Financial Institutions, Inc. announced that Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer W. Jack Plants II has been promoted to executive vice president. Plants joined the company in 2019 as senior vice president and corporate treasurer. He was promoted to the role of Chief Financial Officer in February 2021, assuming expanded leadership of the company's financial planning and analysis, accounting, tax, investor and external relations and treasury groups.

Prior to joining the company and Bank in 2019, Plants had most recently served as Senior Vice President and Treasurer of United Bank. Prior to his seven-year tenure at United Bank, he worked in various treasury and credit roles with GE Capital, Patriot National Bank, SL Financial Services and GE Commercial Finance. He started his career with Five Star Bank in 2006.

Plants is active in his Upstate New York community, serving on the capital campaign committee of the Seneca Park Zoo Society and the investment committee of The United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes. He is also an active supporter of the Seneca Waterways Council and the Roswell Park Alliance Foundation, among other regional organizations, and a member of Financial Executives International. Plants is a graduate of St.

Bonaventure University, where he earned both his BBA in Finance with a minor in Economics and MBA in Finance and Accounting.