Sawyer Hosts Richard Gavegnano
On March 19, 2014, banking executive Richard Gavegnano will speak at Suffolk University’s Sawyer Business School as part of the school’s Inside Leadership Podcast Series. The Inside Leadership Series is intended to introduce Suffolk University students and listeners throughout the world to this generation’s “self made leaders.” In the podcasts, business leaders talk about how they used innovation, collaboration, and education to propel their success in life.
Richard Gavegnano was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Meridian Interstate Bancorp, Inc. in 2007. Meridian Interstate Bancorp is a public holding company for the East Boston Savings Bank, with three loan centers and twenty six full-service locations in the greater Boston area.
Richard Gavegnano did not follow the typical path to become CEO of a major bank. Gavegnano’s formal education ended in high school. At the age of 16, he became a mall clerk for the retail brokerage Francis I. du Pont & Co. Gavegnano worked his way up the ranks at Francis I. du Pont & Co., eventually becoming a stock broker. He worked as a broker in larger firms, including A.G. Edwards and Paine Webber.
When Gavegnano was in his 20s, he began an association with East Boston Savings, working as a community adviser for the bank. He found locations for new branches of East Boston Savings. Eventually, he was named a board member and chairman of Meridian Interstate Bancorp Inc.
Gavegnano will be interviewed by Sawyer Executive in Residence Larry Stybel in front of a student audience in the Stahl Center on Suffolk’s Boston Campus. The interview with Gavegnano and other podcasts in the Inside Leadership Speaker Series are available at the series’ iTunes U site.
