WESTFIELD BANK WELCOMES AJAY GOYAL AS BRANCH MANAGER AT WEST HARTFORD LOCATION

Westfield, MA— James C. Hagan, President and CEO of Westfield Bank, is pleased to announce the appointment of Ajay Goyal as Retail Banking Officer and Branch Manager of its West Hartford Office, 977 Farmington Avenue, West Hartford, Connecticut.

Goyal joins the Bank with over twenty-five years of banking and branch management experience. In his new role, he will be responsible for leading and managing the branch including customer service, retail and business product sales, employee development, and overseeing general branch operations, as well as business and community development.

He joined the banking industry in 2000 and has held officer and management roles at several national banks, most recently in the Connecticut marketplace. He earned a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree, both from Agra University.

“I am very excited to welcome Ajay to Westfield Bank,” said Kelly A. Pignatare, First Vice President and Manager of Retail Banking and Business & Government Deposit

Services. “He brings decades of banking and management experience, knows and understands the Connecticut market, and has expertise across all aspects of retail banking. We are thrilled to have him leading our branch team in West Hartford, which is part of our larger West Hartford Financial Services Center, housing employees across all lines of business and serving as our Connecticut hub.”

For more information about Westfield Bank, visit the bank’s website at www.westfieldbank.com.

About Westfield Bank
Westfield Bank, headquartered in Westfield, Massachusetts, is a federally chartered savings bank organized in 1853 and is the largest publicly traded bank headquartered in Western Massachusetts. The Bank is a full-service community-oriented financial institution offering a complete range of commercial and retail products and services. Currently, the Bank has twenty-five branch offices, forty-nine ATMs, and an additional thirty seasonal ATMs and serves Hampden and Hampshire counties in Western Massachusetts and Hartford County in Northern Connecticut. The Bank’s middle market and commercial real estate lending team is based in Springfield, Massachusetts and West Hartford, Connecticut and has a general regulatory limit on loans to one borrower of $41.2 million. As of September 30, 2025, the Bank employed 340- full and part-time employees, had $2.7 billion in total assets, $2.1 billion in its loan portfolio, and $2.3 billion in total deposits. The Bank is regulated by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. As a member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Bank’s deposits are insured up to the maximum FDIC insurance coverage limits. To learn more, visit the bank’s website at www.westfieldbank.com.