Career moves

Rivermark promotes a trio of chiefs and other credit union professionals in the news.

David Cibulka steps aside having led the credit union for the past 36 years.

Citizens Financial Group in Providence, R.I., hired a longtime executive at SunTrust Banks in Atlanta to lead its Southeast operations.

Gene Bruyette, a co-founder of Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, the investment bank that became one of the most prolific advisors on bank merger deals, has died. He was 90.

A former director at Pinnacle Financial Partners who pleaded guilty to insider trading agreed to pay a heftier fine after a judge rejected the initial penalty as being too low.

Farley led the Virginia league for more than 30 years

WASHINGTON – Gary Cohn, president and chief operating officer at Goldman Sachs, has been offered the job of director of the National Economic Council in the Trump administration, several news outlets reported Friday.

AltaPacific Bancorp in Santa Rosa, Calif., has promoted its chief operating officer an even bigger role.

Biometric authentication company Veridium has named a former fintech executive from HSBC as its new CEO.

Allegiance Bancshares in Houston has recruited a new chief financial officer.

Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, on Wednesday was named chairman of the Business Roundtable, further cementing himself as a key intermediary between the incoming Trump administration and the business community.

Pacific Financial in Aberdeen, Wash., is looking for a new chief credit officer.

Old National Bancorp in Evansville, Ind., has shuffled its corporate finance department, promoting four executives to new or expanded roles.

Texas Capital Bancshares in Dallas has snagged a BBVA Compass banker and promoted two of its own executives.

Santander Consumer USA Holdings in Dallas has named a former president of Ally Financial and a former Treasury Department official to its board.

Veridian CU makes changes to its commercial lending lineup and other credit union professionals in the news.

Evergreen Credit Union, a $258 million institution based in Portland, Maine, has named Jason Lindstrom as its new president and CEO, succeeding interim CEO Tim Verreault.

Eugene Szymczak, president and CEO at Wisconsin-based Educators CU, unexpectedly died in his sleep on Dec. 4. He was 67 years old.

Plaza Bank in Seattle has promoted its chief lending officer to become CEO. The $65 million-asset bank said in a press release Monday that Michael Anderson also succeeded Michael Clabby as president on Nov. 23.

Nearly a decade after he was forced to resign as CEO of Commerce Bank in Cherry Hill, N.J., the retail banking innovator was named chairman at Republic First Bancorp, which has adopted many of Commerce's practices.