President and Chief Executive Officer since September 2009. Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer from October 2005 to September 2009. Executive Vice President responsible for consumer banking and auto financing of FirstBank between 1998 and 2009. Since April 2005, also responsible for the retail banking distribution network, First Mortgage and FistBank Virgin Islands operations. President of First Federal Finance Corporation d/b/a Money Express from 2000 to 2005. President of FirstBank Insurance Agency, Inc. from 2001 to 2005. President of First Leasing & Rental Corp. from 1999 to June 2007. From 1996 to 1998, Vice President of CitiBank, N.A., responsible for wholesale and retail automobile financing and retail mortgage business. Vice President of Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A., responsible for banking operations and technology for Puerto Rico and the Eastern Caribbean region from 1990 to 1996. Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO of First Leasing and Rental Corporation, First Federal Finance Corporation d/b/a Money Express, FirstMortgage, Inc., FirstBank Overseas Corp., First Insurance Agency, Inc., FirstExpress, Inc., FirstBank Puerto Rico Securities Corp., and First Management of Puerto Rico, and CEO of FirstBank Insurance Agency, Inc., Grupo Empresas Servicios Financieros, First Trade, Inc. and First Resolution Company. Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Ponce General Corporation and FirstBank Florida until July 2009. Joined the Corporation in 1998. Director of First BanCorp and FirstBank Puerto Rico since September 2005.
Robert T. Gormley has served as a Director of First BanCorp. since October 2012. Mr. Gormley is a former bank executive whose career in the banking industry has spanned nearly four decades. In 1970, after graduating from Providence College with a bachelor’s degree in management, he entered the management trainee program at Fleet Bank N.A., where he eventually rose to the position of Executive Vice President and Senior Loan Officer. In 1993, he joined Citizens Financial Group, serving initially as Executive Vice President and Chief Lending Officer for Citizens Bank of Rhode Island, then as President and CEO of various branches in New England, and finally, as Vice Chairman and Chief Risk Officer of Citizens Financial Group until his retirement in 2007.
A managing director with Thomas H. Lee Partners, L.P. and its predecessor Thomas H. Lee Company, a private investment firm, since 1992 and with the firm since 1988. Previously in the Mergers and Acquisitions Department of Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated. Director also of Ceridian Corporation, Fidelity National Financial, Inc., Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. and MoneyGram International, Inc. In an attempt to preserve the value of an investment in Conseco, Inc. by an affiliate of THL, Mr. Hagerty served as the interim chief financial officer of Conseco from July 2000 until April 2001. In December 2002, Conseco filed a petition under the federal bankruptcy code.
A managing director with the Principal Group of Oaktree Capital Management L.P., a registered investment advisor and affiliate of Oaktree Group, where he has been responsible for sourcing, evaluating and managing private equity investments since 1997. Prior to this, positions in the Corporate Recovery Consulting group of Price Waterhouse and the Distressed Credits group at Society Corporation. Director of SKBHC Holdings, LLC, American West Bank, Starbuck Bancorp, AloStar Bancorp, Alliance Healthcare Services, Novis Pharmaceuticals, LLC and Senior Home Care.
President and CEO of BXM Holdings, a fund specializing in community bank investments. Independent director of SKBHC Holdings, a bank holding company, and its subsidiary banks AmericanWest Bank and First National Bank of Starbuck. Between 2009 and 2010, President and CEO of Midwest Banc Holdings Inc. and Midwest Bank and Trust. Previously, spent 17 years with Popular Inc. as its Executive Vice President and as President of Banco Popular North America.
A graduate of the Boston College Carroll School of Management with a Major in Finance. Upon obtaining his Juris Doctor degree from the InterAmerican University School of Law, in Puerto Rico, he commenced work in the Tax Department of Price Waterhouse LLP (“PW”). While at PW, he took a leave of absence to pursue a Masters in Law (in taxation) at the NYU Law School. He returned to the firm and worked as a Tax Manager until 1976. In 1977 he joined a legal partnership, which is now a professional service corporation operating under the name of Martínez-Alvarez, Menéndez-Cortada & Lefranc-Romero, PSC. Until 2009, he was the director and vice president in charge of the corporate and tax divisions. The firm is a full service firm specializing in Commercial, Real Estate and Construction Law. He has served as Counsel to the Board of Bermudez & Longo, S.E. since 1985, director of Tasis Dorado School since 2002, director of the Homebuilders Association of Puerto Rico since 2002, trustee of the Luis A. Ferré Foundation, Inc. (Ponce Museum) since 2002 and co-chairman of the audit committee of that foundation since 2009. Among his past experiences are his services as treasurer and president of USO of Puerto Rico and later as Chairman for the Caribbean. For more than 15 years, he has served as ad honorem professor of continuous education in the local CPA Association. Director since April 2004. Served as Lead Independent Director between February 2006 and
September 2009. Chairman of the Board of Directors since September 2009.
Certified Public Accountant, Certified Fraud Examiner, Certified Valuation Analyst and Certified Financial Forensics. Managing Partner and Partner in Charge of the Audit and Accounting Division of RSM ROC & Company. Has been with RSM ROC & Company for the past twenty-nine years and prior thereto served as Audit Manager with Arthur Andersen & Co. for over nine years, from June 1971 to October 1980. Mr. Rodríguez Amaro has over 38 years of public accounting experience. He has served clients in the banking, insurance, manufacturing, construction, government, advertising, radio broadcasting and services industries. Member of the Board of Trustees of Sacred Heart University of Puerto Rico since August 2003, serving as member of the Executive Committee and Chairman of the Audit Committee since 2004. Member of the Board of Trustees of ColegioPuertorriqueño de Niñas since 1996, and also as a member of the Board of Directors from 1998 to 2004 and since late 2008 and, member of the Board of Directors of Proyecto de Niños de Nueva Esperanza, Inc. since 2003. Director since November 2005.
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