Michael J. Gill
BBA Pace University
MS Columbia University
Mike Gill held several management positions at Bankers Trust, starting with heading the group responsible for demographic and economic research, regulatory filing and site analysis for new branch locations and bank acquisitions.
He next headed the Manhattan/Bronx business lending groups and branches; then Branch Banking Administration; and then Corporate Responsibility, reporting to the Office of the Chairman. He disagreed strongly and openly with Bankers Trust’s decision to sell the branch system (the precursor to changing the bank’s well-known customer-focused culture to a quite short-lived derivatives and betting culture), so he left and formed the GillWright Group in partnership with Gini Wright.
Among the founders of SoBRO, a now well-known South Bronx organization, he convinced the CEOs of NYC’s six major banks to commit to a novel several-year stability-assurance funding formula, and was SoBRO’s Chairman for many years, while also Chairman of the Board of New York’s American Institute of Banking School.
His other public leadership activities include serving as Chairman of the Board of YouthBridge New York, a Jewish Community Relations Council of New York multi-ethnic, inner-city-focused youth program, and of the Business Initiative Corporation, a licensed SBA lender.
He was also the Chairman of the Fundraising Committee for the inaugural Bronx Week as well as Chairman of the inaugural GHI Bronx Tennis Classic.
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| Virginia F. Wright
BA Simmons College
MBA George Washington University
Gini Wright began her management career in municipal government, first as a productivity analyst and then as a human resources specialist for the City of Los Angeles.
She then relocated to Washington, DC, and joined American Security Bank’s management training program, quickly earning promotions and becoming the senior executive in charge of Branch Administration for the bank’s branch system. While head of Branch Administration, she represented the bank on a Federal Reserve Bank Task Force that addressed a range of legal, operational and electronic check clearance matters. And she was also prominently involved in the research and decision making leading to the introduction of ATMs in the DC market area.
Her wide role in researching, testing and selecting retail banking hardware and systems during a period of rapid retail banking change resulted in a comfort and expertise with the use of technology. This has positioned the GillWright Group at the forefront of technology-driven research and presentations.
She is on the Board of the Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation and the Chair of its Marketing Committee, and has served as a Board Member of NYC’s tourism-focused Big Apple Greeter.
Her well-known strong convictions about career-focused education, attributable mostly to values gained at long-time career-focused Simmons College, are the underpinnings for such involvements as having served as the Chairman of the Board of the Bronx Community College Foundation, as a faculty member at Bergen Community College, and as a Junior Achievement advisor in Washington, DC.
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