WINTRUST FINANCIAL CORP (WTFC)
Sector: Financials
| Ticker | Position | Age | Qualifications and Experience | Committee Memberships | Filing Year |
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Sector: Financials
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Director information for WTFC
| Ticker | Position | Age | Qualifications and Experience | Committee Memberships | Filing Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WTFC | Member; Director | 57 | [] | ["Compensation Committee","IT/IS","Risk Management"] | 2026 |
Biography sourced from the proxy statement filing.
Laura A. Kohl (57), Director since 2025 . Ms. Kohl currently serves as Chief Information Officer of Morningstar, Inc. (Nasdaq: MORN) ( Morningstar ), a global financial services firm providing independent investment research and data platforms. She has served in this role since April 2021. In her role at Morningstar, she leads the company s global technology strategy and continues to create efficiencies with artificial intelligence and other corporate systems to drive growth, product and service excellence, security and operational productivity. From September 2019 until joining Morningstar, she served as Senior Vice President, Enterprise Applications at Ulta Beauty Inc. (Nasdaq: ULTA) ( Ulta Beauty ), where Ms. Kohl was responsible for the enterprise application development, including eCommerce, enterprise and guest mobility, data analytics, cloud migration, integrations, loyalty, marketing, merchandising, finance, HR, supply chain, store and distribution center technology. Before she joined Ulta Beauty in 2019, Ms. Kohl served in management level roles within the information technology department of United Airlines, Inc. (Nasdaq: UAL) ( United ), including Managing Director, Field Service Delivery & End User Engineering and Support (June 2016 September 2019) and Managing Director, Infrastructure/Platform Engineering (January 2015 June 2016). At United, she was responsible for successfully leading global infrastructure, field support services and end user engineering with an organization of more than 550 team members. She upgraded technical infrastructure, support and deployment with updated technologies and services for premium customer and employee user experience at United at over 360 airport locations and 90,000 employees. Prior to joining United, Ms. Kohl also served in two key management positions as VP, Global Market & Supply Chain Business Integration, International CIO (September 2013 December 2014) and as VP, Global Enterprise & Architecture (May 2012 August 2013) at W.W. Grainger, Inc. (NYSE: GWW) ( Grainger ). At Grainger, she was responsible for international and global supply chain delivery and strategy including working closely with the distribution centers. Ms. Kohl also held various roles for McDonald s Corporation, including the Regional Chief Information Officer for the U.S., Latin America and Canada, providing direct support for more than 14,000 store locations and 22 regional offices with 3,000 employees. She implemented the first Enterprise Resource Planning system and next generation store systems to be adopted globally. Ms. Kohl s extensive knowledge of information technology systems, infrastructure, security and artificial intelligence, M&A and risk management provides the Company with sophisticated guidance regarding the Company s technology and information security strategy and artificial intelligence objectives. In addition, her experience as a senior executive of large, public companies provides her with comprehensive knowledge of the technical issues, particularly relating to artificial intelligence, faced by highly complex businesses.