Meet the Winning Workplaces Board of Directors. Click on a name to learn more about that particular Board member.
Patricia ("Tish") M. Borkowski, Principal, Invision Capital
Michael Faber, General Partner, NextPoint Partners III, L.P.
Matthew Goldberg, Chief Executive Officer, Lonely Planet
W. Jeff Jeffery, President and CEO, IRMCO
Fran Johns, Strategic Marketing Consultant
Ken Lehman, Managing Partner, KKP Group, L.L.C., and Chairman of Winning Workplaces
Elliot Lehman, Founding Board Member of Winning Workplaces
Michael Mulqueen, Former Executive Director, Greater Chicago Food Depository
Barbara Murphy-Warrington, SVP/Director of Human Resources, Janney Montgomery Scott
Adele Simmons, Vice Chairman and Senior Executive, Chicago Metropolis 2020
Patricia ("Tish") M. Borkowski
Ms. Borkowski brings over 21 years of investment and financial experience to Invision Capital. Prior to joining Invision Capital, Ms. Borkowski was Director of a diversified fund of private equity, hedge fund and real estate investments for a high net worth family office where she also served as a member of the Fund’s Investment Committee. Prior to that she was a Managing Director at JPMorgan (formerly Bank One) where she was part of the proprietary capital investment effort. Ms. Borkowski invested subordinated debt and equity in middle market companies in partnership with private equity funds and management. Responsibilities included: sourcing, structuring, company and industry due diligence, documentation, monitoring ongoing portfolio companies’ performance and participating in Board of Directors meetings. Additionally, while at JPMorgan, Ms. Borkowski served on the Management Committee and oversaw all aspects of client solutions for JPMorgan’s (formerly Bank One) hedge fund of funds group, which invested both proprietary and client assets in portfolios of hedge funds. She also participated in the Investment Committee for the JPMorgan New Frontier Fondo di Fondi, JPMorgan's Italian hedge fund of funds product.
Prior to joining Bank One, Ms. Borkowski was a Senior Vice President at Allied Capital where she invested subordinated debt and equity in middle market companies. Prior to that Ms. Borkowski worked at William Blair & Company in the Debt Capital Market’s Group where her primary focus was working with private equity groups. She also spent several years providing senior debt and equity co-investments in partnership with private equity funds to finance leveraged buyouts at LaSalle Bank, N.A. and Heller Financial, Inc. Ms. Borkowski began her career in the tax department of Arthur Andersen & Co. Ms. Borkowski received a B.S. in Accounting from Marquette University and a M.B.A. from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management with a concentration in Finance and Management & Strategy.
Ms. Borkowski is currently a member of the Board of Directors for the Chicago Finance Exchange, a Chicago based network for senior women in finance; Winning Workplaces, an Evanston based nonprofit committed to helping small and midsize organizations create high-performance workplaces; and Friends of the Lake Forest Library, a local charitable organization focused on educational, civic and literary activities. She is also a prior Board member of the Chicago Chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth and has spoken at various industry events related to private equity.
Michael
Faber
Michael Faber is a general partner of NextPoint Partners, a venture capital and private equity firm, located in Washington, D.C. and New York. He has more than 16 years of experience investing as a principal in more than 100 companies and has served as a director and/or lead shareholder of more than two dozen companies. Mr. Faber also was a founder and general partner of Walnut Growth Partners and an officer of Walnut Capital Corp. Mr. Faber has managed three funds that produced top-quartile returns, investing in four start-up companies that realized multi-billion dollar valuations: First Health Corp., Icos Corp., GranCare, Inc., and webMethods, Inc. Mr. Faber has been the lead investor in a variety of "new to market" technologies, such as extensible markup language, commercial ultrawide band, online expert marketplaces, and application layer security, as well as a number of "private to public" transitional investments in later stage companies. Mr. Faber has been of counsel to Mintz Levin, an attorney with Arnold & Porter, and a senior consultant to The Advisory Board. Mr. Faber is an honors graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, received the John M. Olin Foundation Scholarship in Law and Economics, and attended The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and the State University of New York. Mr. Faber also is a director or advisor to a number of non-profit organizations.
Matthew Goldberg
Matthew Goldberg, who is currently taking a leave of absence from the Board, is Chief Executive Officer of Lonely Planet, a leading travel information website. Prior to Mr. Goldberg's current position, he was Vice President of Franchise Development & Partnerships of the Consumer Media Group with Dow Jones & Company, and before that he was executive director of Dow Jones Integrated Solutions.
Mr. Goldberg started his career in 1992 as assistant to the governor of Illinois, a position he held until 1995. After a short stint as a campaign officer for The Liberal Party of Australia in Melbourne in 1996, Mr. Goldberg returned to the U.S. as the director of strategic planning for the Illinois Housing Development Authority in Chicago, a position he held until 1998. In 2000, Mr. Goldberg worked as a consultant in media and entertainment for Yahoo! in Santa Clara, Calif. That same year, he moved on to Bertelsmann, where he became director of corporate development. In 2001, he became Bertelsmann's senior director of U.S. business development, a position he held until 2003 when he joined Dow Jones & Company as director of market strategies for The Wall Street Journal. The following year, he assumed his position as executive director of Dow Jones Integrated Solutions.
Born in Cleveland, Mr. Goldberg received a bachelor's degree from Cornell University, a master's degree from The University of Melbourne and an M.B.A. from Stanford University. He has been a member of the Cornell University College of Arts & Sciences Advisory Council since 2001, and is the founder and chairman of the Cornell University College of Arts & Sciences Young Alumni Council, which launched in 2002.
W. Jeff
Jeffery
William “Jeff” Jeffery is currently President and CEO of IRMCO
in Evanston, IL – an 89 year-old manufacturer of water-based lubricants
for the metal-stamping industry. Jeff was instrumental in developing the
first deep-drawing synthetic lubricants more than 20 years ago and is still
very much involved with driving environmental responsibility and improvement
in the same market.
IRMCO has been recognized by Loyola University as one of Illinois’ top family businesses on three separate occasions and is the current sponsor of the metal stamping industry’s only environmental award.
Jeff has a BA in Economics from Ripon College, is past president of The Illinois President’s Association and currently Chairman of Purdue University’s Entrepreneurship Center, Chairman of the OESA (Original Equipment Supplier’s Assoc.) Environmental Council and a member of the FMA (Fabricated Metal Assoc.) Stamping Council.
Fran Johns
Fran Johns, a strategic marketing consultant, was formerly Senior Vice President of Demand Consulting. Fran has more than 30 years experience in advertising and marketing, both as an award-winning writer and creative director and as an insightful strategist. She is the co-creator of Values In Action, a workshop designed to help corporations put their values into practice at every level of their organization.
Fran has worked with dozens of clients including Capital One, General Mills, Kraft, LensCrafters, SC Johnson, Frito-Lay, Dial Corporation, Northern Trust and OfficeMax. In addition to her strategic work, she is an accomplished facilitator. Fran has served on several not-for-profit boards, and is currently the Marketing Committee Chair for the Young Women's Leadership Charter School of Chicago.
Ken
Lehman
Ken Lehman is a Managing Partner of KKP Group, LLC, a family office for
the Lehman Family Group, and Chairman of Winning Workplaces, a not-for-profit
which is helping organizations become great places to work.
Before organizing the Lehman Family office, Ken was Co-Chairman of Fel-Pro Incorporated, a family-owned and managed Skokie, IL based automotive gasket manufacturer. Fel-Pro was nationally known for family friendly benefits and harmonious labor-management programs and policies, and was consistently ranked as one of the top 10 companies to work for in America by FORTUNE and Working Mother magazines. It was also featured in the book "The 100 Best Companies To Work For in America." Fel-Pro was sold in 1998.
Ken served in the U.S. Peaces Corps from 1966-1972. He currently serves
on several corporate and civic boards, including CARE, Public Radio International,
and WBEZ-FM.
He received his BA in English Literature at Johns Hopkins University and
his MA in Sociology at Northwestern University.
Elliot
Lehman
Elliot Lehman is a Founding Board Member of Winning Workplaces; he spent
56 years at Fel-Pro, where he was co-chairman. Elliot was widely celebrated
for his industry and civic leadership. He earned numerous management awards,
helped develop training programs for the socially disadvantaged, and has
been a longtime advocate for children.
Family-owned and managed Fel-Pro was nationally known for family-friendly benefits, harmonious labor-management programs, and outstanding profitability. Ken, his father, Elliot, and brother, Paul, bring 100 years of combined industry experience to Winning Workplaces.
Pamela
Forbes Lieberman
Pamela Forbes Lieberman is Vice Chairperson of Winning Workplaces. In late 2004, Forbes Lieberman resigned as President and Chief Executive
Officer of TruServ Corporation, a cooperative now known as True Value Company,
where she led a business that includes True Value Hardware, Grand Rental
Station, Taylor Rental, Party Central, Home and Garden Showplace and Induserve
Supply;
$2 billion in annual sales offering over 60,000 SKUs from company owned
warehouses to its 6,000 member owned stores which operate in 48 countries
selling approximately $7 billion at retail. The company has over 3,000 employees. One of only
16 women to lead Fortune 1000 companies last year, Pamela Forbes Lieberman,
together with her team, is credited with an impressive financial turnaround
of the company since taking the helm in 2001.
In March 2001, Pamela Forbes Lieberman, a veteran CFO in the manufacturing and distribution industries, joined TruServ as Chief Financial Officer. Forbes Lieberman assumed the additional responsibilities of Chief Operating Officer in July 2001, upon the resignation of the former President and CEO. In mid- November, with the company consistently exceeding its business plan under her leadership, she was promoted to President and CEO.
Before coming to TruServ, Forbes Lieberman was Senior Vice President and CFO of ShopTalk, a start-up voice application software company. She had moved there from Martin-Brower Company, one of the largest distributors in the McDonald's system. From 1993 to 1998, Forbes Lieberman was Vice President and CFO of Fel-Pro Incorporated, an internationally renowned automotive parts company consistently recognized as one of FORTUNE's "Top 10 Best Places to Work." She spearheaded acquisitions, built a world-class finance team and orchestrated the process that led to the sale of the business to Federal Mogul. Forbes Lieberman also spent four years as Vice President Finance acquiring and integrating individual companies for Bunzl Building Supply, now part of the RMC group. Prior to that, she was with Kraft Foods. She began her career in 1975 at Price Waterhouse, now known as PriceWaterhouseCoopers, working on Fortune 500 clients until she left as Senior Manager in 1988. Forbes Lieberman holds a bachelor's degree in accountancy from the University of Illinois, Champaign, and an MBA from Northwestern University Kellogg Graduate School of Business.
Forbes Lieberman is a member of Winning Workplaces Board, Kellogg Alumni Advisory Board, former member of Federal Reserve Bank Board's 7th District Advisory Council, as well as a member of The Economic Club, The Executives Club, The Chicago Net- work, and Committee of 200. She recently chaired the American Heart Association 2005 Chicago Go Red for Women event raising a record amount, is a frequent guest lecturer at Northwestern, a recipient of the 2003 Lake Forest Graduate School's Distinguished "Executive of the Year" award and a frequent keynote speaker on leadership.
The daughter of an accomplished opera singer and the sister of an opera company founder, Forbes Lieberman, also serves on the Lyric Opera of Chicago Guild Board and Opera Theatre North and follows the arts with the same kind of passion and knowledge that marked her leadership as CEO.
Michael Mulqueen
Michael Mulqueen is a retired brigadier general in the United States Marine Corps (USMC) and former executive director of the Greater Chicago Food Depository. He assumed the leadership of the Greater Chicago Food Depository in September 1991 immediately upon his retirement after 30 years of service in the USMC.
As executive director of the Greater Chicago Food Depository, Mike worked diligently to address the needs of hungry men, women and children throughout Chicago and Cook County. He utilized his negotiation and interpersonal skills to create innovative new services such as the fresh produce and delivery programs and to foster public and private partnerships. Under his leadership, the Food Depository grew to become one of the largest food banks in the United States. He supervised a staff of more than 100 and a corps of 8,000 volunteers who distributed more than 40 million pounds of food in fiscal year 2004-2005 to a network of 600 food pantries, shelters, day care centers, senior facilities and soup kitchens. Mike has created a greater awareness of hunger and poverty issues in Chicago and implemented programs to provide help and hope where it is most urgently needed.
He is a featured speaker, panelist and sought-after spokesman on the subject of feeding the hungry. He also is a director of the Armed Forces Council of Chicago, Rotary One, the USO of Illinois and the Great Lakes Naval Museum Association and a member of the Economic Club and the National Strategy Forum. FORTUNE Small Business named Mike one of the country's "Best Bosses" for small businesses in October 2003. He was also featured in Fast Company magazine (September 2003), Time (May 2004) and Business Week (May 2005). In December 2004, Chicago Magazine named Mike one of six "Chicagoans of the Year" for his vital contributions to the life and spirit of Chicago. In 2005, Lewis University presented Mike an Honorary Doctorate of Humanities for his lifelong commitment to the community.
Mike earned a B.A. in History from Fordham University and an M.S. in Guidance and Counseling from Troy State University. Mike's personal decorations include a Distinguished Service Medal, the Legion of Merit, the Bronze Star Medal with Combat, the Meritorious Service Medal with gold star in lieu of a second award, and the Navy Achievement Medal. He is married to Tracy, has a daughter, Alissa, a son, Brian, and six grandchildren.
Barbara
Murphy-Warrington
Ms. Murphy-Warrington joined Janney Montgomery Scott in July 2009 and is responsible for Human Resources, as well as working to align the Firm’s talent and people practices with the Firm’s strategic goals. She serves as Janney’s representative on human resources matters within the Penn Mutual Life enterprise. Prior to Janney, Ms. Murphy-Warrington served as President of The MiraLite Group LLC, a management consulting practice that provided services in human resources strategy, organizational development, change management, and leadership development to a variety of industries. Prior to establishing The MiraLite Group, Ms. Murphy-Warrington served as: Chief Human Resources Officer for Catholic Health East; Senior Vice President, Human Resources for CARE USA; both Deputy Director, Human Resources and Resident Counsel at The Ford Foundation; and Deputy Attorney General within the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office. She received her bachelor’s degree in behavioral science from the University of Kansas; her law degree from Rutgers University School of Law; and her LL.M in Tax from New York University. Additionally, Ms. Murphy-Warrington holds an Executive Human Resources Certificate from the Cornell University School of Industrial Labor Relations, and a Certificate in Executive Coaching from The Fielding Graduate School of Organizational Development.
Kimberly S. Scott
Kimberly Scott is the Director of Northwestern University's Master's Degree Program in Learning & Organizational Change (MS LOC) and its affiliated Center for Learning & Organizational Change (CLOC). The focus of the Program and Center is developing leaders who have the vision, knowledge and skills necessary for successful organizational transformation. The MS LOC program attracts a diverse range of experienced professionals who are pursuing advanced education to become the best managers of people and leaders of change. The CLOC is an open learning community for scholars, students, and practitioners who have a passion for sharing new ideas for developing talent and knowledge within organizations, transforming them into more effective workplaces.
Kimberly joined Northwestern University in 2005, after having worked with a variety of Fortune 500 companies for ten years in consulting and management as an organization effectiveness expert. She worked for Hewitt Associates as a consultant and project leader for its "Best Companies to Work For" studies in the United States, Brazil, Canada, Australia, and other regions around the world. She then joined the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company to create and lead its organizational development function and help transform the organization to achieve its new strategic objectives for growth and innovation.
She earned her Ph.D. and Master's degrees in Business Administration from The Ohio State University, where she first began doing research on "dysfunctional" workplace behaviors, including workaholism and employee theft. She has co-authored several published articles on related topics, including a study of the relationship between being a "best employer" and company financial performance.
Adele
Simmons
Adele is Vice Chairman and Senior Executive of Chicago Metropolis 2020, a senior advisor to the
World Economic Forum where she is assisting a project to strengthen global
philanthropy. She is also a Senior Associate at the Center for International
Studies at the University of Chicago and a founder of Global Chicago.Mrs.
Simmons was President of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
for a decade, overseeing grants of over $1.5 billion. The Foundation's international
programs focus on the environment, population, international peace and security,
understanding inequality within and among nations. Since leaving the MacArthur
Foundation, Mrs. Simmons has been spending much of her time addressing issues
of global philanthropy through her work with the World Economic Forum, the
Synergos Institute, The Philanthropic Initiative and the Global Equity Initiative.
She is currently on the Board of Marsh and McLennan Companies, and a number
of non-profit organizations, including the Chicago Council of Foreign Relations,
Synergos Institute, the Global Fund for Women, the Hague Appeal for Peace,
Environmental Defense, the Rocky Mountain Institute, the Union of Concerned
Scientists and the Field Museum. Mrs. Simmons served on President Carter's
Commission on World Hunger and President Bush's Commission on Sustainable
Development and was a member of the Commission on Global Governance as well
as the UN High Level Advisory Board on Sustainable Development. Before joining
the MacArthur Foundation, Mrs. Simmons was President of Hampshire College.
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