Tom Cestare
Tom Cestare, partner and COO at Patriot Financial Partners, has over 30 years of experience in banking. Prior to joining Patriot, Mr. Cestare served as the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from 2010-2020 at Beneficial Bancorp, a $6 billion bank based in Philadelphia, where he was responsible for corporate finance and accounting, risk management, investor relations, capital deployment and optimization, corporate planning/budgeting/forecasting, profitability analysis, interest rate risk and liquidity management, and investor relations. While at Beneficial, Mr. Cestare assisted in the conversion of Beneficial from a mutual to a fully public company raising over $500 million of capital which enabled the bank grow from $4.0 billion in assets to over $6 billion in assets at the time of it sale.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Cestare was the EVP and Chief Accounting Officer of Sovereign Bancorp, Inc., a $92 billion Philadelphia bank.