AUBURN, N.Y. — Five Star Bank, a unit of Financial Institutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISI), on Thursday announced it has hired Alison K. Miller as senior VP and commercial market executive for Central New York.
Miller is responsible for growing the bank’s commercial-loan portfolio and increasing awareness of the Five Star Bank brand in the Central New York region. She will work from the bank’s Auburn branch office.
Miller has more than 25 years of experience. She most recently served as senior VP and regional sales manager of business banking at KeyBank. She previously held the same role at First Niagara Bank.
“We welcome Alison to Five Star Bank and look forward to her leadership in growing our commercial loan portfolio in Central New York. She will be based in our Auburn branch and will focus her efforts on C&I [commercial and industrial] lending in the Syracuse area and south. Her reputation and knowledge of the market will be instrumental in expanding the bank’s presence in this area,” William L. Kreienberg, Five Star Bank’s chief corporate development executive, said in a news release.
Miller received an MBA from Le Moyne College and executive leadership certification from Cornell University. She currently serves on several not-for-profit boards including: Elmcrest Children’s Center Advisory Board, Juvenile Diabetes Research Fund Board, Regional Loan Committee of New York Business Development Corporation, and the Onondaga Civic Development Corporation.
Financial Institutions, Inc. — headquartered in the town of Warsaw in Wyoming County — provides financial services through its subsidiaries Five Star Bank; Scott Danahy Naylon, LLC; Courier Capital, LLC; and HNP Capital, LLC. It employs about 700 people total.
Five Star Bank has more than 50 offices throughout Western and Central New York. Its CNY branches include offices in Auburn, Geneva (2), Seneca Falls, Ovid, Elmira (2), and Horseheads.
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