Risk Most Be Managed, Not Avoided - CEO Flushing Bank $FFIC

John Buran is President and Chief Executive Officer of Flushing
Financial


Corporation and Flushing Bank ($FFIC).





He joined the Bank as Chief Operating Officer in 2001 and has
served on the Board of Directors since 2003. During his tenure as
President and CEO, Flushing Bank has grown from $2 billion in
2005 to over $8 billion in total assets. John’s banking career
began in 1977 at Citibank where he held a variety of senior
management positions.





John is Chairman of the Board of the Federal Home Loan Bank


of New York, a position he has held since 2018. He has been a
Director


there since 2010. He is past Chairman and current Board member of
the


New York Bankers Association. He is a former member of the
Community


Depository Institutions Advisory Council of The Federal Reserve
Bank of


New York where he served six years. John is also a former member
of the


Nassau County Interim Finance Authority where he served eight
years.


Mr. Buran has devoted his time to a variety of charitable and
not-for-profit


organizations. He has been a Board member of the Long Island


Association, both the Nassau and Suffolk County Boy Scouts, EAC,
Long


Island University, the Long Island Philharmonic and Channel 21.





He was the fundraising Chairman for the Suffolk County Vietnam
Veteran’s War Memorial in Farmingville, New York and has been
recipient of the Boy


Scouts’ Chief Scout Citizen Award. His work in the community has
been


recognized by the Family and Children’s Association, and the
Gurwin


Jewish Geriatric Center. He was also a recipient of the Long
Island


Association’s SBA Small Business Advocate Award. Mr. Buran was


honored twice with St. Joseph’s College’s Distinguished Service
Award.





Mr. Buran also serves on the Advisory Board and is a former Board


President of Neighborhood Housing Services of New York City. He
is a


Board member of The Korean American Youth Foundation and serves
on


the Board of the Long Island Conservatory. He was recently
presented


with an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from St. Francis
College of


Brooklyn and was the recipient of the Catholic Charities Gold
Medal Award


in 2019. He holds a B.S. in Management and an M.B.A., both from
New


York University.





Website: https://www.flushingbank.com/