Board of Trustees
Chair & Officers
Chair
- J.C. Gonzalez-Mendez
President of McDonald’s Latin America, Retired
Founder, President & CEO, GM Integritas Consulting, LLC
Vice-Chair
Secretary to the Board
- Terry Peterson (MPA ’95)
PTS Corp
Public & Faculty Members
- Steve H. Abbey
Senior Vice President
Huntington Bank
- Ufuoma C. Abiola, Ed.D. (MA ’08)
Executive Head & Associate University Librarian for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Princeton University
- Jason Alegro, Faculty Trustee
Associate Professor of Clinical Sciences
College of Science, Health, and Pharmacy
- Sharon Bush (MPA '02)
President
Grand Victoria Foundation
- Stephen Cerrone
Founder
SJC Advisors LLC
Associate Professor of Professional Practice – University of Miami
- Celeste Chamberland, Faculty Trustee
Associate Professor of History
College of Humanities, Education & Social Sciences
- Jon Cherry
President & Head of North American Brokerage
Northern Trust Securities, Inc.
- Jill Coleman, Faculty Trustee
Professor of Psychology, Core Faculty, Women’s and Gender Studies
College of Humanities, Education & Social Sciences
- Elizabeth Connolly
General Counsel, Executive Vice President
Sinai Health System
- James B. Connor
Retired, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Duke Realty
- Bruce A. Crown
Chairman
BevBar, Inc.
- Maria Doughty
Chief Executive Officer
Chicago Network
- Sean Eshaghy, BA ’15
Program Director & Head Writer of Priority Standards & Proficiency Scales
Archdiocese of Chicago
- Ann Ford
Partner
Malecki Brooks Ford Law Group, LLC
- Sarah Guernsey
Deputy Director and Senior Vice President for Curatorial Affairs
Art Institute of Chicago
- John R. Hall, III, Ed.D.
CEO
Edugaged, LLC
- Larissa Herczeg
Managing Partner
1 Seed Partners, LLC
- Thomas K. Hyatt
Principal
Thomas K. Hyatt PLLC
Tom Hyatt Governance Strategies
- Jim Iorio, Faculty Trustee
Associate Professor of Theatre, Associate Chair and Producing Director of the Theatre Conservatory
Chicago College of Performing Arts
- John O. Keshner
Chief Investment Officer
San Manuel Band of Mission Indians
- Joseph Nocera
Leader of PwC's Cyber & Privacy Innovation Institute
PwC
- Robert Y. Paddock
Executive Vice President and Vice-Chairman, Retired
Paddock Publications, Inc.
- Jaime di Paulo
President & CEO
Illinois Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
- Joseph A. Pasquinelli
Founding Principal
Archideas
- Rashad Robison, BA ’21
Strategy & Operations Lead of Devices, Services, Platforms & Ecosystems
Google
- Joyce E. Tucker
Vice President of Global Diversity and Employee Rights, Retired
The Boeing Company
- Marek A. Wierzba
- Carolyn Wiley, Faculty Trustee
Professor of Management
Roosevelt University
- Joseph Yacullo
Chief Credit and Financial Risk Officer
Northern Trust Corporation
- Kai Zhao, BA ’97
Vice President of Operations & Revenue Cycle Management
Riccobene Associates
Life Trustees
- Gerald W. Fogelson
- Charles R. Gardner
- Joe F. Hanauer
- Patricia Harris
- David Hiller
- Meme Hopmayer
- Donald S. Hunt
- Robert Johnson
- Melvin L. Katten
- Renee Logan
- Robert Mednick (BS, ’62)
- Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
Honorary
- Barbara T. Bowman
- Charles R. Middleton
President Emeritus
Executive Council
- Ali Malekzadeh — President
- Michael Ford — Vice President, Chief of Staff/Chief Diversity Officer/Asst. Secretary to the Board of Trustees
- Arlene Regnerus — Vice President of Finance and Administration, Chief Financial Officer
- Neeraj Kumar — Vice President for Technology/Chief Information Officer
- Mike Maly — Interim Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs
- Rich Regan — Chief Executive Officer of the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University
- Joseph P. Regan — Associate Vice President for Institutional Research, Assessment, and Accreditation
- Nicole Barron — Vice President of Enrollment Management, Marketing and Advancement
- Michael Cassidy — Vice President of Athletics and Student Athlete Success
- Steve Cohen — Chair, University Senate
College Deans
See the Academic Leadership page for a current list of College Deans.