Career moves

BankUnited in Miami Lakes, Fla., has promoted Michael McClanahan to the newly created position of Orlando market president.

BB&T will dismiss most of a 21-person small business lending group who had been employed by Susquehanna Bancshares.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has named Stephen Warren chief information officer.

BankUnited in Miami Lakes, Fla., has added a former New York state judge and a former Florida community bank chief executive to its board.

Webster Financial in Waterbury, Conn. has hired a deputy chief financial officer from Citigroup.

Plaza Bank in Irvine, Calif., has hired Kathy Gonzales for the newly created role of director of branch banking.

CoBiz Financial's bank chairman, Jonathan Lorenz, will retire in December.

Banc of California in Irvine, Calif., has named James McKinney principal accounting officer

WASHINGTON — The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency named senior bank examiner Linda Cunningham as its first chief risk officer on Wednesday.

Cordia Bancorp in Midlothian, Va., has named O.R. "Ed" Barham president and chief executive of Bank of Virginia.

Great Western Bancorp in Sioux Falls, S.D., has named former Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. vice chairman Andrew "Skip" Hove its new chairman.

TriState Capital Holdings in Pittsburgh has promoted its bank's chief risk officer to bank president.

AJS Bancorp in Midlothian, Ill., has given its chairman and chief executive the additional title of chief financial officer.

Guardian Mortgage has named a Bank of America executive to succeed Marcia Phillips as chief executive.

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YellowPepper, a Latin American mobile payments firm, named the former president and founder of defunct near-field communication (NFC) firm ViVOTech as its board chair.

AssetAvenue, a marketplace lender that specializes in commercial real estate finance, announced that it has hired Peter Coleman as its chief financial officer.

Max Levchin, founder and chief executive of point of sale credit startup Affirm and co-founder of PayPal, has resigned from his position as chairman of Yelp's board.

Dick Evans will retire as Cullen/Frost Bankers' chairman and chief executive in March, and the San Antonio company has chosen its president, Philip Green, to succeed him.

Student lending startup CommonBond has hired Morgan Edwards, a longtime Wall Street leveraged debt specialist, as its chief financial officer.