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Buffalo Niagara Enterprise Directors

Officers

President & CEO
Thomas A. Kucharski
CEcD
Buffalo Niagara Enterprise
Vice-Chair
Douglas W. Dimitroff
Partner
Phillips Lytle LLP
Chairman
David F. Smith
President & CEO
National Fuel Gas Company
Secretary
Andrew J. Rudnick
President & CEO
Buffalo Niagara Partnership
Immediate Past Chairman
Randall L. Clark
Chairman
Dunn Tire Corporation
Treasurer
John Mineo
Sr. Vice President/General Counsel & Secretary
First Niagara Financial Group
Vice-Chair
John Mineo
Sr. Vice President/General Counsel & Secretary
First Niagara Financial Group
Vice-Chair
Jeremy Jacobs, Jr.
Executive Vice President
Deleware North Companies

Board of Directors

Algonquin Studios
Stephen Kiernan
President & CEO
Merchants Insurance Group
Robert M.Zak
President & CEO
AAA of Western and Central NY
H. Thomas Chestnut
President & CEO
Moog Inc.
Robert T. Brady
Chairman, President & CEO
Buffalo Niagara Partnership
Andrew J. Rudnick
President & CEO
M&T Bank Corporation
Jeffrey A. Wellington
President, Buffalo Division
CTG
Michael Colson
Senior Vice President of Solutions
National Fuel Gas Company
David F. Smith
President & CEO
Delaware North Companies
Jeremy Jacobs, Jr.
Executive Vice President
National Grid
Susan M. Crossett
Vice President Energy Solution Services
Dunn Tire LLC
Randall L. Clark
Chairman
Niagara County Department of Economic Development
Samuel Ferraro
Commissioner
Empire State Development Corporation
Christina Orsi
Regional Director, Western NY
NYSEG Corporation
Joseph M. Rizzo
Regional Manager Economic Development

Erie County Industrial Development Agency
Philip M. Corwin
Vice Chair

Phillips Lytle LLP
Douglas W. Dimitroff
Partner
First Niagara Financial Group
John Mineo
Sr. Vice President/General Counsel
Uniland Development Company
Carl Montante
President & Managing Director
Health Now New York Inc. d/b/a Blue Cross Blue Shield at Western New York
Cheryl Howe
Executive Vice President of Operations
Univera Healthcare
Arthur Wingerter
Regional President
Hodgson Russ LLP
Robert B. Fleming, Jr.
Partner, Vice President
WIVB-TV Channel 4
Christopher Musial
President & General Manager
HSBC Bank USA
Paul B. Cronin
Executive Vice President & Regional President of Commercial Banking
KeyBank, N.A.
Gary Quenneville
President

Appointed Directors

TVGA Consultants
Edward M. Schiller
President
Partner Investor Council Chair
State University of New York at Buffalo
Marsha Henderson
Vice President for External Affairs