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
Chunk 47
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 married to the sister of Mr. Wehmer’s wife. Mr. Murphy is a member of the Executive Advisory Committee of First Insurance Funding and Wintrust Life Finance. David L. Stoehr (65) — Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer — Mr. Stoehr joined the Company in January 2002 and manages all financial and accounting affairs of the Company, including internal and external financial reporting. Previously, Mr. Stoehr was Senior Vice President/Reporting & Analysis at Firstar/U.S. Bancorp, Director of Finance/Controller of Associated Banc-Corp with primary responsibility for financial accounting and reporting, business unit financial management and data warehouse design and implementation. Prior to his association with Associated Banc-Corp, Mr. Stoehr was Assistant Vice President/Balance Sheet Management at Huntington Bancshares, Inc., Columbus, Ohio, from 1993 to 1995 and Financial Reporting Officer at Valley Bancorporation, Appleton, Wisconsin, from 1983 to 1993. Edward J. Wehmer (71) — Founder and Senior Advisor — Mr. Wehmer, a founder of the Company, has served as Founder and Senior Advisor since May 2023. Prior to May 2023, Mr. Wehmer served as Founder and Chief Executive Officer since February 2020. He also served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company from May 1998 to February 2020. Prior to May 1998, Mr. Wehmer served as President and Chief Operating Officer of the Company since its formation in 1996. He served as the President of Lake Forest Bank from 1991 to 1998. Mr. Wehmer is a certified public accountant and earlier in his career spent seven years with the accounting firm of Ernst & Young LLP specializing in the banking field and particularly in the area of bank mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Wehmer serves as the Lead Independent Director on the board of directors of Stepan Company (NYSE: SCL), a chemical manufacturing and distribution company, and will continue to serve in this role until April 29, 2025. He also serves as a director of the Catholic Extension Society, as a Life Trustee of Northwestern Memorial Health Care and of Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital and Foundation, as chair of Northwestern Memorial Hospital Foundation, and as the vice chairman of the Finance Council of the Archdiocese of Chicago. Thomas P. Zidar (56) — Executive Vice President and Senior Market Head of Wealth Management Services