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Officers

President and CEO Thomas A. Kucharski CEcD Buffalo Niagara Enterprise	Secretary Andrew Rudnick President and CEO Buffalo Niagara Partnership
Chairman David Smith President National Fuel Gas Company	Treasurer Joseph Saffire Executive Vice President & Regional President of Commercial Banking HSBC
Immediate Past Chairman Randall Clark Chairman Dunn Tire Corporation Vice-Chair John Dandes President Rich Baseball Operations Vice-Chair Jeremy Jacobs, Jr. Executive Vice President Deleware North Companies	Vice-Chair Douglas Dimitroff Phillips Lytle LLP Partner Vice-Chair John Mineo Sr. Vice President/General Counsel First Niagara Financial Group

Board of Directors

Algonquin Studios Stephen Kiernan President & CEO	AAA of Western and Central NY H. Thomas Chestnut President and CEO
Amherst Industrial Development Agency James Allen Executive Director	Buffalo Niagara Partnership Andrew Rudnick President and CEO
City of Buffalo Richard Tobe Commissioner of Economic Development	Delaware North Companies Jeremy Jacobs, Jr. Executive Vice President
Dunn Tire Corporation Randall Clark President	Empire State Development Corporation Mark Hamister
Erie County Industrial Development Agency Dennis Penman Board Chairman	Ernst and Young LLP Michael Dings Office Managing Partner
First Niagara Financial Group John Mineo Sr. Vice President/General Counsel	Health Now New York Inc. Cheryl Howe Exec. V.P., Health Services and Marketing Mgmt.
Hodgson Russ LLP Robert Fleming, Jr. Partner, Vice President	HSBC Bank USA Joseph Saffire Executive Vice President & Regional President of Commercial Banking
Independent Health Association, Inc. Michael Cropp President and CEO	KeyBank, N.A. Sterling Kozlowski Presiden
Merchants Insurance Group Robert Zak President and CEO	Moog Inc. Robert Brady Chairman, President and CEO
M&T Bank Corporation Jeffrey Wellington President, Buffalo Division	National Fuel Gas Company David Smith President
Niagara County IDA Sam Ferraro Commissioner & Executive Director	NYSEG Randy Edwards Regional Community Outreach Manager
Phillips Lytle LLP Douglas Dimitroff Partner	Realty USA Merle Whitehead President & CEO
Rich Products Corporation Jonathan Dandes President - Rich Baseball Operations	Uniland Development Company Carl Montante President
Univera Healthcare Mary Lee Campbell - Wisley Regional President	Verizon Communications, Inc. Maureen Rasp-Glose Community Affairs Director
WIVB-TV Channel 4 Christopher Musial President & General Manager	Honorary Board Member State University of New York at Buffalo Marsha Henderson Vice President for External Affairs