Peter Hazel Joins North Brookfield Savings Bank

NORTH BROOKFIELD — North Brookfield Savings Bank announced that Peter Hazel has been hired as vice president and commercial loan officer.

Hazel has more than 30 years of commercial-lending and business-development experience, including as senior vice president/business banking officer at Fidelity Bank in Gardner, and vice president of Business Development and senior commercial lender at GFA Federal Credit Union, also in Gardner. He is proficient in Small Business Administration and USDA Rural Development lending programs.

Hazel joins NBSB’s growing team of business-lending experts located throughout the bank’s business centers and seven branches in Central and Western Mass. The bank has been named an SBA preferred lender, with membership in the program given only to financial institutions that have a proven capability and commitment to small-business lending and strict adherence to SBA guidelines.

“With his extensive experience and community-banking focus, Peter is an invaluable addition to our commercial-lending team,” said NBSB president and CEO Donna Boulanger. “He understands the needs of businesses and is prepared to help them grow and prosper.”

Involved in a number of local community organizations, Hazel is a Gardner Chamber of Commerce board member and finance committee member, a Community Foundation of North Central Massachusetts board member and grant committee member, a North Worcester Country Development Corp. board member, a board member and treasurer of RCAP Solutions, and a former president of the Gardner Rotary Club, where he twice received the Rotary Club’s Paul Harris Award for community service.