Jack Evans is President of The Hall-Perrine Foundation, a private philanthropic corporation in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.  Prior to joining the Foundation in January of 1996, he was President and Chief Operating Officer of SCI Financial Group starting with the regional financial services company in 1972.

Mr. Evans earned his BA from Coe College in 1970 and his MBA from the University of Iowa in 1972.  Currently he sits on the Board of Directors of Gazette Communications, Nuveen Institutional Advisory Corporation, and Priority One. Mr. Evans is also president pro tem of the Board of Regents for the State of Iowa and Chairman of the Board of United Fire & Casualty.

He is past chairman and life trustee of Coe College, the Iowa College Foundation, the Metropolitan Library Foundation, and the United Way of East Central Iowa.  Other past board activities includes Alliant Energy, Brucemore Inc., Cedar Rapids Airport Commission, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Four Oaks, and Westminster Presbyterian Church.  Mr. Evans is a former member of the Chicago Stock Exchange and a current member of the Advisory Council of the Department of Finance in the Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa.