PROVIDENCE, R.I.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Citizens Bank today announced that Simon Griffiths has been named Executive Vice President and Head of Retail Distribution. Griffiths, a financial services veteran with nearly 20 years of leadership experience, joins Citizens from Santander and previously worked in senior leadership roles at JPMorgan Chase and Washington Mutual.
Griffiths will be responsible for managing Citizens’ network of branches and ATMs, online and mobile banking, digital sales and marketing and related Consumer Banking operations effective Oct. 13, 2015. He will report to Brad Conner, Vice Chairman and Head of Consumer Banking.
“As we pursue our strategy of becoming a top-performing regional bank, we are very pleased to have a seasoned retail banking executive like Simon join our executive leadership team,” Conner said. “Simon’s extensive and successful track record in the industry makes him a great fit for Citizens as we leverage the convenience of our retail network to help Citizens Bank customers access the products, services and expertise they need to meet their financial goals.”
Before managing Santander’s retail branch network, Griffiths served in a variety of senior leadership roles at JPMorgan Chase, including national head of branch administration and market manager for all retail branches in its Silicon Valley and Seattle markets. At Washington Mutual, he led pricing and product strategy for home equity and also led process improvement for the banking products and operations group. He also previously worked as a group manager and senior consultant for Accenture, where he advised companies in financial services and other industries.
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About Citizens Financial Group, Inc.
Citizens Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: CFG) is one of the nation’s oldest and largest financial institutions, with $137.3 billion in assets as of June 30, 2015. Headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island, Citizens offers a broad range of retail and commercial banking products and services to individuals, small businesses, middle‐market companies, large corporations and institutions. In Consumer Banking, Citizens helps its retail customers “bank better” with mobile and online banking, a 24/7 customer contact center and the convenience of approximately 3,200 ATMs and approximately 1,200 Citizens Bank branches in 11 states in the New England, Mid‐Atlantic and Midwest regions. Citizens also provides mortgage lending, auto lending, student lending and commercial banking services in select markets nationwide. In Commercial Banking, Citizens offers corporate, institutional and not-for-profit clients a full range of wholesale banking products and services including lending and deposits, capital markets, treasury services, foreign exchange and interest hedging, leasing and asset finance, specialty finance and trade finance.
Citizens operates through its subsidiaries Citizens Bank, N.A., and Citizens Bank of Pennsylvania. Additional information about Citizens and its full line of products and services can be found at www.citizensbank.com.
