COMMUNITY FINANCIAL SYSTEM INC (CBU)
Sector: Financials
| Ticker | Position | Age | Qualifications and Experience | Committee Memberships | Filing Year |
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Sector: Financials
| Ticker | Position | Age | Qualifications and Experience | Committee Memberships | Filing Year |
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Director information for CBU
| Ticker | Position | Age | Qualifications and Experience | Committee Memberships | Filing Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CBU | Director; Chair | 70 | ["Chief Executive Officer of Buffamante Whipple Buttafaro, P.C.", "Certified public accountant with over 40 years of experience", "Expertise in corporate finance, accounting, and public company financial statements", "Determined to be an audit committee financial expert"] | ["Governance", "Audit", "Executive", "Audit Committee", "Governance Committee"] | 2026 |
Biography sourced from the proxy statement filing.
John F. Whipple, Jr. is the Chief Executive Officer of Buffamante Whipple Buttafaro, P.C., a regional certified public accounting and business advisory firm with offices in Olean, Jamestown and Orchard Park, New York. Mr. Whipple is a certified public accountant with over 40 years of experience in advising Western New York businesses and individuals on tax planning, structuring of business transactions, financing transactions and strategic planning for businesses. Mr. Whipple provides the Board and the Committees he serves with significant management and corporate governance experience, as well as expertise with respect to corporate finance, accounting and the analysis of public company financial statements and related SEC filings. Mr. Whipple has been determined by the Board to be an audit committee financial expert under the rules and regulations of the SEC.