<p><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(16,19,63);font-size:14px;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;display:inline !important;float:none;font-family:Roboto;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:center;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;">Senior Vice President Professional Development Group</span></span></p>

<p>Senior Vice President, Chief of Government Affairs &amp; Counsel</p>

<p>Kathleen Murphy is the president and CEO of the Massachusetts Bankers Association, which represents banks of all sizes and charters and is the premier partner and trusted resource for the Commonwealth’s $602 billion banking industry.</p><p><br>With a career spanning state and national banking associations, Kathleen joined MBA in 2020 following twenty-one years at the helm of the Maryland Bankers Association in Annapolis. Before joining the Maryland association, Kathleen served as Director of Community Banking for the American Bankers Association in Washington, D. C. where she led the Association’s largest constituency group of community bank CEOs which influenced policy, education, communication and service strategies.</p><p><br>Kathleen’s earlier career highlights include working as Director of Communications for the Ohio Bankers Association and for Bank One in Columbus.</p><p><br>She serves on the Board of Directors of the BDC Capital Corporation and the Savings Banks Employees Retirement Association (SBERA) and serves on the ABA Community Bankers Council and Mutual Bank Administrative Committee. Kathleen was elected by her peers to chair the State Bankers Association Alliance and in this role served on the Board of Directors of the American Bankers Association in 2010-2011. She also served from 2012-2019 on the Board of Trustees of Marietta College. Kathleen is recipient of numerous awards including the 2021 Marietta College Distinguished Alumni Award; 2019 Maryland Government Relations Association Community Service Award; the Daily Record’s Top 100 Women in Maryland in 2017 and one of fifty Influential Marylanders named by The Daily Record in 2009, 2014 and 2017 and inducted into its Circle of Excellence in 2017.<br>&nbsp;</p><p>Kathleen is a graduate of Marietta College in Marietta Ohio and has completed Executive Education courses at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. Kathleen and her husband Mike are avid boaters and reside on Boston’s South Shore.<br>200</p>

<p>Robert is a national expert in leadership succession, corporate governance, and talent management across the financial services, private equity, and middle-market sectors. He has over thirty years of talent assessment and executive search experience, after an initial career in corporate banking with two leading Philadelphia institutions. He has successfully led hundreds of CEO-succession projects and financial officer assignments, as well as hundreds of C-level consulting, assessment, and executive search assignments.<br /> <br /> Robert holds an Economics degree from The Pennsylvania State University, and an MBA in Finance from Temple University. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce. Alan is a Board Leadership Fellow of the National Association of Corporate Directors, and sits on the Board of Directors of NACD Philadelphia. He recently served as a Global Board Member of the Association of Executive Search and Leadership Consultants, the industry’s leading education and advocacy organization, and as an Advisory Director of Penn Liberty Bank prior to its sale to WSFS Bank. Alan is also known for his 16 years as a weekly business commentator on talent management and career issues for KYW News Radio 1060 in Philadelphia, and for serving as regular columnist for Bank Director and SmartCEO Magazine. He is a frequent speaker and author for business and financial services organizations nationwide.</p>

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