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Hear from the most influential forces in business and beyond. From Nobel Prize winners and CEOs to trailblazers and cultural icons, Miami Herbert’s Distinguished Leaders Lecture Series brings students, alumni, and other members of the University community together with top business leaders throughout the year. Learn what makes these leaders tick, professionally, and how principled leadership and innovative thinking can transform global business and society.
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DEAN JOHN QUELCH AND MIAMI HERBERT BUSINESS SCHOOL
CORDIALLY INVITE YOU TO
Distinguished Leaders Lecture Series:
Managing Two Careers
and a Family:
Thoughts from the Front Line
FEATURING
ILENE GORDON
and
BRAM BLUESTEIN
WEDNESDAY | JANUARY 13, 2021 | 12 PM EST
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Ilene Gordon and Bram Bluestein have been a dual career couple for 40+ years. They married in Boston and moved to Chicago where they achieved success in the corporate world while raising a family. Ilene ultimately became one of a few women CEOs of a Fortune 500 company and Bram became a Senior Partner serving global Fortune 500 companies at two leading management consulting firms. They will share the lessons learned from having two careers and a family and the keys to their success. These lessons are discussed in a well-received article published in CEO magazine (see attached). They are now collaborating on a book on the same subject to be published in Summer 2021.
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Ilene Gordon
Retired Chairman, President and CEO
Ingredion, Inc.
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Ilene is retired chairman, president and CEO of Ingredion Incorporated. She joined Ingredion (originally named Corn Products) and grew it to $6 billion in sales and quadrupling market cap. Before Corn Products, she was at Pechiney/Alcan/Rio Tinto leading a $6.5 billion global flexible packaging business, after spending 17 years at Tenneco. She also spent 4 years at The Boston Consulting Group (Boston, London, and Chicago) where she met Bram. Currently she is presiding director of International Paper and a director of Lockheed Martin. She is a vice chair of the board of The Conference Board; a former member of the MIT Corporation board; and on the Board of The Economic Club of Chicago. Additionally, she received the Diversity Award from the Committee for Economic Development Leadership in 2016; the Director of the Year award from the National Association of Corporate Directors in 2013; and in 2018 the Executive Leader Award from the Association of Fundraising Professionals. She is graduate of MIT, with a BS in Mathematics, Phi Beta Kappa, and a MS in management from the MIT Sloan School. She has been on Fortune Magazine list of Most Powerful women 8 times.
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Bram Bluestein
Co-Founder and Chairman
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Bram has been helping companies build transformative products for his entire career. He is currently Co-Founder and Chairman of Bluestein Ventures which is an investment fund in early stage food and technology companies and just launched its third fund. He is also a Senior Advisor and a member of the Board at McNally Capital, a firm focused on enabling family offices to capitalize on opportunities in the private equity space. This followed a 35+ year career as a management consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton, ATKearney, and The Boston Consulting Group (Boston, Johannesburg, London, Chicago), serving clients globally and also, leading different parts of the firms. As a Senior Partner at Booz Allen, Bram led the global automotive practice with clients in the U.S., Europe, Japan, China and India. As a Senior Partner at ATKearney, Bram simultaneously led the global industry practices for both ATKearney and EDS Solutions Consulting, two EDS companies. Bram received his BS in Chemistry from Lafayette College and a MBA from Columbia University in New York City.
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2021
12 Noon EST
Zoom webinar link will be sent to those who have registered 48 hours prior to the event.
Miami Herbert Business School extends a special “THANK YOU” to Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits, the Exclusive Sponsor of the Distinguished Leaders Lecture Series.
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