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Mary Ann is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Howard Bank and chairs the bank’s board of directors. She is a lifelong banker with over 30 years of varied executive experiences in the Maryland marketplace. In 2003, she headed the organizing team for Howard Bank, the first new bank to open in the county in 15 years. Prior to organizing Howard Bank, Mary Ann was employed by Allfirst Bank (formerly The First National Bank of Maryland and now M&T Bank) from 1973-2003. Included in the positions she held were Executive Vice President for Regional Banking, Executive Vice President for Community Banking, Senior Vice President for Strategic Planning, Senior Vice President for Mergers and Acquisitions, and Senior Vice President / Group Head of International Banking. As EVP for Regional Banking for Allfirst Bank, Mary Ann managed all branch, small business and middle market customer activities in four states and the District of Columbia.
Mary Ann has been a Howard County resident since 1995. She chairs the Howard County United Way Partnership Board and serves on the Board of the United Way of Central Maryland. She was also the 2003/2004 Howard County Campaign Chair of the United Way. She is a Horizon Foundation Board trustee. She is Vice Chair of the Columbia Foundation as well as the Howard County Women’s Giving Circle. She is a member of the Columbia Rotary and a member of St. Louis Parish in Clarksville, Maryland. Mary Ann was formerly a trustee of the Howard Community College Foundation Board, served on the college’s Campaign Council and chaired the 2007/2008 Commission on the Future for the community college. She was the 2005/2006 co-chair of the Grassroots Capital Campaign. She served on the Board of Advisors for Loyola College’s Sellinger School of Business and she was a past vice president on the Baltimore Opera Company Board of Trustees and a member of the Maryland International Visitors Center Board.
In 2007, Mary Ann was recognized as an honoree in the Howard County Women’s Hall of Fame and was the recipient of the Howard County Chamber of Commerce ACE award as Entrepreneur of the Year. In 2002, 2005 and 2007, Mary Ann was recognized as one of Maryland’s Top 100 Women by The Daily Record and was inducted into the Circle of Excellence. She was also one of the Baltimore Business Journal’s 2004 Enterprising Women and was a 2005 Alumni Laureate honoree for Loyola College.
Mary Ann and her family reside in West Friendship. | 