Slater Cram, assistant branch manager of the West Newton office of The Village Bank, recently graduated from the New England School for Financial Studies.
The school was established by the Massachusetts Bankers Association in 1960 to provide opportunities for professional growth to those already in the industry. Studies focus on financial management, technology, lending, marketing and other strategic industry issues.
To complete the program, students enroll in a one-year course of study, including two one-week residential sessions held at the Babson Executive Conference Center in Wellesley. Students must complete five bank-specific research papers and participate in bank-management simulations presenting typical challenges facing today’s senior bank managers.
A Framingham resident, Cram joined The Village Bank in 2006 as a teller at the Waban branch, moving to West Newton as head teller the following year.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Boston College.
Based in the Auburndale village of Newton, The Village Bank has seven full-service offices in Newton and Wayland and a loan center in Auburndale.
Re/Max Best Choice in Framingham recently announced that Alan Savill of Natick has joined its team of Realtors, where he will bring more than six years of real estate experience to the Natick market.
Savill began his real estate career as an agent with Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage in Natick. At Re/Max Best Choice, he will be working for Broker Jim Coady in the Coady Connects Group.
Savill is a graduate of the American Real Estate Academy and has a masters certification from Boston University. He is also a member of the Greater Boston Association of Realtors and the National Association of Realtors.
He serves on the Arthritis Foundation Committee.
Holly Matthews of Hudson was recently named Agent of the Month at Weichert Realtors-Ernie Houde Associates in Marlborough.
Steven Williamson of Hopkinton was recently hired by Baystate Financial Services as a financial representative.
Based in Boston, Baystate Financial Services is one of New England’s oldest and largest privately owned financial services firms with offices throughout the northeast.
Williamson is a graduate of Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Conn.
Weston Nurseries Inc. in Hopkinton has hired Bob Wall of Northborough as the new commercial sales representative in its Chelmsford location.
Wall comes to Weston Nurseries from Shemin Nurseries Inc. where over time he served as the general manager or market leader in the Boston, Hartford and New York markets. With more than 30 years of industry experience, he has specialized in re-wholesaling and distribution of nursery stock, perennials, turf products, contractor tools, hardscapes, irrigation, lighting and drainage to the wholesale landscape trade.
Wall is a graduate of the University of Connecticut’s Ratcliffe Hicks School of Agriculture. He has received numerous service awards during his career.