ROBERT M. MAHONEY was most recently the President and CEO of Belmont Savings Bank before its merger in April with People's United Bank. Prior to Belmont, he was the Executive Vice Chairman of Citizens Bank and President of the Massachusetts Bank. He started his banking career at Bank of Boston where he served in a variety of U.S. and International executive positions.

Mahoney received his M.B.A. from Columbia Business School in 1971. He is a 1970 graduate of the University of Massachusetts, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry. He received the 1996 Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Massachusetts, and the 2006 Columbia University School of Business Leadership Award. He is the recipient of the 2009 Henry L. Shattuck Boston City Champion Award and the 2011 USS Constitution Museum's Charles Francis Adams Award for public service.

In February 2014, Mahoney was named the "Most-Admired CEO of a small or mid-sized company in Massachusetts" by the Boston Business Journal. The award follows the bank's significant success, doubling its assets over the prior three years. Fortune Magazine named Belmont Savings as one of "The 100 Fastest Growing Companies in the U.S." for 2017 and 2018.

Mahoney has held several community leadership positions in Massachusetts. He is Past Chairman of the United Way Board of Directors and Executive Committee, and serves on the University of Massachusetts Amherst Foundation board. He is also a founder of Community Gems, a collaboration of non-profit agencies that work together with community partners to meet the diverse needs of Greater Boston's youth and families. He was a board member of the Sitel Corporation, a $ 1.5B worldwide customer-service firm in Nashville and International Data Group, a $3B technology media and research group based in Boston.

Mahoney also sits on the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Finance Council and chairs the Council's Financial Services Steering Committee.

Bob Mahoney resides in Wellesley with his wife Kathy and their greyhounds.

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