PeoplesBank’s ‘Innovation Series’ videos spotlight entrepreneurs in Pioneer Valley | masslive.com
When Joseph Skinner and other civic leaders in Holyoke set out more than a century ago to establish the mutual savings bank that would become PeoplesBank, they exemplified the true spirit of collaboration and innovation. Fast forward to 2018, and PeoplesBank holds true to those tenets as it continues its founders’ mission. ‘One of the reasons we are thriving is because of that collaboration and that connection to the community,’ says Thomas Senecal, president and CEO of Peoples Bank. ‘As a mutual institution, that’s exactly what it was. Joseph Skinner got together a group of people who formed a mutual bank for the community, by the community and which contributed back to the community.’