William E. Stone

Mr. Stone is a senior bank executive with more than 30 years of diverse banking experience. He is a member of the Primary Bank’s Board of Directors and serves at CEO and President since the bank’s inception in 2015. He serves on the Board’s Executive Committee, ALCO, Directors Loan Committee as well as the senior management committees of CRA Compliance, IT Steering and Vendor Management. Mr. Stone has guided the organization from its infancy with Primary being the first financial institution in New England and only the second in the country to be established since the 2008 financial crisis.

Prior to Primary Bank, he served as a member of the Board of Directors and as President of Bank of New England (originally Southern NH Bank), as well as serving on the Executive Committee/Loan Committee, ALCO, IT Committees and CRA/Compliance Committee. He was with Bank of New England for 17 years.

Mr. Stone has served as an active member on numerous local non-profits boards and is an active member of multiple local civic groups. Mr. Stone is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire’s Whittemore School of Business and earned his MBA from Southern New Hampshire University.