Foundation Board
Executive Committee
Chair
Eric Larson, EdD
President Emeritus
Blackhawk Technical College
Vice Chair
Jenni Betancourt
Architect
Dewberry Architects Inc.
Immediate Past Chair
Larry Jones
Village Manager (retired)
Village of South Elgin
Treasurer
Javier Placencia
Senior Manager
Midland States Bank
Secretary
Robin Seigle
Community Leader and Volunteer
Board Members
John Anderson
Vice President Product Innovation
Utica National Insurance Group
Judy Cabrera
Retired Bilingual Diagnostician
Elgin School District U-46
Linda Deering Dean (’81)
Former President & CEO
Advocate Sherman Hospital
Richard Green (’76)
Professor Emeritus
Elgin Community College
Carol Gieske (’77)
President & CEO
Elgin Area Chamber
Nazneen Hashmi
Adjunct Professor, IIT
ISO Process Auditor
Robert Bosch
Rich Jacobs
Chief of Staff
City of Aurora's Office of Alderman
Dawn Lauderdale (’07)
Vice President – Commercial Banking
BMO Harris Bank
Leslie Maloney
Executive Director, Fraud Prevention
JPMorgan Chase
Patrick Parks
Professor Emeritus
Elgin Community College
Gary M. Vanek, JD
Principal Attorney
Vanek, Larson & Kolb, LLC
Boomer Whipple, CEBS
Vice President
Lundstrom Insurance
Lena Whitaker
First Vice President
First American Bank
Andrew Wiggs
Management Consultant
Capco Consulting
Thomas Youngren
Professor Emeritus
Elgin Community College
Directors Emeriti & Staff
Directors Emeriti
Harry Blizzard*
Betty Brown
Charles Burnidge
Paul Dawson
Tom Finnegan, Jr.
William Geister (’67)*
John Hurlburt, JD
John Kluber
Ian Lamp
William Lauderdale
Carolyn Kirk-Likou
Brett Lundstrom
Leo Nelson
Caren Nickelsen
Michael S. Shirley, PhD
Dan Walter
Don Waters, EdD
*deceased
Staff
Susan Taylor Demming
Executive Director
Institutional Advancement & Elgin Community College Foundation
David A. Sam, PhD, JD, LLM
College President
Elgin Community College
Kimberly Wagner, EdD
Vice President of Business and Finance
Elgin Community College
Ex-Officio Liaisons
Board of Trustees Liaison
Patrick E. Parks
Faculty Liaison
Clark Hallpike
Contact
ECC Foundation
Building B, Room B230.19
847-214-7377
Fax: 847-214-7537
foundation@elgin.edu