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George B. Trapp |

George B. Trapp is a Senior Vice President at The Northern Trust Company, Chicago. George acts as a Senior Relationship Manager for Northern Trust's securities lending business in North America. He is responsible for ensuring that Global Securities Lending clients receive quality and coordinated services from our operations, trading and investment areas. George also leads sales and marketing efforts across the global securities lending group and a member of the securities lending management team.
George has over 20 years of experience in the securities lending industry at Northern Trust. Over his 20 year career George has held positions in trading, product development, client servicing and management for the securities lending group. Additionally George has worked in the Chicago, London and Hong Kong offices. Prior to his current position George was regional manager for Asian securities lending. Based in Hong Kong, George's responsibilities included addressing and evaluating securities lending initiatives for lenders and borrowers where Northern Trust as as an agent lender in the Asia Pacific region.
George received a B.A. degree in economics from Denison University, Ohio and is an M.B.A. degree with concentrations in marketing, finance, and management strategy from J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. He holds NASD Series 7 & 63 Securities Licenses.
George is a Board member of the Trustees of the Frank J.R. Mitchell Scroll Endowment Fund.
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