Board Lists
Board of Trustees
- Donna Sims Wilson, Chair
- Executive Vice President, CastleOak Securities, L.P.
- Paul Sutenbach, Vice Chair
- Global Market Development Manager, ITW Deltar Fuel Systems
- Sheridan Turner, President & CEO
- Kohl Children’s Museum of Greater Chicago
- Laura Ferris Anderson
- Managing Director, JPMorgan
- Pat Anderson
- Vice President, Controller & Chief Accounting Office, A.M.
Castle & Co - Anthony A. Armada
- President & CEO, Advocate Lutheran General Hospital and Advocate Lutheran General Children’s Hospital
- Brian Baer
- President of Dominick’s
- John F. Ball, Jr.
- Vice President, Morgan Stanley
- Lauren Blair
- Partner, Pedersen & Houpt
- Darryl Bradford
- Senior Vice President and General Counsel, ComEd
- David S. Buhl
- Region Manager, Copper and Brass Sales, Thyssenkrupp Materials, NA Inc.
- Lori Carlson
- CFO and General Manager, Rotary International
- Eran Cohen
- President, Board of Governors
- Stephen Cummings
- Chief Executive Officer, Hewitt EnnisKnupp, Inc.
- Catherine DeLeeuw
- Vice President and Chicago Administrative Complex Manager, RBC Wealth Management
- Nancy Firfer
- Senior Advisor, Metropolitan Planning Council, Former President of Glenview
- Arthur J. Fogel
- Executive Vice President and Managing Director, Corporate Banking Group, Northern Trust Corporation
- John J. Hamill
- Partner, Jenner & Block LLP
- Tim Hannahs
- Senior Vice President Managing Director, 5th 3rd Bank
- Carolyn Henderson
- Curriculum & Instruction Specialist, Academy for Urban School Leadership
- Eboni C. Howard, Ph.D.
- Principal Early Childhood Specialist, American Institutes for Research
- Dennis Howarter
- Chicago Markets Leader, PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP
- Symeria Hudson
- Vice President of Continuous Improvement & Transformation Hospira
- Mark S. Jones
- Director of Category Marketing, Cardinal Health
- Jennifer Durham King
- Co-Chair, Capital Markets Group, Vedder Price
- Anthony Licata
- Senior Partner, Shefsky & Froelich
- Robert Lisk
- President, Benchmark Homes
- Bryan R. Malis
- Managing Director, Altair Advisers LLC
- Terry B. McDougall
- Director of U.S. Marketing, BMO Capital Markets
- Dawn Meiners
- Civic Volunteer and Leader
- James J. O'Connor
- Managing Director, MVC Capital, Inc.
- Marcia Owens
- Partner, Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
- Jeanine Raquet
- Vice President – Agency Sales, Allstate
- Emily Reynolds
- President, Women’s Board
- David “Duke” Reyes
- CEO, Reyes Holdings
- Carl Rutstein
- Senior Partner, Boston Consulting Group
- Brad Serlin
- President, United Scrap Metal, Inc.
- Dean G. Stieber
- Partner, KPMG, LLP
- Claudia Temple
- Assistant Treasurer, Global Risk Management & Insurance, Kraft Foods, Inc.
- Dan Verdeyen
- Senior Director of Business Systems, CDW
- Sherman Wright
- Managing Partner, commonground
- W. Fritz Souder
- Managing Principal, RCP Advisors, LLC
- Frederick H. Waddell
- President & Chief Executive Officer, Northern Trust Corporation
- Dolores Kohl
- President & CEO, Dolores Kohl Education Foundation; Founder, Kohl Children’s Museum of Greater Chicago
- Thomas Donahoe
- Retired, PricewaterhouseCoopers
- Diana Mendley Rauner, Ph.D.
- President, Ounce of Prevention Fund
- John J. Schornack
- Retired, Ernst & Young
- Estelle Walgreen
- Founder, Hispanically Speaking News
Past Chair
Chair Emeritus
Founder & Life Trustee
Life Trustees
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.
Eran Cohen, President
Cheryl Braude
T.J. Brown
Douglas DuMars
Matthew Gibbons
Chuck Gitles
Greg Hayward
Tristan Hoag
Elizabeth Lesner
Rusty Magner
Paul Melville
Michael Pitts
Jeffrey Ptak
Rob Roth
Robert Russell
David Shpiz
Max Stewart
Mike Talaga
Program Advisory Committee
The Program Advisory Committee 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.
- Carolyn Henderson, Chair
- Curriculum & Instruction Specialist, Academy for Urban School Leadership
- Amy Booth, Ph.D.
- Northwestern University
- Caryn Friedman
- The Joseph Sears School
- Erika Miller-Gray
- Kohl Children's Museum
- Kathleen Hart
- Glenview Public Schools
- Heather Heavey
- Northern Suburban Special Education District
- Eboni C. Howard, Ph.D.
- American Institutes for Research
- Jennifer Durham King
- Vedder Price
- Mady Lesnik
- Civic Volunteer and Leader
- Alice Moss
- DePaul University
- Sue Offutt
- McCormick Center for Early Childhood Leadership – National Louis University
- Kaney O’Neill
- Consultant
- Jan Perney, Ph.D.
- National-Louis University
- Deanna Sainati
- Sandy Schafernich
- One and Only
- Luz Maria Solis
- Civic Volunteer and Leader
- Liza Sullivan
- Through Play
- Kendra Wallace
- Cradle2College
- Heather Warren, Ph.D.
- Rush University
- Joyce Weiner
- Ounce of Prevention
- Lana Weiner
- Nielsen Child Care and Learning Center
- Molly Witten, Ph.D.
- Clinical Psychologist
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.
Emily Reynolds, President
Sarah Alshouse
Melissa Ackerman
Catherine Barton
Amanda Bonnell
Alison Borland
Erin Burke
Britt Callahan
Bethany Crocker
Carrie Diamond
Nicole Drai
Claire Dwyer
Lisa Ginsberg
Leslie Groncki
Sarah Ann Harris
Carrie Hughes
Meredith Mazur
Erin McNulty
Katie Meehan
Kristen Novelline
Holly Patience
Alison Randall
Margot Spytek
Amanda Sundt
Susanna Ver Eecke
Kendra Wallace
Page Wilson
Emily Wyner
Sustaining Members
Beth Beeler
Julie Lipford
Adriane McKnight
Jennifer Rice
Kirby Richards
