SVP, Business Banking Regional Management
M&T Bank
Natalie Wech isn't the banker one would expect to meet when walking into a branch of M&T Bank in southern Pennsylvania. The Zimbabwean native, who grew up spending summers visiting family in Greece, speaks five languages and had a previous stint as a professional ballerina before coming to the U.S. for university "to experience a different continent," she said.
As a student at Penn State, where she earned undergraduate and MBA degrees, Wech met Michael Murchie, an M&T regional executive who has since retired, at a student event. He convinced her that rather than leaving the U.S. after graduation, she should join the bank's development program.