New Jersey-based Lakeland Bank announced Rob Feldmann has been promoted to Senior Vice President, Commercial Team Leader for the Denville and Totowa Lending Teams based in Totowa, N.J.

Feldmann will be responsible for managing the commercial lending teams in those locations. With 27 years of experience in the banking industry, Feldmann began his second tenure with the bank in 1998 as an Assistant Treasurer, Credit Analyst. He transferred to the Montville Lending Team as Assistant Treasurer, Commercial Loan Officer, and over the course of his career, advanced to the position of Vice President, Commercial Loan Officer.

Feldmann earned a bachelor of science degree in business administration from The College of New Jersey and is a graduate of the inaugural Lakeland Bank LEAD class.

Lakeland Bank also announced Bharat “BG” Naran has been hired as First Senior Vice President, Director of the Technology Services Group based in Oak Ridge, N.J. Naran will be responsible for managing all aspects of the operational activities of the Technology Services Group including strategic planning and future designs. With more than 20 years of industry experience, he was most recently the Head of IT and Security (CIO/CISO) at MDC Partners in New York City.

Prior to that, Naran was the Deputy General Manager and Data Center Architect at CDS, a division of Omnicom Group. He earned a master of business administration degree in business management at Wagner College and holds a Certified Information Systems Security Professional certificate. Naran is a member of the Society for Information Management, International Information System Security Certification Consortium (ISC2) and volunteers for AmeriCares and Habitat for Humanity.
About Lakeland Bank

Lakeland Bank is the wholly owned subsidiary of Lakeland Bancorp, Inc., which has over $6 billion in total assets. With an extensive branch network and commercial lending centers throughout New Jersey and Highland Mills, N.Y., the bank's business services include commercial loans and lines of credit, commercial real estate loans, loans for healthcare services, asset-based lending, equipment financing, small business loans and lines, and cash management services.