John M. Presley to Join Marshall & Ilsley Corporation as Chief Financial Officer

John M. Presley to Join Marshall & Ilsley Corporation as Chief
Financial Officer 


MILWAUKEE, Aug. 26  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Marshall & Ilsley Corporation
(M&I) today announced that John M. Presley will join M&I as Senior Vice
President and Chief Financial Officer.  Mr. Presley will succeed Mark Furlong
who became President of M&I Marshall & Ilsley Bank on July 1, 2004.

Mr. Presley is currently the Chief Financial Officer of National Commerce
Financial Corporation in Memphis, Tennessee.  National Commerce is scheduled to
be acquired by SunTrust Banks Inc. later this year, and Mr. Presley's
appointment as an officer of M&I will become effective upon completion of his
duties in connection with the acquisition.

Mr. Presley has been with National Commerce in various capacities since 1989. 
From 1981 to 1989, Mr. Presley was with Ernst & Whinney (now Ernst & Young) in
Memphis.  Mr. Presley received his BA from Southwestern at Memphis (Rhodes
College) and is a certified public accountant (Arkansas, 1984).

"We are very pleased to have John join us," said Dennis Kuester, M&I's Chief
Executive Officer.  "His financial and entrepreneurial experience was just what
we were looking for," added Kuester.

Marshall & Ilsley Corporation (NYSE:MI) is a diversified financial services
corporation headquartered in Milwaukee, Wis., with $37.1 billion in assets.
Founded in 1847, M&I Marshall & Ilsley Bank has the largest banking presence in
Wisconsin with 197 offices throughout the state. In addition, M&I has 31
locations throughout Arizona; 11 offices in metropolitan Minneapolis/St. Paul,
Minn.; and, locations in Duluth, Minn.; Las Vegas, Nev.; and, Naples and Bonita
Springs, Fla.  M&I's Southwest Bank affiliate has six offices in the St. Louis
area and one office in Belleville, Ill.  Metavante Corporation, Marshall &
Ilsley Corporation's wholly owned technology subsidiary, provides virtually all
of the technology an organization needs to offer financial services. M&I also
provides trust and investment management, equipment leasing, mortgage banking,
asset-based lending, financial planning, investments, and insurance services
from offices throughout the country and on the Internet (
http://www.mibank.com/ or http://www.micorp.com/ ). M&I's customer-based
approach, internal growth, and strategic acquisitions have made M&I a
nationally recognized leader in the financial services industry. 

DATASOURCE: Marshall & Ilsley Corporation



CONTACT:  Mark Furlong, chief financial officer of Marshall & Ilsley

Corporation, [phone]



Web site:  http://www.micorp.com/

http://www.mibank.com/ 

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