First Commonwealth Bank CFO Elected to FHLBank Pittsburgh Board; James R. Reske to Fill the Unexpired Term of Patrick J. Ward
September 07 2016 - 3:15PM
Business Wire
James R. Reske, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial
Officer and Treasurer of Indiana, Pa. based First Commonwealth
Bank, has been elected by the Board of Directors of the Federal
Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh (FHLBank) to fill the unexpired term
of member director Patrick J. Ward. FHLBank’s Board selected Mr.
Reske in accordance with the rules of the Federal Housing Finance
Agency, which require the Board to select an officer or director of
a Pennsylvania member of FHLBank to fill the remaining term of the
vacant position. Mr. Reske’s term will expire on December 31,
2017.
In addition to serving as an executive of First Commonwealth
Bank, Mr. Reske is also Executive Vice President, Treasurer and
Chief Financial Officer of First Commonwealth Financial Corporation
(NYSE: FCF). He will serve on the Board’s Affordable Housing,
Products and Services Committee and Governance and Public Policy
Committee.
Prior to joining First Commonwealth in 2014, Mr. Reske was
Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer at
United Community Financial Corporation in Youngstown, Ohio. Mr.
Reske's financial services career also includes investment banking
roles within the Financial Institutions Groups at Keybanc Capital
Markets, Inc. in Cleveland, Ohio and at Morgan Stanley &
Company in New York. Earlier in his career, Mr. Reske worked at the
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington, DC
and at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
Mr. Reske earned his Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law
Center in Washington, DC. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst
and received a master’s degree in international business and a
combined bachelor’s/master’s degree from The Ohio State University
in Columbus, Ohio.
About FHLBank Pittsburgh
As an intermediary between global capital markets and local
lenders, FHLBank Pittsburgh provides readily available liquidity,
as well as affordable housing and community development
opportunities, to member financial institutions of all sizes in
Delaware, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The Bank is one of the
banks in the Federal Home Loan Bank System, which was established
by Congress in 1932 and serves as a reliable source of funds for
housing, jobs and economic growth in all economic cycles.
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