OnStage - Goodman Theatre

OFF stage
Goodman Theatre’s Annual Meeting—
Kicking Off our WILD Season
On October 3, members of the
Board of Trustees, Women’s
Board, Scenemakers Board
and invited guests attended the
Goodman Annual Meeting, hosted
by Harris myCFO President
and Goodman Trustee Joe
Calabrese at BMO Harris Bank.
The meeting celebrated our hit
2011/2012 RED HOT Season
and previewed our 2012/2013
SOMETHING WILD Season with
scenes and songs from upcoming
productions. Honored at the
meeting were new Life Trustees
Lester N. Coney, Patricia Cox
and Shawn M. Donnelley, who
received accolades for their service
to both the Goodman and
the community of Chicago.
At the Annual Meeting on October 3, Goodman Theatre presented three new Life
Trustee awards, to Lester N. Coney (third from left), Shawn M. Donnelley (third from
right) and Patricia Cox (right), pictured here with Executive Director Roche Schulfer,
Artistic Director Robert Falls and Chairman of the Board Ruth Ann M. Gillis.
After serving in the role for over 10
years, Tom Maurer recently stepped
down as Treasurer of Goodman Theatre.
We truly appreciate his long-standing
dedication to the theater, and his ongoing
contributions as a Trustee.
ABOVE (left to right): Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees and Immediate Past Women’s
Board President Joan Clifford and Women’s Board Vice President of Communications Marcia
Cohn. Trustee Lamont Change with Secretary of the Board of Trustees and Women’s Board
member Susan Wislow.
LEFT: Tom Maurer with wife Linda.
New Trustees
Kevin L. Cole is a partner in the Chicago office of Ernst
& Young and a graduate of the University of Arkansas.
Kevin serves as the Managing Partner of Accounts &
Business Development for the Midwest sub-area of Ernst
& Young. He is a member of the senior leadership team in
the Midwest, and is responsible for the deployment and
execution of the firm’s go-to market strategy across the
sub-area. Kevin currently sits on the Board of Directors
for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Boys and Girls Club of Chicago and is a member of
the United Way Tocqueville Society.
Karen Forté is the Communications Director for Boeing,
and is responsible for developing internal and executive
communications strategy, planning and implementation for
the defense space and security business of the company.
Prior to this, she served as Media Spokesperson and
Chief Administration and Operations Leader for Corporate
Communications. Forté holds a bachelor’s degree from
Northeastern Illinois University, and is a member of the
Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. She is a US Navy veteran, and currently lives in Chicago,
where she and her husband are members of several local community organizations.
Maria Holmes is Senior Vice President, Director of
Private Client Wealth and Risk Management for Fifth
Third’s Private Bank in Illinois and Northwest Indiana.
Prior to joining Fifth Third, Maria was the Market Leader
for Citigroup businesses in Illinois. Her career spans the
financial services industry; as such, she integrates the
experience gained from working in banking, lending and
wealth management to support an interdisciplinary leadership
perspective. A lifelong Chicagoan, Maria is married to Dr. Kenneth Holmes
and has two daughters. She also sits on the Board of Directors for the Grant Park
Music Festival.
Anthony Maggiore is President of the Middle Market of
Commercial Banking in the Midwest for JP Morgan Chase,
and is responsible for a team that focuses on lending,
depository services, capital markets and customer service.
Maggiore has been an active member of the senior
leadership team in Chicago and has a role on the Midwest
Operating Committee and Illinois Contributions Committee.
He is also a member of the Executives’ Club of Chicago.
Maggiore began his career in 1987 with Marine Bank in the management training
program in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He received his bachelor’s degree in business administration
with an emphasis on finance from the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater
in 1986.
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