Members

Stopher Bartol
Current: Founder & CEO of Legacy.com

Alex Campbell
Current: Co-Founder of Vibes Media

Cary Chessick
Past: Founder & CEO of Restaurant.com

Jamie Crouthamel
Current: Founder of Old Town Capital
Past: Founder & CEO of Performics

Brandon Cruz
Past: Co-Founder, President & CTO of GoHealth

George Deeb
Current: Managing Director, Red Rocket Venture Partners
Past: Founder & Former CEO iExplore and Former CEO of Media Recall

Steve Farsht
Current: Co-founder & CFO, Corazon Capital
Past: COO of Tap.me, Partner of Norwest Equity Partners

Michael Fassnacht
Current: CEO & President of FCB Chicago
Past: Founder & CEO of Loyalty Matrix

Gian Fulgoni
Current: Chairman of PetMeds; Executive Chairman of Varcode
Past: Chairman Emeritus & Co-Founder of comScore; President and CEO of Information Resources

Harry Gottlieb
Current: Founder & Chairman of Jellyvision

Brian Hand*
Current: Investor and Board Member, Ocient;  Co-owner, Skolnik Industries
Past: Co-Founder & Chairman of Timelines; Founder & CEO of ShopLocal; Vice Chairman of First Analysis

Troy Henikoff*
Current: Managing Director, TechStars Chicago; Managing Director, MATH Venture Partners
Past: Founder of SurePayroll

Dan Hess
Past: Chief Product Officer, The NPD Group; Chief Product Officer, comScore; Co-Founder & CEO, Local Offer Network; SVP, IRI

Adrian Holovaty
Current: Founder, Soundslice
Past: Founder, Everyblock; Co-creator, Django Web framework

Marc Kiven
Past: Founder & CRO, Signal; COO, Centro; SVP Corp Dev, Right Media; SVP Bus Dev, aQuantive

Larry Kaplan
Current: CEO, Eudora Global
Past: President & CEO of NAVTEQ

Eric Langshur
Current: Co-Founder, Abundant Venture Partners
Past: Founder and CEO, CarePages and Rise Health

Stuart Larkins
Current: Co-founder & Partner, Chicago Ventures
Past: SVP of Search at Doubleclick Performics

Jeff Lee
Current: Co-Founder, Maven Wave Partners
Past: Co-founder & CEO, Fathom Solutions

Eric Lunt
Current: CTO, Signal
Past: Co-Founder, Feedburner

Joe Mansueto
Current: Founder & CEO. Morningstar

Matt Moog*
Current: CEO, Chicago Public Media
Past: Founder & CEO, PowerReviews; Founder & Chairman, Built In; CEO, CoolSavings/Q Interactive

Alicia Mullen
Current: Founder, Washing Pond Ventures
Past: CIO, Chicago Mercantile Exchange; CIO, First Options

Brian Newman
Current: Co-founder & Portfolio Manager, Cloud Gate Capital
Past: Managing Director Madison Dearborn Partners

Jack Philbin
Current: Co-Founder of Vibes Media

J.B. Pritzker
Current: Managing Partner, The Pritzker Group

Dan Ratner
Current: Co-founder & Executive Chairman, Public Good Software
Past: COO/CTO of Sittercity

Bruce Rauner
Principal of GTCR

Shawn Riegsecker
Current: Founder & CEO of Basis Technologies (formerly Centro)

Mike Sands
Current: Chairman, Timecounts
Past: CEO & President, Signal; COO/CMO of Orbitz

Ed Scanlan
Current: Founder & CEO, UpRight Law; Founder & Chairman, Total Attorneys

Rishi Shah
Current: Founder & CEO, ContextMedia

Vikram Sharma
Past: CEO of G/O Digital, a Gannett Company; CEO, ShopLocal; CIO, Grant Thornton; Division President, IRI

Jai Shekawat
Past: Founder & CEO, SAP Fieldglass; Co-Founder, Quinnox

Matt Spiegel
Current: EVP, TransUnion
Past: SVP/GM, MediaLink; CEO, Tap.me; Founder & CEO, Resolution Media

Jim Streibich
Current: Chairman, Channel IQ
Past: Founder & Chairman of Market Track

Andrew Swinand
Current: Co-founder, Abundant Venture Partners
Past: President, Starcom Mediavest

Mark Tebbe
Current: Operating Executive, Lake Capital
Past: Founder and Vice-Chairman, Answers; Founder and Chairman of Lante

Genevieve Thiers
Current: Co-founder, Contact Karma
Past: Founder & CEO, Sittercity

Kevin Willer
Current: Partner, Chicago Ventures
Former: CEO, 1871 & Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center; Co-founder of Google’s Chicago Office

Alan Warms
Current: Founder & Executive Chairman, Appolicious
Past: Founder & CEO, Participate Systems/BuzzTracker; VP/GM, Yahoo News

Tony Weisman
Past: CMO, Dunkin’ Brands; CEO, Digitas North America; CMO, DraftFCB Chicago; SVP, Leo Burnett

Sam Yagan*
Current: Co-founder, Corazon Capital; Chairman, SpotHero
Past: CEO, ShopRunner; CEO, The Match Group; Co-founder & CEO, OKCupid; Co-founder & CEO, Excelerate Labs

*Administrative Member