Carole Segal is the co-founder of Crate and Barrel, the founder and former CEO of Foodstuffs, and the president of the Segal Family Foundation. She is a trustee of Rush University Medical Center and chair emeritus of the board of governors at Rush University. She is a trustee emeritus of Bates College, a life trustee of Illinois Institute of Technology, a trustee of Chicago Theological Seminary and Catholic Theological Union, and is on the board of overseers of Colorado Mountain College.