Robert P. McNeill, CIC
Executive Vice President

Bob McNeill is a business development officer for CIBC Private Wealth Management in Chicago, with more than 50 years of experience providing customized personal service to high net worth families.

His responsibilities at CIBC Private Wealth Management's legacy firm Stein Roe Investment Counsel included serving as a managing partner on the executive committee, chairman of the investment policy committee, founder of Stein Roe International and president of the Stein Roe Foundation.

He is on the board of Catholic Charities of Chicago, Big Shoulders Fund, Hadley School for the Blind and Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. Since 1998, he also has been part of a leadership program for Chicago Inner City Schools, has served as a board member of the Association of American Rhodes Scholars and has participated as a voting member for 25 years on the U.S. Rhodes Scholarship state and regional selection committees.

He was chairman (1991-97) and currently a member of the board of governors of the Institute for the International Education of Students, one of the nation's finest study-abroad programs. He is an honorary life director of the Chicago Counsel on Global Affairs and a financial counselor to the Chicago Community Trust.

Bob earned a Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude from the University of Notre Dame, where he was valedictorian of his class, and a graduate degree in economics and law from the University of Oxford (New College), where he studied after receiving a Rhodes Scholarship. He also holds the Chartered Investment Counselor designation. In July 2017, CIBC recognized Bob for 50 years of providing outstanding service to clients of the firm.