Robert W. Lane

Lane was born in Washington, D.C., in 1949. He graduated with high honors from Wheaton College in Illinois in the year 1972, and he went on to receive a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business in 1974. Lane joined First National Bank of Chicago after his MBA. He served in the capacity of Vice President when he quit the job in 1982. Board memberships Lane served on several boards before retiring for health reasons: • BMW AG (2009 - May 2018) • General Electric Company (2005–2017) • The Northern Trust Company (2009–2015) • Verizon Communications (2004–2017) ==Deere & Company==

Lane came to Deere & Company in 1982 from a commercial banking career with First National Bank of Chicago. On his first assignment at Deere, Lane was responsible for managing U.S. government and national account sales. In 1992, he joined the Worldwide Agricultural Equipment division as senior vice president where he directed equipment operations in Latin America, Australia, East Asia and South Africa. He was also a trustee for the Committee for Economic Development. During his tenure the revenues of the company doubled its net income to more than $2 billion. ==Awards==

• Corporate Award by University of Chicago Booth School of Business, 2007 • Lane was inducted as a Laureate of The Lincoln Academy of Illinois and awarded the Order of Lincoln (the State's highest honor) by the Governor of Illinois in 2013 in the area of Business & Industry. ==References==