Jeff Lawrence Hubbard has joined Liberty Bank as a Commercial Banking senior vice president, serving Connecticut’s Greater New Haven Region.
Hubbard comes to Liberty Bank as a veteran Connecticut Banker with more than 30 years of experience. Most recently, he was the market president and Commercial Bank sales leader at KeyBank. For four years, Hubbard supervised KeyBank’s commercial banking business, Specialty Lending, Capital Markets and Financial Services. Prior to that, he was the Commercial Banking regional vice president at TD Bank for six years. He managed the daily business activities in the Hartford Region with a focus on small business, commercial lending, municipal finance, not-for-profit, higher education and commercial real estate lending.
In his new role at Liberty Bank, Hubbard is responsible for business banking development and building commercial relationships in Greater New Haven. He will lead his team in the expansion of commercial, middle market and small business lending.
“Jeff’s reputation across the region’s banking industry, coupled with his decades of extensive business banking and commercial banking experience in the Greater New Haven market, are integral pieces in our overall success in growing our presence in this important market for us,” said David W. Glidden, president and CEO of Liberty Bank. “Not only is Jeff widely respected for cultivating business relationships, taking care of customers’ banking needs and winning new business opportunities but he is a dedicated, recognizable partner in the non-profit community. I strongly believe they go hand-in-hand in community banking.”
Established in 1825, Liberty Bank is Connecticut’s oldest bank, with more than $5.8 billion in assets and 60 banking offices throughout the central, eastern, western and shoreline areas of the state.
