PITTSFIELD, Mass., Aug. 26, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Berkshire
Hills Bancorp, Inc. (NYSE: BHLB) has appointed Ron A. MacDonald to Senior Vice President,
Corporate Auto Sales Leader.
MacDonald joins Berkshire from
First Niagara Bank where he served as First Vice President,
National Sales Manager, focused on expanding the indirect auto
finance business across the Northeast. He has over 30 years
of experience in the automotive business including previous roles
at TD Bank as the National Sales Manager for auto finance and
various positions within the auto dealer community. MacDonald
received his BA from University of New Hampshire.
Sean Gray, Executive Vice
President and Head of Retail Banking commented, "I am excited to
have Ron join the bank and take on a leadership role in expanding
our prime indirect auto unit. With his extensive auto lending
relationships and experience across New England, he is the right
person to expand on the successful platform Berkshire has established in New York.
Ron will be leading Berkshire's
indirect team, providing strategic direction to develop and expand
relationships throughout our footprint, with a focus on building
long-term partnerships and managing the secondary marketing of this
product. This is another example of our commitment to ongoing
leadership recruitment and revenue diversification and we look
forward to profitable growth from this business line."
Ron A. MacDonald, SVP Corporate
Auto Sales Leader, is based at Berkshire's Eastern Massachusetts Regional
Headquarters at 1 Van de Graaf Drive, Burlington, MA 01801 and may be reached
at 207-415-1312, rmacdonald@berkshirebank.com.
BACKGROUND
Berkshire Hills Bancorp is the parent of Berkshire Bank –
America's Most Exciting Bank®. The Company has over $7.5 billion in assets and 93 full-service branch
offices in Massachusetts,
New York, Connecticut, and Vermont providing personal and business
banking, insurance, and wealth management services.
FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS
This document contains forward-looking statements as defined in
the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. There
are several factors that could cause actual results to differ
significantly from expectations described in the forward-looking
statements. For a discussion of such factors, please see
Berkshire's most recent reports on
Forms 10-K and 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission and available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
Berkshire does not undertake any
obligation to update forward-looking statements.
CONTACTS
Investor Relations Contact
Allison O'Rourke; Senior Vice
President, Investor Relations Officer; 413-236-3149
Media Contact
Elizabeth Mach; First Vice
President, Marketing; 413-445-8390
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