SARATOGA SPRINGS – Saratoga National Bank and Trust Company has appointed Kevin Catalano to Vice President of Corporate Banking.

In this role, Mr. Catalano will develop and manage commercial lending relationships in the Capital District. He will be based out of the Bank’s Colonie Office as well as the new Troy Office on Hoosick Street when it opens later this year.

Mr. Catalano joins Saratoga National Bank with more than 16 years of banking and lending experience in the region. He has a bachelor’s degree in marketing from SUNY Plattsburgh and an MBA from Sage Graduate School. He is also a graduate of the Albany-Colonie Regional Chamber of Commerce’s Executive Institute and Leadership Tech Valley’s Class of 2008.

Active in his community. Mr. Catalano is a mentor to budding entrepreneurs. He taught a financing course for the Regional Chambers Entrepreneur Bootcamp and has served as a business plan competition judge and a panelist at several small business forms. In 2011, he was named Financial Services Champion of the Year by the U.S. Small Business Administration for New York’s Region II.

Saratoga National Bank and Trust Company currently provides banking, investment, insurance and other financial services through eight locations in Saratoga and Albany counties; a ninth office is planned for Troy. It is rated a 5-Star Superior institution by BauerFinancial. More information can be found online at saratoganational.com.