NORWICH, N.Y. — NBT Bancorp Inc. (NASDAQ: NBTB) announced it has appointed Scott A. Kingsley as executive VP and chief financial officer.
Kingsley will join NBT’s executive management team and be based at the company’s headquarters in Norwich. He brings 35 years of experience to his new role, including 16 years as a member of the leadership team at Community Bank System, Inc. (NYSE: CBU). He was Community’s chief operating officer and before that, its CFO.
“Scott Kingsley is uniquely qualified to assume the CFO position at NBT at this time,” Watt said in a release. “He is a proven and successful leader in the financial services industry, and we welcome him to our organization. Scott’s previous experience in community banking across the markets NBT serves positions him to be an important driver of our growth strategies.”
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Kingsley started his career with PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he worked for eight years before joining the Carlisle Companies, Inc., a large publicly traded manufacturer and distributor, where he served first as corporate controller and then as CFO of its Carlisle Engineered Products operating division.
Kingsley, a certified public accountant, earned his bachelor’s degree in accounting at Clarkson University. He serves on the Crouse Health Foundation board of trustees and on the audit and finance committee for the Catholic Diocese of Syracuse. Kingsley also volunteers with OnMyTeam16, a nonprofit organization supporting children in the fight against cancer.
NBT Bancorp is a financial holding company headquartered in Norwich, with total assets of $11.5 billion as of March 31. The banking company primarily operates through NBT Bank, N.A. — a full-service community bank with 140 branches in New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, and Connecticut — and through two financial-services companies: EPIC Retirement Plan Services and NBT Insurance Agency.
