Brian is President of Northern Trust - East Michigan. He is responsible for leading the East Michigan office, providing banking and wealth management services to successful individuals, families, privately held businesses and institutions.

Responsible for the investment management of high net worth individual, foundation, endowment, and various institutional accounts for the Private Bank. Serves on Asset Allocation Committee designed to administer strategic and tactical asset allocation across firm-wide Wealth Management investment product types. Recognized as regional bank leader in both client service and retention facets. Recommended for and attended bank-wide leadership training classes in 2006 and senior leadership classes in London in 2007. Assets under management include active domestic and international equity, enhanced cash, intermediate to long bond, and alternative investments. Product types include open architecture and proprietary investment management. Promoted from Vice President to First Vice President in 2005.

Communicates investment strategy, performance attribution, risk statistics, and organizational structure to corporate, endowment, central bank, sovereign and public fund plan sponsors. Initiates trading of equity, fixed income and alternative investments portfolios across all global investment mandates. Monitors and trades institutional client investment portfolios ensuring compliance to stated investment guidelines and investment strategies. Voted top client relationship executive across combined Chicago and New York corporate offices. Responsible for the administration of 40 client portfolios totaling over $3.5 billion in assets.

Investment Performance Consultant - 1997-1998Compiles and reports on investment performance and attribution characteristics for Wealth Management clients as well as all active and passive institutional mutual funds. Analyzes the dissemination of mutual fund performance statistics ensuring the legality of its format based on NASD principles. Develops a wide variety of investment-oriented informational and analytical reports for use by prospective clients and internal portfolio management. Formulates reports on assets under management and various risk characteristics.Senior Global Portfolio Analyst, Global Custody - 1996 to 1997Primary client contact for one of the Banks largest global institutional custodial relationships. Responds to internal and external inquiries from all partners, providing guidance and solution. Reconciles all investment manager queries including setting and maintaining audit procedures to ensure a fluid review cycle. Maintains a complex audit examination which requires calculating rates of return on portfolios including a security mix of futures, options, mortgage-backed securities, and convertible instruments. Performs quality control checks on the audits of junior analysts ensuring uniform and accurate information delivery.Global Portfolio Analyst, Global Custody - 1995 to 1996Ensures the accuracy of clients’ financial and portfolio performance data. Resolves internal and external inquiries regarding institutional trust investment portfolios involving various areas of the Bank including London operations. Analyzes the processing, performance attribution, and accounting practices of client portfolios totaling $15 billion in custodial assets.