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About the Company

For more than a century, Northern Trust has worked hard building our legacy of outstanding service, expertise and integrity. From a Chicago-based bank founded in 1889, we now have more than 20 international locations and 16,500 employees globally. We serve the world`s most-sophisticated clients – from sovereign wealth funds and the wealthiest individuals and families, to the most-successful hedge funds and corporate brands. Our guiding principles not only survived but thrived during the Great Depression, two world wars and the 2008 financial crisis. We burnished our reputation as a global leader delivering innovative investment management, asset and fund administration, fiduciary and banking solutions enabled by sophisticated, leading technology. And through it all, we continually laid a solid, forward-looking foundation on which future generations can continue growing and achieving greater.

About the Person

Kenneth Robinson is the VP of worldwide operations and technology for Northern Trust where he manages the network transport engineering team. He has spent the past 20 years as a leader in computer network engineering, earning the industry's highest technical certification, the CCIE, while working for companies in the fields of finance, telecommunications, healthcare, higher education, and consulting. Robinson earned his B.A. with a major in english from the College of Wooster and his MBA from Notre Dame. He serves as president of the board of directors for Fifth House Ensemble, a Chicago based classical chamber music group, and also volunteers with Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Cares, Christian Charities, United Way, and was the Lumity 2013 volunteer of the year.