Burr Ridge Man Longest-Serving Volunteer With DuPage Foundation

BURR RIDGE, IL — DuPage Foundation’s longest-tenured volunteer, Matt Booth, is retiring this month from his role as partner at PwC after nearly 30 years, where he was recognized for his expertise in both internal and external audits, according to a foundation news release. His technical background includes accounting, process analysis, auditing and finance.

Booth, a longtime Burr Ridge resident, came to the foundation in 1998 through its then-Finance Committee. He was working on an audit for Nalco Chemical (now part of Ecolab) in Naperville, where he was recruited by Dave Bertran, a foundation trustee, Finance Committee chairman and Nalco senior vice president. He was also encouraged to join by Nalco director of treasury operations Terry Taylor, who, with his wife, Maureen Sullivan Taylor, would later establish a donor-advised fund at DuPage Foundation.

That was 22 years ago, and he has remained active on various committees since then, making him the longest-running volunteer leader in the nearly 35-year history of DuPage Foundation, according to the news release. Booth was a member of the Finance Committee until it split into the Audit, Financial Operations and Investment committees in 2005. He then served as chair of the Audit Committee from 2005 to 2008. He has been on the Financial Operations Committee since 2009.

Booth has also served on the board of the Hinsdale Humane Society, a DuPage Foundation grantee, including as its chairman at the time that the society bought, built out and moved into its new building, the site of another foundation grantee, the former Robert Crown Center (now Candor Health Education) in Hinsdale.

“Matt’s commitment and loyalty to the foundation over all these years is commendable, but it’s his knowledge, intuition and deep understanding of the foundation and its operations that make him such a valued committee member. Plus, he is a prince of a guy, and we all really enjoy working with him,” DuPage Foundation President and CEO Dave McGowan said in the news release.

Booth graduated with a degree in business from the University of Iowa and earned his MBA from the University of Chicago. He is a CPA and recently began the process of becoming a certified executive coach from the Hudson Institute. He plans to become certified in late 2021 and hopes to use that skill as well in the future, the news release said.

The foundation manages more than $95 million in assets and has awarded $55 million in grants to nonprofits since its founding in 1986.