Board of Directors

Hugh Sullivan

Senior Advisor, Morgan Stanley and Chairman of the Board, mHUB

Magdi Azer

Associate Director for Manufacturing Science, Illinois Applied Research Institute

Jacob Babcock

CEO, NuCurrent, Inc.

Doug Boersma

Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of Northbrook Bank & Trust Company

Dave Boulay

President, Illinois Manufacturing Excellence Center (IMEC)

Terri Brax

President, Co-Founder, Women Tech Founders

Jian Cao

Director, Northwestern Initiative for Manufacturing Science and Innovation, Northwestern University

Bob Carlson

Dean, IIT school of Applied Technology and Director of Rice Campus

Edward Coleman

President and CEO, Bethel New Life, Inc.

Dima Elissa

Chief Executive Officer and Founder, VisMed•3D

Mark Harris

President and CEO, Illinois Science & Technology Coalition

Zach Kaplan

Chief Executive Officer, Inventables

Steven Kase

Chief Executive Officer, ASK Products, Inc.

Karen Kerr

Executive Managing Director, GE Ventures

Steve Koch

Co-Executive Chairman of Motivate

Mark L. Karasek

Executive Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer, The Chamberlain Group, Inc.

Jeff Malehorn

Senior Advisor, World Business Chicago

Jeffrey Margolis

Founder and President, Innovations Strategies, Inc.

Patricia Miller

Chief Executive Officer, Matrix 4

Jim Nelson

Vice President of External Affairs, Illinois Manufacturers' Association

Caralynn Nowinski Collens, M.D.

Chief Executive Officer, UI Labs

Meredith O'Connor

International Director, Co-Chairman of Headquarters Practice Group, JLL

Michael Seedman

Executive Partner, Siris Capital

Roger Shores

President and Chief Executive Officer, Marmon Energy Services Company

Tom Simeone

President, Manor Tool and Manufacturing Company

Mark Tebbe

Chairman, ChicagoNEXT

Bob Weissbourd

President, RW Ventures, LLC

Kevin Willer

Partner, Chicago Ventures

Scott Wilson

Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Creative Officer, MINIMAL

Andrea Zopp

President and CEO, World Business Chicago