The Conference of State Bank Supervisors has named two bankers to its advisory board.

Lisa McDougald, the deputy general counsel at the $222 billion-asset BB&T in Winston-Salem, N.C., and Leon Holschbach, chief executive of Midland States Bancorp, a $3 billion-asset company in Effingham, Ill., were appointed to the board this summer, CSBS spokesman James Kurtzke told American Banker on Thursday.

McDougald and Holschbach will each serve two-year terms on the 16-member advisory body of the nationwide trade group for banking and financial regulators.

"The advisory board is set up to be a forum for people in the banking industry to come in and give feedback to regulators and get their perspective on banking matters," Kurtzke said.

Wellesley Bancorp in Massachusetts has appointed New England banking veteran Kathryn Hinderhofer to its board.

Hinderhofer will also be a director of Wellesley Bank, the $645 million-asset company said Wednesday.

Hinderhofer retired from National Bank Holdings in Greenwood Village, Colo., in 2014 as director of integration and technology operations, having joined the company in 2009. After her retirement she was an acquisitions consultant for the company.

Before joining NBH, Hinderhofer spent 17 years at Citizens Financial Group in Providence, R.I. She also worked for Boston Five Cents Savings Bank, which was sold to Citizens.

At Citizens, Hinderhofer "was responsible for leading the business integration activities and divestitures relating to 26 acquisitions" that the company completed during her tenure, Wellesley said in a press release.

Hinderhofer is also a director of Micronotes, an enterprise marketing management company based in Boston that partners with financial institutions.

Brookline Bancorp in Boston has promoted its head of commercial real estate lending to leader of its entire banking unit.

The $6.3 billion-asset company said Wednesday that Darryl Fess was promoted to president and chief executive of Brookline Bank.

Fess will take those titles off the plate of Paul Perrault, who remains president and CEO of the parent company.

Fess, who joined the bank in 2010, has been executive vice president of the bank's CRE lending group for the past five years. Before he arrived at Brookline, Fess was a senior vice president at Wainwright Bank in Boston, according to his LinkedIn profile.

Perrault said in a news release that he recommended Fess as CEO in part to "bring the management structure of Brookline Bank in line with the way we've structured our other two subsidiaries," Bank Rhode Island in Providence and First Ipswich Bank in Massachusetts.

Robert Brown, a senior vice president at Brookline Bank, succeeds Fess as head of the CRE lending group.

JPMorgan Chase on Tuesday named Todd Combs, a protégé of and possible successor to Warren Buffett, to its board of directors.

Combs, 45, is an investment officer with Berkshire Hathaway. He joined the Omaha, Neb., company in 2010 after serving as chief executive and managing partner of Castle Point Capital, a hedge fund he founded in 2005.

Earlier in his career he worked as an analyst for Florida's state financial regulator.

In a press release, JPMorgan Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon praised Combs' "deep understanding of finance and business."

Combs has not yet been appointed to a board committee, according to the release.

Notably, the appointment comes as Wells Fargo — one of Buffett's favorite banks — has come under scrutiny, amid allegations that its bankers created phony customer accounts to meet sales targets.

Berkshire Hathaway, which Buffett runs as chairman and CEO, owns about 10% of outstanding shares of Wells Fargo, compared with less than 1% of JPMorgan, according to Bloomberg.

Metropolitan Commercial Bank in New York has a new chief financial officer.

The $1.1 billion-asset bank said in a press release Monday that Sangeeta Kishore will focus on developing growth strategies, including identifying new business lines and products and finding ways to attract new capital. She will also work to increase liquidity and enhance transparency of information.

Kishore joined the bank's management team in June, according to her LinkedIn profile.

Kishore previously served as CFO and senior risk officer at the $708 million-asset Kish Bank in Belleville, Pa. Before that, she was president and chief executive of the $328 million-asset Hanover Community Bank in Garden City Park, N.Y.

Kishore's "expertise will be extremely beneficial in managing our finances, increasing our lending capacity and continuing our trajectory of success," Mark DeFazio, Metropolitan Community's president and CEO, said in the release.

Metropolitan recently raised $34.4 million in a move that is expected to boost its lending capacity.