Council on Chicago Booth

The Council on Chicago Booth advises Booth's leadership in their efforts to maintain faculty excellence and develop the highest quality management education programs in the world. We gratefully acknowledge the extraordinary contributions of the council members.

Council Chairs

Chair

Philip A. Canfield

MBA ’96
CEO
Ariet Capital LLC
Austin, TX

Members

Andrew M. Alper†*

AB ’80, MBA ’81
Chairman
Alper Investments
New York, New York

Norman R. Bobins*

MBA ’67
Chairman
The PrivateBank and Trust Company
Chicago, Illinois

Dennis S. Bookshester*

Private Investor
Chicago, Illinois and Miami, Florida

David G. Booth†*

MBA ’71
Chairman, Co-CEO, and Founder
Dimensional Fund Advisors
Austin, Texas

Carol Bramson

MBA ’92
Founder and CEO
Side by Side
Hingham, Massachusetts

Peter C. Browning*

MBA ’76
Founder and Managing Director
Peter Browning Partners
Charlotte, North Carolina

Wei Cai

AM ’95, MBA ’95
Partner, Co-Head of China Investment Banking
Goldman Sachs & Co.
Hong Kong

Dave Chenn

MBA ’00
Founder, CEO, & Managing Partner
Oceanpine Capital
Beijing, China

Dennis H. Chookaszian*

MBA ’68
Retired Chairman and CEO
CNA Insurance Companies
Wilmette, Illinois

Kenneth J. Coates*

MBA ’64
Santa Barbara, California

Stephen J. Czech

MBA ’98
Managing Partner & CIO
Czech Asset Management, L.P.
Greenwich, CT

Robert C. Davidson Jr.*

MBA ’69
Retired Chairman & CEO
Surface Protection Industries, Inc.
Pasadena, California

Chris P. Dialynas

MBA ’80
Managing Director & Portfolio Manager
Pacific Investment Management Co.
Newport Beach, California

John A. Edwardson*†

MBA ’72
Retired Chairman and CEO
CDW Corporation
Winnetka, Illinois

John Ehara

MBA ’78
Partner
Unison Capital
Japan

Lawrence I. Field*

Chairman
Field Holdings, Inc.
Northbrook, Illinois

William Fitzgerald

MBA ’88
Founder, Managing Director, & CIO
Fitzgerald Asset Management
Chicago, Illinois

David W. Fox*

MBA ’58
Retired Chairman and CEO
Northern Trust Company
Chicago, Illinois

JP Gan

MBA, '99
Founding Partner & Director
INCE Capital
Hong Kong

Melvin R. Goodes*

MBA ’60
Retired Chairman & CEO
Warner-Lambert Company
Mendham, New Jersey

Mary Lou Gorno†

MBA ’76
Managing Director
Ingenuity International, LLC
Chicago, Illinois

Jerry He

SM '97, MBA '04
Executive Vice Chairman
Bright Scholar Education Holdings
Foshan, China

Michael E. Herman*

MBA ’64
Retired Global Partner
Herman Family Trading Company
Kansas City, Missouri

Deborah Ziegler Hilibrand

AB ’78, MBA ’79
Trustee
The Hilibrand Foundation
Greenwich, Connecticut

Russell E. Hutchinson

MBA ’01
Chief Strategy Officer
Goldman Sachs & Co
New York, New York

Dennis J. Keller†*

MBA ’68
Co-Founder, Retired Chairman and CEO
DeVry Education Group
Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois

Victor Khosla

MBA ’83
Managing Partner
Strategic Value Partners, LLC
Greenwich, Connecticut

James M. Kilts †*

MBA ’74
Founding Partner
Centerview Partners
Naples, Florida

Mark Aaron Leavitt

MBA ’83
Chief Investment Officer
Union Square Hospitality Group
New York, New York

David M. Lee

MBA ’87
Chief Risk Officer and Managing Director
Credit Suisse Asset Management
New York, New York

Richard Leventhal

MBA ’70
Chairman and CEO
Fedway Associates Inc.
Basking Ridge, New Jersey

Jerry W. Levin*

MBA ’68
CEO
JW Levin Management Partners LLC
New York, New York

James W. Lewis*

MBA ’70
Owner
Thompson Brands
Miami Beach, Florida

Michelle Liem

MBA ’89
Managing Director
Nuri Holdings Pte Ltd.
Singapore

Michael D. Lockhart*

MBA ’75
Retired Chairman, President & CEO
Armstrong World Industries, Inc.
Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Joseph Mansueto*

AB ’78, MBA ’80
Former Chairman & CEO
Morningstar, Inc.
Chicago, Illinois

Peter W. May†*

AB ’64, MBA ’65
President & Founding Partner
Trian Partners
New York, New York

Robert C. McCormack*

MBA ’68
Advisory Partner
Trident Capital
Burr Ridge, Illinois

Mark G. McGrath*

MBA ’69
Director Emeritus
McKinsey & Company, Inc.
Chicago, Illinois

John A. McQuown*

Partner and Director
Diversified Credit Investments, LLC
San Francisco, California

Leo Melamed*

Chairman & CEO
Melamed & Associates
Chicago, Illinois

Subhash Makhija

MBA '96
Co-Founder & CEO
GEP
Westfield, New Jersey

Amelia Maccoun Morris

MBA ’86
Partner
Brandes Investment Partners
Ross, California

Jean Q. Mou

MBA ’97
Partner
Iris Blue Partners
Menlo Park, CA

Leon O. Moulder, Jr.

MBA, ’97 (XP-66)
Founding General Partner
Tellus BioVentures
Waltham, Massachusetts

Joseph Neubauer†*

MBA ’65
CEO
Next Egg Group
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

James B. Nicholson*

MBA ’67
Chairman
PVS Chemicals
Detroit, Michigan

Roger Orf

MBA, ’77, JD, ’79
Partner
Apollo Global Management, LLC
London, United Kingdom

Gregory J. Purcell

MBA '94
CEO
Arbor Investments, LLC
Chicago, Illinois

Michael P. Polsky†*

MBA ’87
President & CEO
Invenergy LLC
Chicago, Illinois

Robert Rothman*

MBA ’77
Chairman & CEO
Black Diamond Group, Inc.
Tampa, Florida

William C. Rusnack*

MBA ’70
Retired President & CEO
Premcor, Inc.
St. Louis, Missouri

Tandean Rustandy†

MBA ’07 (AXP-6)
Chief Executive Officer
PT Arwana Cirtramulia Tbk
Jakarta, Indonesia

Adarsh K. Sarma

MBA ’01
Co-Head EMEA, Partner
E.M. Warburg, Pincus & Co., Inc.
London, United Kingdom

Jennifer F. Scanlon

MBA, '92
President & CEO
UL, Inc.
Chicago, Illinois

Thomas W. Sidlik

MBA '73
Retired EVP, Global Procurement & Supply
Daimlerchrysler Corporation
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Nicholas E. Somers

MBA ’88
Managing Partner
SV Investment Partners
Palm Beach, Florida

Emily Heisley Stoeckel

MBA '91
Chairman
The Heico Companies, LLC
Chicago, Illinois

Van J. Stults

MBA '78
Founding Partner and Managing Director
Orion Capital Managers, LLP
London, United Kingdom

Tony X. Tang

MBA ’00
Head of China
BlackRock
New York, New York

Roger M. Vasey*

MBA ’70
Retired Executive Vice President
Merrill Lynch and Co., Inc.
Naples, Florida

David J. Vitale*

MBA ’76
Chicago, Illinois

Jack Wadsworth*

MBA ’63
Advisory Director
Morgan Stanley Asia, Ltd.
San Francisco, California

Terri Wareham

MBA, '82
Managing Director & Founding Partner
Kaufman, Hall and Associates, Inc.
Northfield, Illinois

Patricia A. Wier*

MBA ’78
President
Patricia A. Wier Inc.
Chicago, Illinois

Ernest R. Wish*

MBA ’71
Chicago, Illinois

Steven Wymer

MBA '89
Portfolio Manager
Fidelity Investment Inc.
Boston, Massachusetts

Lingying Elaine Zong

MBA ’98
Private Investor
ERJ Investment
Hong Kong

*Denotes Life Member, Chicago Booth Council
†Denotes Member, University of Chicago Board of Trustees
‡Denotes University of Chicago Life Trustee
EX denotes enrollment in University of Chicago degree program and class year

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