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Advisory Board
Marshall Bennett
President, "Marshall Bennett Enterprises",
Real Estate Development
Chicago, Illinois
George C. Bergland
Managing Director, "Amer-China Partners Ltd."
Venture Capital
Chicago, Illinois
Kimbal T. Goluska
President, "Chicago Consultants Group"
Urban Planning & Development
Chicago, Illinois
Formerly, Design Partner, "Skidmore, Owings & Merrill"
Planning, Landscape and Urban Design Architecture
Chicago, Illinois
Dr. Vincent Shiel
Entrepreneur and Investor
PHD Physics
Hobe Sound, Florida
Katherine L. Updike
Managing Partner, Building Solutions
Chicago, Illinois
Emory Williams, Jr.
President, SureBlock
Beijing, China
Emory Williams Sr.
Mr. Williams is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Williams & Nichols, the predecessor and principal owner of Building Solutions. He is a graduate of Emory University and has been active in business and civic affairs in the Chicago area since 1960.
Mr. Williams organized and was the first President of Homart Development Co. (a Sears Roebuck and Co. subsidiary). Mr. Williams was, at the same time, Vice President, Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer of Sears Roebuck and Co. Previous to his return to Chicago he headed Sears South America in Sao Paulo, Brazil. In 1975 he became Chairman of the Sears Bank & Trust (later acquired by Old Kent Bank) and directed its transition from a west side neighborhood bank to a downtown Chicago banking institution. Following that, Mr. Williams became Chairman and President of the Chicago Milwaukee Corp., a railroad and real estate holding company, from which he retired in 1986.
Mr. Williams has served as a Director of the following New York Stock Exchange companies:
* Armstrong Rubber Co.
* Roper Corporation
* General Portland Cement Co.
* V.S.I. Corporation
* Ft. Dearborn Income Securities
* Chicago Milwaukee Corp.
* Foote, Cone, Belding Communications, Inc.
* Bobbie Brooks, Inc.
Mr. Williams has served as the President of the Chicago Crusade of Mercy (United Way), President and Life Trustee of the Adler Planetarium, President and Life Trustee of the Ravinia Festival Association, President of the Chicago Community Fund, Chairman of the Illinois Health Education Commission, Chairman-Finance of the Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Trustee of the Charles W. Kellstadt Foundation and as a Life Trustee of Emory University. He has established the Emory Williams Awards for Excellence in Teaching at Emory University and the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
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