Company: WTFCN
Filing Date: 2025-05-22
Form Type: S-8
Source: 0001104659-25-052025
Chunk: 6

Company: WINTRUST FINANCIAL CORP
Filing Date: 2025-05-22
Form: S-8
Chunk 6
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and appoints each of Timothy S. Crane, David A. Dykstra and Kathleen M. Boege, as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact with full
power of substitution and resubstitution, in any and all capacities, to sign this registration statement or amendments thereto and to
file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Commission, granting unto each of said
attorneys-in-fact and agents full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done
in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and conforming all
that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or their substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities
Act, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated on May 22, 2025.

| Name                        |     | Title                                                              |
| /s/ H. Patrick Hackett, Jr. |     | Chairman of the Board of Directors                                 |
| H. Patrick Hackett, Jr.     |     |                                                                    |
| /s/ Timothy S. Crane        |     | President, Chief Executive Officer and Director                    |
| Timothy S. Crane            |     | -Principal Executive Officer                                       |
| /s/ David L. Stoehr         |     | Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer               |
| David L. Stoehr             |     | -Principal Financial Officer                                       |
| /s/ Jeffrey D. Hahnfeld     |     | Executive Vice President, Controller, and Chief Accounting Officer |
| Jeffrey D. Hahnfeld         |     | -Principal Accounting Officer                                      |
| /s/ Elizabeth H. Connelly   |     | Director                                                           |
| Elizabeth H. Connelly       |     |                                                                    |
| /s/ Peter D. Crist          |     | Director                                                           |
| Peter D. Crist              |     |                                                                    |
| /s/ William J. Doyle        |     | Director                                                           |
| William J. Doyle            |     |                                                                    |
| /s/ Marla F. Glabe          |     | Director                                                           |
| Marla F. Glabe              |     |                                                                    |

|                             |     | Director |
| Deborah L. Hall Lefevre     |     |          |
| /s/