Pioneer Bank Hires KeyBank Executive for Commercial Lending

Pioneer Bank says it has hired former KeyBank executive Rob Nichols as senior vice president of commercial development. Nichols is known for his expertise in startup funding and comes to Pioneer Bank at a time when it is dealing with the collapse one of its major customers, the cloud-based payroll firm MyPayrollHR.

Nichols was director of commercial banking at KeyBank before joining Pioneer and he is a member of the Eastern NY Angels investment fund that invests in startup companies.