Board Lists

Board of Trustees | Board of Governors | Program Advisory Board | Women's Board

Board of Trustees

W. Fritz Souder, Chairman
Managing Principal, RCP Advisors, LLC
Donna Sims Wilson, Vice Chair
President, M.R. Beal & Company
Sheridan Turner, President & CEO
Kohl Children’s Museum of Greater Chicago
Susanna Allshouse
Co-President, Women’s Board of Kohl Children’s Museum
Laura Ferris Anderson
Managing Director, JPMorgan
Brian Baer
Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer, Dominick's Finer Foods
John F. Ball, Jr.
Vice President, Morgan Stanley
Jeffrey F. Belmonti
President, Board of Governors
Darryl Bradford
Senior Vice President and General Counsel, ComEd
David S. Buhl
Region Manager, Copper and Brass Sales, Thyssenkrupp Materials, NA Inc.
Caroline G. Burns
Civic Volunteer and Leader
Lee Callaway
Director of Global Marketing, Baxter Renal Software
Lester N. Coney
Executive Vice President, Mesirow Financial
Stephen Cummings
Principal/President/Chief Executive Officer, Ennis Knupp + Associates
Pam Davis
Vice President, GCG Financial
Nancy Firfer
Senior Advisor, Chicago Metropolis 2020, Former President of Glenview
Arthur J. Fogel
Senior Vice President, Northern Trust Corporation
Eboni C. Howard, Ph.D.
Director, Herr Research Center for Children and Social Policy, Erikson Institute
Dennis Howarter
Chicago Markets Leader, PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP
Mark S. Jones
Civic Volunteer and Leader
Jennifer Durham King
Attorney at Law, Vedder Price
Janet M. Knupp
Founding President & CEO, The Chicago Public Education Fund
Robert E. Largay, Jr.
Senior Vice President, Risk Strategies Company
Lamarr K. Lark
Divisional Vice President, Human Resources, Pharmaceutical Products Division, Abbott Laboratories
Mady Lesnik
Civic Volunteer and Leader
Sari L. Macrie
Vice President of Corporate Relations, Allstate Corporation
Bryan R. Malis
Managing Director, Altair Advisers LLC
Dawn Meiners
Civic Volunteer and Leader
James J. O'Connor
Managing Director, MVC Capital, Inc.
Marcia Owens
Attorney at Law, Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon LLP
Benjamin Rodman
Managing Director, Valor Equity Partners
Carl Rutstein
Senior Partner, Boston Consulting Group
Gordon C. Scott
Rail-Splitter Capital Management, LLC
Brad Serlin
President, United Scrap Metal
Dean G. Stieber
Partner, KPMG, LLP
Paul Sutenbach
Global Market Development Manager, ITW Deltar Fuel System

Chair Emeritus

Frederick H. Waddell
President & Chief Executive Officer, Northern Trust Corporation

Founder & Life Trustee

Dolores Kohl
President & CEO, Dolores Kohl Education Foundation; Founder, Kohl Children’s Museum of Greater Chicago

Life Trustees

Thomas Donahoe
PricewaterhouseCoopers, Retired
Diana Mendley Rauner, PhD
Executive Director, Ounce of Prevention Fund
John J. Schornack
Ernst & Young, Retired
Estelle Walgreen
Civic Volunteer and Leader

Honorary Trustees

Elizabeth Coulson
State Representative, 17th District
Mark Steven Kirk
Congressman, 10th District
Jeff Schoenberg
State Senator, 9th District

Board of Governors

The Board of Governors of Kohl Children's Museum of Greater Chicago is committed to raising money to broaden the Museum’s base of support through fundraising and events and raising awareness of the Museum’s exhibits and outreach programs through corporate and business networking in Chicagoland.

Jeff Belmonti, President
Bernard Bartilad
Deane Brown
T.J. Brown
Anthony Bustamante
Martin Clancy
Eran Cohen
Tony Coletta
Howard Fishman
Steve Fretzin
Chuck Gitles
Greg Hayward
Sue Kirchner
Lori Kleiman
Andy Korn
Lory Merritt
Ron Nierzwicki
Charlie Nunnelley
Kathleen Quillin
Daryl Robicsek
Rob Roth
Pat Trippiedi
Michael Zinser

Program Advisory Board

The Program Advisory Board of Kohl Children's Museum of Greater Chicago provides input on education issues to Museum's education and exhibit departments, facilitates collaborations with schools and other community organizations, and evaluates the Museum programs, exhibits and educational services.

Ben Rodman, Chair, Valor Equity Partners
Amy Booth, Northwestern University
Phil Collins, Glenview Public Schools
Caryn Friedman, The Joseph Sears School
Kathleen Hart, Glenview Public Schools
Sari Macrie, Allstate Insurance Company
Patricia A. Marfise-Patt
Alice Moss
Gene Salvadalena
Ann Sickon
Luz Marie Solis, Chicago Public Schools
Joyce Weiner, Ounce of Prevention
Lana Weiner, Nielsen Child Care and Learning Center
Molly Witten
Junko Yokota, National-Louis University

Women's Board

The Women's Board of Kohl Children's Museum of Greater Chicago is committed to supporting and enhancing the Museum's commitment to children by extending the Museum's base of support to include individuals, families and philanthropic organizations and promoting and sustaining the development of exhibits and programs.

Sue Allshouse, Co-President
Jennifer Rice, Co-President
Cathy Blundell
Crosby Burke
Kendra Drozd
Carmen Echols
Deirdre Fortson
Jennifer Grady
Stephanie Henry
Julia Hinshaw
Mindy Kelly
Karin Larkins
Liz Lefkofsky
Sarah Leverenz
Adriane McKnight
Kate Mettler
Emily Reynolds
Julie Ruck
Amy Shpritz
Lowey Sichol
Emily Wyner
Meggan Zabel

Sustaining Members
Zoe Barron
Sandra Crown
Ashley Danis
Kellie Demling
Jessica Erickson
Lyn Flannery
Deb Hirschfield
Cindy Clark Mancillas
Kelly Mangel
Gloria Masterson
Toby Newman
Julie Peinado
Margaret Spaan
Monica Thuet