Brad graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1999 with a bachelor’s degree in finance.  Over the next ten years he worked in the commercial banking industry in the greater Chicago area.  He has worked as a credit analyst and then as a relationship manager at Fifth Third Bank (formerly Old Kent Bank) and as an assistant vice president of commercial lending at First Bank (formerly CIB Bank).  For the last four years Brad was the assistant credit manager and then credit manager at National Bank of Commerce, where he was the senior risk officer.  Brad has gained an intimate understanding of commercial lending and a business’ relationship with its financing sources, and is looking to build on that experience in the lending or investment fields.