Waterbury regional lender Webster Bank signaled a deeper push into the Pennsylvania/mid-Atlantic banking market with the hire of a senior officer seasoned in that market.
Scott Meves, a former senior vice president and group manager for Brown Brothers Harriman Inc., one of the nation’s oldest-biggest private banks, will be Webster’s regional president, based in Philadelphia, the bank announced Wednesday.
Meves is Webster’s senior middle-market banker in the Pennsylvania market, reporting to John Ciulla, Webster executive vice president for commercial banking.
“Scott brings to Webster a very valuable combination of deep corporate lending expertise in middle market banking and strong relationships in both the larger regional market and Philadelphia itself,” Ciulla said in a statement.
A resident of Lower Gwynedd, Pa., Meves is a volunteer with The First Tee of Greater Philadelphia. Previously, he served as treasurer of Lower Gwynedd Little League and as a Big Brother with Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Southeastern Pa.
Prior to Brown Brothers, Meves spent more than 20 years at PNC Bank in Philadelphia. He has a finance degree from Penn State.
Webster’s turf now covers Connecticut and stretches northward, to Boston, south into Westchester County and Manhattan, N.Y., and Philadelphia.
