Advisory Committee

Co-Chairs

• Terry Mazany, President and CEO, The Chicago Community Trust

  • Terry Mazany is the fifth chief executive in The Chicago Community Trust’s 90-year history. In preparation for this appointment he was selected as the Trust’s chief operating officer in October 2003. Prior to that position, Mr. Mazany served as director and senior program officer for the Trust’s Education Initiative. In this capacity he led the design and implementation of the Trust’s $50 million, five-year commitment to supporting literacy, teacher and principal quality, and school improvement in Chicago.

    Mr. Mazany also had a distinguished career in public school administration prior to joining the Trust, during which he led improvement efforts in school districts in Michigan and California. Fundamental to this work was a commitment to equity and opportunity for all students. His work in public education was an extension of his experience in a national project for public-sector performance improvement that was the precursor to what became known as re-inventing government.

    Mr. Mazany enjoyed his first career as an archaeologist and dendrochronologist at the University of Arizona where he also earned master’s degrees in anthropology and business administration.

• David J. Vitale, Chairman, DNP Select Income Fund

  • David J. Vitale currently serves as the Chairman of DNP Select Income Fund. He was previously a Senior Adviser to the CEO of Chicago Public Schools, following his own service as the Chief Administrative Officer of CPS, overseeing all of the system’s educational support departments. Mr. Vitale joined the school system after a career in banking and financial markets. He is a former vice chairman and director of Bank One Corporation. He also served in a number of capacities during his career with First Chicago, which concluded with his service as Director and Vice Chairman of First Chicago NBD Corporation and President of The First National Bank of Chicago.

    Mr. Vitale served as president and CEO of the Chicago Board of Trade and as president and CEO of the MidAmerica Commodity Exchange, an affiliate of the CBOT. Mr. Vitale has also served as a public director of the Chicago Board Options Exchange. He is a member of the Chicago Club, The Arts Club, the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, the Economic Club of Chicago, and the Commercial Club of Chicago. He currently is a director on the board of United Airlines.

    In addition to serving on the Advisory Committee of The Partnership for New Communities, Mr. Vitale’s civic involvement includes service on the boards of the Glenwood School for Boys, Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), The Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Science and Industry, Leadership Greater Chicago, and the YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago. He also serves as a member of the Visiting Committee of The School for Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago, the Advisory Council of the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago, and the Advisory Committee of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

    Mr. Vitale holds a degree from Harvard University and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Chicago.

Members

• John L. Anderson, President, Illinois Institute of Technology

  • John L. Anderson is the eighth president of Illinois Institute of Technology. He assumed the office on August 1, 2007.

    A Wilmington, Delaware native, Mr. Anderson served as provost of Case Western Reserve University from 2004 until joining IIT. Prior to Case, he served for 28 years at Carnegie Mellon University, including eight years as dean of the College of Engineering. He was a member of the Cornell University faculty before joining Carnegie Mellon.

    In addition to serving on the Advisory Committee of The Partnership for New Communities, Mr. Anderson is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. He has held visiting professorships at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Melbourne (Australia), and Landbouwuniversiteit Wageningen (The Netherlands).

    Mr. Anderson holds a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Delaware and a Ph.D. in engineering from the University of Illionis at Urbana-Champaign.

• Martin Cabrera, Jr., President, Cabrera Capital Markets, LLC

  • Martin Cabrera, Jr. serves as President and owner of Cabrera Capital Markets, LLC (CCM), a Chicago-based investment banking and institutional brokerage firm which has underwritten over $55 billion of municipal bond transactions and maintains a broad spectrum of clients. CCM holds a seat on the Chicago Stock Exchange and is a leader in institutional brokerage for public and corporate pension funds across the country. In 2004, Mr. Cabrera was named one of the 100 Most Influential Hispanics by Hispanic Business Magazine.

    Mr. Cabrera serves on the Region Board of Directors for the Bond Market Association. He was also appointed to serve on Governor Blagojevich's and Attorney General Madigan's Corporate Corruption Committees.

    In addition to serving on the Advisory Committee of the Partnership for New Communities, Mr. Cabrera's civic involvement includes service on the boards of the New America Alliance, as co-chair of the Pension Fund Initiative; The League of United Latin American Citizens of Midway Council; Northern Illinois University Alumni Association; Illinois Council on Economic Education; and the Chicago Scholarship Foundation. He also serves as a volunteer for the Mid Town Boys Center, the Chicago Public Schools "Principal for a Day" program, St. Pancratius Church, the Salvation Army, and the Boy Scouts of America. Mr. Cabrera holds a bachelor's degree in finance from Northern Illinois University and has studied at the London School of Economics, where he traded on the London desk for Merrill Lynch International Ltd.

• Frank M. Clark, Chairman and CEO, ComEd, an Exelon Company

  • Frank M. Clark is the chairman and chief executive officer of ComEd, the largest electric utility in Illinois. Prior to his current role, Clark served as president of ComEd, responsible for overseeing the company’s day-to-day operations. He joined ComEd in 1966 and steadily rose through the ranks, holding various positions in corporate support and line functions.

    In addition to serving on the Advisory Committee of The Partnership for New Communities, Mr. Clark serves on the boards of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation, Adler Planetarium, Big Shoulders Fund, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, DePaul University, Illinois Manufacturing Association, Metropolitan Family Services, Museum of Science and Industry, United Way of Metropolitan Chicago, University of Chicago Medical Center and the executive committee of the Chicago Community Trust. Clark sits on the governing board of the Illinois Council on Economic Education and is a member of the Chicago Bar Association, the Economic Club of Chicago, The Commercial Club of Chicago, and the Executives’ Club of Chicago. Clark is a committee member of Chicago 2016 and a co-founder of the Rowe-Clark Math & Science Academy on Chicago's west side.

    Mr. Clark also serves on the board of directors for Waste Management, Inc., Harris Financial Corp., and Aetna Inc.

    Mr. Clark was a recipient of the HistoryMakers Award and the National Humanitarian Award from the National Conference for Community and Justice. He also was ranked among the 50 Most Powerful Black Executives in America by Fortune in 2002.

    Mr. Clark received his bachelor’s and law degrees from DePaul University.

• Donald A. Cooke, Senior Vice President/Philanthropy, McCormick Foundation

  • Donald A. Cooke began serving as senior vice president for philanthropy of the McCormick Foundation in May 2005. His responsibilities include providing oversight and management to the Foundation’s grantmaking programs in veterans, communities, education, journalism and special initiatives.

    Cooke began his career in Philadelphia at the Franklin Institute Science Museum. Over the course of 12 years he served as director of the Fels Planetarium, director of development, vice president for external affairs, acting museum director and executive vice president for programs and planning. He subsequently served for eight years at the Philadelphia Orchestra, where he served as vice president for external affairs. Prior to his current position, Cooke was the vice president for institutional advancement for the Field Museum in Chicago.

    A Philadelphia native, Cooke was educated at Williams College and Harvard University, where he studied astrophysics. He is the author of many papers and articles on astronomy and nonprofit management, and he is author of the book “The Life and Death of Stars,” published by Crown Publishers in 1985.

    He currently serves as a board member and on the executive committee of the Illinois Arts Alliance, is a board member and is on the executive committee of the Donors Forum of Chicago, is chairman of the City of Lake Forest Historic Preservation Commission and is a board member of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.

    Cooke and his wife Sally reside in Lake Forest, Illinois.

• Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I., Archbishop of Chicago, Archdiocese of Chicago

  • Francis Eugene Cardinal George, O.M.I., eighth Archbishop of Chicago, was ordained in 1963 at St. Pascal Church in Chicago; he is the first native Chicagoan to serve as Archbishop of Chicago. Cardinal George was appointed by Pope John Paul II as the Bishop of Yakima in Washington in 1990, then as the Archbishop of Portland in Oregon in 1996, and most recently as the Archbishop of Chicago in 1997. In 1998, he was elevated to the Sacred College of Cardinals. He has served on the Pontifical Council for Culture since 2004.

    Cardinal George is president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. He is a member of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, the American Society of Missiologists and the Catholic Commission on Intellectual and Cultural Affairs. In addition to serving on the Advisory Committee of The Partnership for New Communities, Cardinal George is also the Chancellor of the Catholic Church Extension Society and the University of St. Mary of the Lake, Mundelein, Illinois. He serves on the boards of the Catholic University of America, the Papal Foundation, the National Catholic Bio-ethics Center in Philadelphia and the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. He also serves on the Kohl McCormick Early Childhood Teaching Awards Advisory Board.

    Cardinal George holds a master’s degree in philosophy from the Catholic University of America, a doctorate in American philosophy from Tulane University, a master’s degree in theology from the University of Ottawa in Canada, and a Doctorate of Sacred Theology in ecclesiology from the Pontifical Urban University, Rome, Italy.

     

• Jack M. Greenberg, Chairman, Western Union Company

  • Jack M. Greenberg is currently the Chairman of the Western Union Company and is the retired chairman and CEO of McDonald’s Corporation. He previously served McDonald's as its president and CEO, and chairman and CEO of McDonald’s USA, as well as Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer. Before joining McDonald’s, Mr. Greenberg was a partner and director of tax services for both the Midwest region and the Chicago office of Arthur Young & Company, and served on the firm’s Management Committee.

    Mr. Greenberg currently serves on the boards of The Allstate Corporation, Hasbro, Inc., Innerworkings, Inc, and Manpower, Inc., in addition to Western Union. He is a certified public accountant and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Illinois CPA Society and the Chicago Bar Association, where he served as former chairman of the Federal Tax Committee, and chairman of the board of trustees of the Chicago Bar Foundation.

    In addition to serving on the Advisory Committee of The Partnership for New Communities, Mr. Greenberg’s civic involvement includes service on the boards of DePaul University, where he previously served as Chairman, the Institute of International Education, The Field Museum and Metropolis 2020. He is also a member of the executive committee of The Chicago Community Trust and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.

    Mr. Greenberg holds degrees, including a juris doctor, from the DePaul University Schools of Commerce and Law.

• Lewis Jordan, (Ex-Officio), Chief Executive Officer, Chicago Housing Authority

  • In his capacity of CEO, Mr. Jordan directs all aspects of the third-largest housing authority in the country, and oversees the implementation of the largest redevelopment effort of public housing in the history of the country, under the historic Plan for Transformation.

    A former resident of the CHA’s Rockwell Gardens, Mr. Jordan works to ensure that Chicago's public housing is seamlessly integrated into the city, and residents in CHA units are able to provide for themselves and be positive contributors to the economic and social strength of Chicago.

    From 2006 to 2007, Mr. Jordan was the executive director of the Housing Authority of Cook County, overseeing the operation, management, maintenance and financial control of the agency. Prior to his service at Cook County, Mr. Jordan served as the Executive Director of the Rockford Housing Authority (RHA) and Managing Agent of the Rockford Housing Development Corporation (RHDC) from 2002 to 2006. Mr. Jordan also worked for Allstate Insurance Company in Northbrook for 19 years. He served in numerous management and human resources positions, including developing and implementing diversity training and educational programs for the company’s 40,000 employees.

    Mr. Jordan holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Fisk University.

• Eden Martin, President, The Civic Committee of The Commercial Club of Chicago

  • Eden Martin, of Counsel to Sidley Austin LLP, serves as President of The Commercial Club of Chicago and its Civic Committee. He is a former Chairman of the Sidley Austin Management Committee.

    In addition to serving on the Advisory Committee of The Partnership for New Communities, Mr. Martin’s civic involvements include service on the boards of Northwestern University and the United Way of Metropolitan Chicago. He is also a life trustee of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Ravinia Festival, and the Chicago History Museum.

• Terry Perucca, Retired President, Bank of America, Illinois

  • Terry E. Perucca served as president of Bank of America, Illinois and president of Banc of America Equity Partners prior to retiring in December 2005. He began his career at Security Pacific Bank in 1966 as part of its finance department. He joined the legacy BankAmerica during its merger with Security Pacific in 1992, when he joined its San Francisco-based corporate development department and assumed responsibility for managing the unit in 1993.

    Mr. Perucca currently serves on the Advisory boards of FTV Capital and Lightspeed Ventures in San 20 Francisco. He also serves as a member of the University Club and the Union League Club.

    In addition to serving on the Advisory Committee of The Partnership for New Communities, Mr. Perucca also serves on the boards of the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art and After School Matters.

    Mr. Perucca holds a bachelor's degree in management from Arizona State University and is also a graduate of the University of Washington's Pacific Coast Bank School (PCBS), where he served on the faculty for eight years after graduation.

• Quintin E. Primo III, Chairman and CEO, Capri Capital Partners, LLC

  • Mr. Primo serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Capri Capital Partners, LLC, a real estate investment management firm headquartered in Chicago that he co-founded in 1992. The firm has approximately $4 billion in total real estate assets under management and is an active investor in all major property sectors and markets throughout the United States. Capri is currently expanding overseas, with major real estate development projects in India and the Middle East.

    Mr. Primo has 30 years of experience in real estate investment and capital markets. Prior to the formation of Capri Capital Partners, he was Managing Director of Q. Primo & Company, Inc., a real estate investment banking firm established in 1988 specializing in foreign and domestic private placements. Prior to forming Q. Primo & Company, he was employed with Citicorp Real Estate, Inc., where he was Vice President in the commercial lending and real estate investment banking divisions.

    Mr. Primo received a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration and a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance, with honors and high distinction, from Indiana University. Within the real estate industry, he is a member of the Urban Land Institute, a board member of the Pension Real Estate Association, a member of the Real Estate Roundtable, Chairman of the Real Estate Executive Council, and a former trustee of AMLI Residential, a NYSE-listed company taken private by Morgan Stanley.

    Mr. Primo is active in civic and charitable organizations. He is a member of The Economic Club of Chicago and a former member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Seventh District Advisory Council. He serves as a member of the Executive Committee of the Chicago Community Trust, as a trustee of the (Episcopal) Church Pension Group, and is a former trustee of the University of Chicago Hospitals and Ravinia Festival. He is currently Chairman of the Primo Center for Women and Children, a transitional shelter serving the homeless and Chair-elect for the Chicago Alliance to End Homelessness.

    Mr. Primo has been featured in national publications, such as The Wall Street Journal, Fortune Magazine, The New York Times, Business Week, Forbes, and Black Enterprise Magazine, and has made frequent guest appearances on network television and cable news and radio programs, including CNBC, CNN, MSNBC and National Public Radio. He has received numerous awards and has been highly recognized for his professional, civic and philanthropic contributions.

    Mr. Primo and his family reside in the Chicago area.

• Lynn Rosinsky, Chicago Market President, U.S. Bank

  • Lynn Rosinsky currently serves as Market President of U.S. Bank in Chicago. Her 23 years of experience in Chicago’s banking industry includes roles as head of National City Bank’s Midwest commercial banking unit, commercial lender at J.P. Morgan Chase (First National Bank of Chicago) and manager of commercial banking at Credit Agricole Indosuez. She joined U.S. Bank in 2008.

    Rosinsky also serves on The Lyric Opera’s Guild Board of Directors, the YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago, and is a member of the Chicago Central Area Committee. She earned an MBA from The George Washington University and a bachelor’s degree in political science in her home state from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

• Jesse H. Ruiz, Partner, Drinker Biddle & Reath, LLP

  • Jesse H. Ruiz is a partner in Drinker Biddle & Reath’s Corporate and Securities Group. He concentrates his practice in mergers and acquisitions and the representation of public and middle market companies.

    Mr. Ruiz has represented acquiring and target companies, shareholders and employee stock ownership plan trustees in transactions ranging in size from millions of dollars to several billion dollars, and involving entities and assets in several countries. He has also counseled clients in a number of international transactions, publicly and privately held companies on: corporate finance issues; negotiation of consulting and other commercial agreements, reorganizations, corporate governance issues and employment matters; and, formation of business entities in the United States, Mexico and Europe.

    Mr. Ruiz serves on the Board of Directors of Commonwealth Edison Company, an Exelon company. In September 2004, Jesse was appointed Chairman of the Illinois State Board of Education by Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. The Illinois State Board of Education oversees the operation of the state’s school system for 2.1 million students in grades Pre-K-12, and administers a $9.8 billion annual budget. In March, 2007, Governor Blagojevich reappointed Jesse to serve as Chairman until 2011.

    In addition to serving on the Advisory Committee of The Partnership for New Communities, Mr. Ruiz’s civic involvement includes an appointment to the Presidential Advisory Council on Diversity in the Profession by the President of the American Bar Association. He also serves as the Immediate Past Chairman of the Chicago Committee on Minorities in Large Law Firms, and on the Board of Directors of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the leading Latino litigation, advocacy and educational outreach institution in the U.S.

    Mr. Ruiz holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and business administration from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a J.D. degree from The University of Chicago Law School.

• Linda Wolf, Retired Chairman and CEO, Leo Burnett Worldwide

  • Linda Wolf retired in April 2005 as Leo Burnett Worldwide’s Chairman and CEO, where she was responsible for the agency’s global operations spanning 80+ countries and more than 200 units. Ms. Wolf’s efforts to strategically expand and diversify the network resulted in the addition of full-service agencies and an increased stake in marketing services investments. Previously as CEO of Leo Burnett USA, Ms. Wolf played an integral part in the most aggressive growth and diversification drive in Burnett’s history, including strategic moves into healthcare, technology, urban marketing and Hispanic marketing.

    Under Ms. Wolf’s leadership, The Gunn Report named Leo Burnett Worldwide the "Most Awarded Agency Network in the World" in 2001. She was also named the Women’s Advertising Club of Chicago’s 2000 "Advertising Woman of the Year."

    In addition to serving on the Advisory Committee of The Partnership for New Communities, Ms. Wolf’s civic and professional participation includes service on the boards of Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History, The Off The Street Club, Children’s Memorial Hospital, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and the Economic Club of Chicago. She is also a member of The Chicago Network.

    Ms. Wolf is a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University.