MARKET LEADER DESIGNATED FOR BANK

Key Private Bank (KPB), the wealth management division of KeyCorp recently announced that Rahwa Teklai has joined the organization as KPB market leader for its Hudson Valley/Metro-New York and eastern Pennsylvania markets.  She will lead high-performing teams in both markets responsible for identifying and prioritizing the financial needs of high-net-worth clients and leveraging the full complement of KeyBank’s financial capabilities to provide solutions to attain their financial goals.

Teklai joins Key from PNC Private Bank in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where she served more than seven years, most recently as central Pennsylvania market leader. Her previous roles with PNC included wealth director and senior strategist positions in insurance and wealth. Prior to that, she held positions with Lincoln Financial Group, MetLife, TIAA-CREF and Vanguard in a variety of capacities over her 25-plus year wealth management career.

Teklai holds a Bachelor of Science degree in finance from Penn State University and is a Certified Financial Planner®.

She resides in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, and will maintain offices in KeyBank’s Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, and Tarrytown, New York market headquarters.

Key Private Bank is a leading provider of wealth management solutions and advice for high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth clients, including wealth advisory, investment management, trust administration, customized credit and private banking services. Key’s wealth management platform combines the market insights of local advisors with a national team of wealth and investment strategists to deliver proactive and personalized advice and expertise to clients. Advisors also leverage partnerships with Key’s business banking and capital markets teams to build wealth plans tailored to meet each client’s specific needs. Key Private Bank’s wealth management platform is delivered across 15 of the United States. Key Private Bank has $17.3 billion in AUA at June 30, 2024.

KeyCorp’s roots trace back nearly 200 years to Albany, New York. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Key is one of the nation’s largest bank-based financial services companies, with assets of approximately $187 billion at June 30, 2024. Key provides deposit, lending, cash management, and investment services to individuals and businesses in 15 states under the name KeyBank National Association through a network of approximately 1,000 branches and approximately 1,200 ATMs. Key also provides a broad range of sophisticated corporate and investment banking products, such as merger and acquisition advice, public and private debt and equity, syndications and derivatives to middle-market companies in selected industries throughout the United States under the KeyBanc Capital Markets trade name.