NORWICH, N.Y. — Sarah A. Halliday has joined NBT Bank as executive VP and president of commercial banking.
In her new role, she will assume overall responsibility for NBT Bank’s commercial banking division and serve on NBT’s executive management team.
“We’re excited by the opportunity to have Sarah drive our commercial banking efforts and join the bank’s leadership team,” NBT Bank President and CEO John H. Watt, Jr said in a news release.
Halliday has 25 years of experience in banking and commercial lending. She comes to NBT from M&T Bank, where she most recently worked as Capital Region market president. Before joining M&T in 2005, Halliday worked for the New York Business Development Corp. for 11 years as VP and loan officer. She started her career with Fleet Bank.
Halliday is a native of Syracuse and earned her bachelor’s degree in economics from Colgate University. She will maintain offices in both Albany and at NBT’s headquarters in Norwich.
Norwich–based NBT Bank operates 154 branches in New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine. Its parent company is NBT Bancorp (NASDAQ; NBTB), which has more than $8.8 billion in total assets.
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