Arlington, VA (May 15, 2024) — National Cooperative Bank (NCB), a leading financial services company dedicated to providing banking products and services to cooperatives, their members, and socially responsible organizations nationwide announces new Board Leadership at their annual meeting held May 9th.
Marc Friedman, CFO of a Few Cool Hardware Stores will be NCB’s new board chair and Gigi Hyland, Executive Director of the National Credit Union Foundation will assume the vice-chair position. Patrick Jury, Principal, Patrick S. Jury Advisor, LLC retired from NCB’s board after serving since 2017.
The Board benefits from a diverse group of members, who come from a variety of industries in which cooperatives play an important role.
• Marc Friedman (Chair), CFO of a Few Cool Hardware Stores in Washington, DC;
• Gigi Hyland (Vice-Chair), Executive Director, National Credit Union Foundations, Washington, D.C.;
• Josh Ablett, Chief Information Security Officer, Adelia Associates, New Bedford, MA;
• Caroline Blakely, Former President & CEO, Rebuilding Together, Washington, DC;
• Robyn DesHotel, Chief Financial Officer, National Co-op Grocers, St. Paul, MN;
• Jennifer Dolin (Chair), Principal, Jen Dolin Consulting, San Francisco, CA;
• Thomas Fink, Capital Markets Executive, New York, NY;
• Janis Herschkowitz, Former President and CEO of PRL, Inc. in Cornwall, PA.;
• Brian Obergfell, Chairman, and Partner, Emmet, Marvin & Martin, LLP, New York, NY;
• Andrew Reicher, Former Executive Director, UHAB, New York, NY;
• Maria Smedley, Vice President – Human Resources, Performance Foodservice, Little Rock, AR;
• Elizabeth Vealey, President, Sophius, LLC, Lancaster, NY; and
• Curtis Wynn, CEO, SECO Energy, Sumterville, FL
