Biography

Karin Teglia

Audit Committee Chair

Wintrust Financial Corporation

Current public company boards: Wintrust Financial Corporation  

Executive Experience: Karin Gustafson Teglia is the former corporate senior vice president of finance at the McDonald’s Corporation. She previously held corporate financial and international tax roles with McDonald’s after starting her career as an international tax consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers.

In addition to Wintrust, Karin also serves on the boards of Hinsdale Bank & Trust, a community bank, chairing the audit committee, and Tricom Funding, a leading provider of administrative and financing services for the staffing industry.

In 219, she co-founded and serves as president of DEKK Investments, LLC, a real estate company.

Additional information: A graduate of Harvard Law School, Karin holds a bachelor of science in business administration from the Indiana University Kelley School of Business. She is a certified public accountant (CPA) and a member of the Illinois Bar Association. An advocate and volunteer for food allergy issues, she served on the advisory panel of the National Academy of Sciences and on the advisory board of the Food Allergy Initiative. She currently serves as the president of the DuPage County Chapter of Legatus, an organization of Catholic business leaders.