 1999-2001 and the Dallas Mavericks from 2001-2003.

In his NBA career, Eschmeyer played in 153 games and scored a total of 421 points. In October 2004, he retired from basketball because of knee problems. He has since enrolled at the Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago. Source | Image Source

Larry Keeley
Larry Keeley is an innovation strategist who often wonders why people bother to listen to innovation "experts" at all. After all, since innovation fails about 96% of the time, it seems self-evident that the field has advanced to about the same state as medicine when leeches, liniments and mystery potions were the sophisticated treatments of the day. On occasions when Larry can get someone to listen, he is inclined to reveal pieces of the emerging science of innovation that is at the heart of Doblin's practice. By being obsessive about identifying the root causes of innovation failure and injecting better methods, it is now possible to systematically boost innovation 'hit rates' to between 35% and 70%. That still isn't perfect but it is an improvement of 10-15 times over the pathetic results people try to convince themselves is "normal."

Larry is a co-founder of Doblin and was lucky enough to have Jay Doblin as a mentor for a decade. He is the current president of Doblin, and a frequent lecturer and teacher about frontiers of innovation and strategy. Larry has worked with a wide variety of pioneering enterprises since 1979, among them firms like Aetna, Apple, Citigroup, ExxonMobil, Hallmark, McDonald's, Motorola, Pfizer, Steelcase, Texas Instruments, and Zurich Financial Services. Larry is a board member for the Institute of Design at Illinois Institute of Technology, where he is also an adjunct professor teaching graduate design strategy classes. He is a lecturer in innovation at Kellogg and University of Chicago and at many executive education programs. He is also a board member for WBEZ-FM in Chicago, where he has been instrumental in charting strategies that have made it the nation's most innovative public radio station. Larry is author of "The Taming of the New," a guide to the new disciplines of innovation to be published soon by Harvard Business School Press. Source

Dean Martinez
Dean Martinez has distinguished himself as a true public servant and an accomplished leader. Throughout his career, Mr. Martinez has performed with duty, honor and leadership, gaining the respect of his superiors and colleagues.

Secretary Martinez has implemented policies and procedures to streamline the licensing and testing of licensees in Illinois and has spearheaded the initiative to make IDFPR function as an e-government agency. Under Secretary Martinez’s leadership IDFPR has played the lead role in Governor Blagojevich’s Regulatory Reform Initiative making Illinois a more business friendly state.

Additionally, Secretary Martinez has played a key role in the creation and implementation of Payday Loan Reform Act, and HB 4050, also known as the Predatory Lending Reform Act, both of which are focused on protecting consumers from predatory lenders. Under Secretary Martinez’s leadership the agency has taken on the responsibility to provide service to the entities that it regulates and at the same time protect consumers and to that end he ordered the revamping of licensing areas within the department and as a result eliminated application backlogs. Secretary Martinez directs and oversees all policy decisions and investigations in the area of the Medical Malpractice Reform, Workers Compensation Legislation, and the insurance broker commissions.

On February 28, 2004 Governor Rod R. Blagojevich signed an Executive Order consolidating the Departments of Financial Institutions, Professional Regulation, Insurance and the Office of Banks and Real Estate into the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. Shortly thereafter, Dean was appointed as the Chief of Staff of this newly created Department. In this role, Dean was responsible for implementing the effective consolidation and ongoing management of approximately 900 employees.

When Rod Blagojevich became Governor of the State of Illinois, Dean was made the Chief of Legislative Affairs and Legal Counsel to the Department of Financial Institutions. While in that capacity, he was detailed to the Governor’s Office of Legislative Affairs, where he was responsible for financial and law enforcement related legislation. In this role he conducted successful legal analyses of over 80 pieces of legislation that were pending the Governor’s signature. Such legislation included Senate Bill 1784 designed to regulate predatory lending practices. Additionally during this period, Dean co-authored the Governor’s anti-dropout initiative known as the GRADS Initiative (Getting Results Achieving Dreams and Success). The program’s focus is on lowering the rising high school dropout rate in Illinois.

Shortly after graduating from law school Dean began working in the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office as an Assistant State’s Attorney. Dean started his career as an Assistant State’s Attorney in the Appellate Division where he argued before the Illinois Appellate Court. He was later transferred to the Traffic Division where he successfully prosecuted persons for Class “A” misdemeanor offenses. He was then, promoted to the Felony Narcotics Division where he served the citizens of Illinois by prosecuting persons accused of narcotics violations.

Dean Martinez was appointed Acting Secretary of IDFPR in July 2005. Growing up as the son of Cuban immigrants, Dean was instilled with the concepts of hard work and commitment from an early age. Even during his early years, Dean immersed himself in serving the citizens of Illinois by getting involved in his school and the community. Dean’s sense of dedication and diligence led him to graduate from DePaul University with a Bachelor’s Degree. Inspired by his family’s journey to America from Communist Cuba, Dean was eager to pursue a dream of working in public service and started off on that path by attending law school at Loyola University Chicago earning a Juris Doctorate.

Today Dean, his wife and daughter reside in the city of Chicago. Source

Robert Weber
Robert J. Weber is the Frederic E. Nemmers Distinguished Professor of Decision Sciences at the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University. Educated at Princeton and Cornell, he was a faculty member of the Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics at Yale, and taught in the Yale School of Organization and Management, prior to joining the Kellogg faculty in 1979.

His general area of research is game theory, with a primary focus on the effects of private information in competitive settings. Much of his research has been centered on the theory and practice of competitive bidding and auction design. His 1982 paper, "A Theory of Auctions and Competitive Bidding" (Econometrica 50, co-authored with P.R. Milgrom), is considered a seminal work in the field. He served as an external consultant on a 1985 project leading to revisions in the procedures used to auction petroleum extraction leases on the U.S. outer continental shelf, and he co-organized (with representatives of the Federal Reserve Board and the U.S. Treasury) the 1992 public forum which led to changes in the way the Treasury auctions its 2- and 5-year debt issues. From 1993 through 1996 he represented private clients during both the rule-making and bidding phases of the FCC's sale of licenses of spectrum for the provision of personal communications services.
In the early 1970s, Professor Weber proposed an alternative to the traditional "plurality rule" for elections involving more than two candidates. This alternative, "approval voting", has generated a substantial body of research, has been adopted by a number of professional organizations, and has been used in several public elections. Recent work in this area includes "A Theory of Voting Equilibria" (American Political Science Review 87, 1993, co-authored with R. Myerson), and "Approval Voting" (Journal of Economic Perspectives 9(1), 1995).

Professor Weber has also conducted research on negotiation and arbitration. Among his activities have been preparation of a research survey for the American Arbitration Association, and development of classroom materials for the National Institute for Dispute Resolution. He is a founding member of the Center for Research on Dispute Resolution at Northwestern University, and has served on the editorial board of the International Journal of Game Theory. In 1990 he was designated the outstanding professor of the year by the students in Kellogg's Managers' Program, and in 1998 he received the Sidney J. Levy Teaching Award. Source

Alberto Salvo
Professor Alberto Salvo joined Kellogg in 2005 from the London School of Economics, where he pursued a Ph.D. in Economics. His thesis was on "Price Competition, Mergers and Structural Estimation in Oligopoly". While at the LSE, Professor Salvo also taught courses on Microeconomics, Industrial Economics and Antitrust Policy.

Salvo's research interests lie in empirical Industrial Organization, International Economics and Antitrust Policy. More specifically, he is interested in the way entry –- actual or threatened –- affects the established order in different industries.

Professor Salvo has consulted for government on Antitrust Policy and has also worked in the consumer goods industry

Michael Sands
Sands joined Orbitz as its first marketing employee in September of 2000. As chief marketing officer he led the team responsible for developing and implementing all marketing activities for Orbitz. His efforts were a major contributor to the successful launch of Orbitz.com on June 4, 2001, and its rapid growth since.

Prior to joining Orbitz, Sands worked for General Motors Corporation as one of a select group of external marketers designated with improving the auto company's North American marketing efforts. His efforts made Oldsmobile an e- marketing leader within the overall auto industry and led Sands to being named a "Marketer of the Next Generation" by Brandweek magazine.

Sands holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Communications from Northwestern University and a Masters in Management degree from the J.L. Kellogg School of Management.

William Olson
Dr. Bill Olson wants the world to know that Motorola is a good global corporate citizen. Bill first joined Motorola’s automotive group, where he implemented the first VOC-free conformal coating for engine controls. He also drove a variety of cost reduction teams for the engine auto body/control businesses.

Then nine years ago he joined Corporate Research, where he now heads two teams working in International and Environmental Research. Bill’s team in Europe conducts testing on hundreds of Motorola products to insure they meet environmental regulatory requirements of the EU (WEEE/RoHS), American and Asian markets. His lab in Tianjin China works closely with manufacturing engineering and the supply chain to achieve improvements in factory productivity, yield and product reliability.

Now more than ever, creating sustainable products is important to the world. Bill is leading a key corporate initiative called ECOMOTO, which focuses on the realization of environmentally sound, seamless ECOMOTO mobile products. ECOMOTO seeks to deliver sustained business impact and brand advantage through green materials and innovative ecodesign practices. The REAL test lab in Europe helps insure that Motorola products comply with current local, state and national environmental regulations. His team provides global RoHS test standard leadership through international standards bodies.

It means that Motorola will continue to act as a global environmental steward. One initiative, the DSS Supply Chain R&D, is helping transform how Motorola works with Asian suppliers and customers to improve the quality, performance and reliability of our products. Our international environmental standards work impacts the entire electronics industry by providing a consistent set of methods and tests for assessing the restricted material’s content and the environmental performance of electronic products. ECOMOTO will help differentiate and transform Motorola products for a sustainable future. Source

Jon Petrovich
In his 37 years in journalism, Petrovich worked his way up from rookie reporter to CNN, where served as executive vice president for 15 years. At CNN, he was responsible for all of CNN’s new business and ancillary services including Headline News, Airport Network, CNN en Espanol, CNN Radio, CNN Radio Noticias and CNN Newsource. He also developed CNN Interactive, which produces CNN.com, and in that role created all new media projects for CNN.

Most recently, Petrovich was executive vice president of Sony Pictures Television International. In 2005, before joining the Medill faculty, he visited Medill to discuss the future of media in China in a lecture called "China's Transition into the International Media World." Petrovich worked for several weeks with executives from China Central Television (CCTV), China's largest national TV network, on new strategies to help streamline their processes and increase profits.

Petrovich also served on Medill's Board of Advisers in the '90s. He is a graduate of Indiana University with a BA in Broadcast Journalism and received his master's in telecommunications from the University of Alabama. Source

Dan Spulber
Daniel F. Spulber is the Director of Kellogg's International Business & Markets Program. He is the Elinor Hobbs Distinguished Professor of International Business and Professor of Management Strategy at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, where he has taught since 1990. He is also Professor of Law at the Northwestern University Law School. He received his Ph.D. in economics in 1979 and his M.A. in economics in 1976 from Northwestern University, and his B.A. in economics in 1974 from the University of Michigan. Spulber has taught at Brown University, the University of Southern California, and the California Institute of Technology.

Spulber has received eight National Science Foundation grants for economic research. Spulber is the founding editor of the Journal of Economics & Management Strategy published by Blackwell Publishers.

Spulber's research is in the areas of Industrial Organization, Microeconomic Theory, Management Strategy, Regulation, and Energy Economics. He has published numerous journal articles in economics journals and law reviews, including the American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Economic Theory, Rand Journal of Economics, International Economic Review, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Columbia Law Review, New York University Law Review, Harvard Journal on Law and Public Policy, and Yale Journal on Regulation.

Spulber is the author of Management Strategy, published in 2003 by McGraw Hill, Famous Fables of Economics: Myths of Market Failures, Edited, published in 2002 by Basil Blackwell, Market Microstructure: Intermediaries and the Theory of the Firm, published in 1999 by Cambridge University Press, The Market Makers: How Leading Companies Create and Win Markets, published in1998 by McGraw-Hill/ Business Week Books, Deregulatory Takings and the Regulatory Contract: The Competitive Transformation of Network Industries in the United States, with J. Gregory Sidak, published in 1997 by the Cambridge University Press, Protecting Competition from the Postal Monopoly, with J. Gregory Sidak, published in 1996 by the American Enterprise Institute, Regulation and Markets published in 1989 by M.I.T. Press, and editor of Essays in the Economics of Renewable Resources, with Leonard J. Mirman, published in 1982 by Elsevier-North Holland. Source

Mark Werwath
Mark Werwath is currently a lecturer in the IEMS department, the Master of Engineering Management program and the Master of Product Development program at Northwestern University.

His career has been mostly spent in industry, working for companies such as Motorola and Northrop. His nearly 20 years in industry started out as an entry level industrial engineer at Motorola and has been focused on new product development and project management of development engineering and systems implementation since 1989. He is a registered Project Management Professional and he has been teaching project management at various schools since 1997.

He is mostly interested in the field of innovation and this is the topic of his dissertation. Werwath's dissertation is a meta analysis of the field of innovation. He is validating a meta theory that encompasses all aspects of innovation, both technical and administrative innovations and predicts which organizational behaviors are most conducive to innovative behavior in the organization.

He is also interested in the topics of: geographically distributed teams, leadership, Organizational Development and Complex systems theory and chaos theory. These all revolve around his hub of main interest which is managing project teams. Source

Bill Farrow
William McKnight Farrow, III, was appointed Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the Chicago Board of Trade in charge of the CBOT's data services business unit and all exchange information technology efforts on May 18, 2001.

Prior to joining the CBOT, Farrow was with Bank One Corporation, Chicago, Ill., from 1986-2001, serving in 2000-2001 as Senior Vice-President, Head of Large Corporate eBusiness, where he was responsible for starting the bank's e-business team for large corporate, government and internet markets. With Bank One in 1999-2000 he was Senior Vice-President, Head of Treasury Management Sales, where he managed a national sales force, responsible for $1.6 billion in annual revenue. From 1996-1999 he served as Bank One Senior Vice-President, Program Executive, where he led a $90 million project for creating an enterprise customer information platform for First Chicago NBD, Bank One's predecessor. In 1992-1996 Farrow was Senior Vice-President, Head of Marketing, Commercial Bank, where he developed a workstation platform that won the 1995 Computerworld Smithsonian Award. From 1986-1992 Farrow was Bank One Managing Director, Head of Taxable Fixed Income Sales, Capital Markets.

Farrow was with Dart & Kraft, Inc., Northfield, Ill., from 1985-1986, serving as Director, Corporate Strategy and Business Development. In 1983-1985, he was Manager, Acquisitions, with G. D. Searle Pharmaceutical, Skokie, Ill., and from 1979-1983 he was Senior Technology Consultant with Arthur Andersen & Company, Chicago.

Farrow received a Master of Management degree from Northwestern University's J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Evanston, Ill., in 1979, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1977 from Augustana College, Rock Island, Ill.

Mike Domek
Mike Domek founded VIP Tour Company in 1992 with a telephone, a credit-card-processing machine, a Federal Express account, and an abundance of ambition. Armed with a strong work ethic, keen sales acumen, and a flair for finding and selling event tickets, Mike quickly transformed VIP Tour Company into a professional, full-service ticketing agency.

In 1999, with no venture capital, Mike launched the TicketsNow.com Web site. The online business instantly captured the attention of the secondary ticketing industry as well as the media, including Inc. Magazine, which featured TicketsNow as one of the "Great Companies Started for $1,000 or Less." In 2001, under Mike's direction, the company's software division rolled out the EventInventory Web store plug-in. This cutting-edge technology and subsequent programs have established TicketsNow.com as the world's largest and most trusted online marketplace for premium event tickets.

In November 2004, Mike was named to the prestigious Crain's Chicago Business "40 Under 40." This annually assembled list recognizes 40 of the most influential people in the Chicago area—business leaders, entrepreneurs, inventors, and government officials—who are under 40 years old. He is also a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO) and The Economic Club of Chicago.

What started as a one-man operation in a one-bedroom apartment has grown into a multimillion dollar business with approximately 300 full-time employees. But as the company has grown, the one thing that hasn't changed is Mike's passion and dedication to the business. Today, just as it was nearly 15 years ago, Mike is devoted to the continual improvement and evolution of TicketsNow to maintain the company's leadership in the industry.

Andrew Thomas
Andrew Thomas is Director of Process Innovation for W.W. Grainger, Inc. His primary role is in developing and promoting a shared view of how the company will be competing and creating value in 5 to 10 years. In his career at Grainger, he has also held the positions of Director of Strategy and Business Development, Corporate Planning and Development Manager, Marketing Development Manager, and Telesales Project Manager.

Previously, Andy was Director of Strategic Planning and Business Development for the Vehicles Group of Midas International. He managed a significant strategic refocussing and the sale or liquidation of several business units. He was also an Associate Consultant with the MAC Group, now part of CAP Gemini Ernst & Young, where he participated in a broad range of marketing, strategy, financial control and measurement system assignments.

Mr. Thomas holds an Masters of Management from the Kellogg School at Northwestern (1979), a JD from the University of Louisville School of Law (1977), and a BA in Economics and Philosophy from Bellarmine College (1974). In addition, he studied automotive engineering at Loughborough University in England prior to his coming to the United States.

He was born and raised in England and now resides in Evanston, Illinois with his wife, Rosemary, and four daughters.

Paul Muller
Paul Muller has over 25 years of organization transformation consulting experience in the former "Big 5" consulting firms and in his current role at IBM. As practice Leader in Organizational Transformation and a member of IBM’s Global Complex Opportunity Support team, he develops and leads large IT organization transformation and value realization programs in Fortune 100 companies across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. Programs involve IT cost savings and avoidance projects such as data center and infrastructure consolidation, IT innovation, investment portfolio rationalization and IT governance. He leads IT re-organization and transformation management programs to support projects such as Customer Relationship Management, Order to Cash process development and Supply Chain transformation . Mr. Muller is a regular executive workshop facilitator, executive coach and occasional guest lecturer at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at NWU. He is based in Chicago and lives with his family in Evanston.

Stephanie Wolcott
Stephanie A. Wolcott is global manager of corporate citizenship for Tyco International. She is responsible for creating a strategic framework for community involvement, including financial resources, product donations and expertise. She has experience with initiatives related to the environment, global poverty, community healthcare, and disaster relief. At Tyco, Stephanie has placed particular focus on global housing issues−building homes in China, Mexico and South Africa through Habitat for Humanity, providing water treatment facilities for an orphanage in Thailand, building orphanages in Romania and Uganda and providing safe shelter for Sudanese refugees in the Chad and most recently, a vocational skills program for Congolese refugees in Rwanda. As a result of her leadership, Tyco won the 2005 Corporate Philanthropist of the Year Award from the Community Foundation of New Jersey and the 2004 and 2005 Pacesetter Award from the Red Cross. In 2005, she judged the Global Citizenship Challenge at Thunderbird, the Garvin School of International Management. This year, she was named as a 2006 Tribute to Women honoree by the YWCA of Princeton. Stephanie joined Tyco in April of 2004. Prior to Tyco, she spent four years with VSA Partners, Inc. as an account director where she led award-winning corporate communications initiatives for companies such as General Electric, Tyco International, Alcoa and The Coca-Cola Company. At VSA and at Edelman Public Relations before that, Stephanie gained extensive experience in brand strategy, integrated communications program planning, corporate communications (Financial, EHS, Diversity and CSR Reports), online corporate presence and portal implementation. She holds a B.A. degree in African and Middle Eastern History from Northwestern University. She lives in Princeton Junction, New Jersey.

David Nelson
J. David Nelson is the Chief Operating Officer of The National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE), a world leader in teaching entrepreneurship skills to low-income youth. He is responsible for leading NFTE in the implementation of its strategic plan finalized by a team from the noted international consulting firm of McKinsey & Co., under a grant from the Goldman Sachs Foundation. The goal of the Goldman Sachs Foundation grant is to "bring NFTE up to scale," fostering growth of its programs in the U.S. and throughout the world.

Dave enjoyed a thirty-three year intra-preneurial career at IBM, over half of those as an executive and over twenty of those with the financial services industries. From 1996 through 1998, Dave was General Manager for the Banking, Finance, Securities and Insurance Industries for IBM Greater China. Located in Beijing, he was responsible for developing and expanding IBM's business with customers in the above industries in China, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.

Prior to moving to China, he was Senior Director for Wholesale Banking and Securities Industries for IBM Global Services. His responsibilities included complex systems integration and outsourcing projects. Earlier, he was responsible for worldwide strategy and the development of software and services offerings for wholesale banking, capital markets, and related financial lines of business. He initiated and fostered numerous joint development projects with customers and business partners worldwide. He led merger and acquisition efforts with multiple firms.

Prior to his retirement in October 1999, he led the marketing efforts for IBM's global financial markets industry and the global finance sector.

Dave was graduated from Northwestern University with a bachelor's degree in history and from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University with an MBA in marketing. He has lectured at the graduate business schools of such universities as Wharton, Harvard, Yale, Northwestern, North Carolina and Colorado. He has attended advanced education programs conducted by The Brookings Institution and Harvard University.
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Bill White
William J. White is currently a Professor at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University. He was named 2001 Professor of the Year and received the 2004 Northwestern Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award.

Prior to joining Northwestern, White served for eight years as Chairman and CEO of Bell & Howell, where he was responsible for stewarding corporate resources, values, and talent. White also served as a senior executive at Mead and other successful firms. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of seven publicly traded companies, including The Reader's Digest Association, Bell & Howell Company, and Packaging Dynamics Corporation.

Beverly Benz Treuille
Beverly Benz Treuille is Chairman of the Board of Big Brothers Big Sisters International, formed in 1998 to extend the 100-year-old BBBS model globally. Big Brothers Big Sisters serves over 250,000 children in the United States, raising a quarter of a billion dollars annually. The international organization includes affiliates in 16 countries serving another 40,000 children. After graduating from Harvard Business School in 1971, Mrs. Treuille began a career at Citibank. She was invited to join the Board of Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York City in 1974, and served as Board President, Vice Chairman, and currently, Trustee Emeritus. She was elected to the Board of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America in 1991, where she was Vice President for Program and Chairman of the most recent Strategic Plan. At Citibank, she was Vice President in charge of International Financial Consulting. She also held positions in Corporate Finance, Money Markets, Institutional Banking, and Credit Policy. She was the Bank’s youngest Vice President and later first part-time Vice President, breaking ground for women, and younger MBA’s, and those pursuing multiple careers. At present, Ms. Benz is an investor, author (Managing It All: Time Saving Ideas for Career, Family, Relationships and Self), consultant and mother of four. She is President of Huber Investment Company and a Director of Western World Insurance Group, where she is on the Executive Committee and Chairman of the Finance Committee. In addition to her work with Big Brothers Big Sisters, Treuille has volunteered at the Lighthouse for the Blind, taught mathematics to adults in seeking high school equivalency diplomas, and counseled families of premature babies in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. Born in Ridgewood, New Jersey, Treuille graduated from Emma Willard School, Wheaton College (Massachusetts) and Harvard Business School. Beverly Treuille and her husband, Antoine, are the parents Philippe, a former Juilliard student pursuing dual degrees (B-Music and B-Arts) at Northwestern. Also, Adrien, a PhD candidate in computer science at University of Washington, Genevieve, who is in her second year of law school at NYU, and Isabelle, a 9th grader at Nightingale Bamford School in New York City.

Robert Mendonsa
Robert Mendonsa has served as General Manager for Aetna’s North Central regional businesses since April 2001. Prior to assuming his regional management responsibilities, Robert headed Aetna’s Illinois and Wisconsin markets. He has been named to Crain’s Chicago Business’ Who’s Who list of Chicago’s Power Players for the past three years.

Aetna is one of the nation’s leading diversified health care benefits companies, serving approximately 29.09 million people with information and resources to help them make better informed decisions about their health care. Approximately 3 million members are located in the North Central region. Aetna offers a broad range of traditional and consumer-directed health insurance products and related services, including medical, pharmacy, dental, behavioral health, and medical management capabilities. Aetna’s customers include employer groups, individuals, college students, part-time and hourly workers, other health plans and government-sponsored benefit plans.

Robert is an elected member of Chicago’s Economic Club, and a past president of the Illinois Association of Health Plans. As a community leader, he is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Chicago, The Chicago Project for Violence Prevention and CommunityHealth, a free clinic staffed entirely by volunteers which provides health care to Chicago’s uninsured. He also participates in the “Principal for a Day” program designed to involve corporate executives in meeting the challenges of today’s public schools.

Robert earned a B.A. in economics from the University of California at Los Angeles, and a M.B.A. from the University of Southern California.

Larry Hayward
Laurence Hayward manages SCIUS’ Chicago office where he provides advisory and placement services for early-stage companies in the industrial, clean and information technology sectors. Prior to joining SCIUS Capital in 2003, Hayward was President of Vcapital, a venture-backed startup and private equity exchange that connected entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. Vcapital was acquired by Jesup & Lamont, a NY-based investment bank. Hayward led the firm’s Chicago office and was responsible for early-stage private equity services. From 1992 to 2000, Hayward worked at Arthur Andersen. He was Global Marketing Director of the Enterprise Group, a $500 million global practice serving start-up and venture-backed companies.

Mr. Hayward holds a joint BS/MBA degree from University of Illinois and guest lectures at University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, DePaul University MBA School and his alma mater. He also has been frequently quoted in the press and has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, New York Times and numerous entrepreneurial publications.

Robert Weiss
Robert Weiss is an Executive Vice President at Sankaty Advisors where he manages the Chicago office's private transactions activities targeting investments of $10 million to $50 million in mezzanine, second lien and other privately negotiated junior capital.

Sankaty Advisors, the Boston-based credit affiliate of Bain Capital, is one of the nation's leading private managers of high yield debt obligations. With approximately $13 billion in committed capital, Sankaty invests in a wide variety of securities including leveraged loans, high yield bonds, stressed debt, distressed debt, mezzanine debt, structured products and equity investments.

Prior to joining Sankaty in 1999, Mr. Weiss was a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group where he focused on strategy consulting to the manufacturing, consumer products and retail industries.

Mr. Weiss received a B.A. from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Aamer Baig
Aamer Baig is a Partner and Co-Managing Director of Diamond’s Financial Services practice. He has served as an advisor to senior financial services executives on product and market strategy, channel strategy, profit improvement, risk management, and program management. Aamer also leads Diamond’s practice that focuses on the convergence of financial services and healthcare issues.

Aamer has written and spoken extensively on the opportunities and challenges inherent in healthcare-related financial services (e.g., HSAs), channel growth, treasury management services, payments, global compliance, and risk management. His perspectives have been quoted in national and industry media such as The New York Times, Forbes, American Banker, Banking Strategies, Knight-Ridder, Managed Care, Security Industry News, Bank Systems & Technology, Insurance & Technology, and a number of daily newspapers.

A popular speaker on financial services issues and the trend of health/wealth convergence, Aamer has appeared at conferences sponsored by BAI (the Bank Administration Institute), NACHA, Goldman Sachs, Financial Resources Associates and others.

Aamer has an MBA with distinction from Carnegie Mellon University and a BBA with honors in management information systems from the University of Texas at Austin. Source

Scott Burgess
Scott Burgess, Principal, is head of Deloitte Consulting LLP for the Banking & Finance practice. Based in Chicago, he has served global and super-regional financial institutions on four continents, as well as leading card issuers, mortgage companies and retail asset managers. Scott has focused on line-of-business strategy, organizational realignment and operational effectiveness for more than 20 years. He previously served as co-head of Booz Allen Hamilton’s North American Financial Services practice. Past experience also includes vice chairman of The Cambridge Group, a marketing strategies firm, founding partner of A.T. Kearney’s Financial Institutions Group and a member of its Americas Management Committee.