John W. Ballantine

John Ballantine is an active private investor and a director/trustee of DWS, Healthways Inc. and Portland General Electric. He has previously served on the boards of Enron (post bankruptcy), Prisma Energy International (a wholly-owned Enron subsidiary), FNB Corp. and Tokheim Corp. He also served as chairman of the Financial Services advisory group for Glencoe Capital, a private equity firm.

Ballantine retired from First Chicago NBD Corporation in 1998 where he served as executive vice president and chief risk management officer. Previously he was responsible for International Banking operations, the company's New York operations, Latin American Banking, Corporate Planning, U.S. Financial Institutions business and a variety of Trust operations at the company and its predecessor, First Chicago Corp.

Ballantine is also a director and past vice-chairman of the Board of Trustees of Window to the World Communications lnc. Chicago, a director of the Music and Dance Theater Chicago (Harris Theatre) and a trustee of Lake Forest College. He has previously been on the boards of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and the American Craft Museum in New York, as well as serving as past chairman and president of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago.

Ballantine holds a BA from Washington & Lee University (1968) and an MBA from the University of Michigan (1970). He is the chair of PGE's Compensation Committee and a member of PGE's Audit Committee.