Dime Bancorp Names Executive

Dime Bancorp of New York has hired Citibank executive America Gatria as head of minority small-business initiatives.

Ms. Gatria worked in commercial account sales management in Citi's retail banking group and was in charge of its "Hispanic Initiative," which she initiated in 1991.

She will be a vice president at Dime, as she was at Citi. Ms. Gatria will report to Donald P. Schwartz, Dime's executive vice president and general manager, as well as Carlos Munoz, chief credit and risk management officer.

Ms. Gatria immigrated in the 1960s from Cuba, where she had worked for the Cuban Internal Revenue Service, the University of Havana, and the Academy of Sciences.

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