New City Colleges of Chicago Board Members Announced
Current president and co-founder of PFG, LLC, a private Chicago-based equity firm, Gary Gardner, son of Soft Sheen founders Ed and Bettiann Gardner, is amongst four new members appointed to the City Colleges of Chicago Board of Trustees (CCC).
A lifelong resident of the Chicago’s South Side, Gardner is the retired president and co-founder of Namasté Laboratories, the nation’s largest minority-owned hair care company and the former president of Soft Sheen Products, Inc.
CCC’s seven-member board, serve three-year terms as appointed by the Mayor of Chicago with the approval of the Chicago City Council and one student trustee decided by a campus-wide election.
“I am grateful for the tireless service of the departing four board members who helped implement our City College reinvention efforts that have resulted in a doubling of the graduation rate and significantly increased job placement for our students. Our City Colleges will benefit from the knowledge and experience that these four new trustees bring to the board,” said Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. “These new trustees will support the outstanding leadership of Chancellor Cheryl Hyman, who will continue to serve as she has done admirably for five years, making CCC a national model for education and workforce development reform.”
Also appointed:
Dr. Charles (Chuck) Middleton, who currently serves as the President of Roosevelt University, a position he has held since 2002 and will retire from in June 30, 2015, will serve as CCC’s new chairman.
Sandy Goldman joined Front Barnett Associates in 2010 as a senior portfolio manager and member of the Investment Committee. From 1959 to 1981 Goldman was a Partner at Stein Roe & Farnham and President and Chairman of the Investment Committee of the Stein Roe Special Fund from its inception. He also established Goldman Asset Management where for many years he advised both taxable and tax-free clients.
Karen Kent currently serves as President of UNITE HERE Local 1, Chicago’s hospitality workers union. During her tenure with Local 1, she helped the union secure significant victories on behalf of working people in Chicago including negotiating the first training fund to assist hotel workers improve their skills, earn promotions.
The newly announced members replace Paula Wolff, Ellen Alberding Everett Rand and Larry Rogers, Sr.
Borard members Clarisol Duque and Marisela Lawson will be reappointed for a second term and Rev. Darrell Griffin will remain on the board with Student Trustee Eliana Blancas, who was elected by her peers to a one-year term.
The new Board members are expected to begin their service in August.
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