Bank Leadership

Priscilla Sims Brown is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Amalgamated Bank. Ms. Brown is a multi-national board director and C-suite executive with 30 years of financial services experience. Prior to joining Amalgamated Bank she was the Group Executive for Marketing and Corporate Affairs at Commonwealth Bank of Australia, where she focused on rebuilding trust and pride in the bank with direct responsibility for end-to-end marketing, branding, stakeholder insights, government and public affairs, and environment and social policy.

Prior to Commonwealth Bank, Ms. Brown held senior positions at AXA Financial, Inc., Sun Life Financial, and Lincoln Financial Group. She has advised several digital startups and served as the Chief Executive Officer of Emerge.me, a digital health insurance broker.

She was a member of the AXA Financial US Executive Committee, serving as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), where she directed all aspects of US marketing and led global digital marketing initiatives. Prior to AXA Financial, Ms. Brown served as CMO at AmeriHealth/Caritas, where she developed a new go-to-market strategy for the largest Blue Cross/Blue Shield Medicaid company in response to the Affordable Care Act. At Sun Life, Ms. Brown served as CMO and Chief Strategist, where she negotiated and managed Sun Life Stadium naming rights, Pro Bowl, Super Bowl and other major events with the Miami Dolphins NFL football team.

During her 18-year tenure at Lincoln Financial Group, Ms. Brown held numerous leadership positions where she integrated acquired companies, established new businesses and led the consumer brand. She established the firm’s first investment management profit center, targeting midsized insurance companies. She also started and chaired Lincoln’s first family of standalone mutual funds and served as president of the broker-dealer. Ms. Brown also led the investor relations function, before expanding her responsibilities to include corporate and strategic marketing.

For the past three years, she served as a member of the Board of Trustees of Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (‘TIAA’), a US Fortune 100 financial services firm with over $1.2 trillion in assets under management. She served on the TIAA Investment, Nominating and Governance, and Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility committees, as well as Trustee and CEO selection subcommittees.

Ms. Brown’s personal and professional experiences have enabled her to reach across cultural boundaries to ensure collaboration among diverse teams and drive successful outcomes for organizations.

Jason serves as the Chief Financial Officer. Before joining the Bank in 2015, Jason spent 12 combined years at Capital One Financial and North Fork Bank in roles that ranged from finance to middle market commercial business development. Earlier in his career, Jason worked at American Express in strategy development and at KPMG as both a banking auditor and a technology implementation consultant. Jason is a licensed CPA in New York.

Sam Brown joined Amalgamated Bank after serving as Director of the White House Business Council in the White House’s Office of Public Engagement. As President Obama’s liaison to the private sector, Sam worked on economic policies to help America’s working families and businesses succeed. Before leading the Business Council, Sam held various positions with President Obama. He served as founding Chief Operating Officer of Organizing for Action and Finance Chief of Staff for the Obama-Biden 2012 campaign.

Over the last 20 years, Sean has held a number of leadership roles in Operations, Cash Management and Product Management. He came to Amalgamated in 2015 to lead the Product & Client Service team, where he oversaw commercial product development and enhanced the service model within Commercial Banking. Prior to joining Amalgamated, Sean worked in Global Transaction Banking at HSBC on the USD Clearing Product team, providing foreign financial institutions and multinational corporations access to the USD market. Before HSBC, Sean served in the Strategic Planning Group at Cathay Bank which managed product development across the Retail and Commercial segments.

Mandy Tenner has served as our Executive Vice President and General Counsel since April 1, 2022. Before that she served as our Deputy General Counsel from April 2018 to April 2022, and as our Assistant General Counsel from April 2016 until April 2018. Before joining us, she served as counsel for ContourGlobal, a global power company from November 2010 to March 2016. Earlier in her career, she worked at Guggenheim Partners in their Leveraged Debt Group. She holds a bachelor’s degree in History and Political Science from Brandeis University, an M.A. in French from Middlebury College, and a J.D. degree from Brooklyn Law School.

Tye Graham is Executive Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer, responsible for Amalgamated’s human resources strategy; a plan focused on building culture and attracting, developing, retaining, and engaging our most valued asset, our colleagues. This includes talent acquisition and development, compensation, benefits, payroll, and internal communications.

Tye joined Amalgamated in 2021, and previously served as Senior Vice President of Talent Management at Eastern Bank. He has also held senior HR roles at GE Capital, Sun Life Financial U.S., Bank of America, and Citizens Financial Group. He started his HR career at USTrust Bank, Boston where he served as Vice President of Corporate Training & Development. Tye is a graduate of Emmanuel College, Boston, where he received his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration.

Ken joined the Bank in 2012 with a focus on Asset Liability, Risk and Securities portfolio management in addition to loan acquisitions. He is a member of the Credit, Investment and Asset liability Management committees. Mr. Schmidt has over 30 years of banking experience, including over 10 years at the Dime Savings Bank of New York where he held positions including Senior Whole Loan Trader, Portfolio Manager, and Deputy Treasurer. Following the Dime he worked for two inter-national banks and was the Chief Financial Officer for Darien Rowayton Bank. He holds an M.B.A. in Banking and Finance from Hofstra University.

Margaret joins Amalgamated Bank from Investors Bank where she was Chief Credit Officer and was responsible for leading the credit culture and credit risk management of the commercial and retail portfolios. Before that, Margaret served as Chief Credit Officer at OceanFirst Bank, and spent more than two decades at Wells Fargo in positions of increasing authority in both Lending and Credit Risk Management. Over the span of her career Margaret has earned numerous, well-deserved awards and accolades. She is a past recipient of the NJBIZ Best 50 Women in Business Award, the Woman of Influence in Finance Award, and was an EWNJ Salute to Policy Makers Honoree.

Judith comes to Amalgamated from USAA, where she was responsible for developing, leading and successfully executing a 3-year Bank digital strategy. While there, she helped to build a new organization tasked with delivering compliant and integrated digital/technical experiences and capabilities for Retail Banking, Consumer Lending and Real Estate. She is a highly accomplished global IT, ecommerce, digital strategy and marketing executive who has held strategy and leadership positions across manufacturing, technology, telecommunications, government, travel and hospitality and financial services. 

Ivan Frishberg is the Chief Sustainability Officer at Amalgamated Bank where he leads impact and shareholder engagement programs. As a commercial banker, Ivan has been instrumental in rallying bank sector commitments to combat climate change, including growing the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF) to $50 trillion in assets committed to measurement and disclosure of financed emissions. Under Ivan’s leadership, Amalgamated has taken a global leadership role within (UNEP FI) in developing guidance for how banks will set targets to reduce their financed emissions through the recently launched Net Zero Banking Alliance. Ivan is on the Steering Group of the NZBA and the Advisory Panel for the Glasgow Finance Alliance for Net Zero.

Ivan also steered the way to make Amalgamated Bank the first U.S. bank to commit to the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) and the first bank to set portfolio wide targets under the United Nations guidelines for target setting.

Edgar joined Amalgamated Bank after completing law school in 2006. He began his tenure with the bank in the General Counsel office in the role of Associate General Counsel. For the first nine years, Edgar focused on regulatory compliance, examinations, corporate governance, and served as a legal adviser to Amalgamated’s senior management. For the next three years he managed the bank’s compliance and enterprise risk function as the Chief Compliance Officer then Chief Risk Officer. Edgar also served as the Northeast Regional Director overseeing a commercial banking and lending team focused on labor unions, nonprofits, social enterprises and community development organizations.  He is active with various industry groups and serves on the NYC Workforce Development Board.