WATERBURY, Conn., Dec. 1, 2009 – Webster Bank, N.A., a subsidiary of Webster Financial Corporation (NYSE: WBS), announced today the appointment of Anne Slattery as Executive Vice President, Retail Banking.
In this role, Slattery will have primary responsibility for serving customers throughout Webster’s 181-branch network, the Customer Care Center, Business and Professional Banking, and Webster Investment Services. She also joins Webster’s Executive Management Committee.
Slattery has extensive experience in sales and service operations in New England and New York. At the former Fleet Financial, she was oversaw Fleet’s Retail Bank, the company’s largest division, which contributed 40 percent of the company’s earnings and included small business, marketing, the branch network, and consumer credit. In that role, she drove Fleet’s distribution strategy and created its customer profitability management system.
Earlier in her career, she held a variety of increasingly responsible positions in marketing and branch management at Citibank, culminating in responsibility for Citibank’s retail and small business distribution strategy in New York. Most recently, Slattery was president of Marymount College in Tarrytown, N.Y., and headed her own manufacturing company in Connecticut.
Slattery has a bachelor of arts in political science and economics from Marymount College. She is a member of the Board of Trustees for The Seabury Society for preservation of the Glebe House; and a member of the Grants Committee of the Connecticut Community Foundation.
Webster Financial Corporation is the holding company for Webster Bank, National Association. With $17.5 billion in assets, Webster provides business and consumer banking, mortgage, financial planning, trust and investment services through 181 banking offices, 492 ATMs, telephone banking and the Internet. Webster Bank owns the asset-based lending firm Webster Business Credit Corporation, Center Capital Corporation, an equipment finance company headquartered in Farmington, Conn., and provides health savings account trustee and administrative services through HSA Bank, a division of Webster Bank. Member FDIC and equal housing lender. For more information about Webster, including past press releases and the latest annual report, visit the Webster website at www.websteronline.com.