Timothy C. Collins is the founder, senior managing director, and chief executive officer of Ripplewood Holdings LLC. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Citigroup. Collins is a director of several public companies as well as some of Ripplewood’s private portfolio companies.

Christopher M. Connor is the executive chairman of the Sherwin-Williams Company, a Fortune 500 company in the general building materials industry. He joined the company in 1983, became the CEO in October 1999 and the chairman in April 2000, and was the president from July 2005 to October 2006. In 2009 he was one of the 200 highest-paid CEOs.

Connor is on the board of directors of Sherwin-Williams, the Greater Cleveland Partnership, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the United Way Services of Greater Cleveland, the Playhouse Square Foundation, and Eaton Corporation; and is a member of the dean’s advisory committee of the Fisher College of Business at Ohio State University. He is also on the boards of the National Association of Manufacturers and the American Coatings Association; was on the board of directors of Diebold and National City Corporation; and was chairman of the boards of Walsh Jesuit High School, Keep America Beautiful, and University Hospitals Health System.

Connor grew up in Akron, Ohio, and graduated from Walsh Jesuit High School, and from The Ohio State University in 1978, where he majored in sociology. After graduation he worked at an advertising agency and at the Glidden paint company, then became an advertising director at Sherwin Williams. He said, “Joining Sherwin-Williams was the single best decision, other than asking my wife to marry me, that I’ve ever made.” A fourth generation Irish-American, he appeared on the Irish America list of 100 Irish-Americans.

John Costello has over thirty years of experience in consumer products and services, retail, and technology. The first half of his career was spent in classic management jobs, with the second half helping companies drive innovation and navigate high change environments, from start-ups to $70 billion companies.

He was one of the early leaders of omni-channel marketing and retail to leverage the synergies between DTC (Direct-to-Consumer) eCommerce, retail stores, catalogs, DR TV and the internet to drive total sales and profit and is considered a leader in the digital transformation of marketing and retail.

John currently serves as CEO of Costello Ventures since retiring as president – global marketing and innovation of Dunkin’ Brands (the parent company of Dunkin Donuts and Baskin Robbins). He previously served as executive vice president of The Home Depot, chief global marketing officer of Yahoo, senior vp of Pepsi-Cola USA, CEO of MVP.com and president of Nielsen Marketing Research US. He began his career at Procter & Gamble and rose to lead all advertising and marketing for P&G’s Beauty Care Division.

Costello been recognized as one of most influential and innovative executives by numerous organizations, one of the Top 10 Merchants by DSN Retailing Today and was elected to both the Chief Marketing Officer Hall of Fame and Retail Advertising Hall of Fame.

He has significant governance experience, serving as a current or past director of Ace Hardware, Quaker Oats, The Bombay Company, Ring, Inc. (which was acquired by Amazon), GroundTruth, Inc., and as a current board advisor to Untuckit, WinView Games and Linkwell Health.

Costello also has significant leadership experience in industry and nonprofit organizations. He is past chairman of the Mobile Marketing Association, the Association of National Advertisers and the Advertising Council.

He currently serves on the board and executive committee and chairs the Governance Committee of Yellowstone Forever, and is co-chair, executive committee member and Director of the Grand Teton Music Festival. He is a past director/trustee of The National Multiple Sclerosis Society, American Film Institute, and Georgia Aquarium.

William H. Danforth was the founder of Ralston- Purina in 1894 and a co-founder of the American Youth Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping youth live a balanced and healthy life. Danforth is also the author of the book, I Dare You!

Through the Danforth Foundation, he subsidized the construction of 24 Danforth Chapels on college campuses around the United States, and one in Japan. Berea College, which Danforth attended, has one of them.

John Dasburg is the Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Owner of ASTAR USA LLC, a leader in air freight and logistics services. Previously, he served as Chairman, President and CEO of Burger King Corp., where he led a turnaround of the nation’s second-largest burger chain. Perhaps Dasburg’s greatest business achievement was rescuing Northwest Airlines from the verge of bankruptcy in the 1990s. He guided Northwest Airlines to one of the greatest turnarounds in U.S. aviation returning the company to profitability in 1994 for the first time in a decade. Dasburg was named Travel Agent magazine’s Man of the Year in 1994 for his efforts. Prior to his appointment at Northwest, Dasburg served in numerous executive positions at Marriott Corporation. He was President of the Lodging Group, and Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of its parent corporation. He began his professional career at the accounting firm KPMG where he was named a Partner in less than five years at the firm. Dasburg, who also earned a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering (1966) and a Juris Doctorate (1973) from UF, and his wife, Mary Lou, (JD ’80) have been loyal and generous in giving back to their alma mater. Their gifts include an endowed chair in engineering, a professorship in corporate law and an endowed business chair. The Dasburg’s are the only donors to UF that have endowed chairs in three separate units.

Additionally, the Dasburg’s have established an endowment for scholarships for student athletes, and funds for the construction of a new president’s residence and Hough Hall, which houses the Hough Graduate School of Business; the Mary Lou and John H. Dasburg Endowed Professorship in Cancer Genomics at the Mayo Clinic where Mr. Dasburg serves as an Emeritus Public Trustee. He was recognized with UF’s Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1998, and is a Life Member of the UF Alumni Association.

Dasburg, a three-year veteran of the U.S. Navy with one year in Vietnam, has received numerous awards for his business success and civic activities. He was named a White House Fellow by President George H.W. Bush in 1991. In 2001, he was a recipient of the Horatio Alger Award for Distinguished Americans and the Commercial Air Transport Laureate Award. He serves on the Board of Directors of Florida Council of 100, Mercy Hospital and Mercy Foundation, and is a former member of the Board of Governors of the Florida StateUniversity System and the UF Board of Trustees.

William S. Demchak is chairman, president and chief executive officer of The PNC Financial Services Group, one of the largest diversified financial services companies in the United States.

Demchak joined PNC in 2002 as chief financial officer. In July 2005, he was named head of PNC’s Corporate & Institutional Banking responsible for PNC’s middle market and large corporate businesses, as well as capital markets, real estate finance, equity management and leasing. Demchak was promoted to senior vice chairman in 2009 and named head of PNC businesses in August 2010. He was elected president in April 2012, chief executive officer in April 2013 and chairman in April 2014.

Before joining PNC in 2002, Demchak served as the global head of Structured Finance and Credit Portfolio for JP Morgan Chase.

Demchak is director of BlackRock, Inc. He is also a member of the board of directors and serves on the Regulatory Management Committee of The Financial Services Roundtable as well as the Supervisory Board of The Clearing House. He is a board member and past chairman of the Greater Pittsburgh Council of the Boy Scouts of America. In addition, he serves on the boards of directors of the Extra Mile Education Foundation and the YMCA of Pittsburgh.

Robert Edward “Bob” Diamond, Jr. is an American banker and former group chief executive of the British bank, Barclays Plc. In 2010, he became its Deputy Group Chief Executive; and in January 2011, succeeded John Varley as Group Chief Executive of Barclays.

Clifford L. Dochterman served as the President of Rotary International from 1992 to 1993. Cliff became a Trustee of The Rotary Foundation from 1993 to 1999 and was a Chairman of the Rotary Foundation in 1997 to 1998. Cliff is attributed to the phrase, “Real Happiness is Helping Others.”

For his part in Rotary International endeavors, Dr. Dochterman has received Rotary International’s Distinguished Service Award. For service roles over a period of more than forty years in the Boy Scouts of America, the organization has recognized him with two of its highest honors, the Silver Beaver and Sliver Antelope awards. He also served the Stockton (California) Chamber of Commerce and the California Council for the Humanities in Public Policy. Served as Vice President at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, Dr. Dochterman previously held administrative positions with the Education Commission of the States in Colorado and at the University of California in Berkeley. He has published a number of articles on higher education.

B. F. “Bev” Dolan is credited with being one of the founders of the EZ-Go Golf Car. The EZ- Go golf car completely changed the golf industry by making golf rounds faster and replaced the caddie for the same price. In 2012 Beverly Dolan was awarded the Ernie Sabayrac Award for his contributions to the golf industry.

Charles W. “Chuck” Durham was a civil engineer, built-environment pioneer, noted philanthropist, and civic leader in Nebraska and Iowa.

Chuck was one of Omaha’s outstanding residents. He was a community leader, visionary, philanthropist, businessman, and family man. He loved the City of Omaha, and the Omaha community loved Chuck and Margre Durham for their humble, genuine ways, in addition to their many gifts to the city.

Chuck Durham was raised in Ames, Iowa and attended Iowa State University, where he acquired two important assets–a degree in engineering and his wife and lifelong companion, Margre Henningson. He joined the Omaha-based engineering firm of Margre’s dad and built the firm into one of America’s largest engineering firms–HDR Inc.

HDR Inc., under the leadership of Chuck Durham, became an international powerhouse architectural and engineering firm, designing medical, military, and public works projects around the world. One area of expertise of the firm was designing hospitals and medical facilities, and many of the Omaha hospitals, notably Omaha Methodist Hospital were designed by HDR Inc.

The Durham Research Center at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in midtown Omaha is one of the most advanced medical research centers in the world, but it is just one of the facilities in Omaha that benefited from the generosity of Chuck and Margre Durham. The Henry Doorly Zoo, the Durham Museum, and the Durham Science Center at the University of Nebraska–Omaha are among many facilities that Chuck Durham brought to reality.