Daniel H. Bley has joined Waterbury’s Webster Financial Corp., the holding company for Webster Bank, as executive vice president and chief risk officer, reporting to Jerry Plush, Webster’s senior executive vice president and chief financial officer.

Bley’s duties will include overall responsibility for credit, compliance and operating risk as well as administrative responsibility for internal audit, the company said.

In 1994, Bley joined ABN Amro and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), which acquired ABN Amro in 2009. At RBS, Bley was a managing director in their financial institutions credit group. In this role, he led a team of senior credit officers covering global exposures to North American financial institutions.

"Dan has held important senior management roles and, as such, brings a wealth of experience in risk management to Webster," Plush said in a statement. "We are pleased to have him join our executive team."