Ledyard National Bank has announced the promotion of Donna Batchelder to Senior Vice President. Her promotion is in addition to her title as Director of Client Services with Ledyard Financial Advisors. Donna’s new role will include supervising both client services staff and account administrators. The consolidation of supervisory responsibilities under Donna’s new role will allow for opportunities in staff training, consistent application of policy procedures, and opportunities to identify and create efficiencies in how Ledyard administers their clients’ assets.
Donna joined Ledyard Financial Advisors in 1996 and has 20 years of experience in securities operations and trust accounting. She has supervised our client services area for 8 years and was coordinator of Ledyard’s conversion to the Northern Trust TrustRite accounting system. In 2013 Donna was recognized by being given the Ledyard Leader Award. Prior to joining Ledyard Financial Advisors she was employed at Fleet Bank NH as a member of the retail banking group.
Donna completed Cannon Financial Institute’s first year securities operations program and the Accredited Trust Operations Professional program offered by Accutech University in conjunction with Campbell University.
Ledyard Financial Group, Inc., headquartered in Hanover, New Hampshire, is the holding company for Ledyard National Bank. Ledyard National Bank, founded in 1991, is a full service community bank offering a broad range of banking, investment, tax and wealth management services in the Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Region. Ledyard National Bank has eight offices with locations in Hanover, Lebanon, Lyme, New London, and West Lebanon, New Hampshire and in Norwich, Vermont.