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Norman R. Bobins
Chairman Emeritus
Norman
R. Bobins is chairman, president and chief executive officer of
LaSalle Bank.
He is also president and chief executive officer of LaSalle
Bank Corporation, the parent of LaSalle, and senior executive vice
president of ABN AMRO Bank N.V.
Mr. Bobins is vice chairman of Standard Federal Bank, N.A., a
subsidiary of LaSalle Bank Corporation, and a member of the Board of
Directors for Standard Federal Bank N.A.
Mr.
Bobins joined The Exchange National Bank of
Chicago
in April 1981, as senior executive vice president and chief lending
officer. (The
Exchange was acquired by LaSalle National Corporation, now LaSalle
Bank Corporation, in 1990.)
He came to The Exchange from American National Bank and Trust
Company where he was senior vice president, holding various
commercial lending positions over 14 years.
Active in numerous civic organizations, Mr. Bobins holds a
directorship with the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, which
honored him with its Distinguished Service Award in 1982. Other
awards include the American Jewish Committee’s 1992 Human Rights
Medallion, the National REIA Fall Conference’s 1995 Wexler Award,
the 1997 Keshet Rainbow Award, the 1997 CANDO Person of the Year
Award, the 1998 Midtown Educational Foundation Reach for Excellence
Award, the DePaul University 1999 Business Leadership Award, the
2000 Harold Washington College Business Professional of the Year
Award, the 2000 Jane Addams Hull House Medal, the Southwest
Organizing Project Anti-Predatory Lending Award 2001, the Boys &
Girls Clubs 2002 Chairman’s Award, the 2003 University of Chicago
Graduate School of Business’ Distinguished Corporate Alumnus Award
and the 2003 Association for Corporate Growth’s Lifetime
Achievement Award.
Mr.
Bobins is the former Chairman of the Board at the Chicagoland
Chamber of Commerce.
He recently joined the executive board of the Auditorium
Theatre Council and the board of directors of the Terra Foundation
for the Arts.
He continues to serve as a member of the Board of Education
of the City of
Chicago
, where he was re-appointed in June 2002 to a third, four-year term.
He is a member of the board of trustees of WTTW
Communications, Inc. and The Field Museum and is Chairman of the
Illinois Business Roundtable.
He is also a trustee of the University of Chicago Hospitals.
In addition, he serves on The Council on the Graduate School
of Business at The University of Chicago, is a member of the Kellogg
Graduate School of Management Advisory Board and serves on the
boards of
Spertus
College
and the Executive Council of Chicago Metropolis 2020.
His
corporate involvement includes the board of trustees of CenterPoint
Properties Trust, the board of directors of the New York Clearing
House, and directorships at RREEF America REIT II, Inc. and Transco,
Inc. In
addition, he is a member of the Banker’s Club of Chicago, serving
most recently as president; The Financial Services Roundtable and
the Civic Committee of The Commercial Club of Chicago.
He is a former member of the Federal Advisory Council.
Mr.
Bobins earned his B.S. from the
University
of
Wisconsin
in 1964 and his M.B.A. from The University of Chicago in 1967.
He and his wife, Virginia, reside in
Chicago.
LaSalle
Bank N.A. is one of the Midwest’s largest commercial banks and
Chicago
’s second largest bank with more than $60 billion in assets.
LaSalle Bank is an indirect subsidiary of Netherlands-based
ABN AMRO Bank N.V., one of the world’s largest banks with total
assets of EUR 560.4 billion and a presence in more than 3,000
locations in over 60 countries.
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