Financial Services >> CEO Interviews >> May 21, 2001

Brad Luecke – Midwest Banc Holdings, Inc. (mbhi)

BRAD A. LUECKE is President and Chief Executive Officer of Midwest Banc Holdings, Inc. He has been with the company since 1991. He has more than 25 years of bank management experience including being past Chairman of the Board, CEO and President of Citizens National Bank of Downers Grove and past President and CEO of American National Bank of Downers Grove. Mr. Luecke received a BS in Finance from Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois. He is a graduate of the Post Graduate School of Banking at the University of Wisconsin, the Harvard Senior Bank Executive Program at Harvard Business School, and the Stanford Business Management Program at Stanford University Business School. Groups and associations he is involved with include being Treasurer/Board Member of the Oak Park Development Corporation, the Oak Park YMCA and SPA, Inc., as well as a member of the President's Advisory Committee of Dominican University and the Downers Grove Noon Lions Club. Profile
TWST: Could you give us a brief historical sketch of the company and a

picture of the company as it is now?

Mr. Luecke: We are a community'based bank holding company headquartered

in Melrose