Leslie Dunn - NYCB Old Independent Director

Ms. Leslie Dolin Dunn is an Independent Director of the Company. From 1997 through 2004, Ms. Dunn was Senior Vice President of Business Development at Cole National Corporationrationration, a New York Stock Exchangelisted specialty retailer with over 10, 000 employees and 3, 000 locations in Canada, Europe, and the United States. Her responsibility focused on implementation of the Companys acquisition growth strategy. Ms. Dunn also served as Coles General Counsel and Secretary, overseeing the companys inhouse law department, ensuring its compliance with SEC regulations, and serving as principal corporate governance advisor to the board. Prior to joining Cole, Ms. Dunn was a partner in the Business Practice Group in the Cleveland office of Jones Day, a global law firm with more than 40 locations, and before then, was a partner in the corporate practice of Squire Sanders Dempsey, also in Cleveland. A graduate of Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Ms. Dunn is also an active civic leader and philanthropist in her home state of Ohio, serving as the immediate past President of the Board of the Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art, a director and member of the Investment Committee of the David and Inez Myers Foundation, a Life Trustee and Past Chair of the Mt. Sinai Health Care Foundation, a member of the Presidents Advisory Committee of Case Western Reserve University, and CoChair of the Northeast Ohio Chapter of Women Corporationrationrate Directors since 2015.