Wintrust Financial Corporation Hires Chief Diversity Officer
August 26 2016 - 7:00AM
Wintrust Financial Corporation (“Wintrust”) (Nasdaq:WTFC) has hired
Melissa Donaldson to serve as the company’s Chief Diversity
Officer. In this role, she will work with senior leadership
company-wide to drive diversity and inclusion priorities, including
initiatives aimed at increasing diversity in leadership pipeline
development, marketplace reach and community engagement. She will
also manage partnerships to enhance various talent initiatives and
work with business units to reinforce inclusive approaches to
addressing talent needs and marketplace opportunities in order to
drive business success.
“This is a position we’ve been looking to create
for a while now,” said Wintrust’s President and Chief Executive
Officer Edward J. Wehmer. “We know the importance of solidifying
our diversity and inclusion efforts and I could not be more pleased
with the level of talent we’ve found to fill this role. I know
Melissa’s extensive experience and many accomplishments will make
her a real asset to Wintrust.”
Ms. Donaldson was most recently at Walgreens as
Director of Diversity Networks and Communication. Her
responsibilities included strategic partnerships, inclusion
councils, business resource groups, multicultural leadership
initiatives, women’s development strategy and diversity
communications. Prior to that role, Ms. Donaldson was with CDW as
its first-ever Director of Inclusion Practices.
Ms. Donaldson’s work has also been published in
Profiles in Diversity Journal, Diversity Executive and Workforce
Management magazines and shared in a number of industry outlets.
She was named to Women Worth Watching by Profiles in Diversity
Journal in 2008 and is a recipient of the Diversity Officer
Leadership Award by Diversity Best Practices and the Rising Star
Diversity Leadership Peer Award by Diversity Woman Magazine.
About Wintrust
Wintrust is a financial holding company with assets
of approximately $24 billion whose common stock is traded on the
NASDAQ Global Select Market. Built on the “HAVE IT ALL”
model, Wintrust offers sophisticated technology and resources of a
large bank while focusing on providing service-based community
banking to each and every customer. Wintrust operates fifteen
community bank subsidiaries with over 150 banking locations located
in the greater Chicago and southern Wisconsin market areas.
Additionally, the Company operates various non-bank business units
including one of the largest commercial insurance premium finance
companies operating in the United States and Canada, a company
providing short-term accounts receivable financing and value-added
out-sourced administrative services to the temporary staffing
services industry, a business unit engaging primarily in the
origination and purchase of residential mortgages for sale into the
secondary market throughout the United States, and companies
providing wealth management services.
For more information please contact:
Edward J. Wehmer
President/CEO - Wintrust Financial Corporation
(847) 939-9000
David A. Dykstra
COO - Wintrust Financial Corporation
(847) 939-9000
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