Jack Wing

John A. Wing (Jack) is a partner of Dancing Lion Partners. He brought to the futures industry a unique ability to bring together people and ideas from the futures and securities markets. He began his career at the Securities and Exchange Commission as a financial analyst and a trial lawyer. In 1968 he moved to Chicago to become the general counsel at A.G. Becker & Co., then served as the firm's president from 1975 to 1980. In 1981 he joined The Chicago Corporation as its chief executive officer and continued to lead the firm following its merger with ABN AMRO Inc. in 1997. Wing served on a number of industry boards in both the securities and the futures industries,including the Chicago Board Options Exchange, the Securities Industry Association, the Futures Industry Association, the National Futures Association, and the National Association of Securities Dealers. In addition, he has long had a deep interest in education. In 1992, he founded a masters degree program focused on financial markets at the Illinois Institute of Technology. In 1998, he became chairman of the IIT Center for Law and Financial Markets and founding editor of the Journal of Global
Financial Markets.

In addition to Kartemquin Films, Wing serves on the Boards of the Ravinia Festival, Rush University Medical Center, Illinois Humanities Council and the Chicago Humanities Festival. He also is a member of the Visiting Committee to the Division of the Humanities of the University of Chicago. He serves as a Director of First Chicago Bank & Trust and Columbia Acorn Investment Trust. Wing received a B.A. from Union College, his M.L.A. from the University of Chicago, and his J.D. from George Washington University.