MetaBank® appoints Catherine McGlown as Vice President of ESG and Community Impact
December 01 2020 - 4:15PM
MetaBank®, N.A., an industry leading financial enablement provider,
today announced the appointment of Catherine McGlown to the newly
created role of Vice President of Environmental, Social and
Governance (“ESG”) and Community Impact. Effective November 16,
Catherine reports to Anthony Sharett, Chief Legal & Compliance
Officer, Corporate Secretary.
Catherine will lead advancing and sustaining an
effective and measurable ESG strategy in alignment with executive
leadership, the board of directors and MetaBank’s corporate values.
She will also lead MetaBank’s community impact outreach efforts,
overseeing the development and execution of initiatives for
expanding the company’s relationships with nonprofits and community
organizations. Together these initiatives will strengthen
MetaBank’s corporate citizenship and ESG efforts and advance its
positive impact across the diverse and underserved communities it
supports.
“We created this role to align and enhance our
organization’s core business model with the full breadth of
benefits ESG and community impact efforts create for our employees,
partners, key stakeholders and the community,” said Brad Hanson,
Co-President and CEO of MetaBank. “Catherine brings a proven track
record and deep expertise in leading these initiatives and we are
excited to collaborate with her to build our organization’s
abilities in these areas.”
Catherine joins MetaBank from insurer Humana,
where over the course of the last 12 years she directed the
company’s corporate social responsibility programs and related
communication efforts. Catherine holds a Master of Business
Administration from the Indiana University Kelley School of
Business and a Bachelor of Arts from Spelman College. She is also
certified in Corporate Citizenship Management and Global Reporting
Initiative Standards.
“I am excited to work with MetaBank’s leadership
team to embrace their vision and elevate their values into a
comprehensive, progressive ESG strategy,” remarked Catherine
McGlown. “I look forward to building upon MetaBank’s existing
support to underserved communities to enhance that impact.”
MetaBank, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Meta
Financial Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: CASH), is a financial enablement
provider that develops financial products and services that
increase access, choice and opportunity within communities at the
core of America’s real economy. The company is committed to
providing underserved individuals and companies the opportunity to
increase their economic mobility and set them on secure paths for
growth and financial stability.
In addition to community volunteer efforts aimed
at increasing financial literacy, MetaBank has been a supporter of
Operation HOPE, a nonprofit for-purpose organization working to
disrupt poverty and empower inclusion for low and moderate-income
youth and adults, since 2011. In 2015, MetaBank partnered with
Operation HOPE to form the first ever virtual HOPE Inside program
to provide financial literacy resources to its customers.
About MetaBank,
N.A.MetaBank®, N.A., a national bank (“Meta”), is a
subsidiary of Meta Financial Group, Inc.® (Nasdaq: CASH), a South
Dakota-based financial holding company. Meta is a leader in
providing innovative financial solutions to consumers and
businesses in under-served niche markets and believes in financial
inclusion for all. Meta’s commercial lending division works with
high-value niche industries, rapid-growth companies and technology
adopters to grow their businesses and build more profitable
customer relationships nationwide. Meta is one of the largest
issuers of prepaid cards in the U.S., having issued more than a
billion cards in partnership with banks, program managers, payments
providers and other businesses, and offers a total payments
services solution that includes ACH origination, wire transfers,
and more. For more information, visit the MetaBank website.
Media Relations ContactJon Brubaker,
Cognito908-399-1254Jon.brubaker@cognitomedia.com
Investor Relations ContactBrittany Kelley
ElsasserDirector of Investor
Relations605-362-2423bkelley@metabank.com
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