Mr. Ballantine is a director/trustee of DWS Funds, Healthways Inc. and Portland General Electric. He previously served on the boards of First Oak Brook Bancshares and the Oak Brook Bank, Enron (post-bankruptcy), Prisma Energy International, FNB Corp. and Tokheim Corp. He was also chairman of the financial services advisory group for Glencoe Capital, a private equity firm. Mr. Ballantine retired in 1998 from First Chicago NBD Corp., where he served as executive vice president and chief risk management officer. He had previously been responsible for international banking operations and a variety of trust operations at the company and its predecessor, First Chicago Corp. Mr. Ballantine is also a director and past vice chairman of the board of trustees of Window to the World Communications, and is a director of the Music and Dance Theater Chicago and of Lake Forest College. He holds a BA from Washington & Lee University and an MBA from the University of Michigan.