Walden Savings Bank has hired Melissa Blough, a banking executive with more than 20 years of experience in residential and consumer lending, as its new senior vice president, retail lending.
Blough will manage all aspects of residential and consumer lending and will assist in the further expansion of the bank”™s digital mortgage capabilities and overall customer experience. She has held leadership positions with Hudson Heritage Federal Credit Union and Orange Bank and Trust and most recently served as vice president for residential mortgage loans at Rhinebeck Bank. She will be based out of the bank”™s headquarters in Montgomery, New York.
An Orange County resident, Blough graduated, magna cum laude, from Mount St. Mary College in Newburgh, with a Bachelor of Science.
Walden Savings Bank, established in 1872, is the 11th oldest federally chartered mutual savings bank headquartered in Montgomery. With a total of 11 full-service branches serving Orange and Ulster counties and a loan production office in Dutchess County, the bank”™s progressive style of community banking provides products that cater to both the individual and the growing mid-size business.
