Deborah K. Skinner
Thomaston Savings Bank recently promoted and hired several people, including Deborah K. Skinner, who has been named senior operations officer. Skinner began her career at Thomaston Savings in 1983. She was promoted to vice president in 2003. Skinner attended the University of Connecticut and the Connecticut School of Finance and Management. She is active in the community, serving on the town of Thomaston’s S.A.L.T. (Seniors and Law Together) Advisory Board and the Thomaston TRIAD.
The bank’s senior vice president, Thomas J. Laskowski, has been promoted to chief information officer. Laskowski began his banking career in 1983 and joined Thomaston Savings in February 1997. His education includes a B.S. degree in finance and business administration from Sacred Heart University and an M.B.A. degree from the University of New Haven. Laskowski participates in the Thomaston school system’s mentoring program and coaches youth soccer in Seymour.
Mark B. Crook has joined Thomaston Savings as vice president in the bank’s commercial loan office. Crook brings a wealth of experience to the bank, as he has worked in commercial lending for more than 17 years. He previously was a vice president at The Savings Institute. His education includes a B.S. degree from Syracuse University and an M.S. degree from the RPI Graduate Center. He is active with the boys’ youth baseball and basketball programs in Farmington and also is involved with that community’s Taxpayers Association.
Macdonald Joins Savings Bank
Catherine Macdonald recently joined Savings Bank of Danbury as a mortgage loan officer. She is working out of the bank’s newest branch office and lending center, located at 357 Bank St. in Waterbury.
In her new role, Macdonald will educate and counsel borrowers, as well as originate mortgages.
Macdonald is a graduate of Connecticut School of Finance and Management and spent the last 20 years with Banknorth, where she held the position of mortgage loan officer/assistant vice president. She brings a wealth of knowledge and residential lending experience to her new position.
She maintains a strong commitment to the community, having served as co-chair of the Woodland Hills Business Council. She also served on the Business Women’s Forum has been vice president of the Waterbury Neighborhood Housing Service Board. Presently a member of the Greater Waterbury Chamber of Commerce and an active member of the Waterbury YMCA, Macdonald is physically active and is a former member of the Libra Running Team.
Simsbury Bank Expands
The Simsbury Bank & Trust Co. recently announced its second branch expansion in as many months. The bank will open a full-service branch in neighboring Bloomfield, anticipated for the first quarter of 2006, in a to-be-built shopping plaza at the intersection of Cottage Grove Road and Bloomfield Avenue.
The branch will feature state-of-the-art facilities for the bank’s consumer and business customers and will include a two-bay drive-up and two ATMs – one at the drive-up and one for walk-up use.
The bank announced plans for its new Canton branch in April, anticipating the opening there to take place in November.
“The Simsbury Bank’s expansion into Bloomfield is natural for us,” said President and Chief Executive Officer Martin J. Geitz. “Bloomfield is just over Talcott Mountain from Simsbury and hundreds of our current customers work or live there. We will now be even more convenient for them and look forward to serving many new customers as well. We know that we have the kind of high-touch customer service that consumers and businesses alike are looking for today – they want a banking relationship that will help them with their total financial needs, not merely transactions – and we have the innovative products to support that service.”
