FINANCIAL SERVICES PIPELINE INITIATIVE - Key Persons


Alison Bodor

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • Executive Principal, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, the Options Clearing Corporation ( OCC )

Andrea Saenz

Job Titles:
  • President & CEO, Chicago Community Trust ( Co - Chair )

Andrej Bolkovic

Job Titles:
  • CEO, the Options Clearing Corporation

Austan Goolsbee

Job Titles:
  • President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Auyana S. Orr

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • Manager, Community Affairs, Ariel Investments, LLC

Brian Schell

Job Titles:
  • EVP & CFO, Cboe Global Markets

Bryan Echols

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • Senior Advisor, Illinois State Treasurer

Carl Davis

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • VP, Manager, Corporate Recruitment, Mesirow Financial

Cedric D. Thurman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Steering Committee
  • Senior Vice President, Chief Diversity Officer, Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago ( Co - Chair )

Cyndi Bergstein

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

David Casper

Job Titles:
  • President and CEO, BMO Harris Bank

Dayna Eubanks

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • Director of Strategic Alliances, Office of the Chicago City Treasurer

Deborah Graham

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • Illinois State Treasurer

Deidre Boone

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • Senior Director of DEI, Cboe Global Markets

Fellicia Foster

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • Managing Director, Head of U.S. People, Process, Change, Inclusion & Talent Integration, BMO Harris

John Rogers

Job Titles:
  • Chairman and CEO, Ariel Investments ( Co - Chair )

Karen Riley

Job Titles:
  • Director, FSP, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Matthew Bruce

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • Executive Director for Chicagoland Workforce Funder Alliance, the Chicago Community Trust ( Treasurer )

Melissa Conyears-Ervin

Job Titles:
  • Chicago City Treasurer

Melissa Donaldson

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Steering Committee
  • Vice President, Chief Diversity Officer, and Training & Development, Wintrust Financial ( Co - Chair )

Michael Capatides

Job Titles:
  • President and CEO, CIBC Bank USA

Michael Ericson

Job Titles:
  • President and CEO, Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago

Michael W. Frerichs

Job Titles:
  • Illinois State Treasurer ( Co - Chair )

Natalie Brown

Job Titles:
  • President, Mesirow

Tim Crane

Job Titles:
  • President and CEO, Wintrust Financial Corporation

Vern Johnson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Steering Committee