Advisory Board Click on the Advisory Board Members below to read his or her biography. John A. Canning, Jr. John Canning is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Madison Dearborn Partners, one of the largest and most experienced private equity investment firms in the United States with more than fourteen billion dollars under management. Prior to co-founding MDP, Mr. Canning spent twenty-four years with First Chicago Corporation, most recently as Executive Vice President of The First National Bank of Chicago and President of First Chicago Venture Capital. Mr. Canning has more than twenty-five years of experience in private equity investing and currently serves on the Boards of Directors of The Economic Club of Chicago, Jefferson Smurfit Group plc, Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, and Children's Inner City Educational Fund. He also serves on the Boards of Trustees of The Big Shoulders Fund, The Chicago Community Trust, Dublin City University Educational Trust, The Field Museum, Museum of Science and Industry, and Northwestern University. He is also a Director and Deputy Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Mr. Canning holds an A.B. from Denison University and a J.D. from Duke University. Tom Coghill Tom Coghill is a special advisor and consultant to Cheyenne Capital Fund, a private equity fund headquartered in Denver. Prior to joining Cheyenne Capital, Mr. Coghill practiced law for thirty-eight years. He started his legal career with a large New York law firm, and then served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York. He moved to Denver where he founded and managed a law firm specializing in civil and criminal business, antitrust, securities, accounting litigation and corporate counseling. Mr. Coghill started working with the founder of Cheyenne Capital, John Fitzgerald, and his private equity clients in 1997. Mr. Coghill was primarily involved with acquisitions, and advising and counseling management of portfolio companies. Mr. Coghill has been a private equity investor for a number of years and has been the general counsel of a venture fund portfolio company. He was a Captain, U.S. Army Reserve, whose last assignment was A Team Leader, Special Forces (Airborne). Mr. Coghill received his B.A. in Economics with honors from Michigan State University and his L.L.B. from the University of Illinois. Bryan C. Cressey Bryan Cressey is a Co-founder of Golder, Thoma, Cressey, Rauner, Inc. and Thoma Cressey Equity Partners, which manage over a billion dollars of private equity funds. Numerous highly successful companies have evolved from GTCR’s industry consolidation strategy, including the world’s largest paging company, the nation’s second largest networking cable company, the fourth largest funeral home company in the U.S. and the nation’s fourth largest propane distribution company. Fortune and Time magazines have recognized his industry consolidation leadership, and his particular expertise in the healthcare services field has been widely acknowledged. Mr. Cressey serves as Chairman of Belden CDT, Inc., a New York Stock Exchange company, and is a Director of several other companies. Mr. Cressey holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.A. from the University of Washington. W. James Farrell W. James Farrell is the recently retired Chairman and CEO of Illinois Tool Works Inc. (ITW), a multi-national manufacturer of highly engineered fasteners, components, assemblies and systems.  ITW is comprised of approximately 700 decentralized operations in 48 countries with more than 50,000 employees and 2005 Revenues of approximately $12.8 billion. Mr. Farrell was elected Chairman in May 1996 before which he had served as President and CEO. Prior to that time, he was Executive Vice President of the company. Since joining ITW in 1965 Mr. Farrell held numerous general manager and vice president positions. Mr. Farrell is active in numerous business, educational and cultural organizations. Currently, he serves on the Board of Directors of Abbott, Allstate Insurance Company, 3M and UAL Corporation. Mr. Farrell also serves on the Board of Directors of the Economic Club of Chicago, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Junior Achievement of Chicago, and the United Way of Metropolitan Chicago and is the former Chairman and Director of the Federal Reserve of Chicago. He serves on the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Science and Industry, Rush Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center, and Northwestern University and is the Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Kellogg Graduate School of Management. In addition, Mr. Farrell is a member of the Business Council, the Chicago Club, and the Mid-America Committee, and is a member of the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago. Mr. Farrell holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Detroit. He also served in the U.S Army from 1965-1967. Hunter S. Reisner Hunter Reisner is a Managing Director of ACI Capital. Prior to joining ACI, he was the Founder and Managing Partner of Citigroup Investments Private Equity Group and became Senior Partner of its successor, Citigroup Private Equity. In these capacities, Mr. Reisner was responsible for investing over $3 billion and managing over $6 billion of proprietary and client capital in over 30 private equity direct investments and over 125 private equity partnerships. Previously, he invested in private equity as well as public equity and equity-related securities at Butler Capital, Salomon Brothers and Morgan Stanley & Co. Mr. Reisner has also served as a senior equity capital markets professional at Smith Barney and Salomon Brothers. Mr. Reisner has held seats on the advisory boards, investment committees and boards of directors of over 20 private equity funds and portfolio companies, most of which operate in the middle market. He received a B.A. in Economics and Mathematics from Yale University, graduating summa cum laude, and an M.B.A. from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. Jennifer W. Steans Jennifer Steans is the Executive Vice President of Financial Investments Corporation, which makes private equity investments in the real estate, venture capital, banking and manufacturing industries. Ms. Steans also oversees her family office operations and manages assets for the Steans Family Foundation. Prior to founding FIC in 1994, Ms. Steans served as Treasurer of Prime Graphics, Inc. and as a senior consultant for the Management Consulting arm of Deloitte & Touche LLP, working primarily on projects in the insurance and health care industries. Ms. Steans currently serves as a Director of Prime Graphics, the Steans Family Foundation and the Midtown Educational Foundation, and as an advisory board member of several other private equity firms. Ms. Steans received her Masters of Management from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and holds a B.S. degree from Davidson College. Cornelius B. Waud Ron Waud is a former senior executive of Illinois Tool Works Inc. Mr. Waud joined ITW, a company founded by his grandfather, in 1963 when it had $33 million in revenues. Today ITW is a $12 billion multinational corporation with over 650 operating units in 40 countries. During his tenure at ITW, Mr. Waud held a variety of positions, including General Manager, Chief Engineer, Vice President, Group President and, finally, President of one of ITW’s worldwide business units. Mr. Waud has a B.A. in Economics from St. Lawrence University. In addition, he serves as a Director of Christiana Industries, L.L.C., Powervar Corporation, Inc., Whitehall Products, L.L.C., the Chicago Crime Commission and Junior Achievement of Chicago. From 1996 until 1999, Mr. Waud served as the Mayor of Lake Forest, Illinois.
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