Pre-Event Press Release: 13th Annual Chicago CFO of the Year? Awards

The Chicago Chapter of Financial Executives International (FEI), the premier association for financial leaders in the United States and Canada, is pleased to announce the annual Chicago CFO of the Year? Awards program, to be held tonight at 7:00 PM at the Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile. Now in its 13th year, this celebration recognizes and honors 25 Chicago area financial leaders who have made exceptional contributions to their organizations. More information about FEI Chicago and the Chicago CFO of the Year Awards? can be found at www.chicagocfo.org

The Master of Ceremonies for the event is Ravi Baichwal , co-anchor of ABC 7 News.

Awards are presented in 6 categories:

• Mid-Size Not-For-Profits
• Large Not-For-Profits
• Mid-Size Private Companies
• Large Private Companies
• Mid-Size Public Companies
• Large Public Companies

The finalists in each category are as follows:

Mid-Size Not-For-Profits

• Angela Dowell (Bennett) CPA - Chicago Community Loan Fund
• Karen Koch - Saint Viator High School
• Hannah Lehman - Grant Park Music Festival
• Joshua Slattery, CPA - Jewish Community Centers of Chicago ( JCC Chicago )

Large Not-For-Profits

• Miroslava Mejia Krug - Chicago Public Schools
• Arlene Regnerus - Roosevelt University
• Jonathan Tingstad, CPA - Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
• Mark C. Titzer - Dominican University

Mid-Size Private Companies

• Ronald A. Gozum, CPA - C.Cretors and Company
• Erin Lavelle MBA, FPAC - WittKieffer , Inc.
• Michael Mance, CPA - Dialysis Care Center Group, LLC
• Tricia Pucek - The Horton Group, a Marsh & McLennan Agency LLC Company , Inc.
• Rich Wright - V&V Supremo Foods Inc

Large Private Companies

• Michael Hansen - Heniff Transportation Systems , LLC
• Do Young Kim - International Motors, LLC
• Natalie Laackman, CPA - MedSpeed , LLC
• Wes Saber - HARIBO of America, Inc.
• Deb Wensel - Holland, L.P.

Mid-Size Public Companies

• Susan Kreh - Oil-Dri Corporation of America
• Bob Phelan - Adtalem Global Education , Inc.
• Ryan Robinson - UL Solutions , Inc.
• Dave Stoehr - Wintrust Financial Corporation

Large Public Companies

• Dirk Locascio - US Foods Holding Corp.
• Deidra Cheeks Merriwether - W.W. 固安捷 , Inc.
• JASON WINKLER - 摩托罗拉系统 , Inc.

FEI Chicago thanks its sponsor partners for this event: Aon , Associated Bank , Dayforce , KPMG , Tatum by Randstad , and media partner Crain's Chicago Business .