12 | theLAKER alumni spotlight Late last year, Angela (Harrington) Krezmer ’05 became the first woman to lead Generations Bank, a Seneca Falls institution since 1870. A CONVERSATION THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING Angela Krezmer was not looking for a new job in 2021, but a meeting with the charismatic leader of a Seneca Falls bank led to her becoming its first woman CEO. The recruiter was calling on behalf of Generations Bank, and Angela Krezmer ’05 was torn. The bank was looking for a chief financial officer. It would mean returning home to the Finger Lakes, where she had grown up and gone to college. “I thought, ‘Well, how do I approach that subject with my husband?’” she recalled. “We had moved to Pennsylvania a year earlier. We bought a house. We were fully committed.” Angela decided to meet with the CEO, Menzo Case, during a trip to Farmington to visit family. “It didn’t even feel like an interview. It was just a conversation. We knew all of the same people, we used the same accountants, we used the same attorneys. It was like we were just catching up,” she said. Menzo Case, known for his commitment to local causes, soon became her boss and mentor. The Seneca Falls community was shocked by his sudden passing in October 2023 at age 59. The bank’s board named her interim principal executive officer, then a month later, made her president and CEO. At age 38, Angela now leads the more than 150-year-old institution with about $400 million in assets. “He was this larger-than-life personality, one of the smartest people I’ve ever met,” Angela said of Menzo. “I always used to tell him he would be a really great adjunct professor, teaching accounting or
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