Presently, James A. Bell occupies the position of Director & Manager at CDW LLC. Mr. Bell is also Member of The Commercial Club of Chicago and Member of Building Owners & Managers Association of New York, Inc. and on the board of 9 other companies.

In the past James A. Bell occupied the position of Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer at The Boeing Co. Chairman of Boeing Capital Corp. Executive Vice President of Boeing Ventures, Vice President-Contracts & Pricing at Boeing Satellite Systems, Inc. and Vice President-Contracts & Pricing at Boeing Space & Communications Group (which are all subsidiaries of The Boeing Co.), Vice President-Property Management at Mack-Cali Realty Corp. and Property Manager at Robert Martin Co. LLC (a subsidiary of Mack-Cali Realty Corp.), Principal at International Business Machines Corp., Member of The Economic Club of Chicago (Illinois) and Senior Internal Auditor & Accounting Manager at Rockwell International Corp.

He received an undergraduate degree from California State University-Los Angeles.