KEVIN QUINN

Five Star Bank, a unit of Financial Institutions, Inc., has hired KEVIN QUINN as senior VP and commercial banking executive, reporting to President and CEO Martin K. Birmingham. Quinn assumes responsibility for commercial and industrial lending, business banking, cash management, community development, and merchant services as well as leadership of Five Star Bank’s referral program, promoting relationship-building and business development between the bank and its insurance and wealth-management subsidiaries. Quinn has extensive experience leading commercial banking teams in upstate New York. He worked at HSBC Bank USA, NA in Buffalo for 15 years, most recently as head of commercial banking. Quinn began his career as an attorney with Jones Day in Cleveland, Ohio, and subsequently spent 10 years in commercial banking at M&T Bank. He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and earned a juris doctorate in law and an MBA in corporate finance from the University at Buffalo. Quinn will succeed Edward (Ted) Oexle, who retired from Five Star Bank as commercial and industrial lending executive and Buffalo regional president on Aug. 4