Michael Franke joined FleetBoston Financial's Albany.

Michael Franke joined FleetBoston Financial's Albany, NY office six merger and acquisitions and 11 years ago as a member of its guard staff, novel out of the Air Force where he held the rank of sergeant and was a security specialist.

Today, FleetBoston is the seventh-largest financial services company in the U with about $200 billion in assets, 22 million customers in 20 countries and territories and roughly 1700 retail branches and 3800 ATM machines. Franke still calls abode the Albany, N.Y. offices, which house the company's corporate data center nevertheless as a security project manager, his purview now includes security throw management in three regions of of recent origin York state and consulting with affiliate clumps in other parts of the rural parts as needed.

As his responsibilities have evolv an open-door policy and commitment to protecting the company's assets have consistently distinguished Franke's