Roberta Kramer is a 25-year veteran of the art and antiques world. Before beginning her career in auctions, she spent two years curating for the Ben Uri Art Society in London. Returning stateside, Roberta served as Gallery Director for J. Rosenthal Fine Art until her interest in Continental Antiques led her to a management position at Rita Bucheit, Ltd. In 1992, with her extensive knowledge of fine art and antiques, Roberta started her auction career at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers as an account executive. In 1995, after taking a leave to found the Antiques Center at Kinzie Square, she was named Consignment Director of newly formed Chicago auction house, Susanin’s Auctions. While at Susanin’s she also managed the appraisal department and served as principal auctioneer alongside Sean Susanin. In 2001 she founded Roberta Kramer & Associates, Inc., a firm specializing in appraisals and art consulting. A recognized USPAP qualified appraiser and licensed auctioneer, Roberta has served as a charity auctioneer for numerous charities and has been a frequent contributor to Art & Antiques Magazine. 

Roberta joined HA in 2016, opening the first regional office in the Midwest for the company.  Along with her staff of specialists in multiple areas of collecting, she serves the Chicago and greater midwestern region of the country.

Before joining Heritage, Bill King was the former Director of Stay Tooned Galleries, a Midwest animation art gallery chain, and was a team member for the long-running 1990s Midwest Animation Lecture Series.  

A graduate of the University of Mississippi with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, he also has 25 years of experience in the graphic design and illustration field both as a Sr. Art Director for Omnicom’s Adpac Corp. and as a freelance artist/consultant to many of Chicago’s top ad agencies. In 2004, Bill and his cousin, Las Vegas Comedy Magician Mac King, created the syndicated Sunday comic feature “Mac King’s Magic in a Minute.” The strip continues to this day, distributed through Andrews McMeel Syndication and appearing online and in newspapers all over the world. He is also a member of the exclusive National Cartoonist Society, a club dedicated to the advancement of cartooning arts. Bill and his lovely wife Joetta live on Chicago’s north side.

What began as a summer job in the early 90s evolved into a lifelong passion that has built a foundation of knowledge, making Matthew an unquestioned expert in the hobby.

Matthew started by setting up and manning the table of 50-cent comics outside a shop in Queens, N.Y. McGee later clerked at and eventually managed the world-renowned St. Mark’s Comics in New York City and later managed the back issue operation for Midtown Comics.

The breadth of his knowledge and the depth of his passion for comics and the comic book industry have taken him from coast to coast, from New York to the Pacific Northwest.

Before joining Heritage as a Jewelry Consignment Director in its Chicago office, Jamie Henderson spent nine years at Leslie Hindman/Hindman Auctions as an account executive, catalog, and specialist for fine jewelry, timepieces, and artisan silver jewelry. Additionally, she worked at Professional Gem Sciences Laboratory laser inscribing diamonds and at the Haifa Faisal Collection of Saudi Arabian Traditional Arts as a catalog. 

Jamie’s initial love of jewelry came from her mother, while an affinity for science was inherited from her father, who was an Air Force officer. Living overseas as a child, she experienced influential locales such as the salt mines in Austria; traveling throughout the US, she also visited places such as the petrified forest in Arizona and the diamond mine in Arkansas. These adventures, as well as her experiences working at the Haifa Faisal Collection and the diamond lab, made her entry into the jewelry auction industry easy and appealing.

Holding a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Jamie is a current GIA student and holds Diamonds and Colored Stone Essentials Certificates. In addition, she is a member of the Women’s Jewelry Association (WJA), Association for the Study of Jewelry & Related Arts (ASJRA), and National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors (NAWCC). Her personal collection jewelry collection includes a few hard-to-find silver Tiffany pieces and smaller Edwardian rings, and she is always on the lookout for an amazing silver artisan piece.

Hailing from a collecting family in New York City, Heritage
Consignment Director Jon Fuld was given sports cards and memorabilia at a young
age that his father collected from the 1950s and that his grandfather collected
from the 1910s. His grandfather, James Fuld, Sr., was a prominent historian and
collector of music, including handwritten scores and first editions, and wrote
The Book of World-Famous Music. Jon learned early on how to take care of and
assess physical objects of value. He routinely attended Gloria Rothstein and
The National sports shows and negotiated with veterans in the business from an
early age.

Jon turned this collecting legacy into a career, serving as a
pre-war and post-war sports memorabilia dealer in New York, as well as a fine
art dealer and a pawnbroker, prior to joining Heritage. He attended Johns
Hopkins University and Fordham Law School, and earned a Certificate in Old
Masters Art from Christie’s. A collector in many fields — sports memorabilia,
historical items, Old Masters art and contemporary art — Jon views every
physical object as unique, and relishes the opportunity to bring to light
the important particulars of each piece. Jon recently handled the estate of
Ernie Banks, the estate of Sid Luckman and the collection of Bob Dandridge.

Samantha Robinson is a Chicago-based Director of Decorative Arts & Design, with interest and expertise in early 20th century and modern & contemporary design, in particular art and studio glass and ceramic. Samantha co-directs Heritage's Pursuit of Beauty: Art Nouveau, Art Deco & Art Glass auction series and has overseen the sale of several important private collections including the Estate of Jerry N. Black, the Collection of Phillip and Gretchen Arth, and the Collection of Jeep & Carla Harned. Samantha is also a licensed auctioneer in the state of Texas. 

Samantha received a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota in 2010 and a Master of Arts in Art in Art History from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas in 2014. Samantha joined the Dallas Museum of Art as a McDermott Graduate Curatorial Intern of Decorative Arts in 2014, advancing to the positions of Digital Collections Content Coordinator in 2015 and finally Interim Assistant Curator in 2016. In addition to managing the research and display of the permanent collection, she curated three special exhibitions - The Wittgenstein Vitrine: Modern Opulence, Shaken, Stirred, Styled: The Art of the Cocktail, and Iris van Herpen: Transforming Fashion. Samantha served as an Editor at Everything But The House, a Cincinnati-based online estate sale start-up, before joining Heritage Auctions in June 2018.

Heidi Calkins leads business development for Heritage Auctions in Chicago.  Working closely with specialists across categories, she focusses on identifying and securing new business opportunities while enhancing the reputation of Heritage Auctions in the Midwest region.  

Heidi’s background includes a diverse mix of both agency and corporate communications experience.  While at Edelman, Heidi held several positions including Vice President, Crisis and Issues Management.  During this time, she worked across agency groups gaining experience in consumer marketing, corporate sponsorship, investor relations and reputation management.  Later, in Corporate External Public Affairs at Abbott, Heidi supported C-Suite executives in both promoting and managing issues related to global citizenship, acquisitions and novel, new product introductions.   

Just prior to joining Heritage Auctions, Heidi served as a consultant and project manager at Curioso, a hospitality design firm, where she led change management initiatives that addressed branding, core messaging and new business acquisition.  

Heidi holds an MA in journalism from NYU and resides in Chicago with her husband and son.