David Glidden leads the second-largest bank headquartered in Connecticut.
He’s the CEO of Middletown-based Liberty Bank, which has $7.9 billion in assets. It’s a position he has held since March 2019.
Under Glidden, Liberty expanded its Hartford office presence to accommodate the bank’s strategy to grow its Greater Hartford commercial lending portfolio up and down the I-91 corridor.
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Liberty Bank has also been innovative in its growth efforts under Glidden. In 2023, it launched a digital bank — called Owners Bank — that offers services and loans for small businesses. It now operates in nine states, including Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Florida, Georgia, Texas, North Carolina and South Carolina.
Glidden has over 30 years of banking industry experience. Most recently, he was TD Bank’s regional president for the northern New England and upstate New York region.