David Lentini, who led the rebirth of Connecticut Bank and Trust as president and chairman of the board, will retire Dec. 31 from leading Berkshire Bank’s CBT Region. The Massachusetts bank recently acquired CBT.
Lentini will remain active with Berkshire Bank as head of its Connecticut Advisory Board.
Operational leadership of Berkshire Bank CBT Region will be handled by Sheryl McQuade, senior vice president of commercial banking, and Susan Chamberlain, who was recently named first vice president of retail banking to oversee branch operations.
Lentini began his banking career at the original Connecticut Bank and Trust Co., where he spent 21 years in various capacities. He left in 1986 to serve as senior vice president and head of operations at Northeast Savings Bank. In 1988, he started the Bank of South Windsor and became its first president in 1989. That institution grew past the $100 million mark in just its first three years of operation. Then in 1993, he joined New England Bank in Windsor, which was operating under a cease-and-desist from the FDIC. Lentini led an intense 11-month effort to restore the bank to good health, which culminated in its successful sale to Webster Bank in 1999, where he spent two years following the sale.
In 2001, Lentini helped re-launch CBT, as chairman, president, and chief executive officer. In 2007, Lentini was named a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and served for five years there, three of those as audit committee chairman.
McQuade, who heads up the commercial team in the Hartford/Springfield market, came to Berkshire Bank in 2012 with more than 25 years of business banking experience.
