Philadelphia, PA (September 1, 2006) – Glenn L. Wilson, president and CEO of the 116-year-old Citizens National Bank, part of the Mercantile Bankshares Corp., a $17 billion bank holding company, has been elected chair of the Risk Management Association (RMA). Gerald J. Dent, executive vice president and chief credit officer, Zions Bancorporation, Salt Lake City, Utah, was elected vice chair. Their one-year terms begin September 1.
An active member of RMA for more than 25 years, Wilson was vice chair of RMA last year, and he has served on RMA’s board of directors for the past three years. He is a past chair of RMA’s Community Bank Council and a past president of RMA’s Chesapeake Chapter, where he was a board member for 15 years.
As president and CEO of Citizens National Bank, Laurel, Maryland, Wilson has overall responsibility for risk at the $1.4 billion bank, which he manages in conjunction with his senior managers and Mercantile Bankshares Corp.
Wilson is also active in his community, serving as a board member for Prince George’s Community College Foundation, Howard Hospital Foundation, and United Way Partnership Board. He is former chairman of the Baltimore-Washington Corridor Chamber of Commerce and an advisory board member of the Linwood Center for Autism. He also serves as Lay Corporator of St. John the Evangelist Church.
Wilson earned a BS degree in finance from Towson University, Towson, Maryland.
Dent, who joined Zions Bancorporation in 1977, was named executive vice president and chief credit officer in 1998. He is also a member of the Bancorporation’s Executive Management Committee and Enterprise Risk Committee.
He has served on RMA’s board of directors for three years.
Dent has a degree in banking and finance from Brigham Young University. He also is a graduate of the Colorado School of Banking and the BMA School of Bank Marketing.
About RMA
Founded in 1914, the Risk Management Association is a not-for-profit, member-driven professional association whose sole purpose is to advance the use of sound risk principles in the financial services industry. RMA promotes an enterprise approach to risk management that focuses on credit risk, market risk, and operational risk.
Headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, RMA has 3,000 institutional members that include banks of all sizes as well as nonbank financial institutions. They are represented in the association by 17,000 risk management professionals who are chapter members in financial centers throughout North America, Europe, and Asia/Pacific. Visit RMA on the Web at www.rmahq.org.
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