BLOOMINGTON, Ill. — Six new members have been elected to join Illinois Wesleyan University's Board of Trustees in 2025.
Trustees elected at the February 2025 meeting include:
Desiree M. Quizon-Colquitt '89 has served over 30 years in the pharmaceutical industry, holding various roles in research and development, sourcing, procurement, business development, key account management and strategic alliances. Recently, she retired as a senior manager in Global External Supply for Pfizer, where she had been sourcing materials for their pharmaceuticals since 2020. Desiree and her husband, André '88, are deeply committed to philanthropy. They have established several community initiatives, including the Quizon-Colquitt Family Annual Scholarship at IWU. Desiree also actively supports IWU’s Alumni Association initiatives, including scholarship funding. The couple resides in Normal and they have one daughter, Asia.
Lucy N. Wisdom '95 is a board-certified dermatologist and is co-owner of Associates in Dermatology, SC in Bloomington. She studied biology at Illinois Wesleyan and then earned a medical degree and completed her residency at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. She and her husband Matt, class of ‘94, started supporting the McLean County Scholarship initiative in 2018, and they are strong supporters of the local Catholic schools where their children attended. Dr. Wisdom was also a member of the Illinois Wesleyan Associates Board in 2018-2019. They live in Bloomington and have three children, Parker, Lauren and Jack. Jack is an incoming sophomore IWU student studying business and is on the IWU baseball team.
Trustees elected at the annual meeting in May 2025 include:
Christopher M. Bisaillon '93 is co-owner at Bottleneck Management, a hospitality company based in Chicago which owns and operate 13 restaurants across five states. He is also Chief Marketing Officer and General Partner for Riverwalk Capital Partners, a venture capital investment and management firm. Previously, Bisaillon spent 18 years with Van Kampen Merritt/Invesco where he worked as a regional vice president and a divisional sales director. While studying business administration and economics at IWU, Bisaillon played Titan football as a wide receiver. He was selected to the National Football Foundation College Football Hall of Fame 2012 Divisional Class, becoming only the second Illinois Wesleyan player to be named to the College Football Hall of Fame. Bisaillon and his wife Jennifer have four kids and reside in Wheaton.
Robin L. Favor '00 is a board-certified general surgeon at Suburban Surgical Associates/Suburban Metabolic
Institute in the western suburbs of Chicago. After studying music and biology at Illinois
Wesleyan, she received her medical degree from University of Illinois College of Medicine
at Chicago before completing her surgical residency at Rush University Medical Center/Cook
County Hospital Integrated Systems. Having been in practice for more than 20 years,
Favor specializes in mastectomy and colon removal procedures. She is also the trauma
director at LaGrange Hospital and holds leadership positions at MacNeal Hospital on
the Medical Executive Committee and as the director for the American College of Surgeons,
National Surgical Quality Improvement Project. Dr. Favor, who also plays classical
piano, lives in La Grange with her husband and fellow surgeon, Alexander Sauper.
Sam Porritt '84 is a former marketing executive who now leads a nonprofit organization. Porritt majored
in accounting at Illinois Wesleyan, later earning an MBA from the University of Chicago
Booth School of Business. Porritt was also awarded an honorary degree from IWU in
2017. He began his career in advertising, building some of America’s largest brands,
including Cheetos, Betty Crocker and Soft Scrub. Porritt then joined Payless ShoeSource
(later Collective Brands) where he worked in marketing, brand strategy, communications
and social responsibility. In 2011, Porritt’s life took an unexpected turn when he
suffered a spinal cord injury. After two years of rehabilitation, in 2013 Porritt
launched the Falling Forward Foundation which he continues to lead today. The foundation
makes grants to pay for continued outpatient rehabilitation for people whose insurance
benefits have run out. Porritt lives in Lawrence, Kansas, with his wife, Leann.
Mandy Watson '01 is an assistant general counsel at Caterpillar Inc. in Peoria. She has practiced law for over 20 years and joined Caterpillar in 2014. She studied economics and political science at Illinois Wesleyan and graduated with her J.D. from the University of Illinois in 2004. She supports numerous philanthropic efforts, including establishing the Watson Annual Scholarship at Illinois Wesleyan. She resides in West Peoria.
In addition to the new trustees, six current board members were re-appointed for another three-year term. Those members are Jim Joslin '93, Daniele Kays '01, W. Thomas Lawrence '80, Ann Marquis Fisher '82, Edward B. Rust, Jr. '72, and Stephanie Whyte '91.
Board of Trustees officers that were re-elected for the 2025-26 academic year include: Timothy J. Szerlong '74, Chair; John W. (Jack) Dickens '86, Vice Chair; Herbert A. Getz ’77, Vice Chair; Edward B. Rust, Jr. '72, Vice Chair; W. Thomas Lawrence '80, Treasurer; and Ann E. Marquis Fisher '82, Secretary.