Veteran Webster Bank executive John Ciulla is returning to the Waterbury lender’s “client side,” running its middle market banking group.
Ciulla, 45, who is executive vice president, also was named chairman of Webster’s Regional Presidents Council.
He has been chief credit risk officer since January 2008, and before that was a senior vice president in Webster’s Commercial Bank.
“John’s focus will be to turbo-charge the success that the Commercial Bank is already enjoying with its robust pipeline of new relationships and to accelerate our cross-selling activity through the Regional Presidents,” said Joseph Savage, Webster’s executive vice president and head of the Commercial Bank
The bank says the five regional presidents — in Hartford, New Haven, Waterbury, Westchester/Fairfield counties, and southeastern Massachusetts/Rhode Island — bring executive management and decision-making closer to the customer and the community.
Prior to joining Webster in 2004, Ciulla was a managing director of The Bank of New York from 1997 to 2004. He practiced law in New York with McDermott Will & Emery from 1996 to 1997 and with Hughes Hubbard & Reed from 1994 to 1996.
A native of North Haven, Ciulla earned a bachelor’s degree in political science and history from Williams College, an MBA from Columbia Business School, and a law degree from Fordham University School of Law.
