Company: WTFCN
Filing Date: 2025-04-03
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-031671
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Company: WINTRUST FINANCIAL CORP
Filing Date: 2025-04-03
Form: DEF 14A
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 she held various executive positions at Allstate and its affiliates. Subsequently, Ms. Glabe served as the Lead Managing Director for MasterMind Advisory Board, a corporation offering advisory services to CEOs and business entrepreneurs and as a member of the Board of Directors for Royal Neighbors of America, a fraternal life insurance company. Ms. Glabe is Senior Advisor for Management Control International, Inc., a privately owned family asset management firm, serves as a director of Northwest Community Healthcare, and is a member of the Society of Actuaries. Ms. Glabe is a director of Great Lakes Advisors, Wintrust Investments, and Wintrust Private Trust Company and serves on the Executive Advisory Committee for First Insurance Funding and Wintrust Life Finance. Ms. Glabe’s business experience gives her in-depth knowledge of managing and providing leadership at sophisticated nationwide organizations in highly regulated businesses. Her knowledge of the insurance industry gives her insight into an area, which, through the Company’s insurance premium financing business, impacts a substantial portion of the Company’s business. In addition, her experience in leadership provides Ms. Glabe with knowledge of the issues faced by large and complex businesses in the financial services industry. As a result of her financial experience, Ms. Glabe qualifies as a financial expert for purposes of rules governing audit committees. Ms. Glabe’s experience on the Executive Advisory Committee for First Insurance Funding and Wintrust Life Finance and as a current director of the boards associated with Wintrust Wealth Management gives her valuable insight into the Company’s non-banking operations. H. Patrick Hackett, Jr. (73), Director since 2008. Mr. Hackett has served as the Company’s Chairman since 2017. Mr. Hackett has been the Managing Member of HHS Partners, LLC, an investment company located in the Chicago area, since 2001. Previously, he served for 12 years as the President and Chief Executive Officer of RREEF Capital, Inc. and as Principal of The RREEF Funds, an international commercial real 28 TABLE OF CONTENTS estate investment management firm. Mr. Hackett is a former Life Trustee of Northwestern University and taught real estate finance at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University for many years when he also served on the real estate advisory boards of Kellogg and of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He serves on the board of First Industrial Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: FR) where he chairs the Investment and Compensation Committees. Mr. Hackett is also an advisory director of