Senior Vice President
Citizens Bank
Don
Haddad has over 35 years of banking experience, primarily in the middle market
space, which is defined as companies with revenues from $25 million to $500
million. Currently, he serves as a senior vice president for Citizens Bank. In this
position, which Haddad assumed in 2011, his primary responsibility is
delivering the new business budget, and ultimately the budget for the PA West region
for Citizens Bank. At Citizens, Haddad has been credited with the booking of
well over $1 billion in new loan originations.
Haddad
has spent the vast majority of his career in the banking arena, adding value as
a middle market lender, an asset based lender, and as a manager. Prior to
joining Citizens in 2002, Haddad worked for Rockwell International, Maryland
National Bank, Mellon Bank, and managed the Pittsburgh office for National Bank
of Canada. When the United States
operations of National Bank of Canada were sold in 2002, he joined Citizens
Bank.
Haddad
previously served as president for the Pittsburgh chapters of both the
Association for Corporate Growth and the Commercial Finance Association. In
addition to these organizations, he has also been involved with the Financial
Executive Institute and the Eberly College of Business and Information
Technology’s Business Advisory Council. One of Haddad’s current passions is
developing the next generation of leaders and bankers.
Haddad,
who grew up on the north side of Pittsburgh and later in Bellevue, earned his bachelor’s
degree in business administration, with a concentration in finance and a minor
in economics from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1979. Haddad then earned his MBA from Robert Morris
University in 1984. He is one of four
Haddad boys who attended IUP in the late 70s and early 80s. Also, two of his three
children attended IUP. Haddad currently calls home McCandless Township, a
northern suburb of Pittsburgh.