Thomas Lanctot

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Mr. Thomas Lanctot serves as Chief Executive Officer, President, Treasurer & Trustee at Catholic Investment Services. He serves as Board Member at Chicago Botanic Garden. He also serves as Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He also serves as a Trustee at Vanguard Charitable. He has been a trustee of CIS since our founding in 2014 and became our CEO in 2019. He is a retired partner of William Blair & Company, global asset management, and investment management firm, where he led business units serving major institutional clients. Previously, he practiced law for 23 years at a major firm, serving as a partner and chairing its largest department. He served on the boards of CIS, the Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, the Big Shoulders Fund, which supports Chicago's inner-city Catholic schools, Illinois Institute of Technology, Rush University Medical Center, the Chicago Botanic Garden, the CORE Foundation, and the Forest Preserve Foundation. He graduated from the law school of the University of Chicago, attended the University of Pennsylvania, and received his B.A. from Northwestern University.