Michael Dowling - BankUnited Independent Director

Mr. Michael J. Dowling is Independent Director of the Company. r. Dowling is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Northwell Health, the largest health care provider and private employer in New York State with a workforce of about 63, 000, 23 hospitals and more than 650 outpatient locations. Prior to becoming President and CEO in 2002, Mr. Dowling was the health system Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. Before joining Northwell in 1995, he was a senior vice president at Empire Blue CrossBlue Shield. Mr. Dowling served in New York State government for 12 years, including seven years as State Director of Health, Education and Human Services and Deputy Secretary to the Governor. He was also Commissioner of the New York State Department of Social Services. Before his public service career, Mr. Dowling was a professor of Social Policy and Assistant Dean at the Fordham University Graduate School of Social Services and Director of the Fordham Campus in Westchester County. Mr. Dowling is chair of the Healthcare Institute. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Sciences and the North American Board of the Smurfit School of Business at University College, Dublin, Ireland. He also serves as a board member of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and the Long Island Association. He is past chair and a current board member of the National Center for Healthcare Leadership, the Greater New York Hospital Association, the Healthcare Association of New York State and the League of Voluntary Hospitals of New York. Mr. Dowling was an instructor at the Center for Continuing Professional Education at the Harvard School of Public Health since 2013.