*Fees
In-person Breakfast:
Members - $55 or FREE with function ticket
Student Members - $20
Nonmembers - $75
(member pricing underwritten by CFA Society Chicago)

CFA Institute Qualified Activity: Eligible for 1 credit hour
Attire: Business Casual
Menu: Breakfast Items
Registration: Online
Online registration closes at 5:00 PM on Friday, September 8.
Agenda:
8:00 a.m. - Registration / Breakfast / Networking
8:30 a.m. - Program will start promptly at 8:30 a.m.
9:20 a.m. - Audience Q & A
9:30 a.m.- Conclusion
Speaker Bio: Carole Brown

Carole Brown is the head of the Asset Management Group for The PNC Financial Services Group. In this role, she is responsible for leading PNC’s wealth management and private banking services for high-net-worth and ultra-high-net worth individuals and families, as well as custom investment and advisory solutions for institutional clients.
Prior to being named to her current role, Brown was chief change and risk officer for the Asset Management Group (AMG) and Corporate & Institutional Banking (C&IB) businesses. In this role she was responsible for managing overall operational risk framework, coordinating with all business lines to ensure appropriate risk governance and oversight for change initiatives, and maintaining oversight for business risk appetite, key risk indicators, control validation and testing alongside businesses and enterprise testing. Brown also had responsibility for issues management, regulatory capital models, regulatory examinations, policies and procedures, and first line of defense compliance within AMG and C&IB.
Prior to joining PNC in August 2019, Brown served as chief financial officer for the City of Chicago under Mayor Rahm Emanuel from May 2015 to May 2019. Brown assumed the role of the CFO when the City of Chicago was entering into the greatest fiscal crisis of its 149-year history. She worked closely with the mayor and his senior management team to develop and implement a series of financial reforms to restore financial stability to the city.
Moderator Bio: Deborah Eades
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Deborah Bielicke Eades has been a a shareholder in the Investment Services Group of Vedder Price P.C. since 1999. Prior to joining Vedder Price P.C., Ms. Eades served as in house counsel at Janus Capital (now known as Janus Henderson). Ms. Eades has over 30 years’ experience in the financial services industry representing closed-end funds, open-end funds and asset management firms with a particular focus on complex fund and adviser transactions, product development and design, and regulatory and compliance matters. Ms. Eades is a CFA and has earned the Certificate in ESG Investing.
*Special Notes Regarding Fees:
Regular, Candidate, and Affiliate Members may apply function tickets as payment for Non-member or Student-Member. Credit card required to guarantee ALL reservations except for reservations using Function Tickets. Day-of-event registrations accepted on-site only if applicable and space available. There is a $5 surcharge for walk-ins. Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover are accepted. Cancellations accepted until 5:00 PM, September 5, 2023.
Passport Program:
Members of any CFA society may attend at the CFA Society Chicago member rate. Please Use code PPORTLIVE for in person events. If you are only a member of CFA Institute, you do not qualify for the Society member rate.
CFA Institute CE Qualified Activity:
This program qualifies for credit under the guidelines for the CFA Institute Professional Development Program.
Content shared during CFA Society Chicago programs is not, and nothing in it should be construed as, an offer, invitation or recommendation of any specific financial services company or professional, or an offer, invitation or recommendation to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, any securities in any jurisdiction.