Photo Release -- First Niagara Promotes Avi Patel To Serve As Chief Marketing Officer

BUFFALO, N.Y., Dec. 13, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- First Niagara Financial Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:FNFG) has promoted Avi Patel to serve as the multi-state bank's chief marketing officer.

First Niagara Promotes Avi Patel to Serve as Chief Marketing Officer

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As CMO, Patel is responsible for First Niagara's branding and marketing strategies, as well as management of departments and agency partners tasked with implementing those strategies through traditional and interactive advertising, marketing, and promotions.

"Avi empowers his teams to collaborate and succeed, providing leadership that is at once visionary and practical," Executive Vice President, Retail Banking Mark Rendulic said. "Most recently, he led the successful launch of our new 'Do Great Things' campaign, sharing First Niagara's conviction that good isn't good enough when it comes to helping our customers and neighbors achieve the goals they're pursuing for their families, businesses and communities. We look forward to Avi's contributions and continued leadership as First Niagara's CMO."

Patel will remain based in Buffalo and will continue to head First Niagara's retail product development and management group, which he has led as its director since joining the bank in January 2011 as a senior vice president.

Prior to joining First Niagara, he served as a vice president at Wilmington Trust Co., where he was responsible for sales and marketing strategy, product development and management, and consumer and business banking channel development over more than seven years at the Wilmington, Del. bank. Earlier in his career, he was at Citibank and FirstUSA Bank, with responsibility for marketing analytics on the banks' industry leading credit card portfolios.

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