Board of Directors
High Jump’s Board of Directors is a diverse group dedicated to expanding the accessibility of our academic enrichment program to talented and motivated middle school students with limited family income.
Chair:
CINDY O’CONNOR
Vice President:
NICK SHIELDS, Cohort 6
Director of Communications and Public Affairs
Office of the President, Cook County
Vice President:
GEORGY ANN PELUCHIWSKI
Partner
Greenwich Leadership Partners
Secretary:
SONYA MALUNDA
President
Associated Colleges of the Midwest
Immediate Past Chair:
KATIE BARBER
Members
JOHN AKALAONU, Cohort 4
Senior Vice President, Customer Delivery
CDK Global
SONIA ANTOLEC, Cohort 7
Judge, Illinois Court of Claims
General Counsel, The 1937 Group
OMID BAÑUELOS, Cohort 10
Corporate Counsel
Amazon.com Inc.
MARC CERONE
Director
Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture LLP
DAVID CHAZEN
Managing Director
Chazen Capital Partners
SARAH COBB
SARAH COGSWELL
Senior Vice President
Jones Lang LaSalle
VINCENT COZZI
KAREN DUNCAN
MARY FIFIELD
Senior Vice President
Brookfield Asset Management
JAMIE-CLARE FLAHERTY
Director, Strategic Initiatives
Obama Foundation
TIM FRIEDMAN
Principal
Heracles LLC
WILKINGSON GERMAIN
ARLA GOMBERG
PAM GORDON
SHELLEY GREENWOOD
Assistant Head of School
Latin School of Chicago
CYNTHIA HEUSING
MARIANA INGERSOLL
LENA JESSEN
ERIK KING
Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
KAREN KREHBIEL
Partner
Berger Schatz
SOPHIA LADOUCEUR
Vice President, Corporate Finance
Ventas, Inc.
KERRIE MALONEY LAYTIN
JOHN G. LEVI
Partner
Sidley Austin LLP
DENEESE WALIA LEVIN
Partner
Kirkland & Ellis
KIM LYNCH
General Counsel
West Monroe Partners
THOMAS MEYERS
Head of Client Solutions, Americas
Aviva Investors
ANNA MEYTINA-LURYE
DARA MILNER
Educational Consultant
PHILIP NEVELS, Cohort 5
Director of Corporate Strategy
AES
HEIDI ORTOLAZA-ALVEAR, Cohort 10
Vice President of Strategy and Business Development
Esperanza Health Centers
ABBY PHELPS
Owner
Club Pilates
JANET RAUSCHENBERGER
SCOTT B. ROSE
Investment Manager
Rose Investors, LLC
STEPHANIE ROSS
Assistant Clinical Professor
Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine
CHERYL RUDBECK
DIANE SALTOUN
Executive Inspector General
Office of the Illinois Attorney General
ERRETT VAN NICE
Managing Director
UBS Private Wealth Management
RAMON VILLALPANDO, Cohort 5
Directors Emeriti
Diana Aixalá
Richard J. Almeida
Bill Barker
Sally Carton
Paula H. Crown
Charles S. Gofen
Frank Hogan
Langdon D. Neal
Annmarie Neumeier
Eleanor Nicholson
Richard Rothkopf
Todd A. Smith
Tina Wardrop