Leadership

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Meet Our Board Members: Jasen Toussaint
Jasen Toussaint is a member of our Associate Board and is a Senior Recruiting Manager at Connect Search, LLC. Get…
March 3, 2020
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Born: Chicago
“We take some of the world’s largest brands as clients and invest their dollars. A lot of our clients tend to have a broad global footprint, and so what I do is create the strategy in terms of how we build that network and where and how we invest to make sure we can help those clients grow.”
“I’m usually doing something outdoors ranging from hunting, fishing, to golfing, to skiing, to boating, to tennis. You name it – if I can do it outdoors, I’ll be doing it there with my family and friends… I did my first marathon Back in 1990 when I first joined Leo Burnett. I started running and met a few guys that were doing a marathon, one of those guys was Jim Jenness, who was one of the key leaders at Leo Burnett at the time. Jim is one of the people who helped start the Mercy Home marathon in 2010. We’ve done marathons off and on now for 29 years and we just recently did Berlin and then Chicago.”
“I was always a jack-of-all-trades, master of none in terms of sports. I lettered in all the sports – it was golf; I grew up in a golf club, baseball, and then wrestling. And then I pursued wrestling at Notre Dame where I walked on and became a varsity letter winner there.”
“It had to be mom and dad, grandpas and grandmas. We were always a very close family – immediate and also surrounding family. So just watching the values that they had and that they passed on. My dad had two things, he said, ‘I have to give you values and character and provide you an education.’ In a very humble way, I think that’s what I try to pass on to my kids.”
“If I have an area where I like to give my time outside of this crazy work schedule, it’s in the area of helping kids or being around kids that need it. So my first foray in Chicago was Big Shoulders, where I mentored a student back when he was in 6th grade all the way through college. So, I was with Big Shoulders, and that evolved into Mercy Home and DePaul – I’m on the board at Mercy Home and on the board of trustees for DePaul.”
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