| James O’Connor, Jr.* |
Managing Director |
MVC Capital, Inc. |
| Bryant Keil* |
Chairman of the Board |
Potbelly Sandwich Works |
Board Members |
| Hank Adams | CEO | Sportvision, Inc. |
| John Aiello | Co-Founder & CEO | The SAVO Group |
| Laura Ferris Anderson | Senior Private Banker | JP Morgan |
| Leslie Anderson | Senior Vice President, District Market Manager | Harris Bank |
| Jeffrey Aronin | President & CEO | Ovation Pharmaceuticals, Inc. |
| Adarsh Arora* | CEO | Athena Security Inc. |
| David Baker | VP External Affairs | Illinois Institute of Technology |
| Robert Blackwell, Jr. | President | Electronic Knowledge Interchange |
| Matt Brown | Partner | Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP |
| Steven Chamberlain | Executive Vice President | National City Bank, Now a part of PNC |
| Lon Chow | Partner | Apex Venture Partners |
| Michael Cole | Managing Director | Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC |
| Linda Darragh | Director of Entrepreneurship Programs | University of Chicago Booth School of Business |
| Dean DeBiase | Chairman | Reboot Partners |
| Jim Dugan | CEO, Co-Founder & Managing Partner | OCA Ventures / O’Connor Partners |
| Michael Ferro, Jr.* | Chairman & CEO | Merrick Ventures, LLC |
| James Gray | Chairman of the Board | optionsXpress |
| Sam Guren | Managing Director | Hyde Park Angels |
| Troy Henikoff | Professor of Entrepreneurship | Northwestern University |
| Warren Holtsberg | Co-Head of Portfolio Management | MVC Capital, Inc. |
| Gregg Kaplan | President and Chief Operating Officer | Coinstar |
| Anil Kumar | CEO and Co-Founder | Quinnox |
| Alain LeCoque | Executive Vice President | Colliers Bennett & Kahnweiler |
| John Livingston | Director & Chicago Office Managing Partner | McKinsey & Co. |
| Talia Mashiach | CEO & Founder | Eved Services |
| Matt McCall | Managing Director | DFJ PORTAGE Venture Partners |
| Joseph McInerney | President and CEO | Cardinal Growth |
| Andrew McKenna, Jr.* | President | Schwarz Supply Source |
| Barry Merkin | Clinical Professor of Entrepreneurship | Kellogg School of Management |
| Maura O’Hara | Executive Director | Illinois Venture Capital Association |
| Sarah Pang | Senior VP, Corporate Communications | CNA |
| Karen Perlman | Senior VP, Director of Marketing | MB Financial |
| J.B. Pritzker* | Managing Partner | The Pritzker Group |
| Jerry Roper* | President & CEO | Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce |
| Patrick Ryan, Jr. | CEO | Incisent Technologies |
| Orlando Saez | Managing Partner | Saez Brunner Capital Group, LLC |
| Michael Soenen | Former Chairman and CEO | FTD, Inc. |
| Juergen Stark | Corporate VP Productivity Devices | Motorola |
| John Sydnor* | President | Melvin Securities, LLC |
| Randall Tavierne* | Partner | Midwest Area Strategic Growth Markets Leader | Ernst & Young LLP |
| Tom Thompson | Managing Director | WP Global Partners Inc |
| David Tolmie* | Partner | Edgewater Funds |
