Max Berry is a retired attorney and lobbyist who specialized in international trade. He is a trustee of the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma and the Asia Society. He is also an honorary trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Smithsonian National Board. Mr. Berry, with his late wife Heidi, has formed a collection of nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first-century American art.

Nora Daley is the Chair of the City of Chicago’s Cultural Advisory Council. Daley also is the Chair of the Board of Trustees of Steppenwolf Theatre Company, one of the nation’s leading ensemble theatres, producing up to 16 productions each year in its three Chicago theater spaces—including programming dedicated to the development of new plays and theatre for young adults. Daley serves on the board and executive committee of After School Matters and the Frances Xavier Warde School. Daley also serves on the board of the Terra Foundation for American Art and Navy Pier, Inc. and on the advisory boards for the Harris School of Public Policy at University of Chicago and the Illinois Justice Project. Daley received a BA in Art History from Fairfield University.

Ruth Fine was a curator of prints and drawings and then of special projects in modern art at the National Gallery of Art, in Washington, DC, from 1972 to 2012. She has organized exhibitions of twentieth and twenty-first-century American artists, including John Marin, Georgia O'Keeffe, Helen Frankenthaler, Jasper Johns, and Romare Bearden. She is chair of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, on the board of the Fabric Workshop and Museum, and she is on the Contemporary Art Committee at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The catalogue for Ms. Fine's most recent exhibition "Procession: The Art of Norman Lewis," at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, won the College Art Association Alfred H. Barr Award for Museum Scholarship. She is currently organizing an exhibition of Martin Puryear's prints for the Print Center, in Philadelphia.

Joe Gromacki is a senior partner at the law firm of Jenner & Block LLP, where he chairs the firm’s corporate/transactional practice and serves on the firm’s governing committee. He is an active patron of the arts, serving on the board of trustees of the Art Institute of Chicago and several other museums and arts organizations. He is a member of the National Trust Council, a supporting organization for the National Trust for Historic Preservation. He also serves on the board of directors of the Chicago Botanic Garden. Additionally, Gromacki serves as a trustee of the Layton Art Collection, a foundation that owns an important collection of art that is exhibited at the Milwaukee Art Museum. He collects seventeenth and early eighteenth-century American furniture and related decorative arts, as well as rare books.

Chet Gougis is a founding partner of Cognient Group, LLC, and Cognitive Capital Partners, LLC, investing and operating expertise companies. He is the former president and CEO of Duff & Phelps, leading their consulting and investment banking business for more than 20 years. He is a nationally recognized expert on family business financial issues and has served on the board of trustees of the Loyola University Family Business Center. He also serves on the boards of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, WTTW-Channel 11, and DePaul University and is a member of the Economic Club of Chicago and the Commercial Club.

Charles Harper is the founder and managing director of Harper Insights, Inc., an investment management firm. He is a board member of Art Encounter, which provides art education to Chicago inner-city schools, the Renaissance Society, and Ball State University Foundation. Mr. Harper is an acquisition committee member at the David Owsley Museum of Art at Ball State and serves on the Art Institute of Chicago’s Asian Art Council acquisition committee. He has a BA in fine arts and mathematics from Northwestern University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Mr. Harper is a collector of art from the modern period, especially abstract expressionist art.

Stephanie Harris is a Trustee of the University of Chicago Medical Center, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Field Foundation of Illinois. She is a member of the Woman’s Board of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Founders’ Board of Children’s Memorial Hospital. For three years, she served at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as Chair of the Apollo Circle, a group dedicated to cultivating interest in the Metropolitan among young professionals aged 23 to 40.

Peter Krivkovich is the president and CEO of Cramer-Krasselt (C-K). He has guided C-K to its position as nation’s second-largest independent agency with billings of $1 billion since assuming the CEO title in 1998. Mr. Krivkovich is on the boards of the Ad Council, the Off the Street Club, and Friends of Prentice Hospital.

Michael Leja is professor of art history and director of the program in visual arts at the University of Pennsylvania School of Arts. He previously taught at Northwestern University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Williams College, and the University of Delaware. Dr. Leja’s area of specialization is the visual arts of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, primarily in the United States, topics in which he has authored books and numerous catalogs and articles. The Terra Foundation has engaged him in the past to serve in an advisory capacity and as a grant reader. Dr. Leja earned his MA and PhD in fine arts from Harvard University.

Henri Loyrette (International Board) is an art historian and a member of the Conseil d’Etat (French Council of State)—a body that acts both as legal advisor to the executive branch and as the supreme court for administrative justice. He also serves as president of Admical, a French organization dedicated to corporate philanthropy. Mr. Loyrette was formerly the president and director of the Musée du Louvre (2001–2013) and is recognized for expanding the display of the museum’s collections, as well as the museum itself by opening a location in Lens, France, in December 2012, and securing an agreement to open a future branch in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Prior to heading the Louvre, he was at the Musée d’Orsay for 23 years, where he was appointed curator in 1978 and director in 1994. Mr. Loyrette is a noted scholar of nineteenth-century French art, notably an expert in the work of Edgar Degas. Throughout his distinguished career, he has held important positions in several French cultural organizations, including serving as the secretary-general of the French Committee on Art History.

Peter Lunder is chairman of Kenilworth, Inc., in Portland, Maine. Prior to founding Kenilworth, he was the co-chairman, president, and CEO of Dexter Shoe Company, a family business that was acquired by Berkshire Hathaway in 1993. He is a life overseer at Colby College and member of the Colby College Museum of Art Board of Governors and former chair of its Acquisition Committee. Mr. Lunder, with his wife Paula, is a major collector of American art and lead donor to the Lunder Wing of American Art at Colby College Museum of Art. The Lunders have created the endowed Lunder Chair for Education and Outreach Programs for the Lunder Conservation Center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Lunder Curator of Art at Colby.

Larry Richman has been president and CEO of PrivateBancorp, Inc., and subsidiary, The PrivateBank-Chicago, since November 2007. Prior to joining PrivateBancorp, he was president and CEO of LaSalle Bank, NA, as well as president of LaSalle Bank Midwest. Mr. Richman serves on the boards of Northwestern Memorial Hospital, the Museum of Science & Industry, Ravinia Festival Association, the Field Museum, Chicago Chamber of Commerce, and the Executives’ Club of Chicago. He also is a member of the Dean’s Advisory Council at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business, where he earned his M.B.A., and a board member of Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

Gloria Scoby retired as group publisher of Crain Communications in December 2013. She joined Crain in 1978 to launch Crain's Chicago Business; then on to New York, where, after a stint as publisher of Crain's New York Business, she returned to Chicago as publisher of the Chicago paper in 1989. Scoby went on to become group publisher for Crain Communications, overseeing offices and financial, general business news, and marketing newspapers in Chicago, New York, California, Mexico, and England. She launched Crain's first website in 1994 (the first business site in America), after which she led the expansion of websites and e-products, as well as other sources of non-traditional revenue throughout the company. She has served on numerous civic, artistic, and charitable boards and is currently a member and past board member of the Commercial Club, the Economic Club of Chicago, the Executives Club, the Chicago Network, and trustee emeritus of Steppenwolf Theatre, where she served as chair. Scoby has received numerous leadership and professional awards; most recently a lifetime achievement award from the International Alliance of Business Publications. She currently serves on the board as a member of the executive committee for the Terra Foundation for American Art; the board of MAC (Museum Associates Council) at the Palm Springs Art Museum, a major fundraising arm of the museum; and is board member at the Bulletin for Atomic Scientists.

Adam D. Weinberg became the Alice Pratt Brown Director of the Whitney Museum in October 2003. During his tenure, the Whitney has presented major exhibitions on a range of artists, including Jeff Koons, Wade Guyton, William Eggleston, Sherrie Levine, Glenn Ligon, Gordon Matta-Clark, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Ed Ruscha; offered award-winning educational programs; and experienced dramatic growth in the permanent collection. In 2010, the Whitney launched a capital campaign for the construction of a new 220,000-square-foot building in the Meatpacking District, which opened in 2015.

From 1999 to 2003, Mr. Weinberg was the Director of the Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy. Prior to that, he was Senior Curator and Curator of the Permanent Collection at the Whitney. In 1991, Mr. Weinberg became the Artistic and Program Director of the American Center in Paris. He first joined the Whitney in 1989 as Director of the Whitney at Equitable Center. Beginning in 1981, Mr. Weinberg served as Director of Education and Assistant Curator at the Walker Art Center.

Weinberg has curated exhibitions on artists from Edward Hopper, and Isamu Noguchi to Alex Katz, Sol Lewitt, and Terry Winters. He has also organized numerous thematic exhibitions, including: The Architectural Unconscious: James Casebere and Glen Seator (2000); and Vanishing Presence (1989). For the Whitney, he curated the groundbreaking series Views from Abroad: European Perspectives on American Art (1995), with the Stedelijk Museum, the Museum für Moderne Kunst, and the Tate Gallery. He has also curated major public projects with such artists as Christian Boltanski, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, and Andrea Zittel. He is the author of numerous catalogues and essays on contemporary and modern art.

Weinberg serves as a board member of several organizations, including the American Academy of Rome, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Storm King Art Center, and the Colby College Museum of Art. He holds a BA from Brandeis University and a master’s degree from the Visual Studies Workshop, the State University of New York at Buffalo.