bank of montreal (BMO:Toronto)

Executive Profile*

Background*

Mr. William A. Downe, Bill serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Harris Nesbitt Corp. Mr. Downe has been the Chief Executive Officer and President of Bank of Montreal since March 01, 2007. He has been the President of Marshall & Ilsley Corporation since March 01, 2007. He served as Head of Investment Banking of BMO Nesbitt Burns, Inc. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of BMO Capital Markets Corp. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of BMO Financial Group ... and President of BMO Financial Group of BMO Harris Bank National Association and BMO Capital Trust II since March 01, 2007. Mr. Downe joined Bank of Montreal in 1983 as a Credit Analyst and held a variety of senior management positions in Denver, Houston, Chicago and Toronto. Mr. Downe served as Head of Investment Banking of Harris Trust & Savings Bank. In 1992, he was named Senior Vice-President, U.S. Corporate Banking. In 1996 he was appointed as an Executive Vice President, North American Corporate Banking and in 1998 took on responsibility for Global Fixed Income and Global Treasury. He served as Chief Operating Officer of BMO Financial Group of Harris Bankcorp Inc. He served as the Chief Operating Officer of Bank of Montreal since February 01, 2006. He served as Head of Investment Banking Group of Bank of Montreal. He served as Chief Executive Officer of BMO Nesbitt Burns since May 1, 2001. Mr. Downe has responsibility for all of the businesses in BMO Financial Group in Canada and the U.S. directed at corporate and institutional and at individual investing clients. As of September 2002, he also assumed responsibility for all U.S. operations, including Harris Bank, BMO's Chicago-based retail banking division. He served as Interim Chief Executive Officer of Personal & Commercial Client of Bank of Montreal since May 2006. He has been Deputy Chairman of BMO Financial Group since May 1, 2001. He served as a Deputy Chair of Bank of Montreal since 1999. He has been a Director of Bank of Montreal since March 01, 2007. Mr. Downe serves as Trustee of Rush University Medical Center. He has been a Director of BMO Financial Group at BMO Capital Trust II since 2007. He serves as Director and Member of Canadian Advisory Board of Catalyst Inc. He serves as Director of Harris Investment Management, Inc. Mr. Downe serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, where he has served as a board member since 2001. Mr. Downe serves on the Federal Reserve Board's Federal Advisory Council (FAC). Mr. Downe was board member of Goodwill Industries of Chicago and is a member of the Chicago Club. In 2003, he received the Rotman Distinguished Business Alumni Award from the University of Toronto's Joseph L. Rotman School of Management and in 2005, an Arbor Award from the University of Toronto in recognition of outstanding personal service to the university. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wilfrid Laurier University and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Toronto, which he obtained in 1978.

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