Flushing Financial Corporation Appoints Michael A. Azarian to the Board of Directors, Effective February 26, 2019
February 05, 2019 at 04:30 pm EST
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On January 31, 2019, Mr. Michael A. Azarian was appointed by the Board of Directors of Flushing Financial Corporation to fill a newly-created vacancy on the board, effective February 26, 2019. It is has not yet been determined on which committee(s) of the Board Mr. Azarian will serve. Mr. Azarian is an accomplished business leader who brings with him more than 40 years of diversified technology operations experience in the financial services industry with over 30 years at two industry leaders, JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup. More recently, Mr. Azarian has served Citibank in the following senior management positions: from 2007 to 2013, Managing Director, Chief Information Officer – Citibank U.S. based retail consumer and commercial technology, including Branch, Contact Center, Core Operations, Fraud, AML, ATM and Check Processing; and from 2013 to 2017, Managing Director, Global Consumer Technology Executive – Responsible for the Retail Bank implementation of advanced customer servicing and global common operational processes. Mr. Azarian retired in 2017 and since June 2018 has been an Advisory Board Member of CxO Nexus Inc., which provides automated, role-specific advice to simplify and optimize category and vendor spend management tasks.
Flushing Financial Corporation is the holding company for Flushing Bank (the Bank). The Bank offers the products, services, and conveniences associated with large commercial banks, including a full complement of deposit, loan, equipment finance, and cash management services. The Bank's principal business is attracting retail deposits from the general public and investing those deposits together with funds generated from ongoing operations and borrowings, primarily in originations and purchases of multi-family residential properties loans, commercial business loans, commercial real estate mortgage loans and, to a lesser extent, one-to-four family loans; construction loans; small business administration (SBA) loans; mortgage loan surrogates, such as mortgage-backed securities; and United States government securities, corporate fixed-income securities and other marketable securities. The Bank also operates an Internet branch that operates under the brands of iGObanking.com and BankPurely.