Company: PNBK
Filing Date: 2025-05-16
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001140361-25-019517
Chunk: 12

Company: PATRIOT NATIONAL BANCORP INC
Filing Date: 2025-05-16
Form: PRE 14A
Chunk 12
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2011 through 2019. COR Securities Holdings Inc. was the holding company of COR Clearing LLC, a securities clearing firm, from 2011 until its successful sale to Axos Clearing, LLC in January 2019. Since 2021, Mr. Sugarman has also served as a Director of Dickens Management Group the Manager of LA Golf Partners LLC. Mr. Sugarman is the Founder and Managing Member of COR Capital LLC and COR Advisors, LLC, is the CEO and a Director of Sugarman Enterprises, Inc., and was a Founding Partner of GPS Partners LLC, a $2 billion investment advisory firm. From 2017 to 2020, Mr. Sugarman served as a Senior Advisor and then General Counsel of the National Diversity Coalition, a national advocacy group for the underbanked. Mr. Sugarman began his career as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company and later worked at Lehman Brothers. Mr. Sugarman holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College and a J.D. from Yale Law School. The Company believes that Mr. Sugarman is qualified to be a director as he has an extensive background in the financial services industry. Edward N. Constantino Mr. Constantino has been a director of the Company since October 2010 and the Lead Independent Director since October 2018. He has over 40 years of audit, advisory and tax experience working for two major accounting firms, Arthur Anderson LLP and KPMG LLP. Mr. Constantino retired from KPMG in late 2009, where he was an Audit Partner in charge of the Firm’s real estate and asset management businesses. Mr. Constantino is a member of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Special Committee of ARC Property Trust and a member of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Audit Committee of VineBrook Trust and NexPoint Residential Trust. He also is the Chairman of the Real Estate and Facilities Committee and member of the Investment Committee at St. Francis College. Mr. Constantino also serves as a consultant for the law firm of Skadden Arps. Mr. Constantino’s specific skills include auditing national and multinational organizations, internal control and compliance, financial reporting, 8 regulatory reporting, risk management, asset valuation, accounting and finance and transaction structuring. He is a licensed CPA, a Member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and a Member of the New York State Society of Public Accountants. Mr. Constantino received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from St. Francis University.