James J. Brownson
Director
QCR Holdings Inc.
James J. Brownson, President, W. E. Brownson Co., Davenport, Iowa will become Chairman of the Board of QCR Holdings. Mr. Brownson is President of W.E. Brownson Co., a manufacturers' representative agency located in Davenport, Iowa involved in the sale of custom engineered products to OEM manufacturers in the Midwest, and has been in that position since 1978.
Mr. Brownson is a graduate of St. Ambrose University, Davenport, Iowa and the Graduate School of Banking, Universityof Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.
He began his career in 1967 as a member of the audit staff at Arthur Young & Co., in Chicago, Illinois. From 1969 until 1978, Mr. Brownson was employed by Davenport Bank and Trust Company, where he left as Senior Vice President and Cashier. He is a past member of the National Sales Representative Council of Crane Plastics, Columbus, Ohio, and Dayton Rogers Manufacturing Co., Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Mr. Brownson has served on the board of directors of the United Way of the Quad Cities, Junior Achievement of the Quad Cities, St. Ambrose University Alumni
Association, and United Cerebral Palsy Association of the Quad Cities. Mr. Brownson has been a director and the Secretary of Quad City Bank & Trust since October
1993 as well as a director of QCR Holdings, Inc. since October 1993, and currently serves as its lead director.