Bob Parise is managing director and head of North America for the Global Institutional Client Group at Northern Trust Asset Management, overseeing all institutional client-facing and new business asset management activity in North America. His responsibilities include creating long-term strategy, executing operating plans and developing talented professionals.  Additionally, Bob collaborates across sales and client relationship management teams to establish business strategy and lead the delivery of equity, fixed income, alternative investment and outsourced chief investment office solutions for the institutional segment. He is a member of NTAM’s Business Leadership Council. 

Bob has more than 30 years of financial industry experience. He joined Northern Trust in 2016 as the practice lead for the public fund and Taft-Hartley segment. Previously, Bob worked at J.P. Morgan Asset Management, where he was co-head of the Americas defined benefit business, responsible for new business development and relationship management across a group of corporate, public and Taft-Hartley defined benefit, and defined contribution retirement plans. He also was a Midwest regional manager, a client advisor and an institutional sales executive.

Bob earned his bachelor’s degree in business with an emphasis in finance from Western Illinois University and an MBA from DePaul University. He holds Series 3, 7, 24, and 63 licenses.