Edwin F. Hale, Sr.

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

1^st Mariner Bancorp

Edwin F. Hale, Sr., 60, is chairman and chief executive officer of 1st Mariner Bancorp.  He is a real estate developer, working on numerous properties including Canton Crossing, a $500,000,000 project located at the intersection of Boston and Clinton streets.  He is chairman and founder of the Maryland Business Council.  He is currently chairman of the Baltimore Area Convention and Visitors Association.  He owns the back-to-back MISL Champion Baltimore Blast Professional Indoor Soccer Team.  He is the former chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Baltimore Bancorp.

Among many honors, Hale has been named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year, and Baltimore Business Journal’s Businessman of the Year, and is the recipient of numerous charitable awards.  In February 2007, he will be recognized with the Beta Gamma Sigma Medallion for Entrepreneurship.  He was nominated by executives at Towson University with whom he formed a relationship during the Associate program, where he filled he Donald

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Born November 15, 1946 in Highlandtown, Hale graduated from Sparrows Point High School in 1964.  He attended Essex Community College in Baltimore, Md., and the American International College in Springfield, Ma.  He served two years in the United States Air Force (Strategic Air Command) as a medic.

He has one son, Edwin Jr., in the transportation field and two daughters, Ashley and Alexandra, still attending school and three grandsons.  Hale currently splits time between Baltimore and Easton, MD.