PROPOSED SLATE OF 2018-2019 OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS CFA Society Chicago is pleased to announce the candidates nominated for officer and director positions on the 2018-2019 CFA Society Chicago Board of Directors. The board includes executives and leaders from organizations across Chicagoland, representing the wide diversity of our membership that forms Chicago’s financial and business community. Board nominees have been selected to ensure that CFA Chicago will continue to grow and evolve to the benefit of all our members by leading the investment profession in the promotion of the highest standards of ethics, education and professional excellence in the investment community. OFFICERS: New one-year term ending June 30: (new term) Chairman: Thomas Digenan, CFA 2019 Vice Chairman: Dan Kastholm, CFA 2019 Secretary/Treasurer: Kristan Rowland, CFA 2019 DIRECTORS: New three-year terms ending June 30: (new term) Class A: Michelle Beck 2019 (Completing final year on RJ Bukovac, CFA term) Class A: Garrett Glawe, CFA 2019 (Completing final year on Dan Kastholm, CFA term) Class B: Michael Holt, CFA 2021 Class B: Dhvani Shah, CFA 2021 Class B: David Smith, CFA 2021 Class C: Tanya Williams, CFA 2020 (Completing final 2 years on Kathy Buck, CFA term) Class D: Marie Winters, CFA 2019 Immediate Past Chair New one-year term ending June 30: Class E: William Fitzpatrick, CFA 2019 Class E: Levoyd Robinson, CFA 2019 Class E: Linda Ruegsegger, CFA 2019 Class E: Mark Toledo, CFA 2019 INFORMATION Directors continuing in their respective terms ending June 30: ONLY: Class A: Doug Laskowski, CFA 2019 Class C: Jenifer Aronson, CFA 2020 Class C: Cosmin Lucaci, CFA 2020 Chief Executive Officer: Shannon Curley, CFA Note that the Executive Committee is comprised of the following positions; Chairman, Vice Chairman, Secretary/Treasurer, Immediate Past Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer. The 2017-2018 Governance and Nominating Committee: Doug Jackman, CFA – Chair, Immediate Past Chair Doug Laskowski, CFA Tim Holt, CFA – Non Board Member Sunitha Thomas, CFA – Non Board Member Justin Shepherd, CFA – Non Board Member Marie Winters, CFA – Chairman (ex-officio) Tom Digenan, CFA – Vice Chair (ex-officio) Tanya Williams, CFA – Secretary Treasurer (ex-officio) Biographical Sketches OFFICERS: For Chair: Thomas Digenan, CFA UBS Tom Digenan is the head of the US Intrinsic Value Equity team at UBS Asset Management. In this role he is responsible for US equities portfolio construction and research. Prior to this role Tom had been a Strategist with the team since 2001, whereby he participated in the analysis and development of US equities portfolios, focusing on alpha generation and ensuring client investment objectives were met. Prior to his role with the US Equities team, Tom was president of the firm’s mutual funds and relationship funds organization. Prior to joining the UBS predecessor organization Brinson Partners in 1993, Tom was a senior manager in the tax department of KPMG Peat Marwick, where he worked exclusively in the investment services industry. Tom is a member of the CFA Institute, the CFA Society of Chicago, and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He was a member of the Dean’s Council of Excellence for the Marquette University Business School from 2010-2016. Tom also served as an adjunct professor in the Marquette University Graduate School of Business from 2012-2016. Education: Marquette University (US), BS; DePaul University (US), MST For Vice Chair: Dan Kastholm, CFA Fitch Ratings Daniel R. Kastholm, CFA, is a Managing Director and Regional Group Head of Fitch Ratings’ Latin America corporate finance team. He is responsible for the management and all operating aspects of the group’s activities. Dan chairs Fitch’s Latin American corporate rating committees and directs the group’s credit ratings and research efforts. Prior to managing the Latin America corporate finance group, Dan was a group vice president in the global power group at Duff & Phelps Credit Rating (DCR), where he covered the global utility and energy sectors with specialization in the emerging markets. In the global power group, he was instrumental in the expansion of the firm’s Latin American utility and project finance business. He took over responsibility for the Latin American corporate finance business at DCR in 1999 and subsequently Fitch, following its merger in June 2000. Dan has more than 25 years of experience as a financial analyst. He spent several years at LaSalle Business Credit, a subsidiary of ABN Amro, where he served as a vice president in the corporate finance area. His responsibilities included new business development and the evaluation and structuring of acquisition and leveraged finance transactions, primarily for mid-sized industrial companies. Before LaSalle, Dan worked at Security Pacific Business Credit as a senior credit analyst, where he was responsible for coordinating due diligence and underwriting activities for specific leveraged and acquisition finance transactions in the corporate finance area. Dan holds a BA and an MBA from the University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign. He was awarded the professional designation of chartered financial analyst in 1992 and is an active member of the CFA Society Chicago. For Secretary/Treasurer: Kristan Rowland, CFA William Blair & Co Kristan Rowland, CFA is a member of the Global investment team at William Blair covering Developed and Emerging market Financials. Prior to joining William Blair in 2011 as a financial advisor, she was a buy-side equity research analyst at Mesirow Financial with coverage responsibility for small cap and micro-cap financials. Earlier, Kristan was an equity analyst at Morningstar where she covered and published research reports on Business Services stocks. She earned a BA from the University of Notre Dame in Economics and French and an MBA from the University of Chicago in Finance, Accounting and Economics. She is a member of the CFA Institute and the CFA Society Chicago. Kristan served as co-Chair of the CFA Society Chicago’s Annual Dinner Committee over the last three years. Kristan serves as member of steering committee for William Blair’s Women’s Alliance. DIRECTORS: New three-year terms ending June 30: Michelle McCarthy Beck Class A Director: (Completing final year of RJ Bukovac, CFA term) Michelle Beck is the Chief Risk Officer of Nuveen, the asset management arm of TIAA. Her responsibilities include investment risk management, operational risk management, and valuation. Before joining Nuveen in 2010, she served as Chief Risk Officer at Russell Investments. From 2003 to 2009 she was the Chief Market and Operational Risk Officer at Washington Mutual Bank. She began her career in 1986 at Bankers Trust which was acquired in 1999 by Deutsche Bank. At Bankers Trust, Michelle marketed and traded interest rate, equity and currency derivatives. From 1991-95, she headed the market risk function for Bankers Trust’s European offices in London, then headed the risk function for the bank’s investment management division in New York. From 1996 to 2003 she provided market risk software and measurement for the bank’s customers, including asset managers, hedge funds and pension funds. Michelle holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Washington and a master’s degree in Government from Harvard University. She is a trustee of the Global Association of Risk Professionals (“GARP”) and heads Chicago’s GARP chapter. She is a member of GARP’s Buy Side Risk Managers Forum, and the Investment Company Institute’s Risk Management Committee and Derivatives Advisory Committee. In addition, she chairs the Chicago chapter of 100 Women in Finance. Michelle’s publications include “Measuring and Managing Market Risk,” co-authored with Don Chance, Ph.D., published by the CFA Institute as a CFA Level II reading in 2016, and “Utilizing Downside Risk Measures,” CFA Institute Conference Proceedings, Third Quarter 2014. Garrett Glawe, CFA Class A Director: (Completing final year of Dan Kastholm, CFA term) Garrett Glawe, CFA, is a Director in the Asset Owners group at S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI). S&P DJI is the world's largest resource for index-based innovation, data and research and seeks to bring independent, transparent and cost effective solutions to the global investment community. Garrett is responsible for developing relationships with retirement plan sponsors, endowments, and foundations throughout the central US and Montreal, Canada. Garrett’s work touches on a wide range of topics including active vs. passive management, factor investing, the importance of benchmarks across asset classes, and environmental, social, and governance issues. Garrett co-authored a research paper called “Big Things Come in Small Packages” that explores why the S&P SmallCap 600 has outperformed the Russell 2000 by 2% annualized since inception. He also developed a case study with the Illinois State Board of Investment called “The Rise of Passive Strategies in Public Pensions”. Prior to his current role, Garrett worked at MSCI from 2011-2015 and Ziegler Capital Management from 2008-2011. He began his career in the equipment finance industry from 2002-2006. He earned his CFA charter in 2011, MBA from DePaul University in 2008, and bachelor's degree in Finance and MIS from Miami University in 2002. Garrett has been a long-time volunteer with the CFA Society Chicago, first with the Candidate Services Group in 2010. His passion for continuing education then led him to work with the Education Advisory Group (EAG) starting in 2012. He took on a variety of leadership roles, culminating in serving as the Co- Chair of the EAG from 2015-2017. Garrett has helped to plan a wide variety of educational conferences on topics including active vs. passive management, retirement security, risk management, smart beta, investing in Latin America, ESG, and risk parity. Finally, Garrett has volunteered at a local high school as part of CFA Society Chicago’s financial literacy efforts.