Sal Rinaldi was appointed Chief of Staff to Sovereign's CEO in 2007. As Chief of Staff, he oversees Sovereign Bank's strategic planning and administration activities, including the company's technology, legal, CRA, and security groups. In addition, he is responsible for overseeing the bank's conversion and integration management activities. In this role Rinaldi also supervises the operations, documentation, collections, and risk reviews processes for the bank's middle market, specialty lending and auto finance groups. Prior to joining Sovereign in 1997, Rinaldi served nearly 24 years in a variety of senior positions with Fleet and Shawmut Banks. His responsibilities included dealer floor plan and indirect auto finance operations, collections, underwriting, audit, strategic planning and budgeting.
