Chuck McQuaid, Chartered Financial Analyst, spent 40 years in the investment business, beginning as a securities analyst. Thirty eight of those years were with Columbia Wanger Asset Management and its predecessor companies, where he eventually became a Portfolio Manager, then Chief Investment officer, and finally President.

He has been a Trustee of the Morton Arboretum, Lisle Illinois, since 2016. From 2011 to 2020 he was a Trustee of Beloit College. Chuck’s son James graduated from Beloit College in 2011, and subsequently achieved a law degree from Notre Dame. Mr. McQuaid earned a B.B.A. from the University of Massachusetts in 1974 and an M.B.A. in Finance from the University of Chicago in 1976. He and his wife Monica live in Downers Grove Illinois.