John W. Ballantine

Mr. Ballantine is a private investor and former chairman of the board of Healthways, Inc. and a director/trustee of DeutscheFunds. He previously served on the boards of Portland General Electric, First Oak Brook Bancshares and the Oak Brook Bank, Enron (post-bankruptcy), Prisma Energy International (a wholly-owned Enron subsidiary), FNB Corp., and Tokheim Corp. He also served as chairman of the Financial Services advisory group for Glencoe Capital, a private equity firm. Mr. Ballantine retired in 1998 from First Chicago NBD Corp., where he served as executive vice president and chief risk management officer. He was previously responsible for international banking operations, the company’s New York operations, Latin American banking, corporate planning, US financial institutions business, and a variety of trust operations at the company and its predecessor, First Chicago Corp. Mr. Ballantine is a director and past vice chairman of the board of trustees of Window to the World Communications, Inc., served on the boards of Public Radio International, is a life director of the Music and Dance Theater Chicago (Harris Theater and past chairman and president of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. Mr. Ballantine holds a BA from Washington & Lee University and an MBA from University of Michigan.