Financial Services >> CEO Interviews >> June 14, 1999
JAMES J. BYRNES is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Tompkins
Trustco, Inc., and Chairman of its subsidiary, Tompkins Trust Company,
since 1989. From 1978 to 1988, Mr. Byrnes was with Bank of Montreal and
headed the U.S. Division. He held senior management positions in
commercial and small business lending, foreign exchange and money market
trading, and the foreign branches of the bank. From 1968 to 1978 Mr.
Byrnes was with Citibank, New York City. From 1964 to 1966 he was an
Army infantry officer. Mr. Byrnes has an MBA from Cornell University's
Johnson Graduate School of Management. Mr. Byrnes is involved in several
local community organizations, including Tompkins County Area
Development, Finger Lakes Land Trust, Ithaca Neighborhood Housing, and
Rotary. He serves on the Cornell University Council and various advisory
committees at Cornell and Ithaca College. He is a Director of the New
York Bankers Association, Independent Bankers Association of New York
State, and New York Business Development Corporation. Profile
your history, products, services, customers, those kinds of things.
Mr. Byrnes: We are a community bank. Tompkins County
