Dia S. Weil has over 30 years experience in the start-up and management of businesses. She was one of the founders in 1981 of Airfone, the first nationwide wireless company. Ms. Weil served as chief financial officer and chief operating officer and was the leader of the successful effort to sell the company to GTE/Verizon. In addition she was the founder and general manager of Magnastar, which provides air to ground telephone service for the corporate market including the United States Government and Air Force One. Ms. Weil also was the founder and general manger of Railfone, which provided telephone service in joint venture with Amtrak for the nation's passenger trains. After leaving Verizon in 1996, she served as CEO of a company which provided outsourced call center management in the United States and Canada doubling the sales of the company and positioning it for sale to a publicly traded company and then served as CEO of an e-commerce company before retiring. 

Ms. Weil has devoted time and energy to many non- profit causes and is currently active on a number of boards.    For her efforts in Catholic Education, Ms. Weil was awarded the 2007 National Educating for Life Award from the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur and in 2009 was recognized by the Chicago City Council for her work in education. Ms. Weil is also past chairman of the Chicago Greater Illinois Multiple Sclerosis Society, Notre Dame High School and Gordon Tech/DePaul College Prep,  a board member, executive committee member and co-chair of the Board Governance and Nominating Committee  of the Museum of Contemporary Art and an emeritus member of the Goodman Theatre Board of Trustees  and a Regent of the Lincoln Academy. She also is an emeritus board member of the Merit School of Music, a Life Trustee of the Chicago Public Library Foundation and the Chicago National Multiple Sclerosis Society.  Ms. Weil was inducted into the National MS Hall of Fame for her work on the Chicago Chapter's Dinner of Champions which raised $5.5million in the 12 years that she was involved. She was also named one of North Shore Magazine's Top 10 Volunteers of the Year in 1994 and one of Today's Chicago Women's 100 Women Making a Difference in 1995.