Management
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Steven A. Tsavaris
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Chairman of the Board and Executive Chairman
Mr. Tsavaris, age 74, has served as a director since 1990. In 2013, Mr. Tsavaris became Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Ponce De Leon Federal Bank. Mr. Tsavaris currently serves as Executive Chairman, a salaried officer, of Ponce Bank.
Mr. Tsavaris is Chairman of the Board and Executive Chairman, a salaried officer, of Ponce Financial Group, Inc. Mr. Tsavaris joined Ponce De Leon Federal Bank as an Executive Vice President in 1995, became President in 1999, and was made Chief Executive Officer in 2011. Mr. Tsavaris is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Foundation. His prior banking experience includes service with the National Bank of North America and the Bank Services Division of Litton Industries. Mr. Tsavaris is a U.S Army veteran and a graduate of City College of New York. Mr. Tsavaris is an experienced real estate investor and an active member of various community and philanthropic organizations, including the Southern Boulevard Chamber of Commerce, New York City Area Policy Board (Chairman), SOBO Business Improvement District (Treasurer) and the Neighborhood S.H.O.P.P. Program. He served as a trustee of the Westchester Medical Center, a then affiliate of Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital and was chairman of its audit committee.
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Luis Gerardo Gonzalez, Jr.
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Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
Mr. Gonzalez, age 41, was appointed Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Ponce Financial Group, Inc. and the Bank, effective April 1, 2022. Mr. Gonzalez previously held a variety of roles at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) , including Team Leader / Supervisory National Bank Examiner, as well as Acting Assistant Deputy Comptroller. Mr. Gonzalez received his commission as a National Bank Examiner in 2012 and has over 15 years of experience with the OCC. He is a graduate of The University of Texas at El Paso.
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Ioannis Kouzilos
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Executive Vice President, Chief Lending Officer
Mr. Kouzilos, age 45, is currently the Executive Vice President, Chief Lending Officer for Ponce Bank. He joined the Bank in July 2013 and has managed a number of departments, primarily focusing on asset quality, credit risk, asset recovery and lending operations. In March 2017 he assumed his current position, leading the Bank in business development and loan growth. His prior experience mostly focused in community banking includes Alma Bank and Marathon National Bank. He holds a graduate degree from University of Wales in Banking and Finance and a BA(Hons) in Business Economics from Ashcroft Business school/John Ruskin University (Cambridge Campus).
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Madeline V. Marquez
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Executive Vice President, Chief External Affairs Officer
Ms. Marquez, age 67, joined Ponce Bank in February 2017 as a SVP with a mandate to have Ponce Bank become a designated U.S Small Business Administration (SBA) lender and a Certified Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI). Rapidly accomplishing her mandate, she was promoted to Chief External Affairs Officer in 2018.
Ms. Marquez has received many honors for her role in fueling the growth of businesses and organizations throughout New York, including the “New York Women of Excellence Award in Business” from the NYC Women’s Chamber of Commerce; the “Vision Award” and “Business Development Award” from the NYC Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. The Bronx Times Reporter named her one of the “25 Influential Women of the Bronx” while The Bronx Chamber of Commerce awarded her their “Leadership Award.” Ms. Marquez also received the Visionary Award from the Business Initiative Corporation of NY, was named Crain’s New York Business 2021 Notable Women on Wall Street and received the City and State Responsible 100 in 2022. The Bronx Chamber of Commerce honored Ms. Marquez with the first “Joseph P. Kelleher Award of Excellence” in 2023.
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Carlos P. Naudon
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Director, President and Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Naudon, age 73, has served as a director since 2014. Mr. Naudon served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Ponce De Leon Federal Bank beginning in 2015 and presently serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Ponce Bank. Mr. Naudon is President and Chief Executive Officer of Ponce Financial Group, Inc. Mr. Naudon is a member of the Board of Directors of the Foundation. Prior to becoming President of Ponce De Leon Federal Bank, Mr. Naudon served as a consultant and compliance counsel to Ponce De Leon Federal Bank. Mr. Naudon owns Banking Spectrum, Inc., now a banking publishing company, formerly a bank consulting company. Until 2015, Mr. Naudon was a partner in the law firm of Allister & Naudon. Both of the foregoing firms were established in 1984 to provide services to banking institutions. Mr. Naudon, a retired CPA, was Of Counsel to the law firm Cullen & Dykman from 2015 to 2019. Mr. Naudon has also previously served in many board positions at other companies, public and private. Before retiring from his consulting and law firms in 2015, Mr. Naudon was a frequent lecturer and speaker on banking issues, corporate governance, quality assurance and performance incentives. Mr. Naudon has current and previous service in various healthcare and community organizations and serves on the board of the Brooklyn Hospital Center of which he was the Chairman of the Board until 2018. Mr. Naudon is a member of the New York CityHispanic Chamber of Commerce and other professional associations. Mr. Naudon is a member
of the boards and committees of various banking trade associations and regulatory advisory councils, including serving as vice Chairman of the Community Development Bankers Association, Chairman of the Minority Institutions Council of the Independent Bankers Association of America and Chairman of the Community Bank Advisory Council of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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Sergio Vaccaro
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Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Vaccaro, age 48, was appointed Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Ponce Financial Group, Inc. and the Bank, effective June 1, 2022. Since 2013, Mr. Vaccaro has held a variety of roles at HSBC , most recently as CFO of Private Bank Americas from 2015 to May 2022. Prior to this role, he held the following roles with HSBC: Head of Financial Planning and Analysis from 2016 to 2018 (dual role) and Deputy CFO of Private Bank from 2013 to 2015. Prior to his roles with HSBC, Mr. Vaccaro held senior roles at Morgan Stanley and Citigroup. He majored in Accounting at the University of Buenos Aires and has an MBA from Cornell University.