A thirty-eight year veteran of commercial banking in the metropolitan New York market, Edward Travaglianti had until July 2001 been Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of European American Bank (EAB). At the time of Citibank's acquisition of the $17 Billion EAB, he was appointed President of the newly formed Commercial Markets Group of Citibank, N.A. with responsibility for Citibank's nationwide Middle Market and Small Business activities. After retiring from Citibank in 2002, Mr. Travaglianti resumed his banking career in 2004 when he became President, Commerce Bank Long Island. Today he serves as President, TD Bank Long Island.

Mr. Travaglianti's career in finance has always been synonymous with vigorous personal leadership across a broad spectrum of community organizations and institutions dedicated to improving economic, health and educational opportunities in the region. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Winthrop-University Hospital in Mineola, New York and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Winthrop-South Nassau University Health System. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Pall Corporation, Chairman of the Board of the Long Island Works Coalition, Inc. and is also a founding member of the Board of Directors of Cop-Shot, Inc.

Advocacy of education, research and health issues has led to Mr. Travaglianti's appointment as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Long Island University. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and serves as its Treasurer. He also serves on the Board of the Don Monti Memorial Cancer Research Foundation and since 2005 has chaired the Corporate Volunteer Leadership Campaign for Long Island Blood Services. In 2005 he joined the Board of Trustees of the newly formed Tomorrow's Hope Foundation and also became a founding member of the Board of Trustees of the Energeia Partnership. Mr. Travaglianti is also a member of the Long Island Index Advisory Committee and in 2007 he joined the newly formed Lighthouse Steering Committee.

A lifelong resident of the New York area, Mr. Travaglianti received an undergraduate degree in Economics from St. Francis College in Brooklyn, New York, in 1970, with subsequent graduate study in Corporate Finance and Banking at New York University's Stern Graduate School of Business in New York City. He resides in Lloyd Harbor with his wife and children.