Board of Directors

The Grant Park Orchestral Association is a 501(c)3 organization that presents the Grant Park Music Festival. Members of the Association's Board are dedicated to promoting the unique Festival experience of free, high-quality classical music in Chicago's magnificent Millennium Park.

Mr. Thomas Orlando, GPOA Board Chair
Attorney/Shareholder, Foran Glennon

Mr. LaRue Robinson, GPOA Vice Chair
Partner, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

Ms. Virginia Willcox, GPOA Secretary
Human Resources Consultant, Commonwealth HR Consulting

Mr. Jerry Goldstone, GPOA Treasurer
President, BCR Enterprises, Inc. (retired)

Mr. Paul Winberg, (ex officio) 
President and CEO, Grant Park Orchestral Association

Mr. Phillip Acevedo
Associate, Croke Fairchild Duarte & Beres, LLC

Mr. Fred Boelter
Principal, Boelter Risk Sciences and Engineering LLC

Dr. Amy Boonstra
Executive Director, Center for Decision Research, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Ms. Penny Brown
Civic and Arts Leader

Mr. Robert J. Buford
President and CEO, Planned Realty Group, Inc.

Ms. Amber Carpenter
Senior Legal Counsel, Ferrara Candy Company

Ms. Kate Donaldson 
Managing Director and Co-Founder, Doyenne Wealth Advisors

Hon. Rhoda Sweeney Drucker
Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County (retired)

Mr. Michael S. Ferrell
Member of the Firm, Epstein Becker Green

Ms. Eileen Friestad
President, CWP Management, Inc. (retired)

Ms. Nancy Garfien
Civic and Arts Leader

Ms. Julie Giese
President, NASCAR Chicago

Mr. Adam Grais
Member of the Firm, McDonald Hopkins LLC

Ms. Freddi L. Greenberg
Attorney, Freddi L. Greenberg Attorney at Law

Mr. Tom Hanson
Managing Partner, Fleming Hanson Sales (retired)

Mr. Matthew Hinerfeld
General Counsel, Jump Trading Group

Mr. Dennis Holtschneider
Consultant, Nygren Consulting

Mr. Malcolm S. Kamin
Principal, Law Office of Malcolm S. Kamin

Ms. Sandra Kamin
Civic and Arts Leader

Ms. Shellane Quinn Mulcahy
General Counsel, Readystate Asset Management

Ms. Jill Mueller
Civic and Arts Leader

Mr. Julian Oettinger
Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Walgreens, Inc. (retired)

Mr. Eligio Pimentel
Shareholder, McAndrews

Ms. Hedy M. Ratner
Co-founder, President Emerita and Consultant, Women’s Business Development Center

Mr. Lou Sandoval
Founder and Board Chairman, HALO Advisory Group

Mr. Brian Sedlak
Partner, Jones Day

Mr. Stephen Smith, GPOA Past Board Chair
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer,
Amsted Industries, Inc.

Mr. Ramon T. Stewart
Senior Vice President and Securities and Whole Loan Trading, Guaranteed Rate Companies Inc. 

Ms. Lauren Streicher
Clinical Professor Obstetrics and Gynecology, Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine

Ms. Maureen Sullivan Taylor
Founding Partner, Sullivan Taylor, Gumina & Palmer, PC

Ms. Lisa Tesarik
Senior Vice President, Managing Director, Fifth Third Bank

Ms. Andria van der Merwe
Executive Vice President, Compass Lexecon

Dr. David Whitney
Dermatologist, AMITA Health

Ms. Ruth Williams
Partner, Wheaton Eye Clinic

Ms. Karen Zupko
President, KarenZupko & Associates, Inc.

Dr. Eric Zwick
Joel F. Gemunder Professor of Economics and Finance, University of Chicago Booth School of Business