M&T Bank announces promotions
M&T Bank announced e the following promotions:
James L. Squarcia was promoted to Administrative Vice President. He is responsible for leading the sales and management team for branches in the Wilmington area that offer customers a full range of traditional financial services and customized product solutions.
Squarcia earned a BA from Villanova University and an MBA from Drexel University. He has been with M&T Bank since 2009 and has more than 35 years of experience in the financial services industry.
Justin D. Poser was promoted to Group Vice President of Marketing & Communications for M&T’s Wealth & Institutional Services Division.
Poser earned a BBA in Economics, Finance and Management Information Systems from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and an MBA from Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management. He has been with M&T since 2005.
Active in the community, Poser serves on the board of directors at the Delaware College of Art & Design.
Milton L. Willey was promoted to Administrative Vice President of M&T Insurance Agency (MTIA) for the Mid-Atlantic. In this role, he is responsible for the operations of MTIA in Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia,.
Willey earned a Bachelor of Sciences in Business Administration and Marketing from the University of Delaware. He has more than 30 years of experience in the insurance industry.
Rory E. Maher, was promoted to Retail Regional Sales Manager, to Administrative Vice President. In this role, he is responsible for the retail branch network in Central Delaware.
Maher earned a BA in Business Administration from McDaniel College and an MBA from Strayer University. He has been with M&T Bank since 2003.
Goldman named General Counsel at Bryn Mawr
Bryn Mawr Bank Corp., parent of The Bryn Mawr Trust Company, announced that it has appointed Lori Buchanan Goldman as Senior Vice President and General Counsel. Goldman will also serve as Assistant Secretary of the Corporation and the Bank.
Goldman is admitted to practice law in both Pennsylvania and New York, and will bring to Bryn Mawr Trust a wide range of experience in corporate and securities laws, mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance.
Goldman joins Bryn Mawr Trust from Stradley Ronon in Philadelphia,. She is a graduate of Boston University and Cornell Law School, and began her legal career at Kaye Scholer in New York, NY.
Okragki takes interim deputy provost post
Lynn Okagaki, dean of the University of Delaware College of Education and Human Development (CEHD) since 2011, has agreed to serve as interim deputy provost for academic affairs. She will fill the vacancy left by Nancy Brickhouse, who recently announced her plans to become provost at Saint Louis University in Missouri.
Brickhouse will assume her post as SLU’s chief academic officer on July 1, at which time Okagaki will officially take her seat in the provost’s office.
Armed with a broad portfolio of experiences – in academic research and national education policymaking, spanning across the government sector and academia – Okagaki has successfully led a college that boasts strong programs, distinguished faculty and a graduate education school ranked among the nation’s top-40 programs.
CEHD’s network of community partners and dynamic, community-based research helped the University of Delaware achieve the recent Community Engagement classification from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Prior to joining the University of Delaware, Okagaki was commissioner for Education Research in the Institute of Education Sciences at the U.S. Department of Education in Washington, D.C. Under her leadership, the institute nearly doubled its research grant activities and launched several innovative research programs.
She initiated the Evaluation of State and Local Education Programs and Policies to encourage states and districts to evaluate methods to improve education for their students. She created the $100 million Reading for Understanding Research Initiative to accelerate research to improve reading comprehension from pre-kindergarten through high school.
Okagaki received her bachelor’s degree in applied behavioral sciences from the University of California at Davis and her doctorate in developmental psychology from Cornell University.
She has served as associate dean of the School of Consumer and Family Science and professor of child development and family studies at Purdue University and held appointments at Yale University, Cornell University and the University of Houston.
A full-scale internal search to permanently fill the deputy provost seat will be conducted in the fall.
Terry named regional executive
Citizens Bank announced that Ed Terry has been named Regional Executive for Commercial Real Estate Finance in Pennsylvania.
Terry will also serve as market leader for Citizens’ Commercial Real Estate team in upstate New York, southern New Jersey and Delaware.
Terry joined Citizens in 2012 from the Boston office of Hilco Real Estate. Previously, he had been a Managing Director at Crystal Capital. His career also includes positions as an executive specializing in real estate lending at NewStar Financial, American United Life Insurance Co., Fleet Bank and Bank of New England.
Terry has a bachelor’s degree and MBA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
