For Immediate Release:
November 28, 2006
Chicago, IL - Columbia College Chicago recently elected Loranne Zeman Ehlenbach, Brent W. Felitto and Daniel E. McLean to its board of trustees, announced President Warrick L. Carter.
Loranne Zeman Ehlenbach(42) is director of the John and Loranne Ehlenbach Foundation. In addition to her foundation responsibilities, she is co-manager for Team E-I, a real estate development organization and Team E-II, an intellectual property development organization.
She is the former president of the Zeman Family Foundation.
Ehlenbach's personal and professional interests have focused on the growth, development and well-being of children. She has volunteered for Children in Need of Protective Services in Kenosha, Wisconsin and participated in the Civitis Childlaw Clinic at Loyola University in Chicago, Illinois. From 1998 to 2002 Ehlenbach owned an operated ZKID Z & CO., Inc., a children's toy store and boutique in Galena, Illinois.
She is a board member of the 100 Club of Chicago, a Cook County, Illinois non-profit organization that provides financial support to families of fallen police officers, paramedics and firefighters and co-chairs the organization's annual fundraiser. She is a member of the Sundance Institute Leadership Circle of the Sundance Institute in Park City, Utah.
Ehlenbach holds a master's of law degree in Child and Family Law and a certificate of advanced study in philanthropy from Loyola University. She received her juris doctor from Marquette University Law School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
She resides in Kildeer, Illinois with her husband, John and children.
Brent W. Felitto (40) is a principal with and head of industry groups and healthcare investment banking at William Blair & Company, a Chicago-based investment firm. He joined the firm's corporate finance department in 1993 and has more than 15 years experience in the investment banking industry.
Felitto's primary responsibilities at William Blair consist of managing the firm's banking efforts and leading client engagement and execution teams on various transactions including pubic equity financings and mergers and acquisition assignments. Prior to joining William Blair, Felitto worked in the merchant banking and corporate development groups at Merrill Lynch & Co.
Life for Felitto, before the investment banking industry, consisted of professional football with the Parma Panthers in the Federation of Italian American Football.
He is a member of the Economics Club of Chicago, Harvard Club of Chicago, Cornell Club of Chicago and New York (School of Arts and Sciences Liaison), Cornell Football Association and Kenilworth Union Church.
Felitto earned a bachelor's of arts in economics and government from Cornell University in 1988 and a master's in business administration from Harvard Business School in 1993.
He and his wife, Susan, and their three children reside in Winnetka, Illinois.
Daniel E. McLean (58) is the founder, president and chief executive officer of MCL Companies. The company, founded in 1976, specializes in the development, construction and marketing of urban properties, both residential and retail.
MCL's retail development activities include projects in Chicago's River East and Old Town neighborhoods. Some of its residential development projects in Chicago include RiverView, River East, Park View, The Embassy Club, Dearborn Park II, The Residences at Central Station, The Pointe at Lincoln Park and Old Town Square.
MCL has also development projects in Denver, Colorado, Fisher Island in Miami, Florida and in New York on Manhattan's Upper West Side.
McLean is a supporter of many Chicago area arts and educational institutions. He is a director-trustee of the Steppenwolf Theater Company and serves as a trustee of Cinema Chicago, the Illinois Institute of Technology and the Adler Planetarium.
He is also a member of the Lincoln Park Builders' Club of Chicago. McLean is the recipient of many professional awards and honors such as the Pillar of Industry Recognition, the Civic Federation's Lyman Cage Award for individual civic achievement, the Professional Builder Award for urban revitalization, the Sammy Award for advertising, and the Friends of Downtown Award for the best new building.
McLean attended the University of Iowa where received a bachelor's degree in business administration. He resides in Chicago.
Columbia College Chicago, an urban institution committed to access, opportunity, and excellence in higher education, provides innovative practice and education in the visual, performing, media and communication arts to 11,000 students in more than 90 undergraduate and graduate programs. Founded in 1890 as a communications school for women, Columbia was revisioned in 1963 as a liberal arts college with a "hands-on, minds-on" approach to arts and media education and a progressive social agenda. Under the modern leadership of President Warrick L. Carter, Ph.D., Columbia is aggressively pursuing its mission to bring a richness of vision and a multiplicity of voices to the creation of culture through the diversity of our students and graduates. For further information visit www.colum.edu.
Media contact: Priscilla L. Hunter, 312.344.7805, phunter@colum.edu