Joan Steel
Chair
Frank Grossman
Treasurer
Kay McCurdy, NACD.DC
Secretary
Adela Cepeda
Director
Dennis Chookaszian, NACD.DC
Director
Pamela Forbes-Lieberman
Director
Maria Green
Director
Frank Jaehnert, NACD.DC
Director
Shermin Kruse, NACD.DC
Director
Jeff Perry
Director
Holly Van Deursen
Director
Maria Wynne
Director
Joan Steel
Chair
Joan Steel is CEO and founder of Alpha Wealth Advisors LLC, a financial consulting firm advising family offices, private foundations, and endowments in the United States and South America. Prior to founding the firm, she was a senior investment advisor with the global asset manager Capital Group, where she built a sizeable private client business.
Steel was Aon’s chief marketing officer after leading global investor and media relations. Prior to Aon, she was a senior executive in her family’s privately held water treatment chemical manufacturing and distribution business that was later sold to Olin Corp.
She also co-founded and headed institutional fixed income sales and trading for E.F. Hutton in Chicago after starting her career at Salomon Brothers as an institutional fixed income broker and one of the first professional women on Wall Street.
Steel is an independent director of the Mercer Funds, a family of institutional mutual funds. She chairs the NACD Chicago Chapter and serves as a trustee of Rush University Medical Center and Cuneo Foundation. She is a former independent director of the Hershey Trust Co., controlling shareholder of The Hershey Co., and former trustee of Loyola University Chicago where she chaired the University’s Endowment.
She holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and a BS from Georgetown University and has completed continuing director education at Harvard Business School and Stanford Directors’ College.
Greg Hedges
President
Chief Executive Officer
Greg's professional life is marked by his dedication to guiding individuals toward achieving their personal and professional goals. His 40-year background in global technology and risk management consulting, coupled with his leadership roles, including founding the Notre Dame Executive Business Council in Chicago, shapes his work as president and CEO, advancing corporate governance education for members of our NACD Chicago Chapter. As a faculty member at the University of Notre Dame, he leads emerging technology classes in the MS in business analytics program and for MBAs, where he mentors students. Greg's expertise also includes facilitating roundtables for CEOs and boards on digital disruption and corporate governance, including areas like quantum computing and AI. His commitment extends to board positions at Dominican University and the University of Notre Dame and advisory roles at P33 Chicago and the Chicago Quantum Exchange, fostering community and business relationships. Greg holds degrees from the University of Notre Dame and the University of Chicago.
Frank Grossman
Treasurer
Frank Grossman is a financial engineer with a knack for solving complex business problems. He has extensive board experience with both domestic and international companies and a long record of serving on not-for-profit boards, such as for the United Way. He has a diverse blend of risk management, compliance, capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, and financial structuring expertise. Combining his engineering training with his financial and industry background, Frank has developed the ability to synthesize seemingly unrelated data and develop winning solutions out of the associated "fog of information." During his career, he has successfully developed businesses and completed transactions in the U.S., South and Central America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia, and he has resided in New York, Chicago, Hong Kong, and London. He is a respected leader in his community and in the boardroom for his attention to detail, strategic vision, unquestioned integrity, relentless pursuit of perfection, and willingness to provide effective challenge to management.
Frank currently serves on the board of Discover Bank, a $100 billion wholly owned subsidiary of Discover Financial Services (NYSE: DFS), where he serves on the Audit Committee, the Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering Special Committee, and the joint CCAR Capital Committee. He joined the Discover Bank board in 2010 during the height of the financial crisis. Frank previously served on the boards of MISR International Bank (Cairo, Egypt) and International Merchant Bank (Lagos, Nigeria), both joint venture financial institutions for which he served on the Credit Committee. Active in his community, he currently serves as director and treasurer of The Society of the First Presbyterian Church of Lake Forest and has previously served on the boards of The United Way of Lake Forest/Lake Bluff, the Spirit of 67 Foundation, and CROYA (Committee Representing Our Young Adults).
Frank is president of Chilton Capital Advisors, a privately owned consulting firm. Through Chilton Advisors, he has held a number of C-level leadership roles in a wide range of entrepreneurial and early-stage companies, such as CFO of StereoVision Imaging, Inc., a leading developer of long-range 3D facial recognition products; chief compliance officer of Transworld Systems, Inc., a private equity-owned national collections firm; CFO of X2Telecom, Inc., a West Coast-based owner of an abandoned offshore fiber optic network; and treasurer of 3D Systems (NYSE: DDD), the pioneering developer of 3D manufacturing systems.
Prior to establishing Chilton Capital Advisors, Frank was a managing director at The First National Bank of Chicago. During his 25-year banking career, he held a number of senior roles across the bank. As a managing director in the Leveraged Finance Division, he was responsible for structuring, managing, executing, and syndicating complex leveraged transactions. He served as Area - Head Africa (London); and as Energy Group Area Head- Asia (Hong Kong), where he was the lead advisor to CNOOC , traveling extensively in China in the early 1980s. He served for five years as the treasurer of Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc. (NYSE: OSG), a leading international bulk shipping company and prior client at First Chicago.
Frank holds an master of business administration from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas and a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Texas, where he was elected into Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu. He completed the ABA Graduate School of Compliance Risk Management and holds active licenses from FINRA as a General Securities Registered Representative (Series 7), Investment Banking Representative (Series 79), and General Securities Investment Advisor Representative (Series 63 and 66). Frank is an active member of the National Association of Corporate Directors and the Private Directors Association (PDA), and he has completed the PDA Coaching Program.
Kay McCurdy, NACD.DC
Secretary
Kay McCurdy is a seasoned board director and general corporate and corporate finance legal expert with deep expertise in compensation, finance, M&A (both in the United States and internationally), and governance issues. She has more than 50 years collective experience serving on governing boards of public, private, family owned, and major nonprofit boards and is a Governance Fellow of the National Association of Corporate Directors.
Ms. McCurdy was a partner at Locke Lord LLP (and its predecessor Lord Bissell & Brook) from 1983 to 2012. She now serves as Of Counsel to the firm. She specialized in corporate and corporate finance and served on its Executive Committee.
Since 2005, McCurdy has served as a director of Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. (AJG), an NYSE global insurance broker and risk manager (fourth largest in the world and included in the S&P) located in Itasca, Illinois, with revenues in excess of $5 billion and market cap exceeding $7 billion. She currently chairs the Nominating/Governance Committee and serves on the Compensation Committee. Ethisphere named AJG as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies for five consecutive years.
Ms. McCurdy also served on the board of Trek Bicycle Corporation, a large, global, family-owned, world-class bicycle manufacturer located in Waterloo, Wisconsin, for eight years from 1998 to 2006. She simultaneously served on the board of the Trinity Foundation, which is the foundation started by Trek's founder. McCurdy served as a director of Roberts & Porter Inc., a Midwestern company engaged in the printing supply business, from 1984 to 1986 as a representative of the secured creditors committee after it emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings.
Ms. McCurdy has chaired the board of Chicago Public Media Inc. and WBEZ 91.5 FM and recently chaired the Nominating and Governance Committee. She currently sits on its Finance and Executive Committees. McCurdy also served on the Board of Trustees of Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois, for 12 years, and chaired its Governance and Nominating Committee where she led a total review of its governance and executive compensation practices. She also served on its Executive and Finance Committees, and on the board of The Chicago Network, University of Chicago Law School Advisory Committee, and Governors State University Advisory Committee.
Ms. McCurdy is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors, Women Corporate Directors, the Economic Club of Chicago, and The Chicago Network. She earned a JD from the University of Chicago and a BA from Bradley University.
Adela Cepeda
Director
A finance specialist since 1980, Adela Cepeda, managing director of Public Financial Management Inc. (PFM), advises municipalities on the structuring and execution of capital markets transactions. In 2016, she sold A.C. Advisory Inc. to PFM, the top-ranked municipal advisor in the United States. As a corporate finance executive at Smith Barney, Harris Upham for over 10 years, Cepeda developed a strong expertise in handling public and private debt and equity transactions. She then left Wall Street to build her own firm, A.C. Advisory, which she led to a national leadership position in municipal financial advisory services with over $150 billion in completed transactions.
Cepeda serves on the boards of the UBS Funds and the Pathway Mutual Funds and chairs the Mercer Mutual Funds. She is also a director of BMO Financial Corp., the U.S. holding company for BMO Harris Bank, with over 15,000 employees and 550 branches located principally in the Midwest. She serves as chair of BMO's Capital Committee, charged with overseeing the successful execution of Dodd-Frank Stress Testing and the linkages between the bank's capital management and business strategy. Cepeda previously chaired the Audit Committee of the board of Wyndham International Inc., a 20,000-employee, publicly traded company that owned and operated hotels and resorts in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean.
Cepeda is extensively involved in the community and serves on the Cook County Council of Economic Advisors and the City of Chicago Community Development Commission. She also serves on the boards of the Chicago Foundation for Women and Arrupe College. Until 2011, she served as an appointed executive committee member of The Chicago Community Trust, one of the nation's leading community foundations. From 2011 to 2013, she served on the board of the Chicago Housing Authority, chairing its Audit, Finance, and Pension Committees. She was recently invited to join the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Cepeda is an honors graduate of Harvard College with a major in Economics and has an MBA from the University of Chicago School of Business.
Dennis Chookaszian, NACD.DC
Director
Dennis Chookaszian is the retired chairman and chief executive officer of CNA Insurance Companies. He served as CNA's chairman and chief executive officer from 1992 until 1999. He also served as chairman of the executive committee of CNA from 1999 to 2001. From 1990 to 1992, Chookaszian served as CNA's president and chief operating officer, with responsibility for all property and casualty, life, health and investment operations. He joined CNA in 1975 and served as chief financial officer until 1990 when he was named president. He also served as chairman and CEO of mPower Inc., an internet financial advisory service, from 1999 to 2001. Prior to joining CNA, he was a management consultant with Deloitte for eight years working on various financial and systems related assignments.
Mr. Chookaszian served as chairman of FASAC (Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council), which provides guidance to the FASB (Financial Accounting Standards Board) on accounting matters, for five years and completed his term in 2012. He was also a member of the FCAG (Financial Crisis Advisory Group), which was the international commission created to develop recommendations to solve the financial reporting problems associated with the financial crisis of 2008.
During his career, he has served as a director on the boards of 13 publicly traded corporations and 50 private corporations. He is currently a director of four public companies including the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the world's largest financial futures and derivatives exchange; Career Education, a private post-secondary education provider; Maxar Technologies, a space satellite technology company; and Pillarstone Capital, a real estate investment trust. He also serves as a director of a number of private corporations and has served as an arbitrator in 11 diverse cases and as an expert witness in 12 cases.
Mr. Chookaszian is an adjunct professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and teaches courses in corporate governance. He also teaches a course in international corporate governance at Cheung Kong University in China, Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance in China, and at IIPM in India.
Mr. Chookaszian is a member of the national board of the Boy Scouts of America, a trustee of Northwestern University, a member of the advisory board of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and a member of the advisory board of Kellogg Graduate School of Management. He is also a director of Northwestern Memorial Hospital and president of the Foundation for Health Enhancement.
Mr. Chookaszian has a bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from Northwestern University, an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth Graduate School of Business, and a Master of Science in Economics from the London School of Economics. He is a Certified Public Accountant, a Chartered Global Management Accountant, Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter, and a Certified Management Consultant, as well as a member of the directors' table of Beta Gamma Sigma, an honorary fraternity. In 2010, Chookaszian received the Outstanding Director Award from the Financial Times Outstanding Directors Exchange.
Pamela Forbes-Lieberman
Director
Pamela Forbes Lieberman serves on the Board of Directors of Standard Motor Products Inc. (NYSE: SMP), a manufacturer and distributor of automotive aftermarket parts and solutions. She cochairs the Strategy Committee and is also a member of the Audit, Com-pensation, and Governance Committees.
Until the November 2017 sale of VWR Corp. (NASDAQ: VWR), Forbes Lieberman served on the Board of Directors and was a member of the Audit Committee. She was also chairman of the Board of Directors of AM Castle & Co. (NYSE: CAS), as well as chair of the Audit Committee and member of the Governance and Human Re-sources/Compensation Committees. She currently serves on the Board of Trustees of Rush University Medical Center and is a member of the Audit and Nominating and Gov-ernance Committees.
Forbes Lieberman is the former president, CEO, and board member of True Value Com-pany. She joined the company as CFO, assumed the additional responsibilities of COO, and then was promoted to CEO and appointed to the Board of Directors. Subsequent to leading True Value, she led ERI, a portfolio company of a private equity firm.
Before joining True Value, Forbes Lieberman was SVP and CFO of ShopTalk, a start-up voice application software company. She had moved there from Martin-Brower Compa-ny, where she served as SVP and CFO. From 1993 to 1998, Forbes Lieberman was vice president and CFO of Fel-Pro Inc., an internationally renowned family-owned automo-tive parts and chemicals company. She also spent four years as vice president of Finance acquiring and integrating companies for Bunzl Building Supply, a subsidiary of publicly held UK-based Bunzl plc, now part of the RMC Group. Prior to that, she was a financial executive with Kraft Foods. She began her career at Price Waterhouse (now PwC) work-ing on manufacturing, distribution, and retail Fortune 500 engagements.
Forbes Lieberman additionally serves on the executive councils for Granite Creek Private Equity; Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law David F. and Constance B. Girard-diCarlo Center for Ethics, Integrity, and Compliance Advisory Board; and the NACD Chicago Chapter. She is also a member of The Chicago Network, The Economic Club of Chicago, International Women’s Forum Chicago Chapter Board of Directors, Private Directors Association, and Women in M&A Chicago Chapter Steering Commit-tee, as well as founding member of The Chicago Network's Women on Boards Commit-tee. She is a former board member of several privately owned companies, including fami-ly-owned Tempel Steel and Kreher Steel, family-owned The HAVI Group, LEK's Mid-west consulting practice, and the former Winning Workplaces organization, as well as a number of not-for-profit organizations. She is a past Lake Forest Graduate School com-mencement speaker and recipient of the school’s distinguished Executive of the Year award in recognition of business leadership. She speaks and serves on panels at govern-ance conferences and guest lectures at Kellogg School of Management Leadership clas-ses.
Forbes Lieberman holds an MBA from Northwestern University Kellogg School of Man-agement and a Bachelor of Science in Accountancy from the University of Illinois, Champaign. She is a Certified Public Accountant.
Maria Green
Director
Maria Green retired as senior vice president and general counsel of Ingersoll Rand plc (IR) on June 28, 2019. She joined IR in November 2015 and was responsible for all legal and compliance activities worldwide. She joined IR from Illinois Tool Works, where she was senior vice president, general counsel, and secretary.
During her 18 years with Illinois Tool Works, Green guided the company's expansion through both acquisitions and organic growth. As general counsel, she led the environmental, health, and safety group as well as government affairs and risk management.
At IR, Green was a member of the executive leadership team and a trusted advisor to the CEO on legal, compliance, and strategy issues and led a team of 75 lawyers based in the United States, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Latin America. She cochaired the Global Business Integrity Council and served as executive sponsor for an employee resource group.
Green joined the board of Tennant Co. (NYSE: TNC) as an independent director in March 2019, serving as chair of the nominating and governance and the audit committees, and was elected to the board of Wisconsin Energy Group (NYSE: WEC) in July 2019, serving on the audit and finance committees. Most recently, Green joined the board of directors of Littelfuse (Nasdaq: LFUS) in February 2020, serving on the audit and governance committees.
Green holds a bachelor of arts from the University of Pennsylvania and juris doctor from Boston University Law School.
Frank Jaehnert, NACD.DC
Director
Frank Jaehnert is the former president and CEO of Brady Corp. (NYSE: BRC), an international manufacturer of identification solutions, serving from 2003 until 2013. Before that he served as its chief financial officer and as a divisional president. Prior to joining Brady in 1995, he held various financial positions in Germany and the United States at Robert Bosch, a multinational engineering and electronics company. He currently serves on the boards of Nordson Corp. (NASDAQ: NDSN), Itron (NASDAQ: ITRI), National Material L.P., and the NACD Chicago Chapter.
Jaehnert is a certified director and a board governance fellow by the NACD and a Securities and Exchange Commission - designated audit-committee financial expert. He was recognized as a 2020 NACD Directorship 100 honoree , which each year recognizes the 100 most influential leaders in the boardroom. He was a regional winner of the EY Entrepreneur of the Year program in 2008 and has served as a regional, national, and world judge of the program for many years. Jaehnert is a frequent panelist and moderator on topics such as mergers and acquisitions, audit-committee and corporate-governance matters, internal-audit issues, and corporate strategy.
He has received the equivalent of a Master of Business Administration from the University of Stuttgart in Germany.
Shermin Kruse, NACD.DC
Director
Shermin Kruse is a negotiation consultant specializing in weaponizing empathy and stoicism training; a law professor at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, teaching complex negotiation, global transactions, and leadership; and a thought leader with a long history of civic engagement. She is also the author of the critically acclaimed, best-selling novel Butterfly Stitching, inspired by the true experiences of the women in her family before and after the Iranian revolution. Before this, Shermin was a partner at the law firm of Barack Ferrazzano where she represented international and Fortune 500 companies for 17 years.
Her greatest joy comes from helping her clients and students augment their reality to the next level. She works with students to rise cognitive empathetic abilities to the superpower level while teaching emotional regulation.
Shermin often speak on issues relating to complex negotiation, tactical empathy, stoicism, change-agency, leadership, and professional development. She is also often asked to speak on issues of international relations, nonprofit management, and civil and human rights.
Shermin was recently named as the annual Woman Extraordinaire by the International Women Associates; featured by WomanScape magazine for her global humanitarian work; and named one of the nation's top 100 "Women to Watch" by BizWomen magazine, one of Chicago's most influential women by Chicago Business Journal, and one of Chicago's Women of Inspiration by Today's Chicago magazine.
Shermin is currently a founder of Pasfarda Arts and Culture Exchange, a director of the international refugee center RefuSHE, and a founding member of the Chicago Council for the American Writers Museum. Previously, she served as a director of the ACLU of Illinois and a director of the Lincoln Park Community Services. Shermin is currently authoring a textbook on global transactions issues, to be published by Northwestern Library in 2022, and is a frequent columnist and commentator for a variety of international magazines, including WomanScape, Fete Lifestyle magazine, and The Huffington Post.
Shermin has a BS in psychology and philosophy from the University of Toronto and a JD from the University of Michigan.
Jeff Perry
Director
Jeffery S. Perry is founder and CEO of Lead Mandates LLC, providing business and leadership advisory services to help organizations achieve their strategic and operational goals in the face of unprecedented disruption and uncertainty. Prior to this role, he worked at EY for more than 15 years as global client service partner and Americas Operational Transaction Services practice leader, as well as at A.T. Kearney Inc. serving as vice president. Perry also held management consulting roles at CSC Index Inc., Booz & Co., and BP America Inc. earlier in his career.
He currently serves on the boards of Chicago Children's Museum (chairman and member, Executive, Development, and Community Connections Committees), Babson College (chairman, Academic Excellence Committee, and member, Executive, Conflicts, and Advancement Committees), and Harvard Business School African-American Alumni Association (member, Governance Committee). He previously served as chairman of the National Board of Directors at Inroads Inc.
Throughout Perry's career, his thought leadership has appeared in several notable publications, including Financial Times, BusinessWeek, CFO Magazine, Financier Worldwide, The Deal, Chicago Tribune, and numerous EY publications and live webcasts. He has also received several prestigious awards, including the Babson Black Affinity Network Alumni Achievement Award (2018), EY Americas Inclusive Leadership Award (2016), Savoy Magazine's Top 100 Most Influential Blacks in Corporate America (2012), and Chicago United Business Leader of Color (2011).
Perry earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in Marketing/Quantitative Methods, with high distinction, from Babson College. He also studies advanced intermediate French at l'Universite de la Sorbonne, Paris.
Holly Van Deursen
Director
Holly Van Deursen serves as a non-executive director on four public boards, including for Actuant Corporation, Bemis Company, Inc., Capstone Turbine Corporation, and Synthomer. She served on the Petroleum Geo-Services ASA board from 2006 to 2018, and she also serves on the board of one private company, Anson Industries Inc. In her director roles, Holly has chaired one board and a number of committees, and she has been involved in all key facets of board work, including CEO succession and compensation, acquisitions, governance, strategy, and financial oversight. She has been active as an investor and advisor for start-up companies. Holly spent 24 years in the chemical and oil industry and held senior executive roles in North America, Asia, and Europe.
From 2001 to 2005, Holly was a member of the top-forty executive team of BP, a $250 billion oil, gas, and energy company. As a member of this team, she served in various executive groups addressing strategic issues across the BP Group and assuring delivery of operational results.
From 2001 to 2003, Holly was group vice president, strategy, the senior strategy role within the BP Group. From 2003 to 2005, she was group vice president, petrochemicals, for BP, where she was a member of an executive team accountable for the $20 billion petrochemical segment. As part of her director role, Holly was the executive sponsor for the human resource and functional aspects involved in separating the petrochemicals segment to prepare for BP's exit of 60 percent via an initial public offering. She was the executive leader for four operating businesses generating $7 billion in revenue, as well as for four functions (human resources; diversity and inclusion; marketing, sales, and logistics; and environmental remediation ) accountable for establishing a strategy and delivering services for the $20 billion petrochemical segment.
Holly began her career with Dow Corning Corporation as a chemical engineer in design, manufacturing and technical service and development. After completing her master of business administration (MBA), she undertook roles with Amoco Corporation and BP in acquisitions and divestitures, business development, business management, business process re-engineering, business unit leadership, and strategy, and also serving as a group-level executive leader.
Holly has been on the boards of the China American Petrochemical Company, Samsung Petrochemical Company, and AGIC; Asian petrochemical joint ventures; and the American Chemistry Council and a not-for-profit school.
Holly holds a chemical engineering degree and an MBA. She lives outside Chicago in Oak Park, Illinois, and enjoys spending time with her daughters, Rebecca and Emily, and her husband, Craig.
Maria Wynne
Director
As CEO of Leadership Greater Chicago (LGC), Maria Wynne leads LGC's mission to convene, connect, and mobilize bold leaders across sectors to affect transformative change in the region. Since joining LGC in 2014, Maria is proud to have taken LGC's civic leadership development into a broader public discourse, raising the visibility of LGC, adding design and equity thinking to its approach to build greater understanding of Chicago's communities. Most recently, having identified a need to civically activate C-suite leaders, she successfully introduced The Daniel Burnham Fellowship, an accelerated civic onboarding experience for senior executives new to the area or
their role. The vision of The Daniel Burnham Fellowship is to develop a group of committed civic leaders whose focus will be on job creation, workforce readiness, and economic investment in communities, making Chicago the city with potential for all.
Previously Maria was vice president and general manager of Xerox and Microsoft respectively, leading national sales and marketing teams with upwards of $250m in revenue in an aggregate $500m segment with P&L and people responsibility.
At Microsoft she created the Office of Citizenship and Innovation, working with US mayors on citywide initiatives to accelerate workforce readiness and reduce the digital divide. Following her tenure at Microsoft, as CEO of the Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana, Maria led a merger of seven corporations that became the largest transformation in Girl Scout history.
Maria has been recognized by Latino Leaders magazine with the Maestro Award for Entrepreneurship in 2021, and Crain's Who's Who in Chicago Business. She was named Chicago Executive of the Year by the Public Relations Society of America, McCormick Fellow for CEO Perspectives in 2013, and Crain's Most Powerful Latinos in Chicago in 2019. Maria was selected by Chicago Mayor-elect Lori Lightfoot as one of eight co-chairs of the Transition Leadership Team in 2019.
She is affiliated with The Commercial Club of Chicago, Economic Club of Chicago, The Chicago Network, and The Chicago Club.
Maria's board service includes director of Federal Home Loan Bank, Chicago; president, executive committee of The Goodman Theatre Board; co-chair, Civic Consulting Alliance of Chicago advisory board; trustee of North Central College; and advisory board member of Chicago Innovation.
Maria has a BA in art and education from North Central College and a MBA in marketing from Northern Illinois University.