Philip B. Flynn - Age: 58
Philip B. Flynn has been President and Chief Executive Officer of Associated
and a member of the Board of Directors since December 2009. Mr. Flynn has more
than 30 years of financial services industry experience. Prior to joining Associated,
he served as Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer of Union Bank. During
his nearly 30-year career with Union Bank, he held a broad range of executive
positions, including chief credit officer and head of commercial banking, specialized
lending and wholesale banking. He served as a member of Union Bank’s board
of directors from 2004 to 2009.
William M. Bohn - Age: 49
William M. Bohn has been Executive Vice President, Head of Private Client and
Institutional Services, of Associated and Associated Bank, National Association
since July 2014. Mr. Bohn also serves as Chairman of the Board of Associated
Financial Group, LLC, and Associated Investment Services, Inc., and Chief Executive
Officer of Associated Trust Company, N.A. He joined Associated in 1997 and most
recently served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Associated Financial
Group from 2004-2015.
Christopher J. Del Moral-Niles - Age: 45
Christopher J. Del Moral-Niles has been Executive Vice President, Chief Financial
Officer, of Associated and Associated Bank, National Association since March
2012. He joined Associated in July 2010 and previously served as Associated’s
Deputy Chief Financial Officer and as Associated’s Corporate Treasurer.
From 2006 to 2010, he held various leadership roles for The First American Corporation
and its subsidiaries, including serving as Corporate Treasurer and as divisional
President of First American Trust, FSB. From 2003 to 2006, Mr. Niles held various
positions with Union Bank, including serving as Senior Vice President and Director
of Liability Management. Prior to his time with Union Bank, Mr. Niles spent
a decade as a financial services investment banker supporting mergers and acquisitions
of financial institutions, bank and thrift capital issuances, and bank funding
transactions.
Patrick J. Derpinghaus - Age: 60
Patrick J. Derpinghaus has been Executive Vice President, Chief Audit Executive,
of Associated and Associated Bank, National Association since April 2011. Mr.
Derpinghaus has over 34 years of banking experience serving in various executive
finance and audit positions. From March 2008 until March 2011, Mr. Derpinghaus
served as Audit Director for U.S. Bank in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Prior to his
position at U.S. Bank, Mr. Derpinghaus served as Executive Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer of The Bankers Bank in Atlanta, Georgia from October
2005 to December 2007.
Judith M. Docter - Age: 54
Judith M. Docter has been Executive Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer,
of Associated and Associated Bank, National Association since November 2005.
Ms. Docter was Senior Vice President, Director of Organizational Development,
for Associated from May 2002 to November 2005. From March 1992 to May 2002,
she served as Director of Human Resources for Associated Bank, National Association,
Fox Valley Region and Wealth Management.
Randall J. Erickson - Age: 56
Randall J. Erickson has been Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate
Secretary of Associated and Associated Bank, National Association since April
2012. Prior to joining Associated, he served as senior vice president, chief
administrative officer and general counsel of Milwaukee-based bank holding company
Marshall & Ilsley Corporation from 2002 until it was acquired by BMO Financial
in 2011. Upon leaving M&I, he became a member of Milwaukee law firm Godfrey
& Kahn’s securities practice group. He had been a partner at Godfrey
& Kahn from 1990 to 2002 prior to joining M&I as its general counsel.
Mr. Erickson served as a director of Renaissance Learning, Inc., an educational
software company, from 2009 until it was acquired by Permira Funds in 2011.
Breck Hanson - Age: 67
Breck Hanson has been Vice Chairman of Associated Bank, National Association
since January 2016. He was previously the Executive Vice President, Head of
Commercial Real Estate and Chicago Market President, of Associated and Associated
Bank, National Association from October 2010 to January 2016. He is also a director
of Associated Banc-Corp Foundation. He has more than 35 years of banking experience,
including over 30 years of leadership responsibility within the CRE segment.
Most recently, he was Executive Vice President, Commercial Real Estate with
Bank of America, where he was responsible for all levels of business in the
Midwest Commercial Real Estate Group, which included 370 employees and 7 CRE
business lines. He spent over two decades in CRE leadership roles with LaSalle
Bank prior to its merger with Bank of America.
Arthur G. Heise - Age: 67
Arthur G. Heise has been Executive Vice President, Chief Risk Officer, of Associated
and Associated Bank, National Association since April 2011. Mr. Heise brings
more than 30 years leadership experience in risk management roles. From October
2007 through March 2011, he held positions of Chief Audit Executive and Director
of Enterprise Risk Services for US Bancorp. Prior to his position at US Bancorp,
Mr. Heise served as Director, Business Risk and Control at CitiMortgage from
2004 to 2007.
Scott S. Hickey - Age: 60
Scott S. Hickey has been Executive Vice President, Chief Credit Officer, of
Associated and Associated Bank, National Association since October 2008. He
was with U.S. Bank from 1985 to 2008, and served as Chief Approval Officer from
2002 to 2008.
Timothy J. Lau - Age: 53
Timothy J. Lau has been Executive Vice President, Head of Community Markets,
of Associated and Associated Bank, National Association since June 2014. Mr.
Lau previously served as Executive Vice President, Head of Private Client and
Institutional Services from December 2010 to June 2014. He is also a director
of Associated Banc-Corp Foundation, Associated Investment Services, Inc. and
Associated Financial Group, LLC. He joined Associated in 1989 and has held a
number of senior management positions in Consumer and Small Business Banking,
Residential Lending, and Commercial Banking.
Christopher C. Piotrowski - Age: 41
Christopher C. Piotrowski has been Executive Vice President, Chief Marketing
Officer of Associated since December of 2014. Prior to joining Associated, he
was previously a Senior Director of Marketing at S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc.
since 2009.
Paul G. Schmidt - Age: 53
Paul Schmidt has been Executive Vice President, Head of Commercial Real Estate,
of Associated and Associated Bank, National Association since January 2016.
He joined Associated in May 2015 as Executive Vice President of Commercial Real
Estate. He was named Deputy Head of Commercial Real Estate in September 2015.
Schmidt brings more than 31 years of banking experience to Associated Bank.
Most recently, he held the position of Executive Vice President, Division Manager,
Commercial Real Estate at Wells Fargo.
David L. Stein - Age: 52
David L. Stein is Executive Vice President, Head of Consumer and Commercial
Banking of Associated and Associated Bank, National Association. He is a director
of Associated Investment Services, Inc., Associated Financial Group, LLC, and
Associated Banc-Corp Foundation. He was the President of the Southwest Region
of Associated Bank, National Association, from January 2005 until June 2007.
He held various positions with J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., and one of its predecessors,
Bank One Corporation, from 1989 until joining Associated in 2005.
John A. Utz - Age: 47
John A. Utz has been Executive Vice President, Head of Corporate Banking and
Milwaukee Market President, of Associated and Associated Bank, National Association
since September 2015. He joined Associated in March 2010 with upwards of 20
years of banking experience, having previously served as President of Union
Bank’s UnionBanCal Equities and head of its Capital Markets division from
September 2007 to March 2010, and as head of the National Banking and Asset
Management teams from October 2002 to September 2007.
James Yee - Age: 63
James Yee has been Executive Vice President, Chief Information and Operations
Officer of Associated and Associated Bank, National Association since May 2012.
Prior to joining Associated, he was a Senior Executive Vice President and Chief
Information Officer at Union Bank, in San Francisco. His experience also includes
serving as Chief Information Officer of Banc of America Securities and Stanford
University Medical Center.
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