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Sarah Barr, 203-578-2287 sbarr@websterbank.com

Webster Bankers Take Leadership Roles in Our Communities WATERBURY/HARTFORD, Conn., December 2, 2014 - Two Webster bankers have been named to leadership positions in their local Connecticut communities.

Robert Guenther, senior vice president, corporate and government communications, has been elected to a two- year term as chairman of the Connecticut Chapter of the Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC).
Founded in 1876, the AMCis the nation's oldest outdoor recreation, education, and conservation nonprofit. It
has more than 100,000 members in chapters from Maine to Washington, D.C.
Guenther, a resident of Hartford and based in Waterbury, also is the chairman of the Legislative Affairs
Committee of the MetroHartford Alliance and serves on the board of Main Street Waterbury.
Steven C. Taylor, vice president and banking center manager in Bloomfield, has joined the Community
Health Resourcesboard of directors.
Community Health Resources, with 32 locations and more than 700 dedicated professionals, is a growing nonprofit, community-based behavioral health agency, providing services in central and eastern Connecticut to children, adults, and families with mental health and substance-abuse issues.
Taylor, a resident of Windsor, also serves on the Wilson Gray YMCA Board of Advisors, and is a recent alumnus of Leadership Greater Hartford's Quest Program, where his task force implemented programs to help the homeless.

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Webster Financial Corporation is the holding company for Webster Bank. With $22 billion in assets, Webster provides business and consumer banking, mortgages, private banking, trust and investment services through 165 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 services 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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