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Lake Forest Resident Elected Chairman of Joffrey Board

Zachary D. Lazar, Jr. will serve a two-year term as chairman of the Joffrey Ballet Board of Directors.

Lake Forest resident Zachary D. Lazar, Jr. has been named chairman of the Joffrey Ballet Board of Directors.

Lazar, who is president of BMO Private Bank in Illinois and Florida, has served on the Joffrey Board since 2007 and succeeds former chairman Jason Tyler, according to a press release.

Lazar has also served on the board of Children’s Memorial Hospital, the Board of Governors for Kohl Children’s Museum and the board of trustees of Woodlands Academy, among other service positions.

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