Howard Milstein
CEO, NEW YORK PRIVATE BANK & TRUST CORPORATION

Mr. Milstein is Chairman and CEO of the family’s business operations, including New York Private Bank & Trust Corporation (the holding Company for Emigrant Savings Bank), Milstein Properties, and various Milstein Brothers operations in real estate development and management in New York and Chicago. Mr. Milstein Chairs as founding Partner FriedbergMilstein, an alternative asset investment manager. His father, Paul Milstein continues as Chairman Emeritus of all major entities, and his brother Edward serves as Co- Chairman.

Mr. Milstein has served as a member of the Investment Committee for Cornell University’s $4 billion endowment for more than 10 years, and has chaired its Real Estate Sub-Committee for more than 20 years, achieving top quartile returns throughout the period and frequently achieving the #1 rating in its endowment universe. He has also guided the investments of the New York Blood Center’s $200 million endowment as Chairman of the Board.

Mr. Milstein’s other civic and philanthropic efforts include: Chairman of the American Skin Association; Trustee Emeritus and Presidential Counselor, Cornell University, and Overseer, Cornell Medical College. He is a member of Cornell’s Investment Committee and Chairs its Real Estate Sub Committee; he is a member of the Harvard Law School Visiting Committee and of the Executive Committee of the HLS Dean’s Advisory Board.

In Washington, D.C., he serves on the National Board of the Smithsonian, and on the Board of the Shakespeare Theater.

Mr. Milstein earned a B.A in Economics, summa cum laude, from Cornell in 1973 and earned JD/MBA degrees from Harvard in 1977.