Howard Bank, a growth-focused community bank serving businesses, professionals and individuals in the Greater Baltimore area, announced today that it has hired Rick Botti, Senior Vice President and Relationship Manager Team Lead, Bart Boland, Senior Vice President and Senior Relationship Manager, and John Wasowicz, Senior Vice President and Senior Relationship Manager.
Boland and Wasowicz will be based in Howard Bank’s Parkville branch and work directly with Botti to refine and grow the bank’s commercial strategy and develop new business opportunities.
“We are always looking to bring on talented individuals whose experience will set Howard Bank apart from other financial institutions,” said Mary Ann Scully, Howard Bank’s Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President. “These three executives add years of experience, deep market knowledge and will provide our customers with excellent advice. We couldn’t be more pleased to add them to our growing team. This represents the latest step in Howard Bank’s commitment to be the go to commercial bank in Greater Baltimore.”
The three join the bank after Howard Bank hired James D. Witty, former Maryland Regional President for BB&T, as Executive Vice President and Chief Lending Officer. Witty has 27 years of banking experience.
A seasoned executive, Botti has more than 30 years of commercial banking experience in the Metro Baltimore area. Most recently, he was Commercial Team Lead for BB&T. While at BB&T, he was responsible for leading and managing a Commercial Team in its efforts to develop new business relationships, service and expand existing customer relatationships and achieve group goals to include deposit and loan growth, fee income and credit quality. Botti earned his master’s in business administration from Johns Hopkins University, where he also earned a B.A. in social and behavioral sciences.
Boland joins Howard Bank as Senior Vice President and Senior Relationship Manager. He previously was Vice President of BB&T, where he was responsible for acquiring new commercial loan and deposit relationships and preparing and presenting commercial loan requests to Credit Department and Commercial Loan Committee. Boland also managed a portfolio of over $70 million in outstanding commercial loans and more than $15 million in deposits. He earned a master’s in business administration from the University of Baltimore. He is a graduate of the University of Richmond where he earned a B.A. in political science.
A former BB&T Client Relationship Manager, Wasowicz joins the Howard Bank team as Senior Vice President and Senior Relationship Manager. As Client Relationship Manager at BB&T, Wasowicz was responsible managing relationships with various financial institutions and companies of diverse size, industry and financial complexity to conduct business development, portfolio management and deepen relationships. Wasowicz earned a B.A. in accounting from Loyola College, Baltimore.
About Howard Bank
Howard Bancorp is a bank holding company with total assets of $947 million as of Dec. 31, 2015. Its principal operating subsidiary, Howard Bank is a locally owned and managed, growth-focused community bank serving businesses, professionals and individuals in the Greater Baltimore area through 16 full service branches. Howard Bank is a wholly owned subsidiary of Howard Bancorp (NASDAQ: HBMD). For more information visit, http://www.howardbank.com/.
