Joel Childs Position: Account Executive Alma Mater: Northeastern Illinois University

Joel Childs joined Northwestern in August 2010 and serves as an account executive. Childs is involved with selling season tickets, providing support and customer service to current season ticket holders and increasing group ticket sales for Northwestern ticketed sports.

A graduate of Northeastern Illinois, Childs is familiar with the Northwestern athletic department, serving as a sales and marketing intern in 2009-10 while also gaining experience as a marketing intern for the Chicago Machine of Major League Lacrosse.

Childs, who served as U.S. Navy hospital corpsman from 2001-09, lives in the northern suburbs with his wife, Melissa, and their two daughters, Addison and Delaney.