Board of Directors

Latham Williams is the co-founder and principal of HeadLights, LLC, where he is engaged in career coaching, recruiting, and board and senior leadership assessment and development. He is a consultant to Epic Business Strategies and the Exeter Group and is the founding member of The Latham Williams Law Group, LLC, where he is involved in corporate transactions, crisis management, and business disputes. He served over eleven years as the chief legal officer and corporate secretary at Hudson Global, Inc., a worldwide publicly-traded talent solutions company. He was a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors, as well as the Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals, and was on the Chief Legal Officers’ Section of the Conference Board.

A guest lecturer at the University of California-Berkeley (Haas Business School), Stanford Law School, the American Medical Association, and the American Dental Association, he chaired the Board of Trustees of Fielding Graduate University and became a lifetime member of the Law Board of the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. He served on the Board of Trustees of the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago Foundation, and the Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science.

A past governor of the Illinois State Bar Association and past president and director of the Minority Legal Education Resources, Inc., Mr. Williams holds a bachelor’s in psychology with honors from Macalester College, a master’s in health services management from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a JD from the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law.

Carla Carstens is a former BP/Amoco Corporation executive with more than 30 years of strategic and operational planning experience. After leaving BP, she consulted with private and public firms and was a principal in Tatum LLC’s Performance Improvement Practice. Her Amoco positions included BP/Amoco merger integration manager for Retail Gasoline, Refining and Supply Operations, and vice president strategic planning and director of supply chain optimization for Amoco Oil Company.

Ms. Carstens also served as secretary to Amoco Oil’s Executive Management Committee, business development manager for Amoco Marine Transport Company, and vice president of Amoco Venture Capital Company. Key accomplishments include developing the operating governance framework to merge BP and Amoco’s retail gasoline, refining, and supply businesses. A member of the executive team that led to Amoco Oil becoming an industry leader, she oversaw the development of business strategies and performance monitoring using such tools as Organization Capability Assessments and Balance Scorecard. She earned her bachelor’s in economics and MBA at Washington University in St. Louis.

PAMELA ZARKOWSKI is the provost and vice president for academic affairs at the University of Detroit Mercy (UDM). In this combined executive position, she is the chief academic officer of the university and is responsible for the administration of all academic departments and programs.

A member of the UDM President’s Cabinet, Ms. Zarkowski has been a faculty member in the university’s School of Dentistry since 1978, where she attained the rank of professor in 1994. She served as the executive associate dean of UDM’s School of Dentistry from 2002 to 2007 and was appointed interim vice president of academic affairs in 2007. She was then appointed as vice president of academic affairs in 2008. She is published in the areas of community oral health and legal and ethical issues for dental professionals

KYLE SUDDARTH is a vice president with BMO Harris Bank, where his expertise includes a wide range of private, not-for-profit sectors, including healthcare, education, and cultural institutions. He enjoys helping clients with various tax-exempt financing structures and uses his deep knowledge of traditional commercial banking products to provide financial solutions.

Previously, he was a member of the bank’s middle market commercial and corporate banking teams, where his clients included both publicly and privately held corporations and has been with BMO Harris Bank for more than ten years. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in finance from the University of Tampa. Mr. Suddarth holds the Chartered Financial Analyst^® designation and is a CFA Society of Chicago member.

MAURICIO PINEDA serves as the president of the Oak Point University Alumni Association. He completed his BSN at Oak Point University (Resurrection University chapter) in the fall of 2015, graduating cum laude, and was a member of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing. He completed a nurse residency at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where he specialized in emergency services. As a nurse resident, he underwent training in acute trauma care as well as prehospital ground and air transportation. He also was on the hospital’s Committee of Clinical Excellence and worked with the Department of Emergency Medicine Research.

Mr. Pineda then transitioned to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he sat on a committee to develop a nurse residency program. A certified emergency communications registered nurse, he practices as an emergency and trauma nurse at the University of Chicago Medicine. In his free time, he volunteers at Community Health Clinic, the second largest free clinic in the country, where he advocates for the underserved, uninsured/underinsured, and undocumented Latino communities. He received his master in family nurse practitioner, focusing on emergency medicine, from the Loyola University Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing in 2022.