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Bruce Alberts
Dan Burkhardt
France A. Córdova
William H. Danforth
Brady J. Deaton
Hugh Grant
Richard Herman
David W. Kemper
Alex F. McCalla
John F. McDonnell
Philip Needleman
Peter H. Raven
Alfonso Romo Garza
P. Roy Vagelos
Robert L. Virgil
Mark S. Wrighton
Usha Barwale Zehr

Board of Trustees

David W. Kemper
Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer
Commerce Bancshare, Inc.


David W. Kemper is Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Commerce Bancshares, Inc., a $14.3 billion regional bank holding company based in Missouri.

Kemper's first career assignment came in 1975, with a two-year post with New York-based Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. He started with Commerce in 1978 and is currently Chairman, President and CEO of Commerce Bancshares, Inc.

Kemper graduated cum laude from Harvard University in 1972. He received a Master of Arts degree in English literature from Oxford University in 1974 and a M.B.A. from Stanford Graduate School of Business (1976). He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Kemper is a Director of Tower Properties Company and Ralcorp Holdings, Inc., and serves as an Advisory Director for Enterprise Rent-A-Car and Bunge North America. He serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Washington University and as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Missouri Botanical Garden. Mr. Kemper is a board member of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, the Stanford Business School Advisory Board, and a member of the Committee on University Resources at Harvard University. He is the Past President of the Federal Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve. He is also Chairman of Civic Progress in St. Louis.






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