BUFFALO —Tracy Woodrow is the new chief human resources officer (CHRO) at M&T Bank and a member of the banking company’s management committee, following the retirement of Janet Coletti after a 35-year career. Woodrow joined Buffalo–based M&T Bank in 2013, and served as Bank Secrecy Act Officer, responsible for overseeing the enterprise-wide anti-money-laundering program, according […]
BUFFALO —Tracy Woodrow is the new chief human resources officer (CHRO) at M&T Bank and a member of the banking company’s management committee, following the retirement of Janet Coletti after a 35-year career.
Woodrow joined Buffalo–based M&T Bank in 2013, and served as Bank Secrecy Act Officer, responsible for overseeing the enterprise-wide anti-money-laundering program, according to a June 19 news release from the banking company. Before M&T, she worked as in-house counsel and a senior compliance leader with HSBC Bank USA, NA, focusing on commercial, anti-money-laundering and employment-law matters.
Woodrow is a member of M&T Bank’s Diversity & Inclusion Council, which works to ensure diversity within the workplace.
“In her time at M&T, Tracy has been a vocal champion for diversity, inclusion and belonging. Her passion for employee development and her focus on preparing her colleagues to take the next step in their careers makes her ideally suited to advocate for the more than 18,000 colleagues across the M&T community,” René F. Jones, chairman and CEO of M&T Bank, said in the release.
Coletti joined M&T Bank in 1985 as part of the bank’s management development program and held numerous leadership positions within retail and business banking until February 2015, when she was named M&T’s CHRO and appointed to its management committee.
“[Coletti] has been especially instrumental in the bank’s successful mergers and conversions during her career. She also drove significant transformational change to enhance the employee experience,” said Jones.
M&T Bank operates banking offices in New York, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Connecticut, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia.
M&T Bank employs nearly 500 people in its Central New York region, which includes Onondaga, Cayuga, Oswego, Madison, Herkimer, Jefferson, Lewis, Oneida, and Seneca Counties. It holds the No. 1 share of deposits in the Syracuse metro area and the broader 16-county Central New York region that CNYBJ covers.