WARSAW, N.Y. — Five Star Bank, subsidiary of Financial Institutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISI), on July 22 announced the hiring of Thomas A. Halter and Marytherese Hayes, each as VP, senior commercial banker. Halter and Hayes are responsible for managing and cultivating existing and new commercial banking customers across the bank’s operating footprint, the bank said […]
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WARSAW, N.Y. — Five Star Bank, subsidiary of Financial Institutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISI), on July 22 announced the hiring of Thomas A. Halter and Marytherese Hayes, each as VP, senior commercial banker.
Halter and Hayes are responsible for managing and cultivating existing and new commercial banking customers across the bank’s operating footprint, the bank said in a news release. Halter is based in Five Star Bank’s regional administrative center in downtown Rochester and Hayes’ office is in the bank’s commercial lending offices at 300 Spindrift Drive in Amherst.
Halter is an experienced banker and financial executive, having served as a VP and relationship manager in commercial banking for HSBC Bank USA for more than a decade before transitioning to the role of CFO for Nymat Machine Tool Corp. He most recently served as CFO for R.W. Dake & Co., Inc., the bank said.
Hayes is “a well-known and respected commercial banker” in Western New York with more than 30 years of experience at Bank of Akron, RBS Citizens Bank, and HSBC Bank USA, the release stated. She most recently served as VP and commercial relationship manager at Evans Bank.
Halter received a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Le Moyne College in Syracuse and an MBA from Canisius College in Buffalo. Hayes received a bachelor’s degree in business studies from Buffalo State College.
Five Star Bank, based in Warsaw in Wyoming County, has more than 50 branches throughout Western and Central New York. Its CNY branches include offices in Auburn, Geneva (2), Seneca Falls, Elmira (2), and Horseheads.
Financial Institutions and its subsidiaries employ about 700 people.