C-suite

The bank also announced that it has recruited a BancWest executive to replace Michael Descheneaux as CFO.

James Herbert, 72, has once again postponed retirement. The longtime CEO was scheduled to step down at yearend, but the company says he will remain at the helm through 2020.

The Arizona company said Kenneth Vecchione would be a candidate to eventually replace CEO Robert Sarver.

The Mississippi company said Mitchell Waycaster will succeed Robin McGraw in May 2018.

Rusty Cloutier had been CEO of MidSouth Bancorp for 32 years. Energy-sector woes helped do him in.

Craig Dahl, who took over as CEO last year when Bill Cooper retired, has added the chairman title.

Doug Bowers will serve as the permanent replacement for Steven Sugarman, who resigned in January.

Joseph Evans will step down as CEO on June 1, though he will remain the company's chairman. Thomas Wiley, a longtime associate of Evans, is set to take the helm.

MidSouth also removed Cloutier's son as part of what it called a "transition plan already under way to improve” performance.

Kate Quinn, one of American Banker's 25 Women to Watch in 2016, was given expanded duties, and consumer banking chief Kent Stone will retire.

President and COO Ignacio Alvarez will replace Richard Carrion as CEO on July 1.

Jefferson Harralson, the Georgia company's new chief financial officer, had covered banks at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods for 15 years.

John Fawcett, previously CFO at Citizens Financial in Providence, R.I., will succeed Carol Hayles.

Yman Vien says she lost her job at American Metro Bancorp because of her gender. The bank says the move was tied to poor decisions that led to a regulatory order in 2009.

Barbara Yastine, who stepped down as head of Ally’s banking unit two years ago, has become a director of Zions in Salt Lake City.

The San Antonio company named Chad Borton, previously head of consumer banking at Fifth Third Bancorp in Cincinnati, for the role. Fifth Third has named Philip McHugh as his successor.

The Buffalo, N.Y., company is filling gaps created when Mark Czarnecki, its former president, died in February after a battle with pancreatic cancer.

The executive, who was also M&T's chief operating officer, died on Sunday after an extended illness.

Hadley Robbins succeeded Melanie Dressel, who died unexpectedly on Sunday. Columbia will begin a search for a permanent CEO.

James Lally will succeed Peter Benoist as CEO of the $4.1 billion-asset company at its annual meeting this spring.