Sharon is Senior VP and an owner of C&R Research, a custom market research company in Chicago. The company, 130+ employees strong, is approaching its 50th anniversary, She is also married (for 35 years) to Marc Seidler, an attorney at DLA Piper, and is a mother of four evolving adult children. Her second son, Paul, was a very close friend of Gary Lichtenstein, who passed away in 2003 from a malignant brain tumor. Gary and Paul were classmates at the University of Michigan and roommates in Chicago when Gary was first diagnosed.

Sharon Seidler