JOHN RAU

John Rau is Chairman and Trustee of the Chicago Title and Trust Company Foundation, which supports many Chicago-based charitable and civic organizations. He also chairs the Advisory Board of BlueStar Ventures, a Chicago-based early-stage venture capital firm.

Mr. Rau was President and Chief Executive Officer of Chicago Title Corporation, a New York Stock Exchange publicly traded company, from January 1997 until its merger with Fidelity National Financial, Inc. in March 2000. He was Dean of the School of Business at Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind., from 1993 through January 1997 when he joined Chicago Title.

Previously, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of LaSalle National Bank (Chicago) and of its predecessor, the Exchange National Bank of Chicago, from 1983 until 1991. Prior to joining Exchange National Bank, he spent eight years with the First National Bank of Chicago.

Mr. Rau served as Economic Development Advisor to the Illinois Governor during 1992 and 1993 and, during the same period, was a Visiting Scholar at Northwestern University's J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management (Evanston, Ill.) and counsel to the firm of McKinsey and Co.

Mr. Rau is currently a director of LaSalle Bank N.A., divine interVentures, inc., First Industrial Realty Trust, Inc., Nicor Inc., Borg-Warner Inc., eReliable Commerce, Inc., Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, The Economic Club of Chicago, The Ravinia Festival, the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, and the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce.

He serves on the Advisory Boards of the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, the Indiana University School of Business, is co-chair of the United Way's Alexis de Tocqueville Society fundraising effort and is chair of the Chicago Humanities Festival 2000 Benefit Committee. He is a member of the Civic Committee of The Commercial Club of Chicago. He is an overseer and past president of the Harvard Business School Club of Chicago and of the YPO Chicago Chapter.

He has authored several dozen nationally published essays and reviews. His book, which researched the characteristics of successful CEOs by studying hundreds of external searches, was published in 1997 by McGraw-Hill and has been translated for international distribution.

Mr. Rau earned his bachelor's degree at Boston College in 1970 and his master's degree in Business Administration at Harvard University in 1972. Mr. Rau and his family reside in suburban Chicago.