Richard J. Cantele Jr.

Richard J. Cantele, Jr., the President and Chief Executive Officer of Salisbury and the Bank, has been a director of Salisbury and the Bank since 2005. Mr. Cantele graduated from Fairfield University in 1981 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance, and graduated from the Stonier Graduate School of Banking in 1997. Mr. Cantele became President and Chief Executive Officer of Salisbury and the Bank in 2009, prior to which he served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Salisbury and the Bank since 2005. Mr. Cantele has been an executive officer of Salisbury since 2001 and the Bank since 1989, serving as Executive Vice President, Treasurer and Chief Operating Officer of the Bank and Salisbury and Secretary of Salisbury. He became a director of Sharon Hospital in 2017 and President of the Sharon Hospital Board in January of 2020. Mr. Cantele’s positions as President and Chief Executive Officer along with his extensive years of service to Salisbury and the Bank provide him with thorough knowledge of the Bank and the markets which it serves.