Ohio's Camco Promotes Crane To New Post of Corporate CFO

Camco Financial Corp., Cambridge, Ohio, promoted Gary Crane to chief financial officer and treasurer.

He will begin Jan. 19 as the holding company's first full-time CFO. Anthony J. Popp Sr., president of the company's Marietta Savings Bank subsidiary, had been Camco's interim CFO, and D. Edward Rugg, president of the Cambridge Savings Bank subsidiary, was interim treasurer.

Mr. Crane will be responsible for Camco Financial's accounting, filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, taxes, and budgeting oversight.

He is currently CFO of the Camco subsidiary First Federal Savings Bank of Washington Court House, Ohio. Mr. Crane hired and trained Nora DeBruin as his successor there. Ms. DeBruin was a securities accountant for Banc One Corp., Columbus, Ohio.

Camco Financial, a multistate, multibank holding company, has $502 million of assets. It recently signed a definitive agreement to buy GF Bancorp, parent of Germantown (Ohio) Federal Savings Bank.