Justin K. Bigham

Mr. Bigham has been Executive Vice President, Chief Community Banking Officer of Financial Institutions, Inc. and Five Star Bank since February 2021. He joined us as Executive Vice President, Deputy Chief Financial Officer in October 2018 and was named Chief Financial Officer in April 2019. He also served as Treasurer from April to December 2019. Previously, he worked at HealthNow New York as Director of Financial Planning & Analysis and Treasury from 2017 to 2018 and at First Niagara Financial Group where he served as Senior Vice President, Head of Consumer Product Management from 2014 to 2016 and as Senior Vice President, Head of Financial Planning & Analysis from 2010 to 2014. Mr. Bigham was with M&T Bank from 2003 to 2010, where he held numerous positions of increasing responsibility within the Finance Division.

He is a Certified Public Accountant with eight years of public accounting experience; six years were with PricewaterhouseCoopers.