Board List

Board of Trustees

John F. Ball, Jr., Chair
Senior Vice President, Morgan Stanley
Mike Delfini, President & CEO
Kohl Children’s Museum of Greater Chicago
Hannah Anokye (Ex Officio)
Board Fellow
Kimberly Bors
SVP, Human Resources (CHRO), Dover Corporation
Erin Murray Butler
Head of Workplace & Real Estate Management at William Blair & Co.
Lori Carlson
Civic Volunteer
Shannon Carstens
Partner, KPMG LLP
Franco Cisternino
Group President, Marmon Automotive & Aerospace Components
Sam Cunningham
Waukegan Mayor
Merri Dee
President, M D Communications
Sonia Esler
President, Women's Board; Former photographer
Mike Farrell
President, Advocate Children's Hospital
Nancy Firfer
Senior Advisor, Metropolitan Planning Council, Former President of Glenview
Angela K. Fontana
Vice President, Assistant General Counsel & Assistant Secretary, Allstate Insurance Company
Matt Gibbons
Group Head & Managing Director, CIBC US Construction & Engineering Group
Jon Glick
Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Yulia Gurman
Director of Internal Audit and Corporate Security, Packaging Corporation of America (PCA)
Tim Hannahs
Managing Director, Fifth Third Private Bank
Carrie Hughes
Civic Volunteer and Leader
Jennifer Keating
Partner, Mayer Brown LLP
Stephen Kohl
Founder and President, Stephen Kohl Art Foundation
Anthony Licata
Chairman, Administration Committee, Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP
Rusty Magner
Development Board Chair; Managing Director, TrueNorth Companies
Bryan R. Malis
Managing Director, Altair Advisers LLC
Dawn Marks
SVP, Marketing Content & Corporate Communications, Anixter
Dawn Meiners
Civic Volunteer and Leader
Paul Melville
Principal, Grant Thornton LLP
Brandon Rolek
Senior VP, Northern Trust Corporation
Carl Rutstein
President, Visa Performance Solutions
Brooke Schuler (Ex Officio)
Board Fellow
Brian Schuster
Senior Portfolio Manager, Great Lakes Advisors
Erinn Siegel
Sr. Vice President, Govt, Nonprofit & Healthcare Banking, Wintrust Financial Corporation
Greta Suss
Assoc. Vice President, Health Care Service Corporation, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma & Texas
Paul Sutenbach
Vice President of Sales, ASYST Technologies LLC
Claudia Temple
Retired, Mondelez International Inc.
Michael A. Tobin
SVP – Development, Rush Street Gaming
Nilofer Umar
Partner, Sidley Austin LLP
Dan Verdeyen
IT Executive in transition
Rachel Winer
President, Edelman, Chicago Office
Chair Emeritus
Frederick H. Waddell
Retired Chairman & CEO, Northern Trust
Past Chair
Paul Sutenbach
Vice President of Sales, ASYST Technologies
Founder & Life Trustee
Dolores Kohl
President & CEO, Dolores Kohl Education Foundation; Founder, Kohl Children’s Museum of Greater Chicago
Life Trustees
Thomas Donahoe
Retired, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Diana Mendley Rauner, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Ounce of Prevention Fund
John J. Schornack
Retired, Ernst & Young LLP
W. Fritz Souder
Managing Principal, RCP Advisors, LLC

Development Board

The Development Board 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.

Rusty Magner, President
Managing Director, Benefits Advisor, TrueNorth Companies
Brett Doran
Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Mason Floyd
Clark Hill
Chris Hixon
TriNet
Phil Hornthal
Civic Leader
Brendan Krahl
Capital Point Financial Group
Brad Krieschen
PNC Bank
Phil Krupowicz
Civic Leader
Elizabeth Lesner
Northern Trust
Jason Lipschultz
BDO
Andrew Luett
Wintrust Mortgage
Michael Moylan
Wintrust Financial
Max Nemmers
Assertio Therapeutics
Joseph Rossi
Merrill Lynch
Robert Roth
ECC Insurance Brokers
Luke Sauter
Walgreens Boots Alliance
Suma Shah
JHL Capital Group LLC
Peter St. Aubin
Edward Jones
Maxwell Stewart
BMO Harris Bank
Heather Szymusiak
Fifth Third Bank
Vito Ungaro
Atlas Employment
Tanya Yakhnis
Tandem HR

Program Advisory Council

The Program Advisory Council 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.

Alexandra Altman
Civic Volunteer and Leader
Stephanie Bynum
Kohl Children’s Museum
Kirsten Carruthers
Civic Volunteer and Leader
Shannon Carstens
Partner, KPMG LLP
Merri Dee
President, M D Communications
Nancy Firfer, Co-Chair
Senior Advisor, Metropolitan Planning Council, Former President of Glenview
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
Ginny Hiltz
Greenbriar Elementary School
Dawn Meiners
Civic Volunteer and Leader
Wendy Morgan
Musician
Alice Moss
DePaul University
Kaney O’Neill
Consultant
Jan Perney, Ph.D.
National-Louis University
Sandy Schafernich
One and Only
Luz Maria Solis
Civic Volunteer and Leader
Liza Sullivan
Skokie School District
Kendra Wallace
The Joseph Sears School
Heather Warren, Ph.D.
Rush University
Lana Weiner, Co-Chair
Gertrude B. Nielsen Child Care and Learning Center
Joyce Weiner
Ounce of Prevention
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.

Sonia Esler, President
Julia Atkin
Carrie Allen-Hughes
Kathleen Bakhtiari
Veronica Castner
Anika Chase
Maryanne Dammrich
Amanda Del Carlo
Alison Donnelly
Grith Funk
Denise Glinn
Amanda Hamner
Nicole Harris
Jacqueline Hill
Jocelyn Huffer
Megan Lively
Aimee Martin
Colleen Miczek
Katie Miller
Annie Porthan
Michelle Proesel
Litha Ramirez
Ashley Rose
Christie Savery
Karin Singleton