Executive Changes

NEW ENGLAND

Haverhill Bank in Massachusetts has hired Thomas L. Mortimer as its president and chief executive.

Mortimer was the executive vice president and chief credit officer of Pentucket Bank, where he had worked since 1998.

He is to begin his new job in March. He succeeds Thomas R. Faulkner, who had worked for the $241 million-asset Haverhill since 1971, when he joined as an assistant treasurer. Faulkner will remain chairman of the board.


MIDWEST

First Business Financial Services Inc. in Madison, Wis., has hired Tim McKeag as the vice president of business development for its First Business Bank-Northeast.

McKeag was the market president of Business Bank in Appleton, Wis., a subsidiary of Fox River Valley Bancorp Inc., where he had worked since 1999.

First Business Financial has $930 million of assets.


MIDDLE ATLANTIC

Frederick County Bank in Frederick, Md., has promoted Jay M. House to chief technology officer, Crystal L. Wiles to senior vice president and controller, Richard A. Davies to senior vice president of marketing, Wanda S. Shade to senior vice president of retail banking and Taitia L. Elliott to senior vice president of commercial banking.

All have worked for the $257 million-asset bank since it opened in 2001. Before that they worked for Frederick County National Bank, which was bought by BB&T Corp. in 2001.

House was a technology officer. He will remain the senior vice president of operations, a post he has held since he joined the bank.

Wiles was a vice president and the assistant controller.

Davies was the vice president of marketing.

Shade was a senior vice president of commercial services and, before that, the vice president of commercial services, specializing in cash management at FCNB. Earlier she was the vice president of commercial business development and branch operations at First National Bank of Maryland.

Elliott was the vice president of cash management. Before that she sold cash management services.

The bank also promoted Yvonne M. Reeder to vice president. She is to remain manager of the Walkersville branch, a post she has held since it was opened in 2006. Before that she was a branch manager at Farmers and Mechanics Bank.


WEST

Pacific Capital Bancorp in Santa Barbara, Calif., has hired Paul Alexander as special assets manager.

Alexander was the executive vice president and manager of the residential real estate department at Comerica Bank, where he oversaw since 2006 six lending groups focused on local and regional home builders in California and Arizona. Before that he had been a senior vice president and the credit administration officer at Imperial Bank in Los Angeles since 1997.

Pacific Capital has $7.5 billion of assets. 


Citizens Bank of Northern California in Nevada City has hired Kevin Rappleye as a senior vice president and business development officer.

Rappleye was a senior vice president and commercial banking officer at Sacramento Commercial Bank, formerly a division of Placer Sierra Bank. Wells Fargo & Co. bought Placer in 2007.

Before that he was a business development officer at Bank of the West.

Citizens of Northern California has $370 million of assets.

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