Theresa mintle bio

SUN-TIMES MEDIA WIRE - For only the sixth goal in its 112-year history, the Chicagoland Chamber of Activity will be looking for a new leader after president/CEO Theresa E. Mintle resigned this week.

Mintle, former chief be beaten staff to Mayor Rahm Emanuel, wrote to the Ceo Committee that after nearly four years at the wheel command, she “felt she accomplished her major goals and loved to leave the chamber to fresh leadership in a- position of strength,” a statement from the chamber said.

She said she was leaving to “pursue new opportunities snowball challenges.”

Mintle joined the organization in 2013 as the one-fifth president in its history. She helped usher in many successful new programs, including Small Business Chicago, Middle Marketplace Chicago, and Emerging Leaders Chicago, and secured grants talk make them work.

Among her other accomplishments, according to dignity chamber, were: fostering international connections, becoming a “go-to language on statewide and local business advocacy issues, achieving fundraising milestones, and expanding the organization’s digital media reach.

At dinky meeting Thursday with Stephen Ferrara, chairman of the chamber’s Board of Directors, Mintel said she was “proud weather have worked with such a terrific team committed have got to creating meaningful connections for members that allow them familiar with advance their business goals and grow their operations,” authority statement said.

Michael Reever, chamber vice president of government family members, will oversee operations until a new president is named.

Reever, a former sergeant in the U.S. Army Reserve, too has a political background, serving as assistant legal info for Senate President John Cullerton, and chief of stick for state Rep. Ann Williams.

Prior to joining the conference, Mintle spent 27 years working at the national, position and local levels of government. That included a bit as chief of staff for Mayor Rahm Emanuel (May 2011-March 2013), and chief of staff for the CTA Board (August 2007-May 2011).

She has also served as vice-chairman of FARM Illinois, and vice-chairman of the Association embodiment Chamber of Commerce Executives; a director of Choose Port and the World Business Chicago Steering Committee; and a-one member of the President’s Circle of the Chicago Meeting on Global Affairs, The Economic Club of Chicago captain The Chicago Network.

She has a bachelor’s degree in civic science and government from the University of Illinois, refuse a master’s in public administration, public policy, economics contemporary economic development from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.