The Board of Directors of Tompkins Financial Corp. announced that Francis M. Fetsko has communicated his plans to retire as chief operating officer of Tompkins Financial Corp. in the fall of 2023, after twenty-seven years of service to the company.

While Fetsko will step back from his current role in the fall, he has agreed to remain with the company in a part-time capacity, as director of strategy development, through the end of 2024. The company will undertake a succession planning process to identify the best candidate to fill Fetsko's role upon his retirement, which may include both internal and external candidates. Fetsko joined Tompkins Financial in 1996 and has served as chief financial officer since 2000, assuming the additional role of chief operating officer in 2012 overseeing company-wide operations and technology.

He is an executive vice president of the bank holding company, Tompkins Financial Corp., and a member of its senior leadership team. In keeping with the values of the company and his personal commitment to community service, Fetsko sits on a number of civic and nonprofit boards. The Ithaca resident is chair of the advisory board for the Kania School of Management at the University of Scranton, a board member of Ithaca-based Racker, an organization dedicated to supporting people with disabilities, and is past president of the YMCA of Ithaca and Tompkins County.