ALBANY, N.Y. — Berkshire Bank announced it has promoted Shane Rauh to senior VP, business banking team leader, where he will lead the bank’s sales team for business banking in New York, Vermont, and Berkshire County in Massachusetts. Rauh has more than 20 years of experience in the financial-services industry with special emphasis on business […]
ALBANY, N.Y. — Berkshire Bank announced it has promoted Shane Rauh to senior VP, business banking team leader, where he will lead the bank’s sales team for business banking in New York, Vermont, and Berkshire County in Massachusetts. Rauh has more than 20 years of experience in the financial-services industry with special emphasis on business banking and commercial lending. Before joining Berkshire in March of this year, he served as VP, commercial relationship manager at Pioneer Bank. Prior to that, Rauh worked as director of business banking at Broadview Federal Credit Union. “Shane has a successful track record of partnering with commercial clients to deliver the financial services they need to grow and prosper,” Rob Nichols, Berkshire Bank’s business banking managing director, said in a news release. “As sales team leader, he’ll also work to deepen our already robust focus on relationship building and communities across his three-state region.” Rauh lives in Colonie, where he serves on the board of trustees for Crossroads Center for Children and the gala committee for the Alzheimer’s Association of Northeastern New York. Berkshire Bank is a subsidiary of Boston–based Berkshire Hills Bancorp, Inc. (NYSE: BHLB). The bank has $12.2 billion in total assets and 83 branch locations.