Financial Services >> CEO Interviews >> September 12, 2002
PAUL A. PERRAULT has served as Chairman of the board of directors
of Chittenden Corporation and Chittenden Bank since 1998. He has
served as director, President and Chief Executive Officer since
1990. Mr. Perrault began his banking career in 1975 at Shawmut
Bank and has served in a variety of commercial banking positions
in Rhode Island and Boston. From 1989 to 1990 he was President of
Bank of New England ' Old Colony, Providence, Rhode Island.
Before becoming President, Mr. Perrault was Executive Vice
President and Senior Loan Officer beginning his career with them
in 1985. He is a 1973 graduate of Babson College and received his
MBA from Boston College School of Management in 1975. He is a
member of the Advisory Board of the Fleming Museum and a Trustee
of Champlain College and serves on the American Bankers Council
and the Government Relations Council of the American Bankers
Association, as well as the SuperCommunity Bank Peer Group. Profile
of the region do you operate in?
Mr. Perrault: We operate five banks, one here as the lead bank in
Vermont. We have two banks
