CLEVELAND, Feb. 28, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- After a career
spanning nearly 20 years with KeyBank, Margot James Copeland, Director of Philanthropy
and Civic Engagement, has announced her intention to retire in
June, 2019. Copeland, in her role as Chair & CEO of the KeyBank
Foundation, has had a transformational impact on communities from
Maine to Alaska as she guided Key's strategic
philanthropic investments.
"Margot Copeland is a
one-of-a-kind community leader and advocate," said Beth Mooney, Chairman and CEO, KeyCorp. "She has
been the cornerstone of KeyBank's philanthropy efforts and her
enthusiasm for supporting investment in all neighborhoods has made
Key a better and stronger community partner. We will certainly miss
Margot's dedication to helping others and wish her the best as she
writes the next chapter of her life."
In her role, Copeland has guided KeyBank's strategic
philanthropic investments in education, neighborhood prosperity,
workforce development and community service. Copeland's leadership
has led to KeyBank's appearance on the Points of Light Foundation's
annual "Civic 50" list as one of America's fifty most
community-minded companies. KeyBank has appeared on the list five
consecutive times from 2013 to 2018. KeyBank ranked as the #1
financial services company on the "Civic 50" in 2014, 2017 and
2018. Copeland also served as KeyBank's Chief Diversity Officer
from 2001-2012. During that time Key garnered multiple awards for
diversity and inclusion, including recognition as a DiversityInc.
Top 50 Company.
Often recognized for her broad circle of influence and civic
footprint in Cleveland and across
the country, Copeland has been actively engaged in a number of
communities, serving as trustee of Kent State
University, (chairing the Academic Excellence and Student
Success Committee), the Cleveland Clinic (Vice Chair, Government
and Community Affairs Committee), Say Yes to Education, the Thomas
White Foundation and the Kenneth Scott Foundation. Copeland is the
15th National President of The Links, Incorporated, and is a member
of the Executive Leadership Council.
KeyBank also announced that Elizabeth
Gurney, Executive Director of the First Niagara Foundation
since 2011, has been named to also lead the KeyBank Foundation.
Following the acquisition of First Niagara Bank by KeyBank in 2016,
the First Niagara Foundation became an independent private
foundation working collaboratively with KeyBank to support programs
that will provide long term enhancements to the quality of life
primarily in Western New York.
Based in Buffalo, NY, Gurney will
oversee both foundations.
Prior to this role, Gurney served in fundraising and leadership
roles for a number of organizations in the Buffalo area, including the Nichols School,
Children's Hospital and the Hospice Foundation of Western New York. Gurney actively works to
make a positive impact on the community by serving in a leadership
position on several boards including the Children's Foundation, the
Josephine Goodyear Foundation and the Buffalo Sabres
Foundation.
"Elizabeth is a proven foundation leader who has had a positive
impact on Western New York for
more than 35 years. We are thrilled that she will step in to lead
the KeyBank Foundation. I look forward to Elizabeth and Margot
working together over the next several months for a smooth
transition," said Don Graves,
KeyBank's Head of Corporate Responsibility.
About KeyBank
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 $139.6 billion at December
31, 2018. 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 1,500 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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