Theresa mintle biography
- Theresa Mintle is about a third of the way through a personal project to read a biography of every president in the order they served.
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- Theresa E. Mintle Co-Founder, FYS Ventures, LLC; Former Interim Vice Chancellor for Public and Government Affairs University of Illinois at Chicago Board.
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Board Chairs
Ron Meeusen
Managing Director, Cultivian Sandbox
Interim Board Chair, Illinois Agri-Food Alliance
Ron Meeusen, PhD is a Managing Director of Cultivian Sandbox and co-founder and Managing Partner of Cultivian Ventures. Ron has over 30 years of experience in bringing new technologies and products to market. He has led research and development for major corporations in agricultural chemicals, field crop and vegetable genetics and breeding, animal health, novel foods and industrial materials. His successful projects include the world’s first field trial of a genetically engineered crop trait in 1986, development and launch of one of the first insect and herbicide resistant corn hybrids in 1996, introduction of a trans-fat free canola oil, and development of dozens of new varieties of field and vegetable crops on three continents. Ron has been a frequent speaker at conferences, a consultant to Federal policy on biotechnology regulatory issues, and active in industry trade groups. Prior to forming Cultivian Ron led the expansion of the biotechnology research and de
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Ms. Josina Morita, Class of 2013
Cook County Commissioner (13th District)
Mr. Otis Moss, Class of 2013
Trinity United Church of Christ
Mrs. Noelle Ayoka Mota Samuels, Class of 2013
Associate Vice Chancellor of Technology Sector Strategy
Mr. Mike Murray, Class of 2013
Associate General Counsel
Underwriters Laboratories Inc.
Ms. Emily Muskovitz Sweet, Class of 2013
Executive Director , Community Relations and Government Affairs
Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago
Mrs. Cody McSellers-McCray, Class of 2012
Vice President, Health Equity
Centene (Meridian Health Plan of Illinois, Inc.)
Ms. Lydia Murray, Class of 2012
Dr. Erica Elizabeth Marsh, M.D., Class of 2011
Chief, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Associate Director, MICHR
University of Michigan Health System
Mr. Michael Masters, Class of 2011
National Director & CEO
Mr. Wilbur C. Milhouse III, Class of 2011
Milhouse Engineering & Constructi
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Theresa Mintle is about a third of the way through a personal project to read a biography of every president in the order they served. Next on her agenda: Millard Fillmore, the 13th president.
While Fillmore will never make any list of White House all-stars, his pre-Civil War political career and the debate over slavery were a "fascinating" period in American history, says Ms. Mintle, 49, CEO of the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce. "It was a couple generations of debate in the U.S. Congress before it really got to where Lincoln took it."
A history buff, Ms. Mintle started her presidential project five years ago after reading extensively about Thomas Jefferson. She liked that exercise so much that she decided to start from the beginning. Some of the biographies can get a little dry, she admits, so she has taken breaks with Doris Kearns Goodwin's "Team of Rivals" book on Abraham Lincoln and some historical fiction.
She knows a little something about political celebrity.
Before landing at the chamber last year, Ms. Mintle was chief of staff to Mayor Rahm Emanuel from 20
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