Dan Rahill Hometown: Northfield, Illinois Position: Director ('05-'08 term) Monogram Earned: Swimming

Former Notre Dame swimmer Dan Rahil ('79) - currently the partner-in-charge of tax for KPMG's Chicago and Milwaukee tax practices - is among the new directors on the Monogram Club board and will serve a three-year term from 2005-08. Rahill specializes in taxation for both public and closely-held businesses, with more than 25 years of experience in the field. A member of KPMG's Midwest leadership team, he also leads the tax practice's Middle Market Initiative in the Midwest, serves on the Chicago Charitable Contributions Committee, is chair of the Chicago office's Work Environment Action Council (a national initiative to improve the work/life balance with the firm) and annually teaches several of the firm's management training classes.

Prior to assuming his current role with KPMG in 2001, Rahill had been involved in various roles with the firm since 1985 (then known as Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co.). Prior to finishing law school, he had worked five years in audit and tax with another Big 8 accounting firm - where one of his co-workers on the audit staff included current Monogram Club treasurer Ken Haffey. He later received his J.D. ('85) and LL.M. ('91) degrees from the DePaul University College of Law.

Dan Rahill picked up the closest-to-the-pin award following the 2005 Monogram Club golf outing.

Rahill has worked with many multinational corporations in his career, with extensive experience in tax structuring, negotiation, transaction management, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. He also has significant experience with personal financial and estate planning for business owners. He has been a frequent speaker at various organizations such as Tax Executives, Inc., and the American Taxation Association, and has served as the lead tax partner on Alberto Culver Company, Brunswick Corporation, Comdisco, Fellowes, GE Healthcare, Midas, PepsiAmericas, and Solo Cup Company.

He also is a member of the board of directors for the Tax Assistance Program (providing professional tax assistance to the working poor of Chicago) and is on the board of Metropolitan Family Services, a program that provides and mobilizes the services needed to strengthen families and communities.

Rahill - who won the closest-to-the-pin contest at the 2005 Monogram Club golf outing - has remained involved with his alma mater as a member of Notre Dame's Accountancy Advisory Board since 2000, also serving as KPMG's college relations and fundraising partner for the University while also frequently contributing as a guest lecturer in the accounting program. The Buffalo, N.Y., native is a member of the American Institute of CPAs, the Illinois CPA Society, the American Bar Association, and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Tax Court. A backstroke specialist during his years with the Notre Dame swimming team, Rahill earned a monogram in 1979 before graduating with his degree in accounting. He later married Notre Dame classmate Mary Clair Tollaksen, a monogram winner in her own right who served as a captain of the 1978 field hockey team (she went on to earn her nursing degree from Northwestern, in 1980).

Rahill's brother Kurt ('81) also is a Notre Dame graduate, as are his three brothers-in-law, Tim ('64), Terry ('66) and Tom Tollaksen ('71).

Dan Rahill - a backstroke specialist at Notre Dame - has remained active in swimming and also keeps busy with his four sons' athletic endeavors.

Dan and Mary Clair Rahill reside in Northfield, Ill., with their four sons: Daniel, Kevin, Patrick and Colin. Daniel, captain of his high school baseball and golf teams, will begin his freshman year at Notre Dame in the fall of 2005 and intends to pursue a major in engineering. His three brothers each are active in baseball and swimming, with Kevin serving as a top backstroker at Loyola Academy (team finished 7th in the state) and Patrick a member of the Wilmette Travel Baseball Team that will be playing at a July 4th tournament in Cooperstown N.Y. - while Colin's nine-year-old pinto baseball team is coached by his proud father.

Rahill - a longtime associate of recent Monogram Club board member and current advisor Rick Pullano - has remained active in swimming through the Illinois State Masters Championships, including winning several state backstroke titles during the late 1980s.