James Byrnes is Chairman of the Board of Tompkins Financial Corporation.
Byrnes served as the Company's Chief Executive Officer from its formation in 1995 until his retirement on December 31, 2006, and has served as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company since its formation in 1995.
Byrnes served as President of Tompkins Trust Company beginning in 1989 through 2002 and again in 2006. Prior to 1989, Mr. Byrnes was an officer with other banking companies.
Irwin Davis joined the Metropolitan Development Association in 1968 and has been its top executive officer since 1976, making him the longest serving economic development official in Central New York. Formed in 1959, the association is a nonprofit organization that promotes economic development in the central Upstate region.
Irwin Davis received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University and his Masters Degree in Regional and Urban Development and Public Policy from American University.
David Feldshuh has been artistic director at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts at Cornell University since 1984.
His play, Miss Evers' Boys, has been produced throughout the U.S., received the New American Play award, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and won seven Emmy awards as an HBO movie. He co-produced the video Susceptible to Kindness, for which he interviewed observers as well as survivors of the Tuskegee syphilis study. In 1994 the video won three awards: the Cine Golden Eagle, the Intercom Gold Plaque, and the International Health and Medical Film Festival award.
David's television script Harmony was written for an educational television project dedicated to teaching science to children and sponsored in part by the National Science Foundation. His short story "Are You Satisfied, Thomas Becket?" was recently published in a collection of stories by physician-writers.
Although full-time at Cornell, David continues to practice medicine and lectures frequently on the subject of human experimentation and the use of theatre in exploring important social issues. He trained as an actor at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, is a member of Actor's Equity, and began his career at The Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis where he also served as an Associate Director.
David Feldshuh received his M.D. and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota.
Frank Raiter is a Director of Luminent Mortgage Capital. Luminent Mortgage Capital, Inc. a real estate investment trust (REIT), invests primarily in the United States agency and other single-family, adjustable-rate, and fixed rate mortgage-backed securities. It also invests in residential mortgage loans.
For ten years until his retirement in 2005, he was a managing director of Standard & Poors and head of its mortgage backed securities ratings group.
Prior to joining S&P, Raiter was Chief Investment Officer and Treasurer of Caliburt Bank in Phoenix, Arizona. Before that he was the Assistant Director Office of Securities Transactions at the Resolution Trust Corporation where he was involved in the structuring and sale of residential and commercial mortgage backed securities. In 2006 and 2007 he taught courses in investment and finance at the College of Business at James Madison University.
In the Fall of 2008, Mr. Raiter testified before Congress on the role of the credit rating agencies in the current financial crisis.Frank Raiter earned a BA in Economics, with honors, from North Carolina State University and an MBA in Finance from the University of North Carolina.
Rob Fried is President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of Ideation Acquisition Corporation and founder and CEO of SpiritClips, a digital media content company.
Fried is an Academy Award-winning producer who has worked at Columbia Pictures, Savoy Pictures and Fried Films, Inc. His films include the touching classic Rudy.
Rob Fried holds an B.S. from Cornell University and an M.B.A. from Columbia University Graduate School of Business.
Barbara Ley Toffler is considered one of the nation's leading experts on management ethics. She is a former Harvard Business School professor who has also taught at Boston University School of Management, Columbia Business School, and Yale School of Management.
Toffler is the Founding Principal of Resources for Responsible Management, Inc., a Boston-based consulting firm. She is also the author of "Final Accounting: Ambition, Greed, and the Fall of Arthur Andersen" and "Tough Choices: Managers Talk Ethics".
Toffler was a National Partner in charge of Ethics at Arthur Andersen for four years in the late 1990s.
Barbara Ley Toffler holds a bachelor's degree from Columbia University where she was designated a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Yale University.
Mitt Regan is Co-Director of the Center for the Study of the Legal Profession at Georgetown University. His work focuses on ethics, corporations, law firms, and the legal profession.
Before joining Georgetown, Professor Regan clerked for Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. of the Supreme Court of the United States, and worked as an associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell in Washington, DC. At Davis Polk he worked on matters relating to white-collar crime and the defense of attorneys and accountants.
Mitt Regan received his B.A. from the University of Houston, his M.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles and his J.D. from Georgetown University.
Xiaoping Chen is the Manager and CEO of Wuhan Chemical Industries Supply and Marketing Co. He has been working for multinational businesses in China for his whole career.
Xiaoping Chen graduated from Hubei University.
Nick Donofrio is a 44-year IBM veteran who led IBM's technology and innovation strategies from 1997 until his retirement in October 2008. He also was vice chairman of the IBM International Foundation and chairman of the Board of Governors for the IBM Academy of Technology.
Donofrio's most recent responsibilities included IBM Research, Governmental Programs, Technical Support & Quality, Corporate Community Relations, as well as Environmental Health & Product Safety. Also reporting to Donofrio were the senior executives responsible for IBM's enterprise on demand transformation. In addition to that strategic business mission, Donofrio led the development and retention of IBM's technical population and enriched that community with a diversity of culture and thought. In 2008 IBM Chairman Sam Palmisano elected Donofrio IBM Fellow, the company's highest technical honor.
Donofrio joined IBM as a college co-op student in 1964 and worked on the memory technology for the legendary IBM System/360 mainframe computing system. After being hired full time at IBM in 1967, he spent the early part of his career in integrated circuit and chip development as a designer of logic and memory chips. He held numerous technical management positions and, later, executive positions in several of IBM's product divisions. He has led many of IBM's major development and manufacturing teams from semiconductor and storage technologies, to microprocessors and personal computers, to IBM's entire family of servers.
Rick Donofrio earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1967 and a Master of Science in the same discipline from Syracuse University in 1971.