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October 7, 2015

KeyBank Announces Additions to Capital Region Staff

KeyBank N.A. today announced the addition of two professionals to its Capital Region headquarters. Adam Lawrence and Jennifer Chatt have been named human resources business partners.

“I’m very excited about these appointments to the Capital Region senior leadership team,” said Ruth Mahoney, president, Capital Region, KeyBank N.A. “Adam and Jennifer each bring a great deal of skill and experience, which will allow Key to meet the increasing needs of our employees throughout the bank.”

Adam Lawrence returns to KeyBank after a brief stay at American National Insurance Company, where he was a senior strategic human resources business partner. In his new role at Key, he will lead the human resources duties for Key’s Commercial Bank and Key Private Bank throughout New York state and New England.

Previously, Lawrence performed as a strategist and consultant to assigned Key Community Bank client groups leveraging business and industry insights to manage the design, development and delivery of human resources programs in concert with the goals of the business. Before that he was a human resource leader at Blue Slate Solutions in Albany, a human resources manager at Bollam, Sheedy and Torani in Albany, and director of human resources at NFM, Inc., in Baltimore, Md.

Lawrence received his Bachelor of Arts in psychology at Hobart and William Smith Colleges (Geneva, N.Y.) and his Master of Science in industrial/organizational psychology from University of Baltimore (Md.).

Jennifer Chatt will lead the human resources area for Key’s consumer and retail as well as small business banking divisions throughout New York state and New England.

Chatt comes to Key after spending three years as vice president for human resources at the New York Independent System Operator in Rensselaer. Prior to that, she was vice president for human resources at Northeast Parent and Child Society in Schenectady and before that was vice president for global human resources at Angiodynamics in Latham.

Chatt received her Bachelor of Science in business administration and human resources from the State University of New York – College at Geneseo and her MBA from the State University of New York at Albany.

 

About KeyBank

KeyCorp traces its roots back more than 180 years ago and is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. One of the nation’s largest bank-based financial services companies, Key had assets of approximately $94.6 billion at June 30, 2015. The 10-county Capital Region Market, one of 23 KeyCorp markets, has 47 branches, approximately 50 ATMs and 900 employees.

Key provides deposit, lending, cash management and investment services to individuals, small and midsize businesses in 12 states under the name of KeyBank N.A. Key also provides a broad range of sophisticated corporate and investment banking products, such as merger and acquisition advice, public and private debt and equity, syndications and derivatives to middle market companies in selected industries throughout the United States under the KeyBanc Capital Markets trade name. For more information, visit https://www.key.com/. KeyBank is member FDIC.