Gregory Dingens Hometown: Chicago, Illinois

Greg Dingens '86, who played defensive tackle under Gerry Faust, joined the Monogram Club Board of Directors in 2008. The three-time Academic All-American and 1986 Byron Kanaley Award winner graduated magna cum laude and earned Phi Beta Kappa honors at Notre Dame. He received post-graduate scholarships from the NCAA and the National Football Foundation. Dingens, who graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1992, has spent his entire career in Chicago. He currently is a partner and the head of investment banking at Monroe Securities Inc., a boutique investment bank which covers the community banking sector, and a general partner of Siena Capital Partners I., L.P., a private investment fund that invests in community banks. He was a managing director and head of the investment banking advisory group at both Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers. Dingens is a member of the Leadership Council for Horizons for Youth, a charitable organization that provides mentorship and scholarship for disadvantaged youth in Chicago . He also serves as a Trustee for the Board of Directors at Sacred Heart Schools, a private Catholic institution where his four children attend.