Investment Consultant Dennis White, who retires next week, started with North Shore Investments in 2011, but has 30 years in the investment/financial services business overall. 

In the late 1980s/early 1990s, Dennis worked for a commercial finance company that paid for employees to go back to school to earn graduate and post-graduate degrees. He took advantage of that perk, earning an MBA from the University of Illinois-Chicago. 

When he found an opportunity to get into the personal finance/investment world, he took it and has worked in the field ever since. 

In retirement, Dennis and his wife, Karen, plan to spend time at their second home in Florida. Both are golfers, so they plan to hit the links in Florida and also when they’re in Wisconsin in the summers. 

Dennis said he is leaving North Shore Bank with nothing but positive feelings. 

“I can safely say that North Shore Bank is the best place I’ve ever worked,” he said. “Almost all work places are defined by the people and the internal culture. North Shore is second to none. I’ve enjoyed working with everybody in the branches and with my clients. NSB has a lot of terrific customers.”

He’s also greatly enjoyed his coworkers on the Investment Services team. 

“Erika (Milosevich), Jeff (Eichel), Jeff (Pieters), Roxanna (Bruss), and Ted (Green, recently retired also) have been outstanding people to share my time with at North Shore Bank,” he said. “Newcomers Joel (Leibengood) and Chris (Ersbo) will hopefully have the success and fun that we had.”

Erika had some kind words for Dennis as he moves into retirement.

“Dennis has been a real pleasure to work with the last 13 years and was always my go-to guy for tough customers, especially since we worked at the corporate office together,” she said. “He will be sorely missed, as well as his sense of humor! Hoping he enjoys more time in Florida going forward.”

Congratulations on your retirement, Dennis!