Mr. Atkins is senior executive vice president and chief financial officer of Wells Fargo Company in San Francisco, California. Prior to joining Wells Fargo in 2001, Mr. Atkins was executive vice president and chief financial officer of New York Life Insurance Company in New York, New York from 1996 to 2001. Mr. Atkins also served as executive vice president and chief financial officer of New Jersey-based Midlantic Corporation from 1991 to 1996. Mr. Atkins joined the former Chase Manhattan Bank in 1974 and was, successively, in asset/liability management, U.S. capital markets/derivatives, head of Capital Markets for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and head of the Banks worldwide derivatives trading business. He was Chase Manhattan Banks treasurer from 1988 until 1991 when he became chief financial officer of Midlantic Corporation.He received a B.S. degree in mathematics from City College, New York, and his masters degree in economics from Ohio State University.