Leadership

ChicagoFIRST Board of Directors, Officers and Staff

Bethany Netzel, Chair
Managing Director, Operational Resilience and Global Security
CME Group

Tye Clark, Vice Chair
Director, Business Continuity Management
William Blair, LLC.

Paul Bivian, Secretary
Director, Information Security
Kirkland and Ellis LLP

Michael Wallace, Treasurer
Director, Physical Security, Operations and Business Integration, Financial Crimes Unit
BMO Bank, N.A.

Clint Fransen, Director
Executive Director, Business Continuity and Cyber Resilience, Business Continuity Officer
Options Clearing Corporation

Mark Johnson, Director
Senior Vice President, Business Continuity & Recovery
Northern Trust

Marc Magrini, Director
Vice President, Chief Administration Officer
CBOE Global Markets

Brad Paton, Director
Senior Vice President, US / Canada Response Leader
Bank of America

Board Officers
Michael Carano
John Fowler
Walter Lefmann
Paul Neff

ChicagoFIRST Staff
Steven Caluris, Executive Director
Gary Backus, Associate Director
Yasmin Varallo, Analyst

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Testimonials

ChicagoFIRST has truly made a positive difference to the collective emergency preparedness and business continuity of Chicago’s financial community. It has become a model for many other cities throughout the country. We are especially grateful that the City of Chicago has an impressive reputation for working together with its business community, the State of Illinois and federal government agencies, and other key organizations through the ChicagoFIRST partnership structure. This approach is extremely effective and helpful in supporting the broader Federal Reserve objective of maintaining a stable financial system.

Gordon Werkema, First Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
ChicagoFIRST is a dynamic, cutting edge organization and a model for how regional public/private partnerships can enhance the resiliency of financial institutions. ChicagoFIRST was founded because of the foresight of the Chicago financial services community, and it succeeds because of the cooperation and encouragement of the public sector, especially the City of Chicago and State of Illinois.

Rahm Emanuel, 5th Congressional District (D-IL)
The timely and accurate information streams that I receive through ChicagoFIRST more than justify membership. When the airplane landed in the Hudson River in New York City in January 2009, I learned about it before my colleagues in New York did.

Michael Wallace, Vice President, BMO Harris Bank