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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DATE: Dec. 22, 2003
Contact: Anthony Flott
aflott@mail.unomaha.edu
(402) 554-2989
receives UNO Alumni Citation
(OMAHA, NE) — The
University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) Alumni Association bestowed its Citation
for Alumnus Achievement upon Daniel K. O'Neill, president of First National of
Nebraska (FNN), on Friday, Dec. 19, at the Omaha
Civic Auditorium.
The Citation,
instituted in 1949, is presented each year at UNO's three commencement
ceremonies. The Association's highest honor, it encompasses professional or
career achievement, community service, involvement in business and professional
associations, and fidelity to UNO. Kevin Naylor ('78), 2003 chairman of the UNO
Alumni Association Board of Directors, presented the award at winter
commencement ceremonies.
O'Neill, who in 1977 earned a
bachelor's of science degree in business administration from UNO, was named
First National's president in 2002.
He has more than 26 years of
experience in the financial services industry, starting with the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation as a bank examiner in 1977. In 1981 he joined the
Lauritzen Corporation, a multi-bank holding company with 16 banks located
throughout Iowa and Nebraska. Lauritzen, an FNN affiliate, has $1.5 billion in
total assets. O'Neill concurrently serves as its executive vice president
His role as
president of First National of Nebraska entails oversight of one of the largest
bank holding companies headquartered west of the Mississippi River. Today,
First National and its affiliates have $16 billion in managed assets and more
than 7,000 employees located across the United States, with primary banking
offices in Nebraska, Colorado, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, South Dakota and Texas.
First National also is one of the nation's largest in-house bank processors of
merchant credit card transactions, one of the largest bank issuers of Visa and
Mastercard, and a leading processor of automated clearinghouse transactions and
cash management services.
O'Neill has three
daughters and serves on the board of the Mid-America Center in Council Bluffs,
Iowa.
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