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Rick Rabideau was recently hired at Liberty Bank.
Rick Rabideau was recently hired at Liberty Bank.
Photo: Contributed Photo /
Rick Rabideau was recently hired at Liberty Bank.
Rick Rabideau was recently hired at Liberty Bank.
Photo: Contributed Photo /
MIDDLETOWN — David W. Glidden, president and CEO of Liberty Bank, recently announced hiring three commercial bankers to expand the bank’s market presence in Connecticut as well as enhance its credit risk function.
The new hires include Dan Flynn, Senior Vice President & Chief Credit Risk Officer; Stephen Roche, Senior Vice President & Regional Manager, Commercial Banking covering the Greater Hartford market; and Rick Rabideau, 1st Vice President & Relationship Manager in Commercial Banking covering northern Connecticut up to the Mass border.
The new hires follows the bank’s announcement in December 2019 that Jeff Hubbard joined the bank as Senior Vice President, Regional Manager covering the Greater New Haven market. Flynn, Roche and Rabideau started at Liberty Bank Jan. 13.
Roche, who will cover the Hartford market for Liberty, joins the bank after a successful career with United Bank (now People’s United Bank) where he managed a team of commercial bankers and portfolio managers. Prior to United, Roche had a nearly 15 year career at TD Bank, where he held the role of Senior Vice President and Regional Manager responsible for managing a team of Middle Market bankers in Connecticut. Roche was also with People’s United Bank in Hartford from 1994 to 2001. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Hartford Symphony Orchestra.
Rabideau, who will cover the northern Connecticut to the Massachusetts border market, comes to Liberty Bank after serving as SVP, Commercial Team Leader for United Bank (now People’s United Bank) in the Western Massachusetts/Springfield market. Prior to United, Rabideau was with People’s United Bank where he served as Senior Vice President, Commercial Team Leader in Springfield. His banking career started in 1986 with Shawmut Bank, where he was a commercial banker from 1988 to 1996 and then joined First International Bank/UPS Capital. Rabideau, a resident of Longmeadow, Mass., is a graduate of Holy Cross in Worcester.
Flynn has been appointed Senior Vice President and Chief Credit Risk Officer. He is replacing Denise Brewer, Liberty’s current Chief Credit Risk Officer, who is retiring from Liberty in March 2020. Dan joins Liberty after spending the last five years at United Bank (now People’s United Bank) where he held the title of Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer of Wholesale Banking. His career spans three decades in various functions of commercial banking, including individual loan and deposit production, credit risk, senior management and team building.
Kaman CEO is chamber breakfast keynote
MIDDLETOWN — Chairman Don DeVivo of the Middlesex County Chamber of Commerce announced that Kaman Corporation Chairman, President & CEO, Neal J. Keating, will serve as keynote speaker at the next chamber Member Breakfast Meeting Feb. 7. The meeting will be held at the Sheraton Hartford South, 100 Capital Blvd, Rocky Hill, with networking beginning at 7 a.m., breakfast buffet opens at 7:15 a.m., and the meeting program, 8-9 a.m.
The meeting will be immediately followed by a Procurement Workshop, Doing Business with Kaman. This session will outline the global Kaman Corporation procurement opportunities for supply chain companies.
The cost is $22 for members of the Middlesex County Chamber of Commerce and $32 for non-members. Advance registration required, and those interested in the procurement workshop must attend the Member Breakfast Meeting. Register at www.middlesexchamber.com
Prior to Kaman, Keating has served as Chief Operating Officer at Hughes Supply, a $5.4 billion industrial distributor; as Chief Executive Officer of GKN Aerospace, a $1 billion aerospace subsidiary of GKN, Plc, as executive director on the Board of Directors of GKN Plc and as a member of the Board of Directors of Agusta-Westland Helicopter. From 1978 to 2002, he served in increasingly senior positions at Rockwell International with his final assignment being Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Rockwell Collins, Commercial Systems.
Keating serves on the Board of Directors for Hubbell, Inc., the MAPI Board of Trustees, the Board of Governors for Aerospace Industries Association (AIA), as a Trustee of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, and is also a member of the Board of Directors for Avon Old Farms School.
He holds a bachelor of science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois and earned his MBA from the University of Chicago. He competes in triathlons and is a three-time finisher of the Boston Marathon. Since 2001, he has used his participation in these events to raise money in support of the families of our fallen hero’s through Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund, the Marine Corp/Law Enforcement Foundation and the Navy SEAL Foundation. Neal and his family reside in Farmington.
Center to support ‘Littlest Listeners’ program
MIDDLETOWN — The Connecticut Storytelling Center, in residence at Connecticut College, New London, is providing foundational support for its work to promote literacy in the classroom.
The Community Foundation of Middlesex County and the Middletown Commission on the Arts recently committed to supporting our Littlest Listeners program in Middletown preschools. In this residency program, CSC’s teaching artists make repeat visits to the classroom to spark interest in oral and written literature, while focusing on other school goals like multicultural knowledge and respect. Storytellers utilize the arts as an effective tool to improve listening, speaking, and visualizing skills, the first three components of literacy. More information about our schools outreach is available on our website, www.ConnStoryCenter.org.
The Connecticut Storytelling Center is also gearing up for its annual festival in April, featuring nationally acclaimed storyteller, Bill Harley. For more information, visit https://connstorycenter.org/festival.htm .
