Kevin L. Freeman, Chairman

Kevin L. Freeman was appointed to the State of Illinois Property Tax Appeal Board in December of 2003. Mr. Freeman serves as Vice President and Chief Counsel, Finance & Transactions, at Tenneco Inc., a multi-billion dollar revenue company in the automotive sector with over 100 facilities in more than 25 countries, where he is in charge of the legal aspects of all transactional matters including M&A, real estate transactions, financing and capital markets matters. Prior to joining Tenneco in 2018, Mr. Freeman served for over five years as Senior M&A Counsel at Accenture LLP, a Fortune 500, publicly-traded, $40B dollar revenue company, with over 120 offices in 80 countries, where he lead global acquisitions, equity investments and joint venture formation on behalf of Accenture. And prior to joining Tenneco, Mr. Freeman was in private practice for over 18 years, focusing on mergers & acquisitions and general corporate and commercial matters. In addition to his service to PTAB, Mr. Freeman also served on the Cook County Zoning Board of Appeals from 1998 until 2018, and was appointed Chairman in 2014.

Mr. Freeman has also served on a variety of non-profit boards including:

• The American Cancer Society;
• Landmarks Illinois;
• Street Level Youth Media;
• The Albany Park Theater Project;
• The Fellows Program of Leadership Greater Chicago;
• The Chicago Community Trust Young Leaders Fund;
• Chicago Council on Global Affairs Young Leaders Exchange;
• Project H.O.O.D. (Helping Others Obtain Destiny); and
• Debate-it-Forward.

A graduate of Northwestern University (BA, 1991) and The University of Chicago Law School (JD, 1994), Mr. Freeman resides in Chicago.