Nora Daley is the Chair of the City of Chicago’s Cultural Advisory Council and Vice Chair of the Terra Foundation of American Art. Daley serves on the board and executive committee of After School Matters, the Frances Xavier Warde School, Navy Pier Inc., and Steppenwolf Theatre Company. She also serves on the advisory board of the Illinois Justice Project and the education committee for the Museum of Contemporary Art. Ms. Daley received a BA in Art History from Fairfield University. Daley lives in Chicago with her husband and three children.

Mimi Gardner Gates served for 15 years as director of the Seattle Art Museum and is now director emerita, overseeing the Gardner Center for Asian Art and Ideas. Previously, she spent 19 years at Yale University Art Gallery, the last 7½ as director. Ms. Gates serves on the boards of the Blakemore Foundation, Dunhuang Foundation, Northwest African American Museum, Copper Canyon Press, Heritage University and the San Francisco Asian Art Museum. She also serves on the Yale Art Gallery Governing Board and was elected to the Yale Corporation in 2007.

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. Mr. Gougis 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 manages Harper Insights, Inc., an investment management firm. He is a board member of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA), the Ball State University Foundation, and Art Encounter. Mr. Harper serves on the Art Institute's Committee for Asian Art and the Asian Art Council Board. He has a BA in fine arts and mathematics from Northwestern University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. With his wife Kathleen, Mr. Harper collects American Abstract Art, Chicago Imagism, and South East Asian 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.

Erica E. Hirshler is the Croll Senior Curator of American Paintings, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. An expert in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American painting, Dr. Hirshler has published extensively on John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt, Childe Hassam, Dennis Bunker, William Merritt Chase, Winslow Homer, and women artists and collectors. She is particularly interested in the artistic exchange between the United States and Europe and in issues of national identity; she also studies Boston’s history, art, and patronage. Dr. Hirshler holds a BA from Wellesley College and a PhD from Boston University; she has lectured at museums and other cultural institutions across the United States, Europe, and Japan.

Hirshler’s most recent exhibition was William Merritt Chase (2016); in addition to her essay “Old Masters Meet New Women,” she wrote a small book to introduce several of Chase’s favored themes (William Merritt Chase, 2016). Her other publications include a study of Childe Hassam’s iconic At Dusk: Boston Common at Twilight (2015) and the highly-praised Sargent’s Daughters: The Biography of a Painting (2009). She co-organized the exhibitions and contributed essays for John Singer Sargent Watercolors in 2013 and Americans in Paris 1860–1900 in 2006; and curated A Studio of Her Own: Women Artists in Boston 1870–1940 (2001) and Dennis Miller Bunker: American Impressionist (1995). She has contributed to several other important shows, among them The Lure of Italy (1992), John Singleton Copley (1995), Mary Cassatt (1998), John Singer Sargent (1998), Edmund Tarbell (2001), Childe Hassam (2004), Impressionism Abroad: Boston and French Painting (2005), Sargent and the Sea (2009), and Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends (2015). She is currently planning an exhibition about Sargent and fashion.

Peter Krivkovich is the chairman and CEO of Cramer-Krasselt (C-K), a marketing communications agency providing strategic branding consulting, including analytics, advertising, PR/social, media planning, and programmatics. Client brand positioning campaigns include Corona, Porsche, Edward Jones, and Nikon, among others.

C-K is the second-largest independent agency in the country, recognized for its thinking and executions with numerous Cannes Lions awards, as well as the coveted Effie for "The Most Efficient Independent Agency in America."

Krivkovich has served on numerous national and international boards, including the Ad Council, ICOM, the American Association of Advertising Agencies, Prentice Hospital, and MB Financial. Presently, he continues on the board of the Off the Street Club and Victory Park Capital.

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. Mr. 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. Mr. Leja earned his MA and PhD in fine arts from Harvard University.

Henri Loyrette 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.

Morton Schapiro began his term as the sixteenth president of Northwestern University in 2009. He is a professor of economics and is among the nation’s leading authorities on the economics of higher education, with expertise in college financing, affordability, and trends in educational costs and student aid. He has written or edited nine books and more than 100 articles. He has received research grants and contracts from numerous foundations and boards including the National Science Foundation and the US Department of Education. Mr. Schapiro is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the National Academy of Education.

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. Ms. 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. Ms. 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.

Carl D. Thoma is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Thoma Bravo, LLC. He was a Co-Founder and a Managing Director at GTCR, LLC and its predecessor funds, since 1980. He began his career at First Chicago Equity Group where he helped build one of the largest and active private equity firms in the country. He served as Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Thoma Cressey Bravo. Mr. Thoma was the President and Chairman of the National Venture Capital Association. He was at First Chicago Investment Corporation and a Partner at Golder, Thoma, Cressey, Rauner, Inc. He serves as Director of FutureSource Communications, Inc. He serves as Chairman Emeritus at The Illinois Venture Capital Association. Mr. Thoma serves as a Director of Scientech Inc.; Segall Bryant & Hamill; Global DocuGraphiX; Meridian Mortuary Group; and Local Media of America, Inc. He serves on the boards of Infogix and Internet Pipeline. He serves on Stanford Graduate School of Business Advisory Council. He served as the Chairman of NES Rentals Holdings Inc. since it was founded in June 1996; Global Imaging Systems Inc., from June 1994 to October 2003. Mr. Thoma served as the Chairman of National Equipment Services Inc., from June 1996 to October 2003. He was a Director of NES Rentals Holdings Inc.; American Amicable Holding; Datatel, Inc.; Desgrippes Gobe Group; Excelligence Learning Corporation; LAGA; and Viecore. He served a Director of Global Imaging Systems Inc. from June 1994 to August 2004. He served as Director of LECG Corporation. He served as a Director of Paging Network Inc, since 1981 and MS Financial, Inc. since 1994. He served as Director of Eclipse Networks. He served as Director of American Amicable Life Insurance Company of Texas since February 7, 2000. Mr. Thoma has also received the Chicago Area Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame. Mr. Thoma received an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a B.S. in Accounting and Agriculture Economics from Oklahoma State University.

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.

Mr. 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.

Mr. 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.