Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary
Before joining St. Kate鈥檚, Schnell was Senior Director of Employee Relations for Royal Bank of Canada where he oversaw the support of business operations in both the United States and Canada for the organization鈥檚 Wealth Management, Capital Markets, Insurance, and Investors and Treasury Service divisions. Prior to that, he was an attorney in the Labor and Employment practice group at Dorsey & Whitney LLP in Minneapolis. His legal career began in Kansas City at Shook, Hardy & Bacon as an associate in the Product Liability and Labor and Employment practice groups.
Schnell earned his Juris Doctorate at the University of Minnesota School of Law and a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from North Dakota State University. He holds FINRA Series 7 and 24 securities licenses, is an Arbitrator for the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, and received a Securities Industry Institute Certificate from the Wharton School for Executive Education. Schnell serves on the Board of Directors for the Minnesota Council of Economic Education.