Throckmorton will oversee and help to expand the personal trust and estate administration business. He will also work on enhancing the private bank’s investment management and fiduciary administration platform.

Throckmorton previously served as chief philanthropic officer for Wells Fargo Private Bank in Doylestown, PA. Prior to that, he was a philanthropic market executive at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and chief trust officer at Merrill Lynch Trust Company in Pennington, NJ.

He has also served as a vice president at US Trust in Stamford, CT, and was a trust and estates partner at Davidson, Dawson, and Clark, and Hawthorne, Ackerly, and Dorrance, in New Canaan, CT.

In May, Webster Private Bank appointed Yves Cochez to the newly-created role of chief investment strategist, based in Stamford, CT.

By year-end, Webster Bank will have some 50 private bankers working across seven regional offices, it said. The private bank serves clients with at least $1 million in investable assets.