Mr. Swanzey's career spans thirty years of private and public sector experience. Most of his career was spent with The Chase Manhattan Banking Corporation where he was Senior Vice President. He founded and managed his own government relations firm where he represented a number of clients including the business community of New York City. He was a co-founder of Global Development Partners, a Washington DC government relations consulting firm, and was also a founding Partner in the investment banking firm, Stonecroft Capital.

Mr. Swanzey spent twenty-four years with Chase Manhattan, attaining the position of Senior Vice President. At Chase, he enjoyed two separate careers. From 1975 to 1981, he was a corporate Vice President in the Office of the Chairman, reporting to the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, David Rockefeller. As assistant to the Chairman, Mr. Swanzey managed a wide variety of duties on behalf of the Chairman and worked closely with the Board of Directors and senior management on initiatives with important consequences to the Bank. He represented the Bank to leaders of corporate America, decision makers in government and global dignitaries, often working on complicated issues of major significance to Bank management and to the shareholders.

From 1981 to 1996, Mr. Swanzey was Director of Government Affairs for Chase Manhattan and from 1997 to 1998 was Senior Vice President for Government Affairs for the newly merged Chase and Chemical Bank corporations. This was a critical two decades for the financial services industry in which vital issues such as the Third World debt crisis, the Savings and Loan debacle, real estate finance failures, interstate banking and financial modernization were legislated, regulated and debated in the public arena. For much of this period Mr. Swanzey managed all public policy issues, initiatives and relationships affecting the Corporation at all levels of government: Federal agency, congressional, multi-state, municipal and local. He counseled on global issues as well. In the late 1980s and early 1990s he led in a number of states the successful effort of the largest banks in the country to change antiquated and regressive laws and was a leader of the successful effort to change federal law as well. Throughout his tenure as head of the Department, Mr. Swanzey was one of the leaders to change the Glass Steagall Act.

Mr. Swanzey left Chase in 1998 after helping the newly merged Chase and Chemical Bank corporations meet all required legislative and regulatory hurdles. He was recruited by the Mortgage Bankers Association and became Director of Legislative Affairs. The MBA represents over 3000 financial institutions from the largest financial conglomerates to smaller firms and associations. In this capacity, Mr. Swanzey managed congressional relations, public policy issues and initiatives, and state and local government relations, and became a leading voice on the issues affecting the real estate finance industry.

Prior to his career in the private sector, Mr. Swanzey was a staff assistant to Nelson A. Rockefeller, Governor of the State of New York and later Vice President of the United States. He holds a Masters Degree in Public Administration and Policy from New York University and a Bachelor of Arts Degree from St. Francis College of New York.