Officers & Directors

Mr. Dukeman is Chairman, President & CEO of First Busey Corporation and Chairman & CEO of Busey Bank. He also serves as a director of FirsTech, Inc. Mr. Dukeman served as President & Chief Executive Officer of Main Street Trust, Inc. prior to its merger in 2007 with First Busey.

Mr. Bradshaw is the Principal of Bradshaw Capital Management, LLC, an asset management and advisory firm serving institutional investors and eleemosynary organizations in Pinehurst, North Carolina. He served as Chairman of the Board of Pulaski Financial Corp. from 2006 until its merger with First Busey in 2016. Mr. Bradshaw has also been a director of Triad Business Bank based in Greensboro, North Carolina since February 2020.

Mr. Brenneman is the Lead Independent Director of the First Busey Corporation Board of Directors. Mr. Brenneman has served as a long-time board member, independent business consultant and advisor for numerous companies, including serving on the board of directors of CrossFirst from 2012 until its merger with First Busey in 2025. From 2011 until August 2014, Mr. Brenneman served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Butterball LLC, a joint venture of Seaboard Corporation and Maxwell Foods, LLC. Prior to this role, he served in various financial and management capacities at Seaboard Corporation. Mr. Brenneman is a CPA.

Mr. Caple is the Chief Executive Officer of Unity Hunt, Inc. (“UHI”), the company through which the family of Lamar Hunt oversees its holdings. Additionally, he serves in various roles for many of the Hunt family’s trusts and portfolio companies, including as board member of The Kansas City Chiefs Football Club, Inc., and FC Dallas Soccer, LLC, and as Chairman of Hunt Midwest Enterprises, Inc. and Hunt Southwest Real Estate, LLC. Mr. Caple is also the co-owner of TRL Management, LLC, Farmersville Holdings, LLC, and Hickory Creek Real Estate, LLC. Prior to joining UHI, he served as President of VFT Capital, LP. Mr. Caple served as a director of CrossFirst Bankshares, Inc. from 2018 until CrossFirst’s merger with First Busey in 2025. 

Mr. Cassens is an Associate Professor in the School of Visual and Media Arts at the University of Montana, having taught Computer Science and Game Development for over 20 years. He also worked for over 20 years as an independent software developer for companies such as Microsoft and Intel along with a variety of small to medium-sized businesses. Mr. Cassens served as a director of TheBANK of Edwardsville and The Banc Ed Corp. from 2003 until The Banc Ed Corp.’s merger with First Busey in 2019. 

Ms. Grigsby has over 30 years of senior management experience in accounting, treasury, risk management, corporate governance and corporate finance, primarily in the oil and gas exploration and production industry. Most recently, Ms. Grigsby served as Secretary of Economic Administration for the State of Oklahoma from March 2021 through November 2022. Ms. Grigsby served as a director of CrossFirst Bankshares, Inc. from 2013 until CrossFirst’s merger with First Busey in 2025. Ms. Grigsby is a Certified Public Accountant and Chartered Global Management Accountant and is a member of the Oklahoma Society of Certified Public Accountants and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Ms. Grigsby is also National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) Directorship Certified^TM. 

Ms. Jensen is a registered professional engineer and serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Farnsworth Group, Inc., a national full-service engineering, architecture and survey firm. Ms. Jensen served as a director of Busey Bank from March 2018 until her appointment to the First Busey board in September 2019, and as a director of South Side Trust & Savings Bank from June 2011 until its merger with Busey Bank in March 2018.

Mr. Kenney is an attorney and Director of Christy-Foltz, Inc. and Foltz, Inc. Mr. Kenney served as an Associate General Counsel for Archer Daniels Midland (“ADM”) in Decatur, Illinois, from 2001 to December 2018. Until his appointment to the First Busey board in 2018, Mr. Kenney served as a director of Busey Bank or its predecessors since 1995.

Mr. King is a founding partner of Prairie Capital, L.P., a private equity firm, and managing member of Daniels & King Ventures, LLC. Mr. King also serves on the boards of several of Prairie Capital's portfolio companies across a variety of industries. Mr. King has served on the Board of Directors of First Busey Corporation since 2013. 

Mr. Rauckman is the owner of, and financial consultant for, Rauckman Advisors, LLC, where he has worked since November 2017. He served as a member of the CrossFirst board from 2016 until CrossFirst’s merger with First Busey in 2025. Mr. Rauckman is the former Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Garmin Ltd., a role he held from 1999 until 2014. Following his tenure at Garmin, he served as a financial advisor for MoBank (formerly Bank of Kansas City), a subsidiary of BOK Financial Corporation, from February 2015 through May 2016.

Mr. Wehrli is Chairman and Principal of DuKane Precast Incorporated, a producer of pre-stressed, precast concrete wall panels, columns, beams and parking deck components with plant facilities in Naperville, Aurora and Plainfield, Illinois. He has also served as the mayor of Naperville, Illinois, since 2023. Prior to its partnership with Busey, he served as a member of the First Community Financial Partners Board of Directors on its capital, strategic, leadership and compensation committees. Mr. Wehrli was a founding Director of First Community Bank of Plainfield. After a merger of the banks in 2017, he was elected to the Busey Bank Board of Directors and became a member of the First Busey Corporation Board in 2025.

Dr. White is Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs and Professor of Business Administration and Advertising and the Bruce and Anne Strohm Faculty Fellow in the Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois. She serves as Faculty Athletics Representative for the University of Illinois, Big 10 and NCAA. Dr. White served as a member of Busey Bank's Board of Directors since 2021 before joining the First Busey Board in 2025.