BUFFALO, N.Y., Aug. 15, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- M&T Bank
Corporation (NYSE: MTB) ("M&T") announced the election of
Richard H. Ledgett, Jr. of
Crownsville, Maryland to its Board
of Directors, effective August 15,
2017. Mr. Ledgett was also elected to the Board of
Directors of M&T Bank, M&T's principal banking
subsidiary.
Mr. Ledgett joins M&T's board with four decades of
intelligence, cyber security and cyber operations experience,
including 29 years with the National Security Agency (NSA), the
largest intelligence organization in the U.S., where he served as
Deputy Director from January 2014
until his retirement in April 2017.
As Deputy Director for the NSA, he led a global entity with almost
200 operating locations around the world and acted as the Agency's
chief operating officer, responsible for providing foreign
intelligence and protecting our country's most important national
security-related networks and information.
Additionally, Mr. Ledgett led the NSA's 24/7 Threat Operations
Center (NTOC), responsible for identifying and countering cyber
threats to our national security systems. In that capacity,
he redirected the NTOC's focus to robust identification of cyber
threat actors and made that information actionable by consumers.
Mr. Ledgett was also selected as the Intelligence Community's
first National Intelligence Manager for Cyber, serving as principal
advisor to the Director of National Intelligence on all cyber
matters. In this capacity, he was also responsible for integrating
cyber activities across 16 intelligence agencies and numerous
international partners, and he developed the first National
Intelligence Strategy for cyber.
Mr. Ledgett is a recipient of numerous honors and awards,
including Presidential Rank Awards for Distinguished and
Meritorious Service and the National Intelligence Distinguished
Service and Superior Service Medals. He is a member of the
U.S. Naval Academy's Cyber Board of
Advisors and has served as an instructor and course developer at
the National Cryptologic School and as an adjunct faculty member at
the National Intelligence University in Washington, D.C. He earned his M.S. in
Strategic Intelligence from the National Defense Intelligence
College in Washington, D.C.,
completed graduate-level coursework in engineering at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and earned his B.S. in
Psychology from the University of the State of New York in Albany, New York.
"Rick Ledgett has had a long and
distinguished career serving our country and protecting our
nation's most important information security interests around the
world," said Robert G. Wilmers, M&T's Chairman and CEO. "He
will be an invaluable addition to our board, bringing a management,
operational and technical perspective to cyber security and
information assurance that will further strengthen M&T's
commitment to information security and risk management."
About M&T Bank
M&T is a financial holding
company headquartered in Buffalo, New
York. M&T's principal banking subsidiary, M&T
Bank, operates banking offices in New
York, Maryland,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Connecticut, Virginia, West
Virginia and the District of
Columbia. Trust-related services are provided by
M&T's Wilmington Trust-affiliated companies and by M&T
Bank.
© 2017 M&T Bank. Member FDIC
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