Board of Trustees

Officers

William A. Lowry ’84, Chairman
Marisue Lacher P’22, Vice-Chairman
Stephen C. Strelsin, Secretary

Trustees 

Michael Abello (2027)
Chief Executive Officer, Bezos Academy

M. Mercedes Badia-Tavas (2025)
Partner, Barnes & Thornburg LLP

Earl J. Barnes II ’86 (2027)
Senior Corporate Vice President and Chief Legal Officer , Sentara Healthcare

Charles M. Brennan III (2025)
Libertyville, Illinois

William G. Brown (2026)
Hobe Sound, Florida

Devon C. Bruce (2026)
Partner, Power Rogers & Smith, LLP

John D. Carruthers ’78 (2025)
Senior Business Analyst (Retired), US Bank

Jessica Q. Coleman ’89 (2026)
Vice President, Investment Management Division:
Goldman Sachs & Company, LLC

William Connell (2028)
Lake Forest, Illinois

Robert W. Crawford Jr. (2027)
Chairman, Brook Furniture Rental

Geoffrey M. Curtis ’97 (2026)
Founder, Marshall Curtis Communications LLC

Doni Fordyce-Urfirer ’81 (2025)
President and Chief Operating Officer, Stone Key Group

Karen F. Frost ’88 (2026)
Senior Vice President, Health Strategy & Solutions; Alight Solutions

David F. Gorter ’80 (2025)
President, SSU Corporation

Vicki Angel Hagan '88 (2027)
Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin

Cristen Kogl '88 (2027)
Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Zebra Technologies

Robert D. Krebs (2028)
Lake Forest, Illinois

Marisue Lacher P’22 (2028)
Lake Forest, Illinois

Randall S. Lauer ’81 (2028)
Independent Trustee, HPS Corporate Lending Fund
Managing Director, Head of Institutional Sales and Business Development

Shao-Lee Lin (2027)
Co-Founder, ACELYRIN, INC

William A. Lowry ’84 (2025)
President and Managing Shareholder,
Nyhan, Bambrick, Kinzie & Lowry, P.C.
Cook County Commisioner of the 3rd District

K. Scott Meloun '81 (2026)
Naples, Florida

Diana Moore (2027)   
Lake Forest, Illinois

Martino R. Moore ’99 (2027)
Executive Director on the Institutional Salestrading desk, Morgan Stanley

Robert S. Murley (2027)
Vice Chairman, Credit Suisse

Craig Omtvedt (2025)
Lake Forest, Illinois

Dr. Angelique L. Richard ’85 (2027)
Acting Senior Vice President for Hospital Operations; Chief Nursing Executive for the Rush System; Vice President, Clinical Nursing and Chief Nurse Officer for Rush University Medical Center and the Associate Dean for Practice, Rush University College of Nursing

Mark W. Shadle ’84 (2026)
Managing Director, Global Corporate Affairs; Zeno Group

Lisa Smith P'23 (2027)
Chief Client Officer, Optum Rx 

Joanne Storkan P'10 (2026)
Executive Producer and President, Honest Engine Films

Stephen C. Strelsin (2025)
Managing Partner (Retired), Axiom Consulting Partners

Alexander D. Stuart (2028)
President, North Star Investments

Sean W. Thomas ’81 (2026)
Director, Contracts and Negotiations Executive, Alight Solutions LLC

Claudia Wyatt-Johnson ’69 (2027)
Founding Partner, Partners in Performance Inc. 

Life Trustees

Daniel D. Dolan Jr. ’80
Owner/Managing Member; Dolan, McEniry Capital Management, LLC

Russell W. Fisher
Chairman, Biofit Engineered Products

James P. Gorter
Green Bay Management Company

Jim Hunter ’71
Copake, New York

Paula P. Lillard
Lake Forest, Illinois

David B. Mathis ’60
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer (Retired), Kemper Group

Marian P. Pawlick
Lake Bluff, Illinois

Lorna Pfaelzer
Lake Bluff, Illinois

Rhoda A. Pierce ’60
Highland Park, Illinois

Ex Officio Trustees

Susan DuMont  ’07
President, Lake Forest College Alumni Council

Jill M. Baren
President, Lake Forest College