FirstMerit Appoints Richardson as North Coast Regional Commercial Banking Executive
Sean Richardson, North Coast Regional Commercial Banking Executive, FirstMerit Corporation. (PRNewsFoto/FirstMerit Corporation, Mort Tucker Photography)
AKRON, Ohio, July 14/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- FirstMerit Corporation (Nasdaq: FMER) announces the hiring of Sean P. Richardson as North Coast Regional Commercial Banking Executive. Prior to joining FirstMerit, he held the position of Executive Vice President and Managing Director of Corporate Banking Middle Market Northcoast - East Team for National City Corporation.
Richardson is responsible for all aspects of Commercial and Business Banking for the North Coast assigned region, and will plan and implement regional business plan objectives. He reports directly to Mark Grescovich, Executive Vice President, Commercial Banking.
"We are excited to bring Sean into the organization," Grescovich said. "Not only does he bring a depth and breadth of organizational and performance experience to FirstMerit, he brings 24 years of serving and advising owner-managed businesses in the Northern Ohio market."
Richardson will oversee Commercial Business Banking in FirstMerit's North Coast Region, which includes Cleveland and reaches from Ashtabula to Toledo.
"FirstMerit has increased its commercial loan portfolio by 10 percent in the last year, but we look to Richardson to help us bring an even higher level of success to the organization and our clients," said Paul G. Greig, chairman, president and CEO of FirstMerit.
Richardson earned his MBA at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University and received his Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration from the University of Notre Dame. He is a member of the board of trustees at the Cleveland Foodbank, is co-chair of the 2009-2010 Eastern Market Team at the United Way of Greater Cleveland and has served as chairman of the American Heart Association's Start! Heart Walk. He resides in Shaker Heights with his wife and three children.
About FirstMerit
FirstMerit Corporation is a diversified financial services company headquartered in Akron, Ohio, with assets of $11.0 billion as of March 31, 2009 and 158 banking offices and 172 ATMs in 25 Ohio and Western Pennsylvania counties. FirstMerit provides a complete range of banking and other financial services to consumers and businesses through its core operations. Principal wholly-owned subsidiaries include: FirstMerit Bank, N.A., FirstMerit Mortgage Corporation, FirstMerit Title Agency, Ltd., and FirstMerit Community Development Corporation.
