KeyBank officials in Tarrytown recently announced a change of leaders in the bank”™s metropolitan New York and Hudson Valley market at the end of this year.
Richard M. Kulbieda, executive vice president and commercial banking team leader, will retire at year”™s end, said Ruth Mahoney, president of KeyBank”™s regional market, in a press release. He will be succeeded by Joseph F. Markey, former managing director with KeyBank Capital Markets and head of its New York City corporate banking team.
Markey, a senior vice president, assumes overall responsibility for the business development and management of the bank’s regional market encompassing Westchester County and the mid- and lower Hudson Valley, New York City, southern Connecticut and New Jersey. The eight-county market has 57 KeyBank branches, 80 ATMs and nearly 400 employees.
Mahoney said Markey, a White Plains resident and native of Ridgefield, Conn., “is well respected for his ability to think strategically and build and lead motivated, high-performing teams. He knows the market very well and is perfectly suited to lead our commercial bank’s business development efforts throughout the Hudson Valley and metro New York areas.”
Markey joined Cleveland-based KeyCorp in 2002 as a senior commercial banker. He previously was senior vice president and director for Wachovia Securities in New York City, where he worked as a banker in the industrial and business services industry groups. Markey also worked at the Bank of New York and Daiwa Bank.
In a financial services career that spanned more than 30 years, Kulbieda joined KeyBank in 1992. He returned to KeyBank in 2005 after a brief stint as New York state president and CEO of Citizens Bank. Kulbieda  previously was vice president for First American Bank and held positions with the former Marine Midland Bank and Bank of America.
Mahoney praised Kulbieda for “his ability to contribute creative ideas and solutions” to bank clients and said his sales leadership “has helped Key stand out in a very competitive industry.”
