Joe Wicklander has joined Old National Bank as senior director of a newly created financial institutions group. In this role, Wicklander will be responsible for building out a team to focus on providing credit, liquidity, treasury management and capital markets solutions to financial sponsors, hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, asset managers, broker dealers, futures commission merchants, financial exchanges, specialty finance companies and more. He will office in downtown Chicago.

“I am confident that Joe’s expertise and experience in the financial institutions vertical will position Old National for tremendous success while further differentiating us from our regional bank competitors,” Mike Jamieson, commercial market president for Old National, said.

Wicklander brings more than 20 years of financial experience to Old National. For the past decade, he led the financial institutions group for CIBC Bank in Chicago. Prior to that, he held several executive positions at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, including director of global treasury and liquidity sales, alternative asset managers.

Wicklander earned his bachelor’s degree from Kalamazoo College and studied accountancy at DePaul University. He also earned an MBA from University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. He is active in his community where he has held – and currently holds – leadership roles for numerous civic and professional organizations.