Jeffrey Diermeier has been a Non-Executive Director of Janus Henderson since May 2017.
Mr Diermeier was an Independent Director of Janus Capital Group from March 2008 to May 2017 and is currently the Chair of the Board Audit Committee and member of the Nominating and Governance Committee and the Risk Committee. Mr Diermeier is a Director of the University of Wisconsin Foundation, a non-profit fundraising
and endowment management organisation, and former Chairman of its Investment Committee.
In January 2011, Mr Diermeier became a Director of Adams Street Partners, a private equity firm located in Chicago. Between 2010 and 2017 he was a co-owner and Chairman of L.B. White Company, a heating equipment manufacturer. He is also a minority owner of Stairway Partners, LLC, a registered investment adviser located in Chicago, and was an advisory board member from 2005 to December 2012. He was a Trustee of the Board of the Financial Accounting Foundation, which oversees the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the Government Accounting Standards Board, from January 2009 to December 2015 and Chairman of the Trustees from November 2012 to
December 2015. From 2005 until January 2009, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the CFA Institute, a non-profit educational organization for investment professionals in Charlottesville, Virginia, and previously in a number of capacities in the global asset management division of UBS and predecessor organisations, primarily Brinson Partners, Inc., beginning as an Equity Analyst and culminating as its Global Chief Investment Officer from 2000 to 2004.
Mr Diermeier holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. Mr Diermeier has a BBA in Finance and Investments from the University of Wisconsin – Madison and an MBA in Finance and Investments from the University of Wisconsin – Madison.