Tompkins Financial Corporation (NYSE Amex: TMP)
Susan A. Henry of Ithaca, Sandra A. Parker of Webster and Paul
Battaglia of Batavia were elected to the Tompkins Financial
Corporation board of directors at the corporation’s Annual Meeting
of Shareholders on May 10.
All three will also serve on boards of affiliate companies of
Tompkins Financial.
Dr. Henry, the Ronald P. Lynch Dean of the College of
Agriculture and Life Sciences, and Professor of Molecular Biology
and Genetics at Cornell University, also was elected to the board
of directors of Tompkins Trust Company.
Parker, president and chief executive officer of the Rochester
Business Alliance, also was elected to The Bank of Castile board of
directors.
Battaglia, managing director of Freed Maxick & Battaglia,
P.C., also was elected to the AM&M Financial Services board of
directors.
“We are both pleased and privileged to welcome these three new
directors -- Dr. Susan Henry, Sandra Parker and Paul Battaglia,”
said Stephen S. Romaine, President and Chief Executive Officer of
Tompkins Financial Corporation. “Each of them brings great
experience and strong reputations, and shares our board’s long-term
commitment to our corporation’s values and goals.”
Dr. Susan Henry is a Fellow of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science and a Fellow of the American Academy
of Microbiology. She received a bachelor’s degree in zoology from
the University of Maryland and her Ph.D. in genetics from the
University of California at Berkeley.
Her research is supported by a grant from the National
Institutes of Health.
She joined the faculty at Cornell following a 13-year
association with Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. At
Carnegie Mellon, she was the head of the Department of Biological
Sciences, dean of the Mellon College of Science, and a university
professor.
A respected author of numerous articles and publications on
biochemistry and genetics, Dr. Henry has received many honors and
awards, including Honorary American FFA Degree from the National
FFA Organization, Major Contributor in Research and Education Award
from the New York Wine and Grape Foundation, NIH MERIT Award and
election to Sigma Xi and Phi Beta Kappa.
Currently, she serves on the boards of directors of Seneca Foods
Corporation and Agrium, Inc., and has been on the editorial boards
of Current Chemical Biology, The Journal of Biological Chemistry
and Molecular and Cellular Biology.
Sandra Parker, in her role at the Rochester Business
Alliance, was instrumental in establishing the agency as the
region’s “Voice of Business.”
In 2006, she was awarded a key to the city by Rochester Mayor
Robert Duffy for her leadership in the Fair Share Coalition, formed
to seek parity in state aid for Rochester. This initiative has
grown into the highly successful Rochester Community Coalition,
which brings together business, labor, government, education, faith
organizations and nonprofits to push for state investment in
projects that will boost the regional economy.
She also is a leader in the Unshackle Upstate coalition, an
association of 75 organizations representing more than 45,000
employers and a million workers, which she helped form in March
2006 to push for legislative reform needed to reinvigorate the
regional economy.
Parker serves on a number of boards, including Rochester
Institute of Technology, Monroe Community College, Frontier
Telephone, Center for Governmental Research, VisitRochester, Stone
Construction and the YMCA.
She is listed as one of Greater Rochester’s Most Influential
Women and, in 2002, she won the ATHENA Award given each year to a
woman for her outstanding contributions to business and community.
A native of Rochester, she holds a bachelor’s degree from the
College of Wooster (Ohio).
Paul Battaglia, a lifelong Batavia resident, has directed
his own certified public accounting firms for the past 30 years. He
has served the community as a board and committee member for
numerous organizations, most notably United Memorial Medical
Center, Genesee Area YMCA, Catholic Health System of Western New
York, United Way, Genesee Wyoming BOCES and Genesee County Chamber
of Commerce.
Currently, he is the commissioner of the Rochester-Genesee
Regional Transportation Authority and is on the board of trustees
of Catholic Charities of Buffalo.
He graduated magna cum laude from St. Bonaventure University
with a bachelor’s degree in business administration.
James J. Byrnes, chairman of the Tompkins Financial Corporation
board of directors, said the new directors “are welcome additions
to the board and will greatly assist the company as we move
forward.”
He also thanked outgoing board members Russell Achzet, Betsy
Harrison and Hunter Rawlings III for their contributions to the
corporation’s success.
Tompkins Financial Corporation operates 45 banking offices in
the New York State markets served by the Company's subsidiary banks
-- Tompkins Trust Company, The Bank of Castile and Mahopac National
Bank. Through its community banking subsidiaries, the Company
provides traditional banking services, and offers a full range of
money management services through Tompkins Investment Services (a
division of Tompkins Trust Company). The Company offers insurance
services through its Tompkins Insurance Agencies, Inc. subsidiary,
an independent agency serving individuals and business clients
throughout New York State. The Company offers fee-based financial
planning and wealth management services through its AM&M
Financial Services, Inc. subsidiary. AM&M Financial Services,
Inc. is also the parent Company to Ensemble Financial Services,
Inc., an independent broker dealer and leading outsourcing company
for financial planners and investment advisors. Each Tompkins
subsidiary operates with a community focus, meeting the unique
needs of the communities served.
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