Webster Bank has named Robert M. Annon Jr. and Richard O’Brien as regional presidents for the Hartford and Waterbury regions.
Annon, currently Webster’s senior vice president for commercial middle market in northern Connecticut and Springfield, Mass., will focus on commercial banking and coordinate Webster’s business and community affairs activities in the region.
Annon manages Webster’s middle market north team of relationship managers as well as its healthcare and nonprofit units. He will continue in that function. Annon joined Webster in 1995 and was responsible for opening Webster’s Hartford commercial office. Prior to joining Webster, Annon held senior positions in private banking, loan administration and commercial lending at former Shawmut Bank and its predecessors.
O’Brien, senior vice president of commercial banking, will focus on commercial banking and coordinate Webster’s business and community affairs activities in the greater Waterbury and northwest Connecticut regions extending to the Duchess and Putnam County, N.Y., borders.
O’Brien has managed the bank’s Waterbury commercial loan group the past 14 years and will continue in that function. Before joining Webster in 1994, O’Brien also held positions with Shawmut and its predecessors.
