Company: ASB
Filing Date: 2025-03-17
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000007789-25-000025
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Company: ASSOCIATED BANC-CORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-17
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 11
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2021, a director of Johnson Financial Group, a privately held financialservices firm, from 2014 to 2019, a director of the Medical College of Wisconsin from 2009to 2019, and a director of Journal Communications, a publicly traded media company, from2007 to 2013. Mr. Sullivan currently serves on the Marquette University Board of Trusteeswhere he served as chairman from 2017 to 2020. He received a bachelor’s degree fromMarquette University and completed executive education at the Kellogg School of Business atNorthwestern University and Harvard Business School.Mr. Sullivan’s qualifications to serve as a director of Associated and member of the EnterpriseRisk Committee include his decades of experience in mergers and acquisitions, talentacquisition, retention and development working for global financial services companies.                                                                       |
| Karen T. van Lith          |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
| Director since 2004Age: 65 | Ms. van Lith is founder and CEO of APEL Worldwide, LLC, an eCommerce investor. Prior to2019, Ms. van Lith provided leadership for technology companies requiring transformativechange. She served as Chief Executive Officer and a director of MakeMusic, Inc., a publiclyheld technology solutions company and as President and Chief Executive Officer of GelcoInformation Network, a privately held provider of transaction and information processingsystems. Ms. van Lith’s board experience includes serving as a director of E.A. Sween, aprivately held company doing business as Deli Express, from August 2012 to December 2019,a director of XRS Corporation, a publicly traded provider of fleet operations solutions to thetransportation industry from 2010 until its sale to Omnitracs in 2014, and a director of CNS, apublicly traded consumer goods company, from 2003 until its 2006 sale to GlaxoSmithKline.Ms. van Lith’s qualifications to serve as a director of Associated, Chair of the TrustCommittee and a member of the Compensation and Benefits Committee include her educationin finance and accounting along with her past and present directorship experience in bothpublic and private companies, as well as having earned NACD Director Certification. Ms. vanLith provides the board with a strong understanding of accounting and experience in financialroles of large publicly held companies. She was a CPA, has practiced with an internationalpublic accounting firm and has served in various executive capacities. She also meets therequirements of an audit