Veteran Bob Harless joins Milwaukee company from Huntington National Bank. Marshall & Ilsley (M&I) has made Robert Harless director of its investment division. He'll oversee a range of liquidity and fixed-income securities, interest-rate derivatives and risk management solutions, and foreign exchange products.

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He reports to Ken Krei, CEO of M&I Wealth Management.

"Bob brings an exceptional track record and a wealth of industry experience which will contribute to the future growth and expansion of our investment division," says Krei. "We are very pleased to have someone of his caliber leading our investment division and capital markets businesses."

Harless was most recently managing director for corporate risk-management services at Huntington National Bank in Columbus, Ohio. He has also worked at Banc One Capital Markets, Lotsoff Capital Management, and Transamerica.

Milwaukee-based M&I is a diversified financial services company. It's in the process of spinning off Metavante, its banking, payments and investment-management technology unit. -FWR

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