Bank hires for executive jobs in Boston

Posted on December 15, 2013

Westfield Bank has secured a key hire for executive jobs in Boston.

The bank has hired Theodore (Ted) Horan as the Commercial Lender for the Bank’s new Granby Connecticut Banking Center.

Westfield BAnk is a Massachusetts-chartered stock holding company and the parent company of Westfield Bank, Elm Street Securities Corporation, WFD Securities, Inc. and WB Real Estate Holdings, LLC. Westfield Financial and its subsidiaries are headquartered in Westfield, Massachusetts and operate through 12 full-service banking offices in Agawam, East Longmeadow, Feeding Hills, Holyoke, Southwick, Springfield, West Springfield and Westfield, Massachusetts; Granby, Connecticut and one Residential Loan Center in western Massachusetts.

Horan joined the Bank on November 12th as the dedicated Commercial Lender for the Bank’s Connecticut market. He joins a banking team in Granby, with Brenda Glazier, Banking Center Manager and Tom Glynn, Residential Lender.

Horan was most recently with Liberty Bank in Middletown, Connecticut and brings a knowledge of the Connecticut market to Westfield Bank with his nearly 30 years of banking experience. He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame where he currently serves as treasurer for the Alumni club.

The Bank opened the Granby, Connecticut Banking Center, located at 10 Hartford Avenue, in the early summer of 2013. President and CEO James Hagan noted, “We are very pleased with the deposits and loans we have generated in the Granby market. In the few short months since Granby’s opening, we have gathered $3.0 million in deposits and originated $5.2 million in new loan volume as of November 15, 2013.”

Allen Miles, EVP and Senior Lender at Westfield Bank stated, “Ted is a great addition to our team of experienced lenders. I’m confident he will help many businesses throughout northern Connecticut benefit from his knowledge and commercial lending expertise and the Bank’s products and services.”