MARLBOROUGH – St. Mary’s Credit Union recently announced the promotion of four officers and two additions to its Senior Management Team.
Jim Petkewich is now serving as St. Mary’s Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer.
John Hendrikse has been appointed as Senior Vice President and Senior Lending Officer.
Christine Monteiro has been promoted to the role of Senior Vice President of Retail.
Sarah Day has been appointed to the role of Senior Vice President and Commercial Loan Officer.
Petkewich brings 38 years of banking and financial services management experience to his new role. He had previously served as St. Mary’s Executive Vice President of Retail Services, where he was responsible for the credit union’s retail branches, member solutions center and facilities department. His new role adds deposit services, compliance and marketing to that list of duties.
Outside of St. Mary’s, Petkewich serves on the Finance Committee of the Marlborough Regional Chamber of Commerce and is a past Board Member of the United Way of MetroWest. He’s coached the Special Olympics Massachusetts Nashoba Shooting Stars Ski Team since 2014 and is a former Board Member and President of both Leominster Pop Warner and the Leominster Blue Devils Football Club.
Hendrikse will add credit, mortgage lending and loan operations to his areas of responsibility after previously serving as Senior Vice President of Lending. In that role, he was responsible for Consumer Direct and Indirect Lending and Collections. Hendrikse joined the credit union in 2010 as Assistant Vice President of Indirect Lending.
“Under his leadership, the credit union has built one of the top Indirect Loan programs in Massachusetts,” a press release announcing these promotions noted of Hendriske.
Monteiro previously served as Senior Vice President, Branch Administrator, where she was responsible for the organizational management of the day-to-day operations for the credit union’s branch network. In this new role, Monteiro will oversee strategy development and implementation for the St. Mary’s branch locations.
Monteiro joined St. Mary’s in 2004, serving as Branch Manager for its Hudson location.
Monteiro spent the last two years as a Regional Manager overseeing the Hudson, Northborough, and Westborough branches.
She’s a resident of Hudson and serves as a Board Member of the Assabet Valley Chamber of Commerce.
Day will be responsible for all aspects of commercial lending in her new role. She joined St. Mary’s in 2005, first serving as Marketing Manager and then rising to the Commercial Lending Team where she specialized in commercial mortgages, vehicle and equipment lending, and commercial lines of credit.
“In 2020, she was instrumental in driving the credit union’s Paycheck Protection Program,” that aforementioned press release noted.
Day is a resident of Marlborough. She was recognized by the Worcester Business Journal with a 40 Under Forty Award in 2013 and currently serves in a variety of roles at Rachel’s Table as a member of the Executive Committee, Chair of the Marketing Committee, and a member of the Finance Committee.
“As we continue to enhance our member experience through digital transformation and strive to offer greater speed and efficiency for our members, these leaders will ensure service excellence with the personal touch that St. Mary’s Credit Union has provided for more than century,” said St. Mary’s President and CEO Larissa C. Thurston. “With the expertise and experience of Jim, Christine, John and Sarah leading their respective areas, our members will experience enhancements to service as well as access to innovative financial products to help meet their individual needs.”
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