Bailey Moore is the Co-founder & Managing Director of Wintrust Ventures, a division of Wintrust Financial Corporation. Wintrust Ventures is a venture fund focused on emerging growth businesses in the Wintrust footprint. She is responsible for investment strategy, fund operations, and portfolio company relations. Since building the venture practice in 2015, Bailey has been responsible for investments in 57 companies representing approximately $100MM in AUM. Wintrust Ventures portfolio companies exceed a combined $2B in enterprise value. She’s led WTFC’s investments in Array Behavioral Care, BetterTrucks, Blumira, Cohesion, EarlyBird, Gesture, Goby, Havenly, Healthfinch, Inhabitr, Lumere, Mom Project, Monica + Andy, Nurture Life, One Cause, PackBack, PageVault, PartySlate, Prism, Provi, Rippleshot, Selerity, SpiderOak, TractorZoom, UrbanBound, Waggl & Zengines. Previously, Bailey held various roles in commercial lending, credit and bankruptcy consulting. In these roles she was able to evaluate hundreds of middle market companies across the country ranging from high growth technology to distressed manufacturing and everything in between. Bailey holds a BS in Business Management and Finance from Purdue University and is also a Kauffman Fellow. She has received various awards including Crain’s Chicago Business’ 20 top professionals in their 20’s and Purdue University’s Young Alumni award. She is a member of the Economic Club and serves on the boards of Fresh Lens Chicago and Illinois Tech’s Kaplan Institute.