Customers Bancorp, Inc. announced that Steven J. Issa, executive vice president and president of the New England Group, has been named to assume additional responsibilities as Chief Lending Officer for Customers Bank, effective Feb. 1, 2015. Issa, who has more than 35 years of experience in banking, will continue to report directly to Jay Sidhu, chairman and CEO, Customers Bank, and will also have responsibilities to Richard Ehst, president and COO, Customers Bank.

He will continue to be based in Providence, RI. Issa joined Customers Bank in 2013. Prior to joining Customers he was with Flagstar Bank in Troy, MI.

He also spent 13 years with then Sovereign Bank, now Santander, where he was managing director of the New England middle market and specialty groups.