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Kristy Berner

Kristy Berner is Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Webster Bank and Webster Financial Corporation (NYSE: WBS), a leading commercial bank with more than $71 billion in assets. In her role, Kristy leads all of Webster’s corporate legal services.

She most recently served as Executive Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Assistant Corporate Secretary at M&T Bank Corporation. Prior to joining M&T, Kristy was the General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at both People’s United Bank and First Niagara Bank, as well as the Deputy General Counsel at KeyBank. She started her legal career at Hodgson Russ LLP, where her practice focused on mergers and acquisitions, securities and corporate matters.

Kristy served as a member of the Quinnipiac University Center for Women in Business Advisory Board and as a prior Chair and Vice-Chair of the American Bankers Association General Counsel Group. She is a long-standing member of the Society for Corporate Governance as well as a variety of other legal and bank trade group associations. Kristy received a bachelor’s degree, MBA and juris doctor from the State University of New York at Buffalo.