Article: Fleet Investment Services Chief.(Gunnar S. Overstrom Jr. of Fleet Financial Group Inc.)

The survival instinct is strong among New England bankers, given the intense consolidation in the region over the past 10 years. But few have survived better than Gunnar S. Overstrom.

Now a vice chairman at Fleet Financial Group in Boston, Mr. Overstrom is one of only two top executives who remain from the former Shawmut National Corp., which Fleet acquired in 1996.

Amid a corporate restructuring, Mr. Overstrom, 55, was tapped in April to join Fleet's office of the chairman and head up the $83.5 billion-asset company's growing investment services unit.

Reporting to Terrence Murray, who is Fleet's chairman and chief executive officer, Mr. Overstrom was ...

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