Mr. Hill’s expertise in corporate, insurance and financial services law, government relations and strategic communications and his leadership experience as a senior executive with public companies is a significant strategic resource for the Board of Directors.
Directors Continuing in Office with Terms Expiring in 2020
Richard F. Weiss,age 74 and a director since 2004, has been in the financial services industry for over 40 years. He is a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Financial Planner with an emphasis on Estate and Trust planning. He works as a consultant to Weiss Financial Group and Weiss Advisory Group LLC, firms specializing in tax compliance and personal financial, estate and trust planning and compliance.
Mr. Weiss began his career working for several leading CPA firms in New York City, including S.D. Leidesdorf & Co., which subsequently merged with the current firm of Ernst & Young LLP. Before establishing his private practice, he was partner at Kamerman, Shapiro, Jacobs & Weiss, a boutique New York City-based firm specializing in international and domestic corporate taxation, estate, trust and individual planning and taxation.
Mr. Weiss serves as a board member and Treasurer of the Putnam County Housing Corp. and Chairman of the Putnam Economic Development Corporation. He also enjoys volunteering as a local broadcast television announcer for Mahopac High School sporting events.
Mr. Weiss’s extensive tax and financial expertise is an invaluable resource to PCSB Bank and he is an “audit committee financial expert” as that term is defined by Securities and Exchange Commission regulations. He serves as the Vice Chairman of the Board and as the lead independent director.
Karl A. Thimm, age 72 and a director since 2008, is the President, owner and founder of Karlen Inc. D/B/A Appliance Sales Plus, a leading Westchester-based retail and commercial appliance provider located in Somers, New York. He also sits on the Executive Board of Intercounty Appliance Corporation, a retail applianceco-op in Medford, New York. Before starting Karlen Incorporated, he served in the appliance sales division of General Electric Company where he maintained relationships with many retail companies. He sits on the board of the Putnam Hospital Center.
Mr. Thimm’s entrepreneurship and over 40 years of business experience provides the Board of Directors with insight and guidance with its small business lending and account relationships.
Michael T. Weber, age 64 and a director since 2005, now retired, was the Chief Executive Officer of Health Quest, a multi-hospital healthcare system located in the lower Hudson Valley until his retirement in 2013. Before retirement, he grew the system to a $700 million operation with multiple healthcare-related entities, including home care agencies, urgent care centers, a nursing home and physician practices, which helped in making Health Quest an industry leader it is today.
Before the start of his affiliation with Health Quest in 2007, Mr. Weber began his career in Buffalo, New York and from 1979 to 1986 he was Director of Fiscal Services at a local hospital. In 1986 he accepted the position of Chief Financial Officer at Putnam Hospital Center, Carmel, New York. During that time period he earned a Masters Degree in Healthcare Administration from Western Connecticut State University and was promoted to the hospital’s Chief Executive Officer. Over the next seven years he successfully improved the hospital’s financial position, completed several major building projects, enlarged the medical staff and enhanced the reputation of the hospital.
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