Bankwell has announced the hiring of Matthew J. McNeill as its executive vice president and chief banking officer.
Before joining the New Canaan-headquartered financial institution, McNeill was head of commercial lending at Metropolitan Commercial Bank in New York City, where his responsibilities for the $3.2 billion bank covered commercial lending, cash management, commercial deposits and consumer lending. Earlier in his career, he was a senior commercial relationship manager at HSBC, a business banker at Santander and a managing partner at American Real Estate Lending.
“We are excited to welcome Matt to the Bankwell management team,” said Christopher R. Gruseke, president and CEO of Bankwell and its parent company, Bankwell Financial Group. “A proven winner, Matt has demonstrated his ability to build successful lending teams and to deepen customer relationships. Bankwell”™s addition of Matt as chief banking officer represents a critical step toward achieving our strategic goal of becoming a more commercially-focused community bank.”
