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2005 DINNER TOPICS/SPEAKERS

Women in Arts and Entertainment
  Host:
  • Antoinette D. Wright, President & Chief Executive Officer, DuSable Museum of African American History
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Women and Changing Career Tracks - SOLD OUT!
  Host:
  • Sandra Rand, Manager, Supplier Diversity, United Airlines
  Speaker:
  • Deborah A. Bricker, President, Bricker Partners, LLC, Teacher, The Walter Payton College Preparatory High School
  • Cheryl Mayberry McKissack, Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer, Nia Enterprises, LLC
  • Michelle Obama, Vice President of Community & External Affairs, University of Chicago Hospitals
Women on Corporate Boards - SOLD OUT!
  Host:
  Speaker:
  • Barbara Bowles, Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, The Kenwood Group
  • Virginia A. Clarke, Leader & Co-Founder, Global Diversity Practice, Spencer Stuart
  • Mary Ann O’Dwyer, Senior Vice President of Finance & Operations, Chief Financial Officer & Director, Wheels, Inc.
Women in Corporate Leadership - SOLD OUT!
  Host:
  • Pamela B. Strobel, Executive Vice President & Chief Administrative Officer, The Exelon Corporation; President, Exelon Business Services Company
  Speakers:
  • Deborah L. DeHaas, Vice Chairman & Regional Managing Partner, Deloitte & Touche USA, LLP
  • Sue Ling Gin, Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Flying Food Group
  • Diane Primo, Executive Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer, CDW Corporation
Women in Education
  Host:
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Women Entrepreneurs - SOLD OUT!
  Host:
  • Allegra Biery, Senior Vice President, The Northern Trust Company
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Women in Finance and Banking - SOLD OUT!
  Host:
  Speakers:
  • Connie L. Lindsey, Director, Enterprise Relationship Management , The Northern Trust Company
  • Johnita W. Mizelle, Principal, The Williams Capital Group, L.P.
  • Joan E. Steel, Senior Vice President & Personal Investment Counselor, Personal Investment Management, Capital Guardian Trust Company
Women in Government
  Host:
  Speakers:
  • Dorothy Brown, Clerk of the Circuit Court, Cook County
  • Barbara Lumpkin, Senior Vice President, Manager of Public Affairs, The Northern Trust Company
  • Rita L. Mullins, Mayor, Village of Palatine
  • Maria Saldana, Managing Director, U.S. Investment Banking, Popular Securities, Inc.; President, Chicago Park District Board of Commissioners
  • Corrine Wood, Former Lieutenant Governor, Illinois
Women in Health - SOLD OUT!
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Women in Law
  Host:
  • Miriam Frank, Managing Partner, Midwest Offices, Major, Hagen & Africa
  Speakers:
  • Sharon R. Barner, Partner, Chair of Intellectual Property Litigation Group, Foley & Lardner LLP
  • Beth Byster Corvino, Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary, Laidlaw International, Inc.
  • Jacqueline Cox, Federal Judge, U.S Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Illinois
  • Portia Owen Morrison, Partner, DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary US, LLP
Women in Marketing and Advertising - SOLD OUT!
  Host:
  • Rhonda Jordan, Senior Vice President, Global Cheese & Dairy Sector, Kraft Foods, Inc.
  Co-Hosts:
  • Joan Black, Executive Vice President, Worldwide Group Account Director, Foote, Cone & Belding
  • Julia Kenyon, Senior Partner & Managing Director, JWT
  • Renetta McCann, Chief Executive Officer, The Americas, Starcom MediaVest Group
Women in Media
  Host:
  • Patricia Keenan, Vice President of Communications for the Greater Chicago Region, Comcast Cable Communications
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Women in Not-For-Profit
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Women in Philanthropy
  Host:
  • Gwen Gilbert Cohen, First Vice President, Investment Consultant & Wealth Advisor, Morgan Stanley
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Women in Technology
  Host:
  • Gail Ludewig, President & Chief Executive Officer, TotalWorks, Inc.
  Speakers:
  • Pamela Blackwell, President & Chief Operating Officer, Blackwell Consulting Services
  • Catherine Kozik, Vice President of IT, Networks Business, Motorola, Inc.
  • Iwona Turlik, Corporate Vice President, Physical Realization Research Center, Motorola, Inc.
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