Bankers Association elects new officers, awards scholarships
Rodger Levenson, executive vice president and chief financial officer, WSFS Bank, was elected to a second consecutive term as chairman of the Delaware Bankers Association at the DBA’s 120th Annual Meeting May 14 in Wilmington. The DBA also elected and installed Mark A. Graham, executive vice president, Wealth Advisory Services, Wilmington Trust, to the position of chairman-elect. Sarah A. Long of Wilmington will become the new president of the association.
Long will replace outgoing President David A. Bakerian who retired effective May 3. For the last four years Long served as the director of retail strategy and customer advocacy, PNC Bank. Prior to that, she was a card products executive with PNC. Long has over 20 years’ experience in financial services focused on payments, product development, program management, marketing, regulatory issues, risk management and customer loyalty. She was formerly with Bank of America and MBNA America, where she held a variety of positions. She is a graduate of the University of Delaware and earned her master of business administration degree from Widener University.
Other members of the DBA board of directors are Elizabeth D. Albano, chief financial officer, Artisans' Bank; Cynthia D.M. Brown, president, Commonwealth Trust Company; John J. Coane, president, Comenity Bank; David E. Gillan, chairman of the board and CEO, County Bank (past chairman); Rob Habgood, consumer and business lending executive, Bank Of America; Nicholas M. Marsini Jr., regional president, PNC Bank Delaware; Donna G. Mitchell, president and CEO, Deutsche Bank Trust Company Delaware; James Roszkowski, president, Discover Bank; P. Randolph Taylor, president, Fulton Bank N.A., Delaware National Division; and William S. Wallace, COO, Chase Consumer and Community Banking.
The DBA also announced the winners of the 2015 Keys to Financial Success Scholarship Award. The winners were Diandra Coleman, a senior at Caesar Rodney High School, and Natalie O’Connor, a senior at Cab Calloway School of the Arts. Both students participated in the Keys to Financial Success course. Each winner receives a $2,500 scholarship.
Keys to Financial Success is a full-semester elective taught in 28 high schools throughout Delaware to over 4,000 students.
At the annual dinner the DBA also unveiled Delaware’s Banks 2015 - Solid for the First State, a publication that summarizes the contributions the banking industry made to the First State in the past year.
The Delaware Bankers Association is a not-for-profit, private trade association that represents its members that are chartered to do banking business in Delaware in the areas of state and federal advocacy, education, community outreach, communications and events.
