Centra Bank names senior management team
Ed Franczyk, president and CEO of Centra Bank Fayette County, has announced members of his senior management team. They are:
– Joseph G. Klocek, a 30-year banker, senior vice president of retail banking, who will manage all customer service functions of the bank.
– Michael G. Uhouse, long-time banker, senior vice president of commercial banking, who will manage the business banking functions of Centra Bank Fayette County.
– Sally Bryan, 33-year banker, vice president of private banking, who will manage the loan and deposit portfolios for high value customers.
Klocek has 30 years of diverse experience in the banking industry. He started his banking career as a management trainee at Gallatin National Bank in 1976 and held progressively responsible positions over 22 year with National City Corp. in Fayette and Westmoreland counties.
He most recently served as vice president and business banking manager of First National Bank of Pennsylvania. Other positions Klocek has held during his banking tenure include vice president of commercial lending at Promistar Bank; vice president of operations at First National Bank of Herminie, and vice president and private banker at National City Corp.
Klocek has developed extensive skills in regional/branch management, small business lending, operations, business development, customer relations, sales and project management, budgeting and deposit an loan generation.
Klocek has a bachelor of science degree in business administration/business management from Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh.
He has also completed curricula at the Pennsylvania Bankers Association School of Banking at Bucknell University, the Stonier Graduate School of Banking at the University of Delaware and the graduate school of banking postgraduate program at the University of Wisconsin.
Uhouse has 25 years of diverse experience in the banking industry. He started his career as an assistant manager at Signal Finance Corp. in 1977. Uhouse then moved to PNC Bank and served as credit adjuster and consumer loan manager. In 1986, he joined National City Bank of Pennsylvania and held progressively responsible positions including credit analyst, regional commercial loan officer and assistant vice president. Uhouse become vice president before moving to Mellon Bank to serve as vice president of private banking. In 1977, he joined First National Bank of Pennsylvania as the vice president of commercial lending and then advanced to senior vice president and regional commercial banking manager.
He then went back to National City Bank of Pennsylvania where he was vice president of business banking.
Uhouse has a bachelor of science degree in finance from Pennsylvania State University and is a graduate of the Central Atlantic School of Commercial Lending.
Bryan began her banking career in 1973 as a title and insurance clerk at Gallatin Bank. She served in progressively responsible positions in the installment loan department, including installment loan interviewer and lending officer, until 1997, at which time she moved her concentration to private banking. Bryan stayed with Gallatin as it changed hands and became Integra Bank, and then again when it became National City Bank. Most recently she served as assistant vice president and private banker at National City Bank.
Bryan is an honors graduate of the Central Atlantic Advanced School of Banking at Bucknell University.