Meet Our Buffalo Regional President

Five Star Bank (the “Bank” or “Five Star”), a subsidiary of Financial Institutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: FISI) and an affiliate of wealth management firm Courier Capital, is pleased to announce that Jason B. Krempa has been appointed Buffalo Regional President. 

Mr. Krempa brings over 25 years of experience, across commercial lending, business banking, credit administration, and leadership to his new role. Throughout his career, he has demonstrated an unwavering dedication to client-service excellence, the ability to deliver consistent results and  build high-performing teams, as well as a deep capacity for serving his community.

As Regional President, Mr. Krempa will oversee commercial banking operations across the Buffalo market and Western New York. He will be responsible for connecting commercial customers to the Company’s breadth of relationship-based financial services offerings, including commercial lending, merchant services, treasury management, and wealth management, as well as its consumer banking and residential mortgage offerings for individuals and families and municipal banking offerings for local governments, schools, and other municipalities.

“Jason is an accomplished and dynamic leader whose deep market knowledge, proven track record for building customer and community relationships, and ability to execute make him the right choice to guide our team as we accelerate growth here in Western New York,” said Kevin Quinn, Chief Commercial Banking Officer at Five Star. “We look forward to benefitting from his continued contributions and greater leadership role as we seek to provide a simple, connected and trusted experience for our customers.”

Mr. Krempa joined Five Star Bank in 2019 as Five Vice President, Commercial Lending and was promoted to Senior Vice President, Commercial and Industrial Lending in 2022. Prior to that, he held commercial and retail leadership roles with several local financial institutions, including Northwest Bank, KeyBank, and Jamestown Savings Bank. Earlier in his career, Mr. Krempa worked for the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Office of Disaster Assistance—further underscoring his commitment to supporting small business growth and resilience. He holds an MBA in Accounting and a BS in Finance from Canisius University. 

Beyond his professional accomplishments, Mr. Krempa is actively engaged in the community, serving as First Vice Chairman of the Niagara County Industrial Development Agency, where he also chairs the Agency’s Audit & Finance and Loan & Grant Committees. Additionally, Mr. Krempa is a member of the St. Christopher School Sports Committee and serves as a swimming and softball coach.  He previously served on the boards of the Rotary Club of Buffalo, YMCA Buffalo Niagara, West Side Neighborhood Housing Services, Amherst Chamber of Commerce, and the Western New York Chapter of the Risk Management Association, among other community and trade organizations.  

Mr. Krempa is based at Five Star Bank Centre in Amherst, N.Y., where the Bank relocated its regional administrative center in 2022. He will report directly to Mr. Quinn and succeeds Patrick C. Keating who has assumed the role of Rochester Regional President earlier this year, as part of Five Star Bank’s leadership team dedicated to driving growth and delivering value across Western and Central New York. Five Star operates eight branches in Buffalo or its suburbs, and 20 across Western New York, including in Erie, Cattaraugus, Orleans, Genesee, Wyoming and Alleghany counties.