Managing Partner, CAST US at Cleveland Avenue
View Live Interactive Profile →Andy Zopp is Managing Partner, CAST US at Cleveland Avenue, where her firm bio says she "leads the organization's work investing in and supporting minority and women entrepreneurs and their companies". CAST US is the Cleveland Avenue State Treasurers Urban Success Fund, LP, a Delaware fund organised in 2020 whose Form D/A of 11 March 2021 reports a $73,000,000 offering fully sold. Before Cleveland Avenue she was President and CEO of World Business Chicago and, before that, Deputy Mayor and Chief Neighborhood Development Officer for the City of Chicago. She was General Counsel and Chief Human Resources Officer at Exelon Corporation, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at Sears Holdings Corporation, and Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at Sara Lee Corporation, and served as President and CEO of the Chicago Urban League. She was also a federal and state prosecutor, serving as an Assistant United States Attorney and as the first woman and African American First Assistant in the Cook County State's Attorney's Office. Her name appears in the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago's Form 10-K filed 10 March 2026. Her firm bio also lists current board service at Relativity and Intelligent Growth Solutions and chairmanship of the Chicago State University Board of Trustees; those are not recorded as board seats here because no issuer filing confirming them was read. She holds a BA in History and Science from Harvard University and a JD from Harvard Law School.