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Wells Fargo Advisors has appointed Bob Vasa as Executive Director and Complex Director for its Chicago market—one of the firm’s most significant and competitive regions. Based in the downtown offices at 30 S. Wacker (39th and 40th floors), he will lead employee development, growth strategy, and overall market performance.
Vasa brings more than 25 years of wealth management experience, including a senior leadership role at UBS, where he led advisor teams and delivered sustained growth. |
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Clyde Purmort has joined as an associate focusing on industrial real estate in North Cook, Lake County, and Southern Wisconsin markets. He brings more than 6 years of commercial real estate brokerage experience working in the Atlanta market where was a Senior Advisor at King Industrial Realty in Atlanta providing representation and strategic advisory services to owners, investors, and occupiers. He earned a degree in Economics from the School of Public Policy at Florida State University. |
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Liam Boyle has joined Schafer Condon Carter in the new role of Chief Growth Officer, responsible for reinforcing its position as a challenger agency built to help ambitious brands win in complex, fast-moving markets. Boyle brings a career rooted in new business and growth across B2B2C sectors including food and beverage, agriculture, petcare and manufacturing. At SCC, he will identify clients, categories and targets that represent the best opportunities for growth for the agency. |
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Paula White, MD, FACOG, has been appointed chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Loyola Medicine and Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine. She has served as interim chair since August 2024. A Loyola alumna, White is a professor of OB/GYN and associate chief medical information officer. She has led the Division of General OB/GYN since 2013 and is nationally recognized for excellence in medical education and patient care. |
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Illinois Humanities welcomes JC Aevaliotis and Rajeev Kinra to the board of directors. JC Aevaliotis joined the Arts Work Fund as Interim Executive Director in September 2025 and has served on the Arts Work Fund Steering Committee since 2016. JC has extensive experience in grant making for arts and culture organizations in Chicago, with roles at Polk Bros. Foundation and Driehaus Foundation. Rajeev Kinra (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is Associate Professor of History and Comparative Literary Studies at Northwestern University and a cultural historian of early modern South Asia, focusing on the Mughal Empire and early British colonialism in India. JC and Rajeev joined the board in January 2026 and October 2025. |
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Katie has joined Benesch in the firm’s Healthcare Practice Group. Katie advises healthcare industry participants, including health systems, provider organizations and financial institutions on transactional, regulatory and healthcare finance matters. Counseling clients at the intersection of healthcare regulation, corporate transactions and capital strategy, she helps them navigate the evolving legal and financial dimensions of growth. |
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Ashley Marcuccilli has joined KSM as a tax partner. Ashley provides tax compliance and consulting services to a wide range of clients, including closely held businesses, private equity firms, hedge funds, family offices, and large fund-of-funds. She has extensive experience in the investment management sector, where she has worked with some of the industry’s largest asset managers, as well as family offices. She previously served as a managing director at Deloitte Tax LLP. |
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Marc Fitzgibbon has joined BIG Construction as Service Work Leader. Marc will lead BIG’s service work team, supporting clients as their needs evolve, from small updates to full reconfigurations, making it easy to move quickly, stay precise, and keep spaces performing. |
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SOM has welcomed Randy Guillot, FAIA, LEED AP, as Director of Healthcare Design. Guillot brings more than 30 years of experience across healthcare, sciences, higher education, and workplace, having led impactful projects for the University of Illinois at Chicago, the University of Minnesota, Northwestern Medicine, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, OhioHealth, Fermilab, and the University of Texas at Tyler. From SOM’s Chicago studio, he will help lead strategy across the global healthcare practice. |
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BSI Engineering welcomes Becky Nelson as Business Development Director, supporting growth and client engagement in the Chicago market. In this role, she will focus on building relationships, identifying new opportunities, and helping clients navigate complex engineering challenges. Becky brings a relationship-driven approach and market knowledge that aligns with BSI’s client-first focus. |
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mHUB welcomes Jason Coleman as Executive Director of its Chicago-based incubator, where he’ll lead strategy, programs, and partnerships supporting early-stage hard tech startups. A mechanical engineer trained at USC, Coleman previously worked at BAE Systems and Motorola. In 2008, he founded Project SYNCERE, growing it into a nationally recognized organization for STEM education. In this new role, he’ll help founders advance technologies from concept to commercialization. |
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Jeff White has joined Fortune Brands Innovations as its VP, Moen Commercial Ops & Enablement. A seasoned executive, he most recently was the Chief Commercial Officer at ES Group/MTI Baths, where he led all sales and marketing teams and an e-commerce business. In his new role, White will be instrumental in bringing advanced thinking, new technology, and data and analytical tools to Moen’s commercial operation to drive greater productivity and commercial success. |
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Troy Steege, AIA, CDT, EDAC, has joined HOK’s Chicago studio as Senior Project Manager. With 30 years of experience in healthcare strategy, planning and design, Steege brings a proven record leading integrated teams through complex, large-scale projects. His expertise spans campus master planning, construction administration and client management. Steege’s ability to build cohesive teams and deliver business-critical solutions will strengthen HOK’s healthcare practice across the Chicago region. |
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Alicia LaVire has joined Shedd Aquarium as the Chief Development Officer (CDO). LaVire has deep experience leading mission-driven organizations and is returning to Shedd to oversee and advance the aquarium’s development efforts including shaping fundraising campaigns, growing strategic partnerships and stewarding donor relationships—all of which fuel the aquarium’s mission and impact. |
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Fortune Brands Innovations has promoted Eri Hino to VP, Product Management – Moen. In her new role, Hino will execute the strategic product road map with innovation for Moen, ensuring the brand maintains its leadership in the industry. Hino has over 20 years of experience in Product Management, including Marketing, Channel, Sales and Engineering. During her prior employment, at Weber Stephens, she led the turnaround of their pellet grills, the fastest growing grilling category during her tenure. |
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