RITA LUISA JOHNSON

I was born in Germany and raised in both Germany and the US.
I attended schools in Germany as well as in the US. and graduated
from Iowa Wesleyan College (BA), Roosevelt University (MBA) and
the University of Regensburg, Germany. I began my career with the
First National Bank of Chicago and was assigned to the Continental 
European Division, Frankfurt Branch after graduating from the
university. I enjoyed various assignments with First Chicago, First
Chicago NBD and Bank One, now JPMorgan Chase in the European and in
Asian Division.  After an assignment in the Japan Marketing Division,
I transferred to the European Division and was responsible for European
companies and banks in the US until 2000 when we moved to Naples,
Florida. There I took on an assignment in Wealth Management until 2004,
when we moved back to Chicago and I began my career  back in 
International with Fifth Third Bank. My husband, Rick Johnson who I
have been married to for 25 years is Swedish and we have traveled to 
Sweden many times personally as well as professionally. In 2005, I was 
in Sweden several times, on business and we at Fifth Third, entered in
to several new Swedish corporate banking relationships.