Financial Services >> CEO Interviews >> May 21, 2001
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 apicture of the company as it is now?
Mr. Luecke: We are a community'based bank holding company headquartered
in Melrose