Biography
Dia S. Weil is a retired CEO of an e-commerce software company after a long career in business. In addition to serving in that capacity for two other companies, she was one of the founders of GTE Airfone, its CFO and COO and was Founder and General Manager of two of its joint ventures; she also served as a board member of a publicly traded international Power Company based in Norway until it went private in 2015.
Dia has been involved in the civic and philanthropic arena for 35 years focusing on education, health rights and justice reform. She is a trustee of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago where she serves as co-chair of the Board Governance and Nominating Committee, as well as a member of the Board of Trustees of DePaul University, a member of the Human Rights Watch Chicago Council and a Regent of the Lincoln Academy of Illinois. She served as Chairman of the Board of Notre Dame High School for Girls, which focused on lower income students where she was honored by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur with their “Educating for Life Award” and by the City Council of Chicago for her work in education. Dia is past Chairman of the Chicago National Multiple Sclerosis Society, inducted into the National MS Hall of Fame and is currently an emeritus trustee of that organization as well as the Merit School of Music, the Goodman Theatre and is a Life Director of the Chicago Public Library Foundation and a past member of the Cook County Justice Advisory Council. She also served as a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA), which is a program that advocates for children in the foster care system and was an advocate for a six-year-old boy who was successfully reunited with his mother.
Dia was married to her wonderful husband, Ed for thirty-four years before he passed away.
Dia holds an undergraduate degree, Cum Laude from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana and fifty-one years later earned a Master of Liberal Arts degree from the University of Chicago.