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Webster Banker Promoted to SVP WATERBURY, Conn., July 22, 2014 - Webster Bank today announced the promotion of Sean

Mulready to senior vice president, commercial real estate.
Mulready joined Webster in 2002 as vice president, relationship manager. Based in Hartford, Mulready is a resident of West Hartford. He serves on the board of the Northside Institutions Neighborhood Alliance (NINA) and on the local advisory committee of Local Initiatives Support Collaborative (LISC). NINA focuses on low income, single family home ownership in the Asylum Hill neighborhood of Hartford and LISC supports low income housing initiatives throughout Hartford. Mulready earned his bachelor's degree and MBA from the University of Connecticut.
Webster Bank is a leading regional bank serving businesses and consumers from metro New York
City to Boston, Mass.

About Webster

* * * * Webster Financial Corporation (NYSE: WBS) is the holding company for Webster Bank, N.A. With $22 billion in assets, Webster provides business and consumer banking, mortgages, private banking, trust and investment services through 166 banking offices; 311 ATMs; telephone banking; mobile banking; and the Internet. Webster Bank owns the asset based lending firm Webster Business Credit Corporation ; the equipment finance firm Webster Capital Finance Corporation; and provides health savings account trustee and administrative servic es through HSA Bank, a division of Webster Bank. Member FDIC and equal housing lender. For more information about Webster, including past press releases and the latest annual report, visit the Webster website at www.websterbank.comor follow us on LinkedIn http://linkedin.com/company/webster-bankand Twitter https://twitter.com/WebsterBank.
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