Meet our leadership and boards of directors
Pursuit Administrative Team
Patrick J. MacKrell
Chief Executive Officer
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Tom McHale
President
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Owen Burns
Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
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Steve Cohen
Executive Vice President, President of Pursuit Community Finance
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Bryan Doxford
Executive Vice President, Chief Operations Officer and President and CEO, Prudent Lenders
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Jim Conroy
Executive Vice President, President of Pursuit CDC
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James J. Goldrick
Executive Vice President & Regional President for LI, NYC, Northern NJ, and Lower Hudson Valley
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Laura Kozien
Senior Vice President, Marketing Director
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Chris Levy
Executive Vice President, Chief Credit Officer
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Leesa Naimo-Fredette
Senior Vice President, General Counsel
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Pursuit BDC Board of Directors
James H. Bason, President, TruFund Financial Services
Bruce W. Boyea, Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer, Security Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York
John R. Buran, Director, President & Chief Executive Officer
Flushing Bank
Peter K. Cosgrove, Executive Vice President, Chemung Canal Trust Company
William Y. Crowell, Esq, Dickinson & Arella, PLLC
Robert M. Curley, Chairman, New York Region, Berkshire Bank
F. Edward Devitt, President, Devitt Management & Associates
Robert Fisher, President, Tioga State Bank
Daryl R. Forsythe, Retired Chairman, NBT Bancorp
Linda Dickerson Hartsock, Executive Director, Blackstone LaunchPad at Syracuse University
Hugh A. Johnson, Chairman, Hugh Johnson Advisors, LLC
Robert C. Jussen, Senior Vice President, HSBC Bank USA
Mark R. Lavarnway, President & CEO, Watertown Savings Bank
Robert W. Lazar, Retired President, Pursuit (formerly NYBDC)
Daniel Letendre, Senior Vice President, Bank of America
Patrick J. MacKrell, President & Chief Executive Officer, Pursuit
Donald J. Maloney, Senior Vice President & East Region Executive, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Allen J. Naples, Regional President, M&T Bank
Kevin O’Connor, President & Chief Executive Officer, Bridgehampton National Bank
Michael T. Pugh, President & Chief Executive Officer, Carver Federal Savings Bank
Pravina Raghavan, Executive Vice President, Division of Small Business & Technology Development, Empire State Development
Michael P. Smith, President, New York Bankers Association
Mark E. Tryniski, Retired President & Chief Executive Officer, Community Bank System, Inc.
Michael N. Vittorio, President & Chief Executive Officer, The First National Bank of Long Island
Amos Winbush III, Chief Executive Officer, Affix Data Group
Lewis Yevoli, Retired New York State Assemblyman
Pursuit CDC Board of Directors
Mary Bintz, Sales Associate, Coldwell Banker Prime Properties
John Chiaramonte, Partner, Teal, Becker & Chiaramonte CPAs
Herbert G. Chorbajian, Retired Director, Charter One Financial Corporation
John DeFranza, Senior Vice President, HSBC Bank USA
Anthony J. Delmonte, Jr., Senior Vice President/Market Manager, BankonBuffalo
Steven Epping, Senior Vice President, Western New York Business & Professional Banking, M&T Bank
Kale B. Gaston, President, Lendstream Small Business Finance
Michael J. Gill, Partner, GillWright Group
Thomas F. Goldrick Jr., Retired Chairman, State Bank of Long Island
Oliver L. Kardos, Senior Vice President, Northeast Regional Sales Leader, Key Bank, N.A.
Jeffrey P. Kenefick, Senior Vice President, Chemung Canal Trust Company
Hilda Kong, Vice President, Northeast Divisions SBA Solutions Manager, JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A.
Jeffrey M. Levy, Regional Executive, Community Bank
Edie Longo, Retired Agency Administrator, Town of Hempstead IDA
Michael Mallaber, Senior Vice President, Director of Commercial Services, Canandaigua National Bank & Trust
Carl E. Meyer, President & Chief Executive Officer, The Solar Energy Consortium
Gary Moyer, Chief Lending Officer, Tompkins VIST Bank
John Murgatroyd, Regional Sales Manager, SBA Division, TD Bank
James Murphy, Senior Vice President, Community Bank
Noel Murphy, President, Celtic Tours
Vivian Brady-Phillips, Deputy Mayor, City of Jersey City
Michael Quigley, Executive Vice President, Bank United
Patrick Toriello, Owner, P&A Financial Services LLC
Joseph Vanella, Vice President/Northeast Regional Manager SBA Lending, Wells Fargo & Company
Joseph Whaley, President & Chief Executive Officer, Chocolate Works
Pursuit Community Finance Board of Directors
G. Gary Berner, Retired Executive Vice President, First Niagara Bank
Bruce W. Boyea, Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer, Security Mutual Life Insurance Company
James J. Byrnes, Retired Chairman, Tompkins Financial Corporation
Herbert G. Chorbajian, Retired Director, Charter One Financial Corporation
Daryl R. Forsythe, Retired Chairman, NBT Bancorp
Jeffrey M. Levy, Senior Vice President, Community Bank
Kale B. Gaston, President, Lendstream Small Business Finance
Patrick MacKrell, President & Chief Executive Officer, Pursuit
Christina Orsi, Associate Vice President, Economic Development, University at Buffalo
John Witkowski, President & Chief Executive Officer, Independent Bankers Association of New York State
Pursuit Community Finance Advisory Board
John Rhea, Managing Partner, Rheal Capital Management
Karanja Augustine, Senior Vice President & General Counsel, del Lago Resort & Casino
Ariel Barbouth, Chief Executive Officer, Nuchas LLC
Brian Goldstein, State Director, NYS Economic Development Council
Steve Gomez, Executive Director, Greater Newark Enterprises Corporation
Jill Johnson, Chief Executive Officer, Institute for Entrepreneurial Research
Hope Knight, President, Greater Jamaica Development Corp.
Ernie Post, State Director, Pennsylvania Small Business Development Center
Angelina Ramirez, Executive Director, Washington Heights Business Improvement District
Sherry Roberts, Executive Director, Local Development Corporation of East New York
