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Senior Vice President & Chief Retail Banking Officer
Kevin Kober joined Ledyard National Bank as Senior Vice President and Chief Retail Banking Officer with over 27 years of retail banking experience.
Prior to joining our team, Kevin was Senior Vice President and Manager of Retail Banking at The Connecticut Bank and Trust Company (CBT). In addition to his work at CBT, Kevin worked at Ryan Mortgage Group as Sales Manager and Mortgage Broker, worked for 10 years at TD Banknorth as Vice President and Group Manager and 11 years at Fleet Bank. He is a former board member and Vice President of the Rocky Hill Chamber of Commerce in Connecticut.
Kevin has an associates degree in business management from Greenfield Community College.
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Vice President & Banking Office Manager, Hanover
NMLS# 430085
Mary White has worked in the financial services industry for more than 12 years. Prior to joining Ledyard National Bank, she served as an Assistant Vice President and Branch Manager for Sovereign Bank, located in Hollis, New Hampshire. In that position she was responsible for all the branch activities including small business development and small business lending. Mary managed the top performing branch for Sovereign for 10 years.
Mary’s past affiliations include Hollis/Brookline Rotary; Advisory Board for Nashua Humane Society and the Advisory Board for Hear in New Hampshire as well as assisting in many community events.
Mary has attended several banking specific training programs throughout her career and has been instrumental in establishing In-Store banking in New York with the management of the pilot branch for Columbia Federal Savings Bank, which served as the training branch for their entire In-Store program. Mary also helped to implement extensive sales training for bank employees throughout her career.
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Assistant Vice President & Banking Office Manager, Lebanon
Shawn Bard joined Ledyard in 2012 as Assistant Vice President and Banking Office Manager with three years of banking experience and several additional years in management and sales positions at other companies. His responsibilities have included managing all aspects of the business and developing future growth plans in the region. He played an integral role in managing one of the largest bank branches in New Hampshire.
Prior to joining our team, Shawn was Assistant Banking Center Manager at Bank of America in Hanover, New Hampshire. He has received several awards for performance and merit issued by his superiors.
Shawn earned his Bachelor’s degree in Business Marketing from the University of Maine.
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Vice President & Banking Office Manager, West Lebanon
NMLS#430068
Gail Broughton joined Ledyard National Bank as one of the original team members in 1991. She has over 30 years of banking experience. Prior to joining Ledyard, Gail was the Assistant Vice President at Dartmouth Savings Bank in Hanover, where she was in charge of the Retail Division.
Gail is a graduate of the Northern New England School of Banking at the University of New Hampshire.
In addition to her responsibilities at Ledyard, she has served on several boards of civic & charitable organizations in the Upper Valley including the United Way and is currently a member of the Norwich Business Council.
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Assistant Vice President & Banking Office Manager, Norwich, Vermont
Kevin De Rosa joined Ledyard in 2012 as Assistant Vice President and Banking Office Manager. He has two years of banking experience and three additional years in retail management. His responsibilities include operations management, sales planning, and building partnerships and business relationships in the community.
Prior to joining Ledyard, Kevin was the manager of Bank of America’s Hanover, New Hampshire branch. In this role, he was able to bring the branch from a low performer to one of the top performers in New England in sales, operations and customer satisfaction.
Kevin is an MBA graduate of the University of New Hampshire, where he also earned his BS in Finance & Accounting Analysis.
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Assistant Vice President & Banking Office Manager, Lyme
NMLS# 819140
Cara Dyke has over 11 years of retail banking experience. She began her career at Ledyard in 1999 as a teller in the bank's Norwich, Vermont branch. She further developed her banking knowledge and skill set in our Lyme, New Hampshire branch from 2001 to 2002. Soon thereafter, Cara was promoted into a leadership position at our Lebanon, New Hampshire branch, including Branch Supervisor as well as Personal Banking Officer/Assistant Manager.
In July 2010, Cara returned to the Lyme branch as its Banking Office Manager. She was promoted to Assistant Vice President in 2013.
During Cara's 11 years in the financial services industry, she has completed numerous banking, professional management, and information technology courses.
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Regional President, New London/Lake Sunapee
NMLS# 430084
Karen Zurheide joined Ledyard in 2011 as Regional President for the New London/Lake Sunapee Region. She is responsible for Ledyard’s activities within those markets.
Prior to joining Ledyard, Karen served as Executive Director of The Fells, a historic estate and gardens in Newbury, NH, where she worked with the Board to craft the strategic vision, managed the site’s finances, developed partnerships and oversaw all marketing. Karen has also held a number of management and operations positions in the financial services industry, including Vice President of Operations for Mortgage Management Systems, a residential mortgage brokerage, and Accounting Manager for PERQ, an international marketing research firm.
Karen earned her MBA from the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College and a BA in Psychology from Gordon College in Wenham, MA. She is a published author on subjects pertaining to social, family and poverty issues
and has a keen understanding of family dynamics from a social and economic standpoint.
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Vice President & Senior Mortgage Banking Officer
NMLS #430080
Catherine (Cathy) Murray has worked in the banking industry for more than 25 years. Prior to joining Ledyard, she served as Loan Officer for Mascoma Savings Bank in New London.
Cathy has been serving the Upper Valley and Sunapee Regions' mortgage needs for over seven years, and in July 2010 she was promoted to Senior Mortgage Banking Officer.
Cathy is an Affiliate member of the Lake Sunapee Region Board of Realtors and the Upper Valley Board of Realtors.
Cathy was born in Lebanon, NH and is a graduate of Granite State College. She also attended Northern New England School of Banking and has attended several banking specific training programs through CFT (Center for Financial Training). She is active with The American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life event and coordinator for the Daffodil Days campaign.
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