Conley Brooks Jr. serves on the board of directors of the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation. He is the retired executive chairman of Sawmill Trust Company, a regulated trust company and closed multi-family office based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, with offices in Sioux Falls and Minneapolis, and now serves on the board of its holding company, Sawmill Holdings LLC.
In addition to his management, fiduciary and investment roles at Sawmill Trust Company, Mr. Brooks has served as an individual co-trustee for long-term trusts for a large Midwestern family and as a trustee director of four private trust companies for a prominent Hong Kong family. He has been active on corporate and nonprofit boards for more than 40 years, and his current board memberships include Marlow Management Ltd. (Cayman Islands), Marlow Trust Company USA (Sioux Falls, South Dakota), Brooks Resources Corporation (Bend, Oregon), Bend Foundation (Bend, Oregon), the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation and the Midwest Art Conservation Center.
Mr. Brooks received his bachelor’s degree from Yale University in 1968 and his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1974. He also served on active duty in the U.S. Navy from 1968 to 1971.