Baum joins Tompkins Trust Company board

ITHACA — Larry F. Baum, CEO of The Computing Center, has been appointed to the board of directors of Tompkins Trust Company.

“I am honored to be selected as a board member of Tompkins Trust Company. Our company and family have done business with the bank for nearly 30 years,” Baum said in a news release.

The Computing Center, headquartered in the Cornell Business & Technology Park, provides customers computer hardware and software, consulting, technical support, network services, web services, and training, according to its .

Baum graduated from Cornell in 1972 with a degree in communications. By 1978, he founded the original firm that became The Computing Center. 

An Ithaca native, Baum is currently the chairman of the Cayuga Medical Center board of directors and previously chaired several other boards in Tompkins County.

“Larry’s familiarity with and commitment to this community make him an ideal candidate for this role,” Greg Hartz, president of the Tompkins Trust Company, said in the news release.

Founded in 1836, Tompkins Trust Company is a full-service, locally managed community bank with 15 branches serving the Tompkins County area, Auburn, and Cortland in Central New York.

Tompkins Trust is a unit of Tompkins Financial Corp. (NYSE: TMP), a financial-services company with almost $5 billion in assets serving the Central, Western, and Hudson Valley regions of New York and the Southeastern region of Pennsylvania.

Headquartered in Ithaca, Tompkins Financial is also parent to The Bank of Castile, Mahopac National Bank, VIST Bank, Tompkins Insurance Agencies, Inc., and Tompkins Financial Advisors.

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