Leslie D. Dunn has been a member of the Boards of Directors of New York Community Bancorp, Inc. and its bank subsidiary, New York Community Bank, since September 1, 2015.
An independent member of the Boards of Directors of the Company and the Bank, Ms. Dunn serves as Chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of the Company and the Bank and is a member of the Audit and Risk Assessment Committees of the Company and the Bank as well as a member of the Compensation Committee of the Company.
An experienced executive, legal, and governance professional, Ms. Dunn has been an independent director of the Federal Home Loan Bank (“FHLB”) of Cincinnati since 2007, serving not only on its Audit and Compensation Committees, but also as Governance Committee Chair.
From 1997 through 2004, Ms. Dunn was Senior Vice President of Business Development at Cole National Corporation, a New York Stock Exchange-listed specialty retailer with 15,000 employees and 3,000 locations in Canada, Europe, and the United States. In this capacity, Ms. Dunn was actively engaged in the company’s acquisition-driven expansion, identifying new businesses and potential targets, structuring transactions, and participating in the integration of acquired businesses. In addition, Ms. Dunn served as Cole’s General Counsel and Secretary, overseeing the company’s government relations and law departments, ensuring its compliance with SEC regulations, and serving as principal corporate governance advisor to the board.
Prior to joining Cole, Ms. Dunn was a partner in the Business Practice Group in the Cleveland office of Jones Day, a global law firm with more than 40 locations, and before then, was a partner in the corporate practice of Squire Sanders & Dempsey (now Squire Patton Boggs), also in Cleveland.
Ms. Dunn is also an active civic leader and philanthropist in her home state of Ohio, including having served as President of the Board of the Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art, a director, President-elect, and Trustee of the David and Inez Myers Foundation, a Life Trustee and Past Chair of the Mt. Sinai Health Care Foundation, a director of the Jewish Federation of Cleveland, a member of the President’s Advisory Committee of Case Western Reserve University--her law school alma mater--and Co-Chair of the Northeast Ohio Chapter of Women Corporate Directors, an organization of over 2,500 women business leaders worldwide.