ANDREW "DREW" FAVREAU manages communications for Leadership Talent Management (LTM), an organization within the HR & Administration function at Boeing. LTM is responsible for identifying and developing the next generation of Boeing leaders across 150,000 employees worldwide. Prior to joining Boeing, Favreau spent nearly six years at Edelman working with clients that include Autodesk, iRobot, Rockwell Collins, SSA Global, and UPS. His experience building and executing integrated marketing communications programs built brands and increased sales across a variety of industries. His previous experience also includes positions at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce, Mayor’s Office of Special Events for the City of Chicago, as well as the Ravinia Festival. During his career, Favreau was a member of several teams that received recognition from the Business Marketing Association and the Public Relations Society of America for creating outstanding communications campaigns. PRWeek also distinguished Favreau as one of five national finalists for Student of the Year in recognition of his ideas to reinvigorate the long-standing Got Milk? campaign. Favreau holds an M.B.A. with a dual concentration in marketing and leadership and change management from DePaul University, where he also received an undergraduate degree in music.
and The Chicago Kent College of Law. For many years Bob was a management sonsultant specializing in overseas economic development. Bob retired from consulting work into the life of a commercial property owner transforming Chicago area neighborhoods, over time, with the restoration of his properties. Bob is an amateur clarinetist and also serves on The Board of The Grant Healthcare Foundation.
SHAWNA LAKE is a graduate of the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and Illinois Wesleyan University. Ms. Lake Ms. Lake is highly sought after for her orchestral, chamber music and oboe soloist. She plays in the Elgin Symphony, the City Lights Orchestra, and the Chicago Chamber Orchestra. She can be heard on Chicago’s own WFMT, in orchestral performance broadcasts. As a teacher for over 20 years, her students lead successful college and professional careers from the east coast to the west coast. Ms. Lake has held faculty positions at the Music Institute of Chicago and DePaul University in Chicago. In additional to performing and teaching, recently Ms. Lake successfully launched an oboe shop called OboeChicago.
DR. PAUL MAGELLI is the founder and executive director of OSBI Business Consulting at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Previously, Magelli held a number of positions at the University of Illinois, including assistant dean of the MBA program, assistant dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and associate dean and director of budgets. He has also been dean of the Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Wichita State University, vice president for academic affairs at Drake University, president of Metropolitan State College of Denver, and president of Parkland College in Champaign, Ill. Magelli earned bachelor's, master's and Ph.D. degrees in economics from the University of Illinois and holds an honorary Doctor of Law, honoris causa, from the University of Bristol, U.K., where he helped establish the Bristol Enterprise Centre. Paul is an advisor to The Kaufman Foundation on the development and implementation of initiatives to advance entrepreneurship training and knowledge, including efforts at American colleges and universities. He has been a Ford Foundation Fellow and has served as president of the National Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences.
DR. JEFF NYTCH enjoys a rich and diverse career as a composer, performer, educator and advocate – but it hasn't been a straight line getting there. He spent much of his teen years exercising an uncanny ability to make money in the stock market, and dreamed of someday going to Wall Street and conquering the world. Then there was his study of geology, which nearly took him down a different path altogether. But throughout it all, music has been the abiding passion of his heart; in the end, it won out with his career as well. What followed has been a professional odyssey of sorts, involving an accomplished composition career, various teaching positions, a five-year stint as an arts administrator, and an assortment of day jobs ranging from managing a small business to serving as a minor administrative cog within the machine of a very large university. Throughout all these endeavors, Jeff maintained a faith that someday these disparate pursuits would coalesce in a meaningful way, and that faith has been redeemed in his current position as Director of the Entrepreneurship Center for Music at The University of Colorado-Boulder. As Director of the ECM, he draws on the full range of his professional experiences – with the stunning geology of the Colorado Front Range as the backdrop. It's nice when things come together, isn't it?