Bob Wild joined the Pension Boards in February 2022 as General Counsel, Chief Risk Officer, and Corporate Secretary. He also serves as a Director (ex officio) and Corporate Secretary for the United Church Board for Ministerial Assistance, the Pension Boards’ philanthropic arm.
Bob advises the Board of Trustees and the Executive Leadership Team on all legal and governance matters and manages enterprise risk. He is engaged in initiatives to broaden and enhance the Pension Boards’ financial services offerings to serve its members and the United Church of Christ.
Prior to his current role, Bob represented the Pension Boards for several years as its engagement partner in his law firm practice.
Bob was a corporate and securities partner in the Chicago offices of Mayer Brown, Katten, and Krieg DeVault. For over 30 years, Bob advised companies on public and private stock and debt offerings, mergers, acquisitions, asset sales, SEC reporting, and corporate governance. He focused his practice on clients in the financial services sector.
Bob has written and updated for several years a federal securities law compliance treatise published by Thomson Reuters; he wrote numerous client alerts on securities laws developments; and guest-lectured classes on mergers and acquisitions at the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law and DePaul College of Law for almost a decade.
Before law school, Bob practiced tax accounting at a predecessor of EY and earned an MS in Taxation from DePaul University. He graduated from Loyola University Chicago with an undergraduate degree in accounting and a law degree.
Bob and Lisa, his wife of over 30 years, have a son and daughter in college and a daughter in high school. They are members of St. Pauls UCC in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago and Bob serves on its Finance/Investments Committee.