CLEVELAND, Feb. 18, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- KeyCorp, a Fortune
500 Company headquartered in Cleveland,
Ohio, announces that Victor B.
Alexander has been named Head of Key Consumer Bank.
In his new role, Alexander will be responsible for Key's Retail,
Consumer Lending and Deposits, Business Banking, Small Business,
Home Lending and Wealth Management lines of business nationally. He
will also be part of KeyCorp's Executive Leadership Team.
"Victor brings a passion for delivering for our clients and has
played an instrumental role in the growth that Key has experienced
throughout his tenure," said Beth E.
Mooney, KeyCorp Chair and CEO.
Added Christopher M. Gorman,
President and Chief Operating Officer, "We are excited to see
Victor take on this new role and look forward to more growth and
innovation as we work to help our clients and communities
thrive."
Alexander joined KeyCorp in 2000 and most recently served as
Head of Home Lending. In this role, he was responsible for
developing and executing strategies for growing Key's $17 billion residential real estate loan
portfolio, achieving record residential mortgage results for
Key.
From 2017 through 2018, Alexander served as KeyCorp's Corporate
Treasurer, with responsibility for managing Key's capital,
liquidity, funding, interest rate risk and overall balance sheet
management strategies.
Previously, Alexander led Key's Corporate Strategy team, which
oversees corporate strategy, mergers and acquisitions, and
strategic investments. Under his leadership, the Corporate Strategy
team was at the center of Key's 2016 acquisition of First Niagara
Financial Group, a $40 billion
regional bank based in Buffalo,
N.Y., which was the largest acquisition in Key's 200-year
history. Post-announcement of the transaction, Alexander co-led the
merger integration transition team for Key, overseeing the
integration of more than one million clients and five thousand
employees.
Before joining the Corporate Strategy team, Alexander held roles
of increasing responsibility in Key's corporate and investment
bank.
Active in the community, Alexander serves on the Board of
Directors at Julie Billiart School, a Catholic grade school serving
approximately 200 students with special learning needs from across
Northeast Ohio. He is also on the
Board of Directors of the Cleveland Zoological Association.
Alexander received a B.S. in Finance and Economics, summa cum
laude, from John Carroll University and
an MBA from Harvard Business School. He
lives in Richfield with his wife
Abby and their three children.
ABOUT KEYCORP
KeyCorp's (NYSE: KEY) roots trace back
190 years to Albany, New York.
Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio,
Key is one of the nation's largest bank-based financial services
companies, with assets of approximately $145
billion at December 31, 2019.
Key provides deposit, lending, cash management, and investment
services to individuals and businesses in 15 states under the name
KeyBank National Association through a network of over 1,100
branches and more than 1,400 ATMs. Key also provides a broad range
of sophisticated corporate and investment banking products, such as
merger and acquisition advice, public and private debt and equity,
syndications and derivatives to middle market companies in selected
industries throughout the United
States under the KeyBanc Capital Markets trade name. For
more information, visit https://www.key.com/. KeyBank is
Member FDIC.
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