Chicago Youth Programs, Inc. Board of Directors

OFFICERS

Updated July 2026

Diamond McNulty

Diamond McNulty

PRESIDENT

President & Executive Director, Chicago Youth Programs
CEO & Executive Chef, McNulty International/Taste of Diamond
Scott Steward

Scott Steward

VICE PRESIDENT
Founder & CEO, Genius Lab

JOIN DATE: Nov 2018

Mary Kate Daly

Mary Kate Daly

NOMINATING COMMITTEE CHAIR

Executive Director of Healthy Communities, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago

JOIN DATE: Sept 2016

BOARD MEMBERS

LaMont Brown

Trade Desk Specialist, CBOE Global Markets LLC.

JOIN DATE: Feb 2024

Aaron Cohen

Managing Director, GTCR

JOIN DATE: Sept 2017

Andrew Davidson

Executive Vice President/Managing Director, MB Real Estate Services, LLC

JOIN DATE: Sept 2016

Raphael Dawson

Principal, Walton Street Capital

JOIN DATE: Sept 2020

Joseph DiCara

Founder, Chicago Youth Programs 
Physician, Northwestern Memorial Hospital

JOIN DATE: Sept 1988

Brian Henderson

Vice President Middle Market Banking, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.

JOIN DATE: July 2023

Chirinjeev Kathuria

Chairman, New Generation Power International

JOIN DATE: Sept 2016

Jill Keats

JOIN DATE: Jan 2026

Kevin Kenning

Senior Tax Counsel, K4 Advisory

JOIN DATE: Sept 1988

Mark Mandich

Vice President of Finance, Chicago Youth Programs

JOIN DATE: July 2023

Jeffrey McIntosh

Associate, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates  

JOIN DATE: Sept 2022

John Murphy

JOIN DATE: Apr 2023

Sandra Sanguino

Co-Director of CYP/CMH Clinic; Physician, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago

JOIN DATE: Sept 1993

Johari Shuck, Ph.D.

Director of Programs, All Stars Project

JOIN DATE: Dec 2023

Manny Thakkar

JOIN DATE: Feb 2025

Karen Sheehan

Co-Founder, Chicago Youth Programs
Arnold-Gorter Family Professor in Healthy Communities
Medical Director, Patrick M. Magoon Institute for Healthy Communities
Attending, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
Professor of Pediatrics, Medical Education, & Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine

JOIN DATE: Sept 1992

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