Pete Ricketts is the founder of Drakon, LLC, an asset management company in Omaha, Neb. He previously served as a director for the Company from October 1999 to May 2006 before he resigned to campaign for election to the United States Senate for the State of Nebraska.
From 1993 to 2005, Ricketts served in various leadership positions with the Company, including executive vice president and chief operating officer, corporate secretary, president of the private client division, senior vice president of strategy and business development, senior vice president of product development and senior vice president of marketing.
Ricketts is also the chairman of the Omaha board of Children's Scholarship Fund. He is also a director of Chicago Baseball Holding LLC (the holding company for the Chicago Cubs major League Baseball franchise), a director and president of the Platte Institute for Economic Research, Inc. and an advisory board member for the Alumni Capital Network, a private equity firm based in New York. He serves on the global advisory board for the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, as a member of the board of directors of Bellevue University and as a member of the board of trustees for the American Enterprise Institute.
Ricketts received an M.B.A. in marketing and finance and a bachelor's degree in biology from the University of Chicago.