Raynham-based Bluestone Bank’s president and CEO will be the next the board chair for the trade group representing the state’s banks. Several other top names in the local banking industry also assumed leadership roles on the group’s board.
Meg McIssac was elected the 2023-2024 chair of the Massachusetts Bankers Association at the group’s annual meeting recently. She takes office on July 1.
“We are thrilled to welcome Meg as the new chair of the Massachusetts’s Bankers Association,” said Kathleen Murphy, President and CEO of MBA. “She provides expertise and experience at both the state and national levels that enable us to achieve our priorities of promoting a strong and diverse banking industry, achieving exceptional advocacy representation on Beacon Hill and in Washington, D.C., and being the premier partner for the Association’s 120+ member institutions in Massachusetts and across New England.”
Other leaders elected:
- Vice Chair: Robert J. Fraser, president & CEO of MountainOne Bank in North Adams
- Treasurer: Ping Yin Chai, president & CEO of SalemFive Bank
- Immediate Past Chair: Mark O’Connell, retiring president & CEO of Avidia Bank in Hudson
- New board member: Michael G. McAuliffe, president & CEO of Middlesex Savings Bank in Natick
- New board member: Lisa R. Murray, Massachusetts president Citizens Bank
- New board member: Lisa J. Oliver, president & CEO of The Cooperative Bank of Cape Cod in Hyannis
- New board member: Wayne Patenaude, president & CEO of Cambridge Savings Bank
- New board member: Richard Spencer, president & CEO of North Easton Savings Bank in Whitman
- New board member: Anne Tangen, president & CEO of BankFive in Fall River
They join 10 other board members whose terms continue.
