Executive Changes

SOUTHEAST

Iberiabank Corp. of Lafayette, La., has promoted Michael J. Brown to vice chairman and chief operating officer of the company and its subsidiaries, and named Jefferson G. Parker as vice chairman and manager of brokerage, trust and wealth management.

Brown, who had been market manager, will continue to oversee Iberiabank's markets and the title business. Before he joined Iberiabank in 1999, Brown was the chief credit officer and capital markets specialist at Banc One Corp, which he joined when it bought his previous employer, First Commerce Corp., in 1997. He was manager of the credit and client services division at First Commerce.

Parker has served on Iberiabank's board of directors since 2001. He was also the president of Howard Weil Inc., an equity research and trading firm, until January.

Iberiabank Corp. has $5.6 billion of assets.


MIDWEST

Delaware Place Bank of Chicago has hired Sam Ezra as a senior vice president and its chief credit officer.

Ezra had been a vice president and senior risk analyst at General Electric Co. since 2007. Before that he was a vice president and senior regional credit manager at Associated Banc-Corp. He joined Associated in 2002 as an assistant vice president of corporate loan review.

Delaware Place Bank has $318 million of assets


MIDDLE ATLANTIC

Southwest Securities FSB of Dallas has hired Rhonda Beck as the relationship manager for the Middle Atlantic market of its mortgage purchase program division.

Beck was the financial institutions director for IndyMac Bank. Before that she was a correspondent sales manager for CitiMortgage Inc.

She will be based in Charlotte.

Southwest Securities FSB has $1.5 billion of assets.


WEST

First Federal Savings and Loan of Port Angeles, Wash., has hired Levon L. Williams as its president and chief executive officer.

Williams was the executive vice president and director of private banking at Regions Financial Corp. in Birmingham, Ala. Before that he was a market president of Lafayette, Ind., and Memphis, for Lafayette National Bank.

He will succeed Karen L. McCormick, First Federal's president and CEO since 1997. McCormick began her career in 1977 as a teller at First Federal.

Williams will join the $731 million-asset First Federal Sept. 28.


Seacoast Commerce Bank of Chula Vista, Calif., has hired Andrew Zimbalist, Andrew Murray and Robert Flores as business development officers in its Small Business Administration group.

Zimbalist and Murray were both with Temecula Valley Bank as senior vice presidents and business development officers in the SBA division at Temecula since 2008. Zimbalist oversaw the San Diego and Southern California market and Murray headed the Scaramento and Northern California market at both places.

Flores worked for City National Bank in Los Angeles. Before that he originated SBA loans at U.S. Bank, which he joined when it bought his previous employer, Bank of Commerce, in 1999. He will oversee the Los Angeles and Orange County market.

Seacoast Commerce has $89 million of assets.

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