Paul J. Battaglia

Director at Tompkins Financial Corporation

Paul Battaglia has served as a Director of the Company since 2010 and was a Director of TFA Management, Inc. f/k/a AM&M Financial Services, Inc. from April-December 2010. He has served as a Director for the Bank of Castile since January 2011. He became Chairman of the Audit Committee in May 2011. In 2015 he was appointed to the Board of Directors of TFA Management, Inc. and to the Corporate Credit Oversight Committee of the Company’s Board of Directors. From 2009 until his retirement in 2018, Mr. Battaglia served as a Managing Director of Freed Maxick CPAs, P.C., a 300-person “Top 100” public accounting firm headquartered in Western New York in 2018. As a Managing Director, Mr. Battaglia managed the operations of the firm’s Batavia office in addition to providing consulting services on various transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, design and implementation of financing plans, estate planning and business succession planning to his clients. He served on the firm’s Executive and Compensation Committee and Finance Committee, and was a Trustee for the firm’s retirement plan. He is a Certified Public Accountant, a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants. Mr. Battaglia currently provides consulting services in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, estate and succession planning, trust administration and financing to various clients. Mr. Battaglia serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Genesee County Economic Development Center and the Genesee County Funding Corporation; and is a Director of the Genesee Gateway Local Development Corporation. In 2018 he was appointed to the Batavia Downtown Revitalization Initiative Committee and he and his wife Mary are currently chairing the YMCA/United Memorial Medical Center capital campaign to build a healthy

living campus in Batavia, NY. Mr. Battaglia has served as a director or volunteer for over 30 not-for-profit or educational organizations in his career. Mr. Battaglia was named the “Honorary Chairman of the Centennial Celebration for the City of Batavia, New York in 2015, and has received numerous other community recognitions. We believe Mr. Battaglia’s qualifications to serve on our Board of Directors include his 45 years of experience in public accounting dealing with financial and accounting matters for complex organizations. He has acquired a deep understanding of the Western New York business environment during his years of working with commercial clients in the region. We note that Mr. Battaglia has demonstrated significant involvement with local civic organizations through his years of service on the above-referenced boards of directors.

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