Betsy Cohen

Betsy Cohen General Information

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Ms. Betsy Cohen is the Owner & serves as Chairman at FTAC Athena Acquisition. Ms. Cohen served as Chairman & Board Member at FinTech Acquisition VI. He served as Board Member at Metromile. She has served as Chairman of our board of directors since June 2020 and currently serves as the Chairman of the board of directors of FinTech III, a position she has held since March 2017. She also served as the Chairman of the board at FinTech Acquisition. She serves as Board Member at Metromile. She served as Chairman of FinTech II's board of directors from August 2016 until July 2018. She served as a director of FinTech I and its successor, Card Connect, a provider of payment processing solutions to merchants, from November 2013 until May 2017, and previously served as Chairman of the board of directors of FinTech I from July 2014 through July 2016 and as FinTech I's Chief Executive Officer from July 2014 through August 2014. She served as Chief Executive Officer of The Bancorp, a publicly traded financial holdings company, and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Bancorp Bank, from September 2000 and Chairman of Bancorp Bank from November 2003, and resigned from these positions upon her retirement in December 2014. She served as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees and as a trustee of RAIT Financial Trust, a formerly publicly traded real estate investment trust, from its founding in August 1997 through her resignation on December 31, 2010, and served as RAIT's Chief Executive Officer from 1997 to 2006. She served as a director of Hudson United Bancorp (a bank holding company), the successor to JeffBanks, from December 1999 until July 2000 and as the Chairman of the Jefferson Bank Division of Hudson United Bank (Hudson United Bancorp's banking subsidiary) from December 1999 through March 2000. Before the merger of JeffBanks, with Hudson United Bancorp in December 1999, she was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of JeffBanks from its inception in 1981 and also served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of each of its subsidiaries, Jefferson Bank, which she founded in 1974, and Jefferson Bank New Jersey, which she founded in 1987. From 1985 until 1993, she was a director of First Union of Virginia (a bank holding company) and its predecessor, Dominion Bancshares. In 1969, she co-founded a commercial law firm and served as a senior partner until 1984. She also served as a director of Aetna (NYSE: AET), an insurance company, from 1994 until May 2018. She served as Chairman & Board Member at FTAC Hera Acquisition.