B Joseph WhiteB. Joseph White chairs the corporate governance committee of the board of Equity Residential, an S&P 500 company. He helped design governance arrangements and is a director of Gordon Food Service, one of America's thirty - five largest private companes. He is the James F. Towey Professor of Business and Leadership and president emeritus of the University of Illinois. He is also dean and professor emeritus at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. He has served on many nonprofit boards, including those of Georgetown University, Argonne National Laboratory, and the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. Read More Read Less