Bruce J. Young President, Institutional Sales and Trading Vice Chairman, Executive Committee Member, Board of Directors 350 N. Clark St. Chicago, IL 60610 312-595-7140

Area of Focus: Institutional Sales and Trading

Profile:

• Heads Mesirow Financial's Institutional Sales and Trading division
• Member of Mesirow Financial's board of directors and executive committee
• Responsible for new product development for the fixed-income market, for direction of marketing and sales with a broad range of insurance companies, banks, pension funds and money managers, and managing the firm's position inventories and the hedging of risk associated with those positions
• Previously CEO and founder of Young Capital Group, an institutional sales and trading firm with nearly 25 employees and offices in Chicago and Greenwich, Connecticut
• More than 40 years of experience
• Holds Series 7 and Series 24 licenses

Education:

• B.A., Roosevelt University

Affiliations:

• Lookingglass Theatre, board member
• NASD District 8 Nominating Committee, past chairman
• NASD District 8 Conduct Committee, past vice chairman
• Chicago Stock Exchange, past board member
• Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, past board member
• North American Company for Life and Health Insurance, past board member
• United Jewish Fund, Financial Services Division, past dinner chairman
• Chicago Bond Club Board of Governors, past member