Dan O’Brien, District Governor (2024-25)

Dan is a member and past president of the Rotary Club of Carlinville, Illinois. He first joined Rotary as a member of the Rotary Club of Carbondale, Illinois. He has served as assistant governor for District 6460.

O’Brien, an attorney, practices municipal law and estate planning in Carlinville, Illinois. He is also admitted to practice law in Wisconsin where he has practiced in state and federal courts.
Dan holds a law degree from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale and a bachelor’s degree in rhetoric from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois.

Dan is married to Beth O’Brien, an Internal Medicine Physician. They enjoy travel to the international conventions and look forward to hosting their first Rotary exchange student. Dan and Beth support the Rotary Foundation as members of the Paul Harris Society.

William “Bill” Knake, District Governor Elect (2025-26)

Bill is 1987 graduate of the Western Illinois University, Department of Agriculture in Macomb, IL. He owns and operates Tracer Industries, Inc. A sub-contract machine shop, specializing in wheel spindles and axles. He has been a member of the Havana Club since 1988 and has been an active member that entire time, including serving as Club President during the 1997-1998 Rotary year and Secretary/Treasurer from 2000-2007. He has also supported the District in a variety of capacities, including three terms as Assistant Governor and a stint as District Trainer in addition to being a member of the District’s Visioning and Rotary Leadership Institute Committees. Outside of Rotary, Bill has had numerous volunteer positions, most notably being involved in the Boy Scouts of America since 1973, where he has been a Dist. Commissioner in the W.D. Boyce Council.

Bill and his wife Barbara live in Havana, and they are the proud parents of two adult children Kelsey (Columbia, MO) and Carter (Quincy, IL).

Musonda Kapatamoyo, District Governor Nominee (2026-27)

Matt Machala, District Governor Nominee Designate (2027-28)

Matt Machala is the Vice President and co-owner of IT360, an IT managed services provider with offices in Peoria, Indianapolis, and Colorado Springs. Since co-founding the company in 2006, Matt has focused on new business development, strategy, and innovation, while overseeing the company’s administrative functions. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Purdue University.

Matt’s Rotary journey began in May 2007 when he joined the Rotary Club of Peoria-North. Over the years, he has served as Club President (2015-2016), Club Director, Club Secretary, and as President of Peoria-North’s Foundation. His commitment extends to the district level, where he served as an Assistant Governor for Area 3, participated in the District Advisory & Finance Committee, and co-chaired the 2019 District Conference held in Peoria. Currently, Matt serves on the District Public Image & Communications Committee and is the District Webmaster. He is also a Major Donor to The Rotary Foundation and has attended Rotary International Conventions around the world, including in São Paulo, Atlanta, Toronto, Hamburg, and virtually during the pandemic.

Outside of Rotary, Matt is passionate about giving back to his community. He was honored as a recipient of the Peoria “40 Under Forty” award and has received the Fred Sweat Fellowship and Service Award from the Rotary Club of Peoria-North. Matt has remained active in civic engagement throughout his career.

Matt has been married to his wife Sally since 2000, and they reside in Morton, IL, with their Goldendoodle, Piper. Together, they enjoy contributing to their community and staying active in Rotary’s mission to make a difference locally and globally.

Neal Miller, Immediate Past District Governor (2023-24)

Neal joined the Rotary Club of Springfield in May 1993 and, due to a move, joined the Rotary Club of Galesburg in January 2021.  At the Springfield club, Neal served as President in 2008-09 and several years as treasurer and International Services director. Combining those assignments and his time as a director-at-large, he served on the club board for 16 years. Participating in community service projects and fundraising were important to Neal. He sold citrus and roses, worked cleaning the club’s designated street and volunteered reading and tutoring students at Ridgely School, the club’s adopted school. In 2015, Neal introduced the club to Rotary Flag Service as a fundraiser that could initially augment and long-term replace citrus sales. He took the reins testing flags, poles and lights, developing the procedures for flag installation and deployment, creating a database to maintain customer records and handle billing and payment, creating direct-mail marketing materials, creating routes for Rotarians to deploy and pickup flags and arranging storage for flags and lights. In the first year of operation, every member of the club participated in some aspect of the fundraiser. The Rotary Flag Service is now the club’s largest fundraiser and has the potential to continue to grow.

At the District, Neal served as Vocational Services director for three years, Treasurer for five and one year as District Conference Chair. He has been an active member of the Visioning Team since its inception in 2014.

Beyond the club, Neal served Rotary for eight years at Midwest PETS first setting up and managing registration for the 450 plus annual attendees and then serving one year as Vice Chair and two years as Chair. In 2017 and 2018, Neal served as the Facilities Manager for the annual Zones 30 & 31 Institute.

Neal and his wife Julie have two daughters, Heather and Rachel. Heather resides in Daytona Beach. Rachel is a former outbound exchange student and served as the president of the University of Illinois Rotaract club and later joined the DuPont Circle Rotary club in Washington DC. Rachel and her husband Conrad reside in Falls Church, Virginia.  The Millers have hosted several inbound youth exchange students starting when Heather and Rachel were five and three.