GREGORY J. HARTZ

The board of directors of Tompkins Community Bank recently announced that GREGORY J. HARTZ will retire as president of Tompkins Community Bank – Central New York in the spring of 2023, after 20 years of service to the company. Hartz retires after 40 years in the banking industry. He joined Tompkins in 2002, in the role of VP and trust officer for the former Tompkins Investment Services, now Tompkins Financial Advisors. Hartz was promoted to the role of senior VP and then to president/CEO of Tompkins Trust Company in 2007. Today, he serves as president of Tompkins Community Bank’s CNY market — Tompkins Trust Company and its sister banks became Tompkins Community Bank in a charter consolidation earlier this year. Hartz currently sits on the board of directors of the bank and is an executive VP of the bank holding company, Tompkins Financial Corp., and a member of its senior leadership team. Consistent with his personal values and that of Tompkins, Hartz is active in community service through multiple nonprofit boards and many leadership roles throughout the market. He currently serves on the board of Cayuga Health System as chair of the personnel and finance committee and a member of the executive committee; on the Ithaca Area Economic Development board as past board chair and a member of the executive committee; on the Cornell University Council as a member of the administrative board, as well as mentoring committee chair; as emeritus member of the Dyson Advisory Council; as a Cornell Community Relations Committee member; and on the event committee for the Racker Rivals Big Red.