Terry Athas

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Biography

Mr. Terry Athas serves as Board Member at SAFR Sports. Mr. Terry Athas served as Senior Managing Director at Mesirow Financial. He is responsible for the strategic development of client programs that incorporate all property/casualty and employee benefits insurance products as well as investment management services offered by Mesirow Financial. He is a graduate of Wake Forest University where he received a football scholarship and graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science. Mr. Athas has worked in the Insurance Industry since his graduation from Wake Forest in 1977 and founded his own agency in 1983. In 1988 he merged his business into Mesirow Financial, Inc. became a shareholder and began expanding his efforts into the broader financial services world becoming one of the firm's leading generators of revenue in multiple areas including the Private Equity, Fixed Income, Alternative Strategies Hedge Funds and Wealth Management Divisions. Eventually he left the Insurance Division and worked directly under the Firm's Chairman working with the firms dozens of divisions to assist in revenue growth. In his 28 years at Mesirow the firm grew from $25 Million of Revenue to $500 Million. In 2016 Alliant Insurance Services, a top ten Insurance Broker, purchased Mesirow Insurance Service's and Mr. Athas elected to re-join the Insurance Division as an Executive Vice President and shareholder. He also is an active investor in private companies of all sizes. Mr. Athas has and does serve on numerous charity and business boards, including being Chicago past President of the City of Hope's Insurance Industry, Treasurer for SOS Children' Villages and as an appointee of Illinois Governor Jim Edgar to a committee examining Illinois potential in expanding and attracting Private Equity to the State.