University Leadership

Board of Trustees

Chair & Officers

Chair

• James B. Connor
  Retired, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
  Duke Realty

Secretary to the Board

• Terry Peterson (MPA ’95)
  PTS Corp
   

Public & Faculty Members

• Steve H. Abbey
  Senior Vice President
  Huntington Bank
   
• Jason Alegro, Faculty Trustee
  Associate Professor of Clinical Sciences
  College of Science, Health, and Pharmacy
   
• Valerie Barker-Waller
   
• Sharon Bush (MPA '02)
  Executive Director
  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
   
• 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
   
• Bruce A. Crown
  Chairman
  BevBar, Inc.
   
• Ann Ford
  Partner
  Malecki Brooks Ford Law Group, LLC
   
• J.C. Gonzalez-Mendez
  President of McDonald’s Latin America, Retired
  Founder, President & CEO, GM Integritas Consulting, 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
   
• Joyce E. Tucker
  Vice President of Global Diversity and Employee Rights, Retired
  The Boeing Company
   
• Marek A. Wierzba
  Partner
  Assurance & Advisory
  Business Services
  Ernst & Young
   
• Carolyn Wiley, Faculty Trustee
  Professor of Management
  Roosevelt University
   
• Joseph Yacullo 
  Chief Credit and Financial Risk Officer
  Northern Trust Corporation

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.