On November 29, 2017, the Board of Directors of Empire appointed Thomas Pritchard as Empire's Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Pritchard, age 56, is the co-founder of and a partner in Pritchard Griffin Advisors. Tommy has a quarter of a century of expertise in the financial industries, beginning his professional career in 1984 with Drexel Burnham Lambert. He was also employed by Bear Stearns, Jefferies and Johnson Rice early in his career.