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Robert Kunisch
Rob Kunisch is the President and Chief Operating Officer of Howard Bank and a Member of their Board of Directors. He has spent his entire banking career in Maryland, beginning in 1990 at Mercantile-Safe Deposit and Trust Company and, later, its acquirer, PNC Bank. In 2008, Rob joined Wilmington Trust FSB as the Director of Commercial Banking and was later promoted to President of Wilmington Trust, FSB Maryland, and assumed the additional responsibilities of running wealth management in Maryland. When M&T Bancorp acquired the bank in 2011, he opted to pursue his desire to work at a community bank by serving as a consultant to the 1st Mariner Bancorp board. In 2014, he put together a team of investors to raise $110 million that was used to take control of 1st Mariner Bank where he later became CEO. Four years later, he negotiated a deal to merge with Howard Bank in March 2018 which would position him as President of the largest headquartered bank in Baltimore