Wachovia Corp Names Executive

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Wachovia Corp. in Winston-Salem, N.C., has promoted William H. Bunn 4th and James F. Byrd to senior vice presidencies in its retail bank subsidiary, Wachovia Bank.

Mr. Bunn has been consumer banking manager for the Raleigh, N.C., region since last year. He joined Wachovia in 1989 as a credit manager in Goldsboro for the sales finance group and was promoted to personal banker in 1992. Later he became a branch manager-in Wilson and then in Wilmington, N.C. He was named sales manager for the Fayetteville area in 1995 and for the Triangle area in 1997.

Mr. Byrd is the bank's county executive for Moore County, N.C., as well as the team leader for private financial adviser sales there. He is based in Southern Pines. Like Mr. Bunn he was once sales manager for the Fayetteville area. He joined Wachovia in 1985.

Wachovia Corp. also promoted Deborah M. Hunter to a senior vice presidency at Wachovia Corporate Services Inc. She is based in Winston- Salem as the manager of master trust group in the institutional trust and retirement services group.

Ms. Hunter joined Wachovia in 1993 as a relationship manager and became a vice president later that year and a team leader in 1995. She has held her current job since 1997.

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