Robert A. Brown, Ph.D., elected to Citizens Bank of Massachusetts’ Board of Directors
BOSTON (September 14, 2006) - Citizens Bank of Massachusetts has announced that Robert A. Brown, Ph.D., President of Boston University, has been elected to the bank’s Board of Directors.
Before being appointed as president of Boston University in 2005, Brown was provost and Warren K. Lewis Professor of Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He joined the MIT faculty in 1979 as an assistant professor and rose to the rank of professor in 1984. During his 26 year career at MIT, he was co-director of the MIT Supercomputer Facility, head of the Department of Chemical Engineering and dean of engineering before becoming provost in 1998. He is a member of the National Academy of Science, the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
In February 2006, President George W. Bush appointed Brown to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. The panel was created to maintain a steady stream of expert advice from the private sector and the academic community on a wide range of scientific and technical matters.
“I want to welcome Dr. Brown to the board of directors,” said Robert E. Smyth, Chairman, President and CEO of Citizens Bank of Massachusetts. “He is a well-respected scholar and academic leader and I look forward to his participation and counsel as we build upon Citizens’ reputation as a local corporate leader engaged in the community.”
Dr. Brown has published approximately 250 scientific and engineering papers. He has served as a consultant to major international corporations and to governments. He was named a 2005 Honorary Citizen for his service to the government of Singapore and his role in the founding of the collaboration between universities in Singapore and MIT.
A Texas native, Dr. Brown earned a B.S. and an M.S. in chemical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He earned a Ph.D. in chemical engineering at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Brown and his wife live in Brookline, Mass. and have two grown sons.
About the Citizens Bank of Massachusetts
Citizens Bank of Massachusetts is a $37 billion bank with 264 branches and 625 ATMs stretching from greater Boston to Cape Cod and the Berkshires. It is headquartered at 28 State Street in Boston. It is a subsidiary of Citizens Financial Group, Inc., a $164 billion commercial bank holding company headquartered in Providence, R.I. Citizens has more than 1,600 branches, approximately 3,200 ATMs and 26,000 employees in a 13-state retail branch network and has non-branch retail and commercial offices in about 40 states. Citizens is the eighth-largest commercial banking company in the United States ranked by deposits and ninth in assets as of March 31, 2006. Citizens is owned by RBS (The Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc).
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