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David Schonthal is a Clinical Professor of Innovation & Entrepreneurship at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, where he teaches courses in new venture creation, design thinking, business acquisition, healthcare entrepreneurship, corporate innovation and creativity. He also serves as the Faculty Director of Kellogg's Zell Fellows Program, a selective venture accelerator program designed to help student entrepreneurs successfully launch or acquire new businesses.

Outside of Kellogg David is a Senior Director of Business Design at IDEO, David focuses his attention on helping organizations build and launch new ventures, design transformational new business models, and establish novel go-to-market strategies for products and services.  David also serves as an Operating Partner at 7Wire Ventures, a healthcare technology-focused venture capital firm, and is a Venture Partner at Pritzker Group Venture Capital where he invests in consumer, enterprise and healthcare technology startups. He is also a Global Advisor at Design for Ventures (D4V), a Tokyo-based early-stage venture capital fund that invests in design-led Japanese startups.

Prior to his time in Chicago, David spent nearly a decade in the healthcare venture capital and start-up world as a Partner at Fusion Ventures and Director of Strategy and Venture Development for Tavistock Life Sciences, both based in San Diego, California.  He has also held numerous senior operating roles at startups in the technology and life sciences sectors.

David is a co-founder of MATTER, a 25,000-square-foot innovation center in downtown Chicago focused on catalyzing and supporting healthcare entrepreneurship and serves as a member of Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot's technology, innovation and entrepreneurship council, ChicagoNext. He is a contributing writer to Forbes, Inc., Fortune and HBR magazines, authoring articles on corporate entrepreneurship, innovation and business design.  David has received several awards for his work, including a Kellogg Faculty Impact Award for excellence in teaching and his new venture creation course being named "Best Elective" course by Kellogg EMBA students in 2018 and 2019. David has also been honored on Crain's Chicago Business magazine's "40 Under 40" list (back when he was under 40).

David earned his MBA from The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and his BA in International Relations from Boston University.

If all else fails, David's Plan B is to use his booming baritone to break into the lucrative voiceover world

Maria Jackson is one of the nation鈥檚 leading authorities on the phenomenon known as creative placemaking. 

Her expertise is in comprehensive community revitalization, systems change, the dynamics of race and ethnicity and the roles of arts and culture in communities.

Jackson is an Institute Professor in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, with an appointment in The Design School. Jackson's position is a cross-appointment with the ASU College of Public Service and Community Solutions. 

Dance legend, Liz Lerman, is a choreographer, performer, writer, educator and speaker and recipient of numerous honors. 
A key aspect of her artistry is opening her process to various publics from shipbuilders to physicists, resulting in both research and outcomes that are participatory, relevant, urgent, and usable by others.

Lerman was named the first Institute Professor at ASU鈥檚 Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts in 2016 and is the recipient of numerous honors, including a 2002 MacArthur "Genius Grant" and a 2011 United States Artists Ford Fellowship in Dance.

She founded Liz Lerman Dance Exchange in 1976 and led it until 2011. She conducts residencies on Critical Response Process, creative research, the intersection of art and science, and the building of narrative within dance performance at such institutions as Harvard University, Yale School of Drama, Wesleyan University, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and the National Theatre Studio among others.