Tompkins Trust hires Seals as new marketing communications business partner

ITHACA, N.Y. — Aundre Seals has joined Tompkins Trust Company as a marketing communications business partner, the bank announced.

His responsibilities include coordinating marketing initiatives, events management, and community relations in Tompkins Trust’s Central New York market. In addition, he will provide marketing support for other community bank subsidiaries of Tompkins Financial Corp. (NYSE: TMP).

Seals holds a bachelor’s degree in acting from SUNY Fredonia, according to a Tompkins Trust release. He lived and worked in New York City for eight years, managing events and working in marketing/social media for a diverse range of companies in the hospitality and retail industries, including Dylan’s Candy Bar, My Cooking Party, Analogue, and Professor Thom’s.

Seals has directing credits off-Broadway, with the National Comedy Theatre, and is an active theatre artist in Ithaca, with credits working on stage with both the Kitchen Theatre Company and the Hangar Theatre.

Tompkins Financial is a financial-services company, with $6.6 billion in total assets, serving the Central, Western, and Hudson Valley regions of New York and the Southeastern region of Pennsylvania. Tompkins Financial is parent of Tompkins Trust Company, Tompkins Bank of Castile, Tompkins Mahopac Bank, Tompkins VIST Bank, Tompkins Insurance Agencies, Inc., and offers wealth-management services through Tompkins Financial Advisors.

Tompkins Trust is the number one bank in the Ithaca metro area — ranked by deposit market share, with a more than 62 percent share of all market deposits — according to FDIC statistics.

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