Retiring Fulton CEO reflects on three-decade career

Retiring Fulton Financial Corp. CEO R. Scott Smith Jr. looked back on his 34 years with the company in a recent interview with LancasterOnline.

Fulton (NASDAQ: FULT), which is based in Lancaster, Pa., is the parent company of Howard County’s Columbia Bank.

Smith, who will step down on Jan. 1, told LancasterOnline that one of his major achievements at Fulton was launching a management training program for the bank. One of the employees the program groomed was E. Philip Wenger, Fulton’s president…