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Steve Bradshaw is president and CEO of BOK Financial Corporation. He leads a team that oversees a diverse portfolio of services for commercial, consumer, and wealth management clients with banking centers in eight states, including high-growth markets such as Dallas, Houston, Fort Worth, Denver and Phoenix. BOK Financial also operates a number of national lines of business including energy services, healthcare banking, trading and brokerage, mortgage origination and TransFund, a top 10 electronic funds transfer network. Bradshaw became the chief executive at BOK Financial in January of 2014. Bradshaw joined the company in 1991 when he sold his wholly-owned retail brokerage business to BOK Financial. Over the next 23 years, he built the investment and consumer businesses for the organization. Bradshaw earned his bachelor’s degree in business finance from the University of Central Oklahoma and graduated with distinction from the Southwestern Graduate School of Banking at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Very active in the community, Bradshaw is the past chair for the Tulsa Regional Chamber and is former chairman of its convention and visitor’s bureau, Visit Tulsa. He serves on the board of directors of Oklahoma State University's Lew Wentz Foundation, and formerly a trustee on the University of Tulsa board. Bradshaw is a past board member of Tulsa Community Foundation, Tulsa River Parks Authority, Metropolitan Tulsa Urban League, YWCA Tulsa, and Tulsa Habitat for Humanity, Tulsa Area United Way, Domestic Violence Intervention Services (DVIS), and Junior Achievement of Oklahoma.

Mark Hardwick is a Board Member at FIRST MERCHANTS CORP, Trustee at Ball State University, and Chief Executive Officer at FIRST MERCHANTS CORP and is based in Muncie, Indiana. He has worked as Controller at FIRST MERCHANTS CORP, Senior Accountant at BKD CPAs & Advisors, and Senior Accountant at Geo S Olive & Co. Mark works or has worked as MEMBER at Next Muncie. He attended Stonier School of Banking and Ball State University between 1989 and 1993.

Michael O'Grady is Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Northern Trust, a leading provider of wealth management, asset servicing, asset management and banking to corporations, institutions, affluent families and individuals. Mike joined Northern Trust in 2011 from Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he served as a managing director in the firm's Investment Banking Group. He joined Merrill Lynch in 1992. Prior to Merrill Lynch, Mike worked for Price Waterhouse. Mike earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA from Harvard Graduate School of Business. He is a member of the boards of the Field Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Catholic Extension and the Northwestern Medical Group Board of Directors. He also serves on the Finance Council of the Archdiocese of Chicago, the Board of Advisors of Catholic Charities, and the Civic Committee Commercial Club of Chicago.

James C. Ryan III is Chief Executive Officer for Old National Bancorp and was appointed to its Board of Directors on May 2, 2019. Previously, Mr. Ryan served as Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer for Old National Bancorp and Director of Corporate Development and Mortgage Banking. He also served as Integration Executive for our Northern Region, as well as holding the positions of Treasurer and Assistant Treasurer for Old National Bancorp. Mr. Ryan is currently the Chairman of the Economic Development Coalition of Southwest Indiana, Vice Chairman of the Evansville Regional Business Committee, and Secretary and Treasurer of the Southwest Indiana Regional Development Authority. Mr. Ryan is also a member of the Board of Directors for Deaconess Hospital, Inc. and Deaconess Health Systems, Inc., member of the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership, Inc., advisory board member for the Old National Bank Center for Closely Held Business, and advisory board member of the University of Evansville’s Schroeder Family School of Business Administration.

Greg has been a champion of the innovation economy since he joined Silicon Valley Bank in 1993 as a banker to fast-growing technology companies. Today, he is the CEO of the world’s only bank dedicated to the innovation sector around the world.

Mr. Amerson received a B.S. degree in business finance from the University of South Carolina and an MBA from Duke University. Prior to joining AgFirst in 1987, Mr. Amerson was employed by the National Bank of South Carolina. He serves on the AgFirst/FCBT Plan Sponsor Committee, AgFirst Plan Sponsor Committee, the Federal Farm Credit Banks Funding Corporation Board of Directors (member of the Governance Committee) and the Farm Credit System Presidents Planning Committee (member of the Executive Council and Business Practices Committee). Mr. Amerson is a member of the AgFirst Executive Committee.

I lead a $133 billion cooperative bank and member of the Farm Credit System that serves vital agricultural and infrastructure industries across all fifty states of rural America. I have over 20 years of leadership experience in the financial services industry and have extensive experience working with customers all around the world including the solicitation, review, structuring and approval of loan, and bond transactions in multiple industries around the world. My background also includes significant enterprise-wide risk management experience, having served in leadership roles responsible for financial risk disciplines including credit, market, operational, reputational and liquidity. I bring a broad global perspective to my work based on experiences derived from living and working 16 years in Europe and Asia, and advising customers in over 50 countries in Western Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Africa, the Middle East and Asia. I hale from a rural family of farmers and infrastructure providers and I am proud to support the rural economy every day and believe deeply in serving rural communities across the country.

Brendan Swords is a Chairman and CEO at Wellington Management and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.