Richard O'Toole

Richard O'Toole has served as Chairman of the Board of Sterling Bancorp since May of 2017 and has been an independent director since 2012. He served as an Executive Vice President and Consultant at The Related Companies, Investment Arm since 2005. Mr. O'Toole supported the leadership to drive extraordinary growth through development and management of residential and commercial projects across the country. Mr. O’Toole is General Counsel and Executive Vice President of Related, where he is responsible for tax structuring and origination of new business opportunities. He was a Partner in the Tax Department with Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker Europe from 2000 to 2005. He has over 35 years of legal, merger and acquisition, real estate and tax experience. He has been a Director of KSW Inc. since October 11, 2012. He serves as a Director of Equinox Holding Inc. (privately held) (2016 to present); Motivate (privately held) (2015 to present), the operator of Citi Bike; and numerous subsidiaries of Related and serves as an adjunct at Columbia University. Mr. O'Toole holds an LLM from New York University, a J.D. from St. John’s University School of Law and a B.A. from St. John’s University.