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G. Thomas Rogers is a business and civic leader as well as a teaching professor. Rogers is currently a professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and recently taught graduate courses at Chicago's Catholic Theological Union. Prior to holding academic posts, Rogers worked for two decades in the banking and financial services industries.
After having served as an officer in the United States Navy in Asia, he was selected as one of First Chicago Corporation's "First Scholars" -- a management training program for people who showed high potential and significant accomplishment. In his role as staff aid to the vice president of operations and, subsequently, the executive vice president of domestic and international lending, Rogers gained business insights that helped him throughout his career. He then moved to Wisconsin and became senior vice president of First Interstate of Wisconsin, a multi-bank holding company; in this role he was involved in the identification and acquisition of subsidiary banks and managed the firm's commercial lending, equipment leasing and mortgage banking functions.
Rogers moved to Fort Smith, Arkansas to assume the position of executive vice president of City National Bancorporation to build a multi-million dollar holding company for the bank; his consulting expertise led to uncovering loan issues and he partnered with the bank president to strengthen the banking function and address issues that would ready the company for strategic restructuring and expansion. Upon his return to Chicago from Arkansas, Rogers worked as a senior consultant at Holland Partners and devised cutting-edge plans to drive financial recovery and proactive risk management for Midwestern clients. He guided many clients through mergers and asset restructuring.
In his most recent financial services position prior to teaching, Rogers co-founded the Forestal Group, which provided tax-based investment consulting services to Fortune 500 companies. Rogers founded the Integritas Center for Ethics at the University of Illinois at Chicago to provide both business and governmental ethics training. As president and founder of the Board of Advisors for the John Paul II Newman Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago, he headed fundraising efforts to build a dormitory to afford more students the opportunity for on-campus housing within a spiritual environment.
Rogers earned a master's degree in finance from the University of Chicago after completing his military duties as an officer in the U.S. Navy, and later returned to school, earning another master's degree and completing course work for a doctorate in U.S. business and economic history.
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