Carol E. Bell currently serves as the Executive Vice President at B. Coleman Aviation, LLC since February 2015. Additionally, Carol is a member of the University Board of Trustees and Chancellor Advisory Board at East West University and has held a position on the Board of Directors as Treasurer at Ada S. McKinley Community Services, Inc. since 2011, where Carol also chairs the annual Making College Real Scholarship and Luncheon. Carol has been the Small Business Forum TV Host for the Cosmopolitan Chamber of Commerce since 2010 and serves on the Advisory Committee for the Better Boys Foundation since 2005. From January 2012 to January 2015, Carol was the Director of Women's Business Development at the State of Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, and from 2006 to 2012, Carol worked as CFO and Executive Director of Finance and Business Operations at Chicago Defender Publishing Co. Carol's educational background includes attending the University of Illinois at Chicago and Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management from 1993 to 1995.