Chicago Youth Programs, Inc. Board of Directors
OFFICERS
Updated July 2026

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

Scott Steward
VICE PRESIDENT
Founder & CEO, Genius Lab
JOIN DATE: Nov 2018

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