Cliff Illig Biography
Cliff Illig is a substantial presence on the Kansas City entrepreneurial, life sciences and business development scene. He is a recipient of a number of national as well as regional Entrepreneur of the Year Awards. He is a real estate developer, an angel investor and also serves as an advisor to a number of Kansas City’s entrepreneurial startup companies. Cliff and his Cerner co-founder, Neal Patterson, lead the group of Kansas City entrepreneurs that owns the Kansas City Wizards Soccer Club and that is driving the $1 billion re-development of the Bannister Mall area anchored by a new soccer-specific stadium for Kansas City. Cliff serves on the Board of Governors of Major League Soccer. Finally, Cliff is active on more than a dozen of our area’s civic boards and organizations. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Stowers Institute for Medical Research and of BioMed Valley Discoveries, the for-profit life sciences commercialization arm of Stowers. He is on the boards of the Boy Scouts, the First Hand Foundation as well as the KU Edwards Campus in Overland Park. He and his wife, Bonne, are also active in their support of an array of local and national civic and charitable causes. |
