Is she a brilliant creative person wearing an account exec's suit?
Or a visionary account pro who looks for the creative solution to every opportunity?
She's Laura Luckman Kelber, and she's both.
An entrepreneur at heart, Laura thrives on applying creative insights to every facet of her job as VP, Account Director for EuroRSCG's biggest account.
Drawing on an array of experience in the financial services, telecom, retail, entertainment and non-profit categories, Laura has synthesized and developed creative communication and marketing solutions for State Farm, Discover Card, Sprint, PBS and LensCrafters. From launching State Farm's financial services portfolio to repositioning a catalog production company into a boutique creative agency, Laura has achieved success across a wide range of challenges.
As a core member of the EuroRSCG team that won the Sprint business, Laura oversees a team handling programs that are setting new creative benchmarks and performing at 200% over goal.
Outside of work, Laura lives for music. She and her husband can frequently be found at Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music and the Metro.
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. --Dorothy Parker

Gumala Steele is an Account Supervisor at Starcom Worldwide, an award winning media communications agency that specializes in making connections between consumers and brands. She currently manages communication strategy and digital activation for Oracle. Prior to her current post, Ms. Steele managed the video activation for a number of top national brands including Macy*s, Washington Mutual, Heinz, and the US Army. Among projects she has worked on have been integrating the Macy*s brand into the hit TV shows Desperate Housewives on ABC, and Project Runway on Bravo.

Her career began at Starcom in 2004 after graduating from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with a Master of Science in Advertising. Ms. Steele is a native of Bandung, Indonesia but now calls Chicago her home.

Kristi Kohlenberg graduated with Highest Honors from the University of Illinois in May 2003 with a Bachelors of Science in Finance. She is originally from Urbana, Illinois and has recently relocated back to Urbana after working in Chicago for four years. While in Chicago, she worked as a Credit Analyst in Bank One's Government/Non-Profit Commercial Lending group and as an Investment Banking Analyst at JPMorgan Securities, Inc., in the Asset-Backed Securities product group. Kristi became a CFA Charterholder in August of 2006 and is a member of the CFA Society of Chicago.

Jill Schuller has background in the communications field and has involved various aspects of marketing from graphic design to client development to strategic planning. She received her B.A. in Visual Communications from Eastern Illinois University, in addition to many Continuing Education opportunities over the years. Jill brings a wide breadth of knowledge in branding development, and a strong commitment to strategic problem solving for clients. She has worked for over two decades in full-service ad agencies and corporate marketing divisions developing marketing programs for not-for-profits, associations, education, healthcare, retail and industrial clients.

Her company, Omni Communications Group, Inc., is an independently owned, full-service marketing firm that strives to create excellence in marketing communications through hiring outstanding talent, focusing on strong partnerships with clients, and seeking to make marketing and advertising ‘smart’, not just clever. As a founding partner in 1992, and now sole owner of Omni, Jill is responsible for fostering existing major accounts and transitioning new accounts into the Omni family while overseeing management and marketing strategies for clients, and managing overall development and growth for the agency.

Rita Schulte has been active in the not-for-profit sector for her entire career. She has held positions at WILL AM-FM-TV, a public media corporation in Urbana, Illinois, and is currently Membership Director for the Friends of WILL. Prior to that she held various library and small museum positions. In 2004 she completed the Executive MBA program at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.