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John R. Ettelson became president of William Blair in 2003 and has been CEO since 2004. Under his leadership, the investment banking and asset management business has grown to more than 20 offices globally and annual revenues have tripled to over $1 billion. During his three decades at William Blair, Mr. Ettelson has held various leadership positions within the firm, including; head of mergers and acquisitions, chief financial officer, and chief operating officer. Mr. Ettelson has a deep commitment to his community and is a respected civic leader. He is the past chairman of the board of trustees for Lincoln Park Zoo and of the Economic Club of Chicago. He currently sits on the boards of the Northwestern Medical Group, Francis Parker School, the Executives’ Club of Chicago, and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. He is a member of Commercial Club of Chicago, and is a member of its Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago. Additionally, he is also involved in industry trade organizations where he is on the board and executive committee of SIFMA and on the board of the American Securities Association. Mr. Ettelson received his Sc.B. from Brown University and his JD/M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.

A vision driven leader with a record of driving revenue growth and profitability by developing and executing highly effective strategies within defined risk parameters. Russ Holland has over 26 years of diverse financial services experience involving over $6 billion of consumer, entertainment and commercial loans originated across the United States. In 2013 Russ joined the executive leadership group of SouthCrest Bank NA in Metro Atlanta. At SouthCrest he established a credit culture built to produce high quality consumer and small business banking relationships within this growth oriented financial services company. In 2016, he led the bank's entry into the Entertainment Banking market segment. From 2006 to 2013, Russ Holland was an integral member of the executive management team at Seacoast National Bank, a $4+ billion bank operating 40 retail offices throughout Central and South Florida. At Seacoast he was responsible for the growth, risk management and performance of all lending functions including Business Banking and residential, consumer, commercial and commercial real estate lending. In 2001 Holland joined Union Bank of Florida (now part of BB&T). Here Holland played a critical role in developing the bank's lending teams in order to provide the appropriate platform to grow this South Florida community bank from under $400 million in assets to over $1 billion in assets at the time of its ultimate sale for four times book value in 2005. Holland's career is built on a strong commercial credit foundation beginning at the accounting firm KPMG in Stamford, CT. This foundation was strengthened by the credit policy and commercial credit roles held by Holland at Barnett Bank and it's successors NationsBank and Bank of America. In addition, Mr. Holland was the Chief Financial Officer for the Swerdlow Real Estate Group, a private commercial REIT where Holland helped raise capital and arrange debt to acquire and develop over $1 billion in assets.