Executive Changes

MIDDLE ATLANTIC

Quaint Oak Bancorp Inc. in Southampton, Pa., has hired John J. Augustine to be the chief financial officer of the company and its Quaint Oak Bank.

Augustine is to remain a director of the $90 million-asset company, which he has been since 2007, and of the bank, which he has been since 2000. While he was a director of Quaint Oak Bank he also was a senior manager at Teleflex Inc., a Limerick, Pa., company that supplies the medical industry with disposable products for critical and surgical care. He had worked at Teleflex since 2006.

Before he became a director of the bank Augustine was the executive vice president and CFO of Reda Sports Group, which he joined in 1997.


Five Star Bank in Warsaw, N.Y., a unit of Financial Institutions Inc., has hired Karl Krebs as its executive vice president and chief financial officer.

Krebs was a senior financial specialist at West Valley Environmental Services LLC. Before that he was a senior vice president and CFO at Wyoming County Bank. Earlier he was a senior vice president, CFO and program director at HSBC Brokerage North America.

Five Star Bank has $2 billion of assets.


VSB Bancorp Inc. on Staten Island, N.Y., has hired Jonathan Lipschitz as a vice president and the controller and principal accounting officer for the company and its Victory State Bank.

Lipschitz had been the chief financial officer at Taocon Inc., a construction company, since last year. Before that he was the CFO and business manager at a commercial bank unit of JPMorgan Chase & Co. He had worked for JPMorgan Chase since 1984.

Victory State Bank has $226 million of assets.


SOUTHWEST

PlainsCapital Bank in Lubbock, Tex., has hired Mark Williamson as an executive vice president and the chief credit officer and John Hinton as a senior vice president and commercial lender.

Williamson was an executive vice president in risk management and the managing director of national regional finance at Guaranty Bank.

Hinton was the president of Crockett National Bank. Before that he was the senior vice president of lending at Texas Bank.

PlainsCapital has $4.3 billion of assets.


MIDWEST

Peoples Bancorp Inc. in Marietta, Ohio, has hired Daniel K. McGill as an executive vice president and chief commercial lending officer for the company and its Peoples Bank.

McGill had been a regional president at First Merit Bank since 1999.

Peoples also promoted Joseph S. Yazombek to chief credit officer for the $2 billion-asset company and the bank. He will remain an executive vice president. He had been the chief lending officer for both since 2000.


SOUTHEAST

BankUnited in Coral Gables, Fla., has hired Jeffrey Starr as its general counsel.

Starr was a managing vice president and chief general counsel at Capital One Bank, which he joined in 2006 when it bought his previous employer, North Fork Bank. At North Fork he was a senior vice president and general counsel. He had worked for the bank since 1995.

BankUnited has $11 billion of assets.


WEST

Fremont Bank in California has hired Andy Mastorakis to be its president.

Mastorakis was the chief executive officer of the retail banking group at OneWest Bank, which he joined when OneWest bought his previous employer, IndyMac Bank, this year. He joined IndyMac in 2007. Before that he was the executive vice president of retail banking at TriCounties Bank in Chico, Calif., where he had worked since 2000. Earlier he was a senior vice president of the central California division at Wells Fargo Bank in San Jose.

Fremont Bank has $2.3 billion of assets.


Charter Bank in Belleview, Wash., announced that James Garvey will become its chief executive officer.

Garvey was hired by the bank's parent, Boston Private Financial Holdings Inc., to be the $482 million-asset Charter's president and chief operating officer in July. Before that he had been the president and chief executive officer of Flagship Bank and Trust in Worcester, Mass., since 2001. He joined Flagship in 1999. Earlier he was a senior vice president at TD Banknorth.

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