Ellen Taaffee (BSBA ’83) | September 2017

Taaffee (BSBA 1983) was named among Directors & Boards’ top women directors in its Directors to Watch 2017 report. Currently, Taaffee is an independent board director and member of the audit, compensation and nominating/governance committees for both John B. Sanfilippo & Son Inc. and Hooker Furniture Corporation where she chairs the nominating/governance committee. She is also a faculty member at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University where she oversees women’s leadership programming.