SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — Rheo A. Brouillard ’76 of Hampton,  has been named to the Western New England University Board of Trustees. 

Brouillard is president and CEO of SI Financial Group, Inc. and of Savings Institute Bank and Trust. He began his banking career in 1976 with Massachusetts-based BayBanks Corp. He joined Connecticut Online Computer Center (COCC), a regional bank service bureau, in 1983 and served as customer service vice president until he returned to banking in 1989. He was named president of Danielson Federal Savings & Loan Association in 1989.

Brouillard serves as president of the Northeastern Connecticut Community Development Corporation. He is also a director of Infinex Financial Group, the Vantis Life Insurance Company, and Banker’s Bank Northeast. He is a past chairman of the Connecticut Bankers Association and is active in the American Bankers Association serving as the Connecticut representative of the Community Bank Council, the Federal Home Loan Bank Committee and the OTS/OCC Merger Task Force. Brouillard also serves as director of a number of non-profit organizations.

Brouillard received his B.S.B.A. degree, majoring in Management, from Western New England University in 1976.