MIDDLE ATLANTIC
Bank of America Corp. in Charlotte has hired Michael Fossaceca as a senior vice president of the company and the large corporate treasury executive for North America in its global treasury services division.
He will be based in New York and will report to Lewis Warren, the global large corporate treasury executive.
Most recently Mr. Fossaceca was a large corporate sales and solutions development executive in JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s treasury services business. He worked for JPMorgan Chase and its predecessors for 18 years.
The Center for Responsible Lending, a Raleigh advocacy group, has hired two staff members for its Washington office.
Julia Gordon was hired as a policy counsel to provide legal analysis and technical assistance on federal issues for the center.
Ms. Gordon has worked at the Legal Aid Bureau of Maryland, the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia, the Center for Law and Social Policy, and Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP.
The center also hired Lisa R. Ransom as vice president of federal affairs. She will assist with external relations at both the federal and state level.
Ms. Ransom worked for more than 12 years on Capitol Hill, working with Reps. John Olver, D-Mass., and Maxine Waters D-Calif., and retired Rep. Augustus Hawkins, D-Calif. Most recently she was a senior director for state action at the Center for Policy Alternatives and at the National Congress for Community Economic Development.
Commerce Bancorp Inc. of Cherry Hill, N.J., has hired Robert D. Prendergast as a managing director and the senior vice president in charge of its private banking its Philadelphia team.
Mr. Prendergast was a senior vice president and partner in the wealth management group at Wachovia Bank in Philadelphia.
Earlier he had worked at Citibank in New York and at Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith in Princeton, N.J.
