Directors and Advisors

Board of Directors

Walter Becky Interim Chairman and Treasurer Former President
Morton Salt
Tod Miles Vice Chairman Senior Vice President
Samuel A. Ramirez & Co., Inc.
Anne Barlow Secretary Former Director, Media Practice
Burson-Marsteller
José Francisco Salgado, PhD Executive Director Astronomer
Formerly at the Adler Planetarium
Carol Gies Dietz Trustee Partner
4 Insights
David Holms Trustee Investment Banker
Paul H. Knappenberger, PhD Emeritus Chairman Former President
Adler Planetarium
Neelum T. Aggarwal, MD Trustee Associate Professor
Neurology Rush University Medical Center
Richard Gordon Trustee Senior Govt. Account Manager
CenturyLink
Geza Gyuk, PhD Trustee Astronomer
Adler Planetarium
Warren Hyer Trustee Executive Director
Central Ohio Symphony
Michael Patterson Trustee Financial Advisor
Robert W. Baird & Co.
Chanda A. Rice Trustee Corporate Counsel – IT Operations
Hyatt Corporation
Mark SubbaRao, PhD Trustee Astronomer and Director of Visualization
Adler Planetarium
Bryan Whitehead Retired PricewaterhouseCooper, LLP

Board of Advisors

Daniel R. Altschuler Astronomy Professor University of Puerto Rico
San Juan, PR
Tom Bailey Composer and Musician London, England
Lars Christensen Head of Education & Public Outreach Dept. European Southern Observatory
Garching, Germany
Robert Fosbury Astronomer Formerly at the European Southern Observatory
Bath, England
Evalyn Gates Executive Director and CEO Cleveland Museum of Natural History
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Robert Hurt Visualization Scientist Spitzer Science Center, Caltech
Pasadena, California, USA
John Kieser Executive Vice President and Provost New World Symphony
Miami Beach, Florida, USA
Helen-Nicole Kostis Assistant Research Scholar University of Maryland & NASA/GSFC
Greenbelt, Maryland, USA