DeWITT, N.Y. — Community Bank N.A. recently appointed Brian R. Wright to serve on its Central Region advisory board. As a member of the board, he will provide advice and counsel to the senior management in Community Bank N.A.’s Central Region market area.
Wright recently retired from the board of directors for parent company, Community Bank System, Inc. (NYSE: CBU), where he sat on its corporate governance and strategic planning committees. Previously, he had been a director of Oneonta–based Wilber National Bank and its parent company, The Wilber Corp., for more than 30 years prior to its merger with Community Bank in 2011. He was chairman for the last 25 years of that tenure.
Wright holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Princeton University and a J.D. from the University of Florida Law School.
Community Bank System operates more than 180 branches across upstate New York and northeastern Pennsylvania through Community Bank, N.A. It has assets of about $7.4 billion.