<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body dir="auto"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 22px;">"Reliable Ray" this morning added "Notable Ray" this morning.</span><br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 22px;">Crains New York Business today announced its "Notable Diverse Leaders in Banking and Finance"</span></font></div><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 22px;"><a href="https://www.crainsnewyork.com/awards/notable-diverse-leaders-banking-finance">https://www.crainsnewyork.com/awards/notable-diverse-leaders-banking-finance</a><br>And wouldn't you know, it quite appropriately includes Gotham's own,</span></font><div><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 22px;">Ray Walcott, Vice President of Business Banking at Capitol One. Please share your personal congrats for Ray, a reigning Gotham Networker of the Year, a key member of the Gotham Business POWER Breakfast (<u>join us on Wednesday April 6</u>), group coordinator of Gotham Westchester and Gotham Virtual groups, and as noted by Crains in its bio of Ray, "membership co-chair of Gotham City Networking."</span></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 22px;">(Click link below to view how text that follows appears on line; the full list appears starting on page 19 of the attached Crains and it covers Ray on page 26.)</span></font></div><div><a href="https://www.crainsnewyork.com/awards/notable-diverse-leaders-banking-and-finance-2022-ray-walcott" style="font-style: normal;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 22px;">https://www.crainsnewyork.com/awards/notable-diverse-leaders-banking-and-finance-2022-ray-walcott</font></a></div><div><div class="region-content-top clearfix" data-swiftype-index="false" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: roboto, helvetica; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><div class="block-region-content-top" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div data-block-plugin-id="crain_people_header_block" class="block block-crain-people-component block-crain-people-header-block" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 0;"><a href="https://www.crainsnewyork.com/awards/notable-diverse-leaders-banking-finance" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; font-family: opensans, arial; font-size: 0.875rem; text-decoration: none;"><img src="https://s3-prod.crainsnewyork.com/styles/1200x675/s3/Notable%20Banking%20and%20Finance.jpg" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-_200x675" pinger-seen="true" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: auto; object-fit: cover; margin-bottom: 32px; width: 985px;"></a></div></div></div><div class="region-featured row" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; margin: 0px -0.75rem; padding: 0px; display: flex; -webkit-box-flex: 0; flex: 0 1 auto; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; flex-flow: row wrap; font-family: roboto, helvetica; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><div class="region-featured-left col-xs-12 col-sm-12 col-md-12 col-lg-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0.75rem; -webkit-box-flex: 0; flex: 0 0 66.66667175292969%; max-width: 66.66667175292969%;"><div class="block-region-content-left" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div data-block-plugin-id="crain_people_recipient_selector_block" class="block block-crain-people-component block-crain-people-recipient-selector-block" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; margin: 0px 21px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; width: 375px; float: left; z-index: 1; position: relative; height: auto;"><div class="program-recipient-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><ul class="recipient-links" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></li></ul></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>