Chairman, President & CEO
Citizens Financial Group, Inc.
Education
Drake University
Graduated with honors, 1966
Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration
Masters of Business Administration, 1968
Frank Knox Fellowship
Harvard University
(Included graduate study at the London School of Economics and study in India)
Current Position
Lawrence K. Fish, an innovative leader in the American banking industry, is
Chairman, President and CEO of Citizens Financial Group, Inc.,
a multi-state bank holding company headquarterd in Providence,
Rhode Island. Under his leadership, Citizens more than doubled
in size in three years to become the fourth-largest commercial
banking company in New England and one of the 60 largest in the
United States.
Previous Experience
Prior to joining Citizens in April 1992, Fish
led the fight to revive the ailing Boston-based Bank of New
England
Corp. As Chairman and CEO, he reduced the size of the company
through sale of several business units and recruited a new
management
team while restoring liquidity and holding together one of the
country's largest banking franchises.
While deterioration of the
New England economy and the company's troubled $8 billion real
estate portfolio required FDIC intervention in 1991, Fish's
efforts
were praised by regulators and analysts. As a result, the FDIC
asked Fish and his management team to run the bank under
government
ownership and to assist in its sale to Fleet Financial Group.
Fish's banking career began in 1972 at bank of Boston where he
worked in various senior positions in Brazil, Japan, Hong Kong
and Boston. In 1988, Fish joined the bank's Board of Directors
and was named Executive Vice President and Group Executive in
charge of all New England banking.
Prior to his banking career,
he was chief of the Industry Division for the US Agency for
International
Development (USAID) in Rio de Janeiro.
Corporate Leadership Positions
Mr. Fish holds corporate leadership positions at the following institutions:
John Hancock Financial Services, Director
Royal Bank of Scotland, Director
Rhode Island School of Design, Trustee
National Conference of Christians and Jews, Trustee
State Economic Development Council, Co-chair, with Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Amond
Community Leadership Positions
Mr. Fish holds community leadership positions with:
Rhode Island Commission for National and Community Service, Chairman
New England Conservatory of Music, Trustee & board member
MacDowell Colony, Inc., Trustee
Isabella Stewart Garner Museum, Overseer
Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, Trustee & member of the Board of Governors
Governor's International Trade Advisory Board for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, past Chairman
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